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Top 15 Fitness Angel Investors in Canada in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Fitness startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fitness companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Fitness Angel Investors in Canada in July 2025

Investor	Fitness Canada investments
Ndamukong Suh	2
Arlene Dickinson	2
Ray Muzyka	1
Darrell Kopke	1
Mark Mastrov	1
Jean-François Grenon	1
Marc Altshuller	1
Aditya Bali	1
Jim Estill	1
Jacky Chen	1
Hans Knapp	1
Jayson Tatum	1
David Grutman	1
Norm Francis	1
Greg Malpass	1

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Ndamukong Ngwa Suh is an engineer, entrepreneur, investor, and all-pro defensive lineman for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Suh strives to inspire the next generation of young athletes and “unexpected” investors to create generational wealth through continued smart investment decisions.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Consumer Electronics, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

XSET — XSET is the world's most diverse, innovative, socially conscious Esports "SET" ever assembled. Style, Substance and Victory! The Future is Set. #RepTheSet
Looped — Looped is the ultimate virtual venue for interactive live streaming and virtual video call meet & greet experiences. Our platform connects creators and fans on a global level.
Momentous — Momentous is a human performance company dedicated creating no-compromise products and tools that support the endless improvement of personal performance.

Dickinson, owner and CEO of Venture Communications, a company she grew from a small, local firm to one of the largest independent agencies in Canada, is also the CEO of District Ventures and Youinc.com. Companies all aimed at helping market, fund and grow entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial companies. She is a two times best-selling author,accomplished speaker and is best known to Canadians as one of the venture capitalists on the award-winning CBC series’ Dragons’ Den.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Health Care, Wellness
Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Angel
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cyder — Cyder is an end-to-end loyalty platform that allows credit unions to seamlessly issue, redeem, and integrate white-labeled rewards into everyday banking.
Aku Spike — Aku delivers a high-end self acupressure experience anywhere, anytime. Stress relief, relaxation, and treatment for sore back, neck aches, joint pain and more.
Vertiball — The precision massager that makes your back accessible in a way like never before. Our patent pending suction mounting system to mount onto walls and other flat surfaces. The technology allows you to place the device at specific heights giving you complete control over your sore, tense muscles.

Originally trained as a medical doctor, Dr. Ray Muzyka cofounded BioWare, a video game development studio focusing on story and character, in the early 1990s. He practiced emergency/family medicine for two years full time, with medicine transitioning to part-time over the following decade as he focused on his role as BioWare’s CEO. BioWare wasacquired by Electronic Arts in 2007, and Dr. Muzyka took on the roles of Senior Vice President at Electronic Arts and General Manager of EA’s BioWare division, which grew over the next five years to span eight development locations worldwide with about 2000 staff (1400 full time). He retired from video games in October 2012, with his third “career chapter” at ThresholdImpact, where he focused on sustainable, profitable impact investing: mentoring and angel investing in information technology, new media, and medical innovations with social entrepreneurs. An active angel investor and entrepreneurial mentor, Dr. Muzyka is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, the A100, the Ashoka Support Network, and the Board of Governors of the University of Alberta (serving as Chair of the Human Resources Committee and on the Learning and Discovery Committee and as a member of the University of Alberta Advancement Council). He is Chair of the University of Alberta’s entrepreneur Venture Mentoring Service, a venture advisor at iNovia Venture Capital, and a member of the Alberta Research and Innovation Advisory Committee and the Alberta Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy. He also serves on a number of private company boards. He previously served on the board of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences from 2001-2008 and was on the Board of Trustees of the Stollery Children’s Health Foundation from 2012-2015. He was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame in 2011 and received the International Game Developers’ Choice Awards 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Muzyka received the inaugural Alumni Innovation Award in 2015 from the University of Alberta. He additionally was named as the 2017 Allard Chair in Business at the MacEwan University’s School of Business and as an Honorary Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary Club International in 2016, in recognition for his philanthropic efforts. Other awards include entry into Canada’s Top 40 under 40 and Ernst and Young’s 2001 Entrepreneur of the Year (IT, Prairies).He obtained his Bachelor of Medical Science from the University of Alberta in 1990, his Doctorate of Medicine from there in 1992, and his MBA from the University of Western Ontario (Ivey School of Business) in 2001.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Leadoptik — Leadoptik is a California-based company is currently operating in stealth mode.
Modality.AI, Inc. — Modality.ai is an AI-powered platform that detects health conditions using conversational AI. Through dialogue and video, Modality.AI interacts conversationally with the patient to provide health assessment anywhere, anytime. Its system analyzes multimodal data which allows continuous screening and assessing of patients’ health.
Gray Oncology Solutions — Gray Oncology Solution is a healthcare enterprise software company that commercializes GrayOS, the operating system for oncology.

Darrell Kopke is a Director, CDL-Vancouver at Creative Destruction Lab. He attended The University of British Columbia.

Investment focus

Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Stoko design — Get the same level of joint support as a rigid knee brace in the form of a compression tight. Covered by insurance. Fast & free shipping. Hassle-free returns. Backed by orthopedic surgeons. Recommended by Olympians.

Mr. Mark S. Mastrov serves as the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer at Fitness Holdings Worldwide, Inc. Mr. Mastrov serves as a Founding Partner at Steve Nash Fitness World, Inc. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. until October 2006. He is considered an innovator and visionary within the health andfitness industry. Mr. Mastrov started 24 Fitness in 1983. From there, he built a fitness empire of more than 420 clubs located in 16 U.S. States, Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. Recently, he founded the New Evolution Fitness Company (NEFC). Mr. Mastrov is the Chairman of New Evolution Ventures, which he co-founded. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. He has been a Director of Netpulse, Inc. since March, 2011.

Investment focus

Fitness, Health Care, Apps
Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Aviron — Aviron Ltd engages in the research and development of specific antiviral agents against chronic Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection. The company has strategic alliances with CHEMRAR Hi-Tech Center, Chemical Diversity Research Institute, and DRUGS TECHNOLOGY, Ltd. Aviron Ltd was founded in 2010 and is based in Moscow, Russian Federation.
Fitplan — Fitplan partners with an ever-growing team of world-class fitness icons, athletes, and professional trainers. They create exclusive training programs & meal plans that you can access through Fitplan.
Sequoia Games — Sequoia Games is a team of all-stars working together to bring to life your favorite games. We combine professional sports with the latest technology and leadership with passion. What you get is greatness.

Jean François Grenon brings more than 25 years of expertise in the telecom and wireless space. Prior to forming Vectrad Networks and then NTF-Capital in 2003, Jean-François was Chairman and CEO of Innova Corporation, a company he led folllowing its listing on the NASDAQ.Jean-François graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal andholds a Harvard Business School MBA.He sits on the board of several innovation driven corporations including Inter-Mobile S.A.S, a NexTFund portfolio company.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Computer
Seed, Series A, Angel
Canada

Portfolio highlights

PlayFitt — PlayFitt is a fitness platform using experience in Sports Analytics, Machine Learning, Video Games.
IntelliSports — IntelliSports is a Montreal based technology company that is combining real world sports with a digitally engaging experience and A.I. to create real world gaming.At IntelliSports they firmly believe that getting healthy should be as much fun as Levelling Up in your favourite video game. They are using their experience in Sports Analytics, MachineLearning, Video Games and mass market consumer technology to create a fitness platform where users can train, group up, compete and enjoy many of the most engaging elements of modern video games.
Sollum Technologies — Sollum Technologies is offers greenhouse producers the only smart LED lighting solution which dynamically reproduces the full spectrum of the sun’s natural light. It is based in Montréal (Québec, Canada), where its design, development and manufacturing activities are concentrated. It works closely with its clients to modulate and create recipesadapted to the growth cycle of each product, regardless of its native climate in the world and the location of the greenhouse. Sollum’s lighting solutions thereby provide unparalleled value in terms of energy savings, productivity and superior produce quality through a flexible, adaptive and easy-to-use application, with great respect for the environment.

Marc Altshuller is the President and CEO at Varicent. He attended Schulich School of Business - York University.

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, Health Care
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ritual — Delivery & takeout from the best local restaurants. Providing over 15,000 restaurants globally with digital solutions to help them serve up their best.
Plasticity Labs — Plasticity offers predictive workforce analytics and reporting on the health, happiness and productivity of people and teams. Based on the findings of the Workforce Analytics, customers can turn on the complete platform which includes personal behavioral training to optimize people and build better habits aimed at improving the predictedperformance scoring and helping people to better handle the realities of work and life. Plasticity is the only workforce analytics engine that combines explicit employee data, company performance data, and open data to understand and predict the full range of effects on the employee's ability to perform at their best. Connect your HRIS, HCM, or CRM and start actually measuring the ROI of people and culture, health and wellness, and learn how the weather might effect your next quarters results.
Tacit Innovations — Digital ordering done right. With Tacit Corporation, you can get more orders by offering a seamless digital ordering experience.

I build products and companies that impact daily lives and want to bring these ideas to life as fast as possible. I also advise, mentor and invest in startups to help others makes this a reality. Currently COO of KitchenMate, where we're on a mission to enable access of nutritious meals for everyone (Techstars Toronto 2018).Formerly theco-founder of BufferBox (uWaterloo Velocity, Y Combinator S'12, acquired by Google) and PM @ Google X - Robotics.

Investment focus

Sports, Fitness, Big Data
Seed, Convertible Note
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Lumotune — We are creating a platform to transform the world’s glass into digital displays.
TritonWear — TritonWear builds the world’s most accurate sports wearable and the only one that provides personalized, AI-based auto-coaching driven by an individual's data. By addressing the largest problem plaguing the projected $15B fitness and sports wearables market - inaccurate data and no actionable feedback - TritonWear has taken a unique positionin the market.

Jim Estill founded EMJ Data in 1979 and grew the company to $350,000,000 in sales. Jim sold EMJ to SYNNEX in September 2004 and became CEO of SYNNEX Canada growing sales from $800,000,000 to $2 Billion in May 2009. Jim was one of the founding board members of RIM where he served for 13 years.

Investment focus

Apps, Beauty, Mobile
Seed, Angel
Canada

Portfolio highlights

PumpUp — PumpUp is a positive community to share and achieve your health goals. The PumpUp community is a safe and supportive space to share your journey toward a healthy body and healthy mind. Share your challenges and triumphs, track your fitness, and receive unparalleled support from a global community of like-minded people. PumpUp equips you withthe tools you need to live a healthy lifestyle in a positive way. With millions of inspiring people cheering you on, it’s never been easier to become the best version of you! PumpUp is headquartered in Toronto, with offices in San Francisco.
Well.ca — Well.ca is Canada's online destination for health, beauty and baby products and offers over 40,000 products with free shipping on all orders over $29. They also boast Canada's largest online assortment of Green & Natural products. With offices and a warehouse located in Guelph, Ontario, and an office in downtown Toronto, Well.ca is aproudly Canadian company that focuses on giving customers a simple and hassle-free shopping experience.

Jacky is dedicated to angel investment and has built up a portfolio of more than thirty startup companies in Canada and the US. His target investments are the early-stage B2B companies with disruptive technologies and business potential in enterprise software, information technologies, MedTech, and Advanced Manufacturing.Jacky has acquiredconcrete business experiences as a successful founder in the startup ecosystem and an executive of Fortune 500 companies over two decades. His remarkable accomplishments range from building startups from scratch to leading a billion-dollar business with the leverage of 14,000 enterprise channel partners. The unique journey has shaped Jacky's outstanding of investing in early startups.Jacky holds the degrees of Mater's E.E. and MBA, and he graduated from CEIBS and The Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Workwolf — Workwolf is a Toronto-based start-up with a management team who has led 7 start-ups, had 2 successful exits, and has taken a company public with a $1.8B IPO. Workwolf CEO Erik Simins is an SME in HR who previously founded MAGNUS HRS, a staffing company now servicing over 150 enterprise customers. The technology at Workwolf solves two of the biggestpain points in employment: applicant filtration and verification, and does so by empowering users to identify better candidates faster. Winner of global awards in both 2020 and 2021 for innovation and market potential, Workwolf is ramping up for its multi-national roll-out with ManpowerGroup in September that will coincide with a $4.5M Seed financing round.
Agile Devices — Agile Devices offer catheter-based interventional procedures helping patients during a stroke. It helps medical practitioners reduce the procedure time to respond to time bound emergencies.
Traction Technology Partners — Traction is a powerful SaaS collaboration platform for evaluating, adopting and managing new technologies across the enterprise. The platform includes Project Management and CRM tools designed specifically for enterprise teams tasked with discovering and evaluating new technologies. Traction is used by IT, Innovation and Corp Dev teams toaccelerate their digital transformation projects, and to speed up the way they find, manage, and adopt new technologies. Traction also offers On-Demand Research services delivered through its platform.

Hans co-founded Yaletown Venture Partners and brings over 15 years of legal counsel, corporate governance, turn-around, and investing experience to the Yaletown team. Hans manages Yaletown's investment in Redlen Technologies, Equicare Health, Genologics, Thetus, and Mixpo. In addition, as Yaletown's General Counselhe directs ourfirm's investment transactions, operations and legal affairs. Prior to Yaletown, Hans was Vice President of Investments and Corporate Counsel for Brigill Investments, a private Vancouver-based venture capital firm. Earlier in his career he practiced law in the commercial litigation group of Borden Ladner Gervais and held a judicial clerkship at British Columbia's highest court, the BC Court of Appeal. A recipient of Business in Vancouver's "Top 40 Under 40" award, Hans has B.A. and LLB degrees from the University of British Columbia and is called to the Bar of British Columbia.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Angel
Canada

Portfolio highlights

VitaminLab — Looking for personalized vitamins based on your health goals, DNA or blood? Choose how you want to formulate and get an all-in-one formula just for you.
ePACT Network — ePACT will improve emergency preparedness across North America. By connecting every home and organization with shared information and resources, ePACT will have a positive impact on the safety of our communities. Its benefits will encourage users to adopt and share the system, while its tools help North Americans manage unexpected situations.
Nanoprecise Sci Corp — Predictive Maintenance, Automated Ai Based Predictive Maintenance, Machine Doctor, Wireless Industrial Iot Sensors, Artificial Intelligence in Maintenance, Scaling Iot Solutions

Jayson Tatum

Investment focus

Sports, Information Technology, Fitness
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Canada, Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
TheProgram.ai — Gamifying Wellness For Your Community Engage your community with Wellnify.ai, the all-in-one white-label wellness solution that uses the power of gamification and the science of behaviour change to foster healthier, happier communities. Engage your workforce, students, fans, athletes, or the general public effortlessly. Request Demo View Pricing (Coming Soon) Drag Why Choose Wellnify? Wellnify leverages
League One Volleyball — The largest community of youth volleyball clubs with its professional league launching in January 2025, League One Volleyball (LOVB) is re-imagining the future of volleyball.

David Grutman

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Snack Food
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Immi — immi has 6g of net carbs, is packed with 21g of protein and 18g of fiber, is keto-friendly, and is entirely plant-based.
Skinny Dipped Almonds — We don't Sugar Coat. We SkinnyDip.
Rob’s Backstage Popcorn — Rob's Backstage Popcorn was born backstage with the Jonas Brothers and now they are sharing it with the world. Made with a secret recipe, we guarantee you've never tasted popcorn like this before. Available for sale on eatrobs.com and at select Live Nation venues on the 2021 Remember This Tour.

Pivotal Software was founded by Norm Francis in 1994. Francis was a co-founder of Basis Software Group (BSG) the company that developed ACCPAC, an accounting software package which was purchased by Computer Associates in 1985. Francis invented the concept of 360-degree customer relationship management (CRM), a concept that continues to be usedtoday to describe the unification of activities across the organization by employees who play a role in the customer relationship. The company released its first customer relationship management product, Pivotal Relationship Version 1, in April 1996; this product is the predecessor to the current Pivotal CRM product line.The company changed its name to Pivotal Corporation in June 1999 to reflect its broadening focus beyond just software into professional services, content, hosted application services and other online services. Pivotal Corporation went public in August 1999 and its shares were listed on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol PVTL.In February 2000, Pivotal Corporation was selected by Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect, to showcase its Pivotal CRM software at the worldwide premiere of Microsoft Windows 2000. Pivotal CRM, then called Pivotal eRelationship, was the first eBusiness relationship management (eBRM) solution to be certified for Windows 2000.Pivotal Corporation was acquired by CDC Corporation, in February 2004. The acquisition added 1,700 customers, as well as marketing, sales, service, and partner management capabilities to CDC Software’s business unit focused on front-office solutions for mid-sized enterprises.

Investment focus

Health Care, SaaS, Fitness
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Allocadia — Allocadia's performance marketing software helps marketing teams confidently plan budgets and optimize campaigns and manage investments to improve marketing ROI.
Stoko design — Get the same level of joint support as a rigid knee brace in the form of a compression tight. Covered by insurance. Fast & free shipping. Hassle-free returns. Backed by orthopedic surgeons. Recommended by Olympians.
LightIntegra Technology, Inc. — LightIntegra Technology is a privately funded medical diagnostics company and launched from the Canadian Blood Services R&D labs through the efforts of research scientist Dr. Elisabeth Maurer. LightIntegra strives to minimize platelet refractoriness. To this end, LightIntegra created ThromboLUX, a rapid in-vitro test that provides sizedistribution information for microparticles in blood products. As a routine test for platelet concentrates, ThromboLUX may identify which platelet units would be best suited for prophylaxis and which units are better suited for therapeutic use. Her years of research on platelet function led to a breakthrough discovery using dynamic light scattering to characterize platelets. Dr. Maurer recognized the opportunity to use this breakthrough - coupled with advances in laser and optics technology – to address a market need to provide a safe, quick and simple diagnostic test for microparticles, platelet quality and function.

Greg founded Traction on Demand, a Burnaby-based cloud technology consultancy and software development firm, in 2006. His original intention was to serve a small number of clients by helping them unite their sales and marketing teams; however, Traction has since grown into a nationally-recognized brand with offices and 250+ employees across NorthAmerica. It is now ranked as one of the continent’s fastest growing technology companies. Greg’s commitment to workplace culture and community has landed Traction on Demand on Canada’s Top 10 Best Places to Work list for the past three years. Additionally, Traction is a current finalist for Deloitte’s Best Managed Companies in Canada. Individually, Greg has been recognized for both his unconventional leadership style and expertise in cloud computing and data. In 2013, Business in Vancouver named him one of the Top Forty Under 40, awarding him once again with CEO of the Year in 2016.

Investment focus

Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Stoko design — Get the same level of joint support as a rigid knee brace in the form of a compression tight. Covered by insurance. Fast & free shipping. Hassle-free returns. Backed by orthopedic surgeons. Recommended by Olympians.

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