Top 50 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Canada (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Tom Williams
Angel
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2 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Financial Services, Health Care | $1.3M–$67M |
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David Albert
Angel
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, Mobile | $1.1M–$2.4M |
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Jim Newton
Angel
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2 | Canada | Seed | Food and Beverage, B2B, Consumer | $1.1M–$1.1M |
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Manjit Minhas
Angel
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2 | Canada, India | Angel | Health Care, Solar, Energy | $73k–$200k |
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Robert Gierkink
Angel
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Mobile, Retail, Grocery | |
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Arlene Dickinson
Angel
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2 | Canada, United States | Pre-Seed, Angel | Food and Beverage, Health Care, Wellness | $150k–$1.1M |
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Mike Fata
Angel
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2 | Canada, United States | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Manufacturing | $5.4M–$6M |
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Alex Moorhead
Angel
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2 | Canada | Seed, Series A | Mobile, Grocery, Internet | |
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Malcolm Leggett
Angel
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2 | Canada | Seed | Food and Beverage, B2B, Consumer | $1.1M–$1.1M |
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Richard Cargill
Angel
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2 | India, Canada | Seed, Series A | AgTech, B2B, Internet | $1.3M–$3.2M |
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Brett Wilson
Angel
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1 | Canada | Series A | Cannabis, Lifestyle, Marketing | |
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Terry Tierney
Angel
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1 | Canada | Organic Food, Food Processing, Food and Beverage | ||
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Robin Knox
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Canada, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, SaaS, Digital Media | $38k–$2.9M |
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JJ Redick
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series B | Winery, Software, Health Care | |
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Mohamed Hage
Angel
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1 | Canada | Agriculture, Hospitality, Organic Food | ||
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Amit Sharma
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail | |
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John Nemanic
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing | |
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Etienne Plourde
Angel
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1 | Canada | Angel | Tea, Food and Beverage | |
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James Pardieck
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing | |
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Kathia Cambron
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing | |
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Jonathan Roy
Angel
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1 | Canada | Angel | Tea, Food and Beverage | |
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William Riggs
Angel
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1 | Canada, France | Seed, Pre-Seed | Seafood, Robotics, Software | $717k–$2.1M |
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Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel
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1 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $100k–$5.5M |
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Dennis Bennie
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Hardware, Health Care | $20k–$15M |
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Chuck Rifici
Angel
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1 | Canada | Series A | Cannabis, Lifestyle, Marketing | |
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Ethan Oren Perlstein
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed | Biotechnology, Life Science, Cannabis | |
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Chris Adams
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | B2B, Farming, Nutrition | |
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Drew Green
Angel
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1 | Canada | Convertible Note, Seed, Angel | DSP, PaaS, Audio | |
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Farhan Thawar
Angel
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1 | Canada, Israel, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $2.4M–$8.5M |
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Jim Spatz
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | Sports, Big Data, Software | $1.8M–$2.5M |
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Marc Altshuller
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed, Angel | Mobile, Apps, Health Care | |
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Mark Macleod
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, Bitcoin | $900k–$35M |
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Ryan Holmes
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, B2B | $300k–$4M |
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Tim Draper
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $356k–$50M |
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Peter Harrison
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | SaaS, B2B, Software | |
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Ryan Garrah
Angel
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1 | Canada | Pre-Seed | CleanTech, GreenTech, Sustainability | |
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Hans Knapp
Angel
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1 | Canada | Series A, Seed, Angel | Software, Health Care, Industrial Automation | $603k–$16M |
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Kevin Kimsa
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence | $3M–$22M |
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Chris Rickett
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Retail, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage | |
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James McCann
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada | Series A, Seed | Grocery, Software, E-Commerce | $4.5M–$13M |
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Dror Balshine
Angel
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1 | Canada | Organic Food, Food Processing, Food and Beverage | ||
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Judy Brooks
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Organic Food, Food and Beverage | |
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Aman Chatha
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing | |
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Dario Meli
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Logistics, Content Creators, Marketing Automation | $300k–$2.5M |
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Steve Wood
Angel
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1 | Canada | Pre-Seed | CleanTech, GreenTech, Sustainability | |
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Jerry Grandey
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | B2B, Consumer, Manufacturing | |
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Mike Durland
Angel
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1 | Canada | SaaS, Software, Recruiting | ||
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Lachy Groom
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $2.2M–$80M |
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Eric Patel
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing | $2.6M–$3.5M |
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Oren Zeev
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, Canada | Series B, Series A, Seed | Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence | $800k–$85M |
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Tom Williams
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Series A $8M–$21M; Series B $10M–$67M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Unito — Unito is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamlesscollaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs.
- Delphia — Delphia puts your data to work for you.
- North One — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.
Managing Director, @foodora (a Delivery Hero company)
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jiffy — Jiffy is a web and mobile platform that connects homeowners with service providers in real time, based on proximity and availability.
- ChefHero — notch simplifies wholesale food and beverage ordering for restaurants and suppliers of all sizes. Make all your orders, chat, and pay in one place.
- KitchenMate — Our modular Kiosks enable your business to easily integrate high-quality meals into your culture.
Jim Newton is a General Manager at CN.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, B2B, Consumer
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Arctic Shelf — Cubbi is a manufacturer and designer of refrigerated lockers catering to schools and workplaces.
- Cubbi — 50+ local restaurants delivered to your office with no delivery fees, tips, or markups.
34-year-old Manjit Minhas is the co-founder and co-owner of Minhas Breweries and Distillery and a Dragon on Dragon's Den. Though trained as a petroleum engineer, she has become a specialist in brand development, marketing, sales management and retail negotiations, having been recognized for several business industry awards such as PROFITmagazine's "Top Growth Entrepreneur", Top 100 Women Entrepreneurs in Canada, Calgary's Top 40 under 40, Chatelaine Magazine's "Top Entrepreneur Woman of The Year 2011" and The Sikh Centennial Foundation Award 2014.When Manjit Minhas was 19 years old, she and her brother Ravinder scraped together $10,000 to launch their first beer in Alberta. In 2006, they purchased the second oldest brewery in the United States and renamed it "Minhas Craft Brewery." At the time, this acquisition officially made the Minhas siblings the youngest brewery owners in the world.Their brewery in Monroe, Wisconsin is now the 10th largest in North America, and as a brand they produce more than 90 beers, spirits, liqueurs and wines that ship all across Canada and the U.S., as well as overseas to 15 different countries. Minhas Brewery makes all of the Kirkland brand beer for Costco worldwide, as well as all the craft beers under Trader Joes' label in the US. Today they run a group of companies that generated over $155-million in revenue last year.Manjit lives in Calgary, where she was born and raised, with her husband and two young daughters.
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- Industry: Health Care, Solar, Energy
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Angel $73k–$200k
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ONES — Canada's first dealcoholized winery located in the Okanagan Valley making 0.5% ABV wine from premium Canadian wine. Zero sugar and <20 Calories/glass. An alternative to alcohol for every event and for the sober curious. Ones wine
- NEXXBAR — We manufacture All-in-one, one-size-fits-all patented self-treatment tools designed to replace current tools for daily myofascial release, pain management, and recovery. The distinct benefit over other foam rollers, balls, and massage wands is the leverage system, which allows for frequent self-treatment without getting on the floor, contortinginto awkward positions, and exerting the very muscles you are trying to treat. It is portable, convenient, adaptable, and easy to use for all ages and abilities.
- 7 Fathoms — Seaweed Skin Care Formulated to Nourish and Hydrate the Skin. Anti-Aging, Anti-Inflammatory Skin Care using Seaweed Harvested off the Coast of Grates Cove, Newfoundland.
As an Entrepreneur in Residence at General Catalyst Partners, Rob Gierkink focuses on investing in early stage technology companies.Prior to founding DataLogix, Rob co-founded three of the world’s largest cross-merchant loyalty programs. He was most recently CEO of Loyalty Management Group (LMG), the company that operates the United Kingdom’slargest loyalty program, Nectar, with over 50% of UK households participating. Under Rob’s leadership, the company grew from start-up to over $400 million in revenues in under six years. LMG was sold to Group Aeroplan in December 2007 in a $750 million cash transaction. He also co-founded the largest loyalty programs in Canada (Air Miles Reward Program) and the Netherlands (Air Miles Program), which today have 70% and 50% of households participating in their respective countries. He has keynoted the DMA’s annual conference, and served as a guest lecturer at Harvard Business School and London Business School.Rob is a graduate of Ryerson University, earning a Bachelor of Business Management and Harvard Business School, where he received an M.B.A.
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- Industry: Mobile, Retail, Grocery
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Index — Index is challenging the status quo of how retailers engage with their customers. We are a retail software company that brings the personalization and measurement of online commerce to the offline world. Index provides retailers with security and an advantage to elevate service, personalize experiences and measure the ROI of their efforts.Seeing a unique opportunity to directly serve the needs of top-tier retailers, former Google Wallet Product and Engineering leads Marc Freed-Finnegan and Jonathan Wall founded Index in early 2012. Our bench includes the team that conceptualized and developed Google Wallet, provided technical leadership for Google’s big data efforts, and partnered with retailers at Apple, Google and Oracle. In addition, our advisors were C-level executives at Saks, Whole Foods, Jamba Juice, Burger King, J.Crew and Williams-Sonoma.
- Flashfood — Get massive savings on fresh food items like meat and produce that are nearing their best before date at grocery stores across Canada and the U.S.
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.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Wellness
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Angel $200k–$420k; Pre-Seed $150k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
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.
Mike Fata is based out of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and is the Chairman of the Board of Mitsoh. Mike previously worked at SOL Cuisine as a Chairman of the Board.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Manufacturing
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $5.4M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mitsoh — Feed your spirit! A timeless traditional food of our Indigenous ancestors. Pansawan: Thinly sliced Buffalo carefully dried & smoked. NEW: Pemmican Strips!!!!
- Blume — Blends with benefits. Organic superfood powders for your mug, cup, bowl and baking sheet. We believe wellness should be fun and accessible. All of our colorful lattes are vegan, refined sugar-free and less than $1/serving.
- Nuts For Cheese — Nuts For Cheese produces organic, 100% dairy free and plant-based cheese in six delicious flavors.
Alex Moorhead has 15 years of experience, primarily building and managing high growth companies. Prior to joining the Fund, Mr. Moorhead co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of LMG, a London, England based business which owns and operates Nectar, the UK’s leading consumer loyalty program with 50% UK household participation. LMG wasacquired by Group Aeroplan (now AIMIA, TSX:AIM) in December 2007. Mr. Moorhead has also worked in corporate finance at Banc of America Securities (San Francisco) and UBS (New York) where he executed a wide variety of transactions including capital raising and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Moorhead began his career as part of the start-up management team at Loyalty Management Group Canada (LMGC) which owns and operates the Air Miles program in Canada with household participation in excess of 75%. LMGC was acquired by Alliance Data System (ADS:NYSE) in August 1998. Mr. Moorhead received a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from Queen’s University in 1991 and an MBA from Northwestern University (Kellogg) in 1997.
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- Industry: Mobile, Grocery, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flashfood — Get massive savings on fresh food items like meat and produce that are nearing their best before date at grocery stores across Canada and the U.S.
Malcolm Leggett is a member Board of Directors.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, B2B, Consumer
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Arctic Shelf — Cubbi is a manufacturer and designer of refrigerated lockers catering to schools and workplaces.
- Cubbi — 50+ local restaurants delivered to your office with no delivery fees, tips, or markups.
Richard Cargill is the founder of Turas Mara.
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- Industry: AgTech, B2B, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$3.2M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Toolsvilla — India's leading B2B eCommerce Marketplace for Machinery, Tools & Supplies that solve operational inefficiencies in Indian SMBs specially in the Agri-Food Category.
- Milk Moovement — Milk Moovement is a powerful tool that connects all players in the raw milk supply chain. With features for transportation monitoring, production tracking, quality monitoring and producer payment, Milk Moovement is the only tool your team needs to manage raw milk.
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- Industry: Cannabis, Lifestyle, Marketing
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tokyo Smoke — Tokyo Smoke is for the sophisticated and curious cannabis explorer, those who embrace high design and alternative states of mind.
Terry Tierney
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- Industry: Organic Food, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SmartSweets — At SmartSweets, they're tackling one of the largest and most concerning problems hidden in their every day foods sugar. It's about kicking sugar but keeping candy and creating a movement based on smaller, smarter choices.
Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Digital Media
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $327k–$2.9M; Pre-Seed $38k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
- Handl — Handl is an online platform for vehicle & fleet servicing.
- My Probate Partner — Simplify the probate process in Scotland with expert support. Join our free webinar and book a consultation today.
JJ Redick Former Pro-Basketball Player.
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- Industry: Winery, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Olipop — 2-5g sugar. 9g fiber. 8 classic flavors. Discover the delicious new soda made with plant fiber and prebiotics for a happy, healthy you. Try it in Vintage Cola, Classic Root Beer, Strawberry Vanilla, Ginger Lemon and more. Non-GMO, gluten free, paleo, vegan, and just plain delicious.
- InVintory — Helping wine collectors track & find their bottles. Download on the App Store or use our Web App.
Mohamed Hage is a young entrepreneur with a demonstrated track record of success and over 10 years of experience running software and real estate companies. He has a talent for inspiring passion in employees and an incredible knack for forging connections with experts from a diverse range of specialties. He conceived of Lufa Farms in the early2000s based on his childhood experiences with agriculture and fresh produce in a village just outside of Beirut.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Hospitality, Organic Food
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Lufa Farms — Find out how to subscribe to weekly fully customizable local food baskets.
Amit Sharma is the Founder and General Partner of Black Jays Investments. He attended London Business School.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- OffLimits — Offensively delicious cereal. Nothing Artificial.
- Package Free — At Package Free Shop we sell sustainable, green, eco friendly, plastic free products to help you live a zero waste, minimalist, and low impact lifestyle.
- Penelope — Penelope | The retirement platform for small business
John Nemanic
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- Industry: Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.
Etienne Plourde is the Co-Founder and Vice-Chairman of WeCook - Repas WeCook. He previously worked at WeCook - Repas WeCook as a Co-Founder and CEO.
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- Industry: Tea, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bobba — Bobba provides ready-to-drink bubble tea made with an infusion of real tea and unique fruit juice beads.
James Pardieck
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- Industry: Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.
Kathia Cambron
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- Industry: Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.
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- Industry: Tea, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bobba — Bobba provides ready-to-drink bubble tea made with an infusion of real tea and unique fruit juice beads.
William (Billy) Riggs, Ph.D., AICP, LEED AP is a Californian academic and entrepreneur. He global expert and thought leader in the areas of future mobility and smart transportation, economics, design and urban development. Dr. Riggs is a professor and program director at the University of San Francisco School of Management, a partner at JustBusiness, and a consultant and advisor to multiple companies and start-ups on technology, smart mobility and urban development. This follows two decades of experience working as a planner, economist, and engineer. He has over 100 publications, featured in multiple global media outlets such as the Economist, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Atlantic, and is the author of the book Disruptive Transport: Driverless Cars, Transport Innovation and the Sustainable City of Tomorrow. Dr. Riggs has been both a fellow with the National Science Foundation fellow and the University of California Transportation Center, is the founder of ReStreet.com (app.restreet.com)—an online tool for democratizing street design. Dr. Riggs sits on the City of Palo Alto’s Planning and Transportation Commission and is a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Transportation Economics and Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Committee on Transportation Economics and the Standing Committee on Policy and Law.
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- Industry: Seafood, Robotics, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $717k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SCOUT — Scout is a company that manufactures and distributes canned seafood. They obtains all of their seafood directly from regional fishing communities. They managed fisheries that prioritize worker and environmental well-being. They offers specialty shops like bakeries, seafood markets and cheese shops.
- Heex Technologies — Heex Technologies accelerates AI development by enabling engineering teams to get the most value out of their data
Nadav Ben-Chanoch
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 178
- Round size: Seed $329k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Dennis Bennie is a pioneer, entrepreneur and innovator in the Canadian technology industry. Over the past 20 years, Bennie's entrepreneurial management has powered Mission Electronics, Ingram Canada and Delrina. In 1997, he founded the XDL Venture Capital Fund, focusing on information technology opportunities. The $25 million fund hasyielded exceptional returns to date. One of its most noteworthy investments was a 1997 start-up, Delano Technology Corporation (NASD:DTEC). XDL Intervest, a $150 million fund was started in 1999 and is now fully invested. Bennie currently manages an experienced team investing in private equity opportunities as the XDL Capital Group. From 1988 to 1996, Mr. Bennie was CEO of Delrina Corporation, an independent software developer and publisher, which forged the new software categories of electronic forms and PC fax communications. Under Mr. Bennie's leadership, Delrina pioneered the development of PC fax software called WinFax and became a world leader in the communication software market with annual sales revenue exceeding $130 million. Listed on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, Delrina cultivated a reputation for leadership, growth and profitability, and completed several public offerings. In November 1995, the company was successfully sold to Symantec Corporation for share consideration valued at $560 million. Mr. Bennie entered the world of technology in 1979, when he co-founded Mission Electronics. He drove the expansion of this leading British audio equipment manufacturer to become a dominant force in the high-end stereo market. In 1982 he sold his interest in Mission Electronics and founded Aviva Software, an independent, mass-market software developer. Under his direction, the company expanded its scope to include software distribution and merged with Ingram Micro Inc. in 1986 to become Canada's largest software distributor. Residing in Toronto, Canada, with his wife Laura and three daughters, Dennis is an avid golfer and runner. A member of the World President's Organization, he also regularly serves on various charitable boards including the Toronto Hospital Board.
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- Industry: Software, Hardware, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $731k–$15M; Pre-Seed $20k–$4.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Delphia — Delphia puts your data to work for you.
- Tread — Tread's construction fleet management software makes the business of moving construction materials easier and more profitable. Request a demo today!
- Thriver — Discover, book, and manage workplace culture services and employee experiences all in one place. Empower your team with effective employee engagement activities.
Dubbed the ‘Willy Wonka of Weed,’ Chuck is a true pioneer of the North American cannabis industry having founded Canopy Growth (formerly Tweed Marijuana) in an dilapidated old Hershey factory and building it into 500,000 square feet of thriving marijuana grow capacity. Today Canopy Growth is worth over $US 200 million and recognized as a worldclass cannabis producer. The talent he recruited now guides the entire Canadian cannabis industry.As CEO of Nesta, Chuck communicates the Company’s vision and purpose, devising practical strategies for sustainable growth and attracting top entrepreneurial talent to the firm.
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- Industry: Cannabis, Lifestyle, Marketing
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tokyo Smoke — Tokyo Smoke is for the sophisticated and curious cannabis explorer, those who embrace high design and alternative states of mind.
Over the course of the last decade, first as a graduate student at Harvard University in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology with PhD advisor Professor Stuart Schreiber and then as an independent postdoctoral fellow at the Lewis-Sigler Institute at Princeton University, Dr. Ethan Perlstein developed an approach to studying old drugs anddiscovering new drugs in model organisms called evolutionary pharmacology. Ethan is an author on 19 peer-reviewed scholarly publications, including the discovery of a novel mechanism of action for the antidepressant Zoloft based on studies in yeast cells.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Life Science, Cannabis
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Epinoma — Epinoma is a diagnostics company that focuses on the multi-omics approach to cancer monitoring. It engineers proteins that control the operating system of biology. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- BluumBio — BluumBio develops next-generation remediation technologies that clean up pollution and restore degraded ecosystems
- Promakhos Therapeutics — A Boston-based biotech startup developing therapeutics.
Chris Adams - Founder & Managing Director @ Adams Hamilton
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- Industry: B2B, Farming, Nutrition
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Purchs — Wholesale buyers from restaurants, retail and institutions place orders using FreshSpoke's mobile or web app. Delivery is then arranged using FreshSpoke's shared delivery system that leverages the excess capacity that already exists in the food delivery system, giving commercial drivers, including local food producers, the ability to earnextra income delivering local food. The entire transaction is paperless; every aspect of the delivery from dispatch and routing, to arrival notification and order acceptance is handled on the driver’s smartphone. FreshSpoke is in the market and commercialized in Canada and the USA with a web app and three mobile apps. These include FreshSpoke buyers’ app, FreshDispatch app for Drivers and a consumer facing app called Local Food Champion that authenticates the source of local food served or sold by FreshSpoke buyers.
Drew Green is the Chief Executive Officer and President of INDOCHINO. He previously worked at Unata as a Shareholder. Drew Green attended York University.
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- Industry: DSP, PaaS, Audio
- Stage:Convertible Note, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- YOURIKA — AI-assisted education technology and student support
- Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.
- attention labs — SAA by attention labs detects who is talking to your device in real time, before ASR runs. No wake word. No GPU. Works with any model. Free eval available.
Farhan Thawar is the VP Engineering at Shopify. Attended University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada, Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$8.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mantle — A next generation platform for modern founders, powered by AI.
- Ten Key Labs — Mantle is a next generation ownership and equity management platform for modern founders, powered by AI.
- Redefine — Redefine is the first AI based CI optimization platform that seamlessly integrates with your existing CI environment, allowing you to accelerate your software development cycle and reduce cloud-costs. By combining code-analysis and ML, redefine optimizes your build and reduces feedback time by over 90% for developers.
Jim Spatz is the Chairman and CEO of Southwest Properties Limited, one of Atlantic Canada’s leading real estate developers. Southwest owns, operates and develops residential and commercial real estate in Atlantic Canada, extended stay accommodations across Canada, as well as a multi-unit residential portfolios in four Florida cities.
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- Industry: Sports, Big Data, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Brizi — We're on a mission to build the world's largest network of group memories. Brizi lets anyone tap into nearby cameras to capture group memories at iconic places. Licensed across sports and landmarks including NBA basketball, European soccer, Grand Slam tennis, and at the Washington Monument, to engage guests, offer a new type ofsponsorship asset, and collect valuable user, population, and imaging data.
- Grüvi — Gruvi makes non-alcoholic craft beer and wine on the planet. They strive to create an inclusive community focused on making better choices within their daily lives. They provide various types of non-alcoholic craft beer such as alcohol-free dry red blend, dry secco, and bubbly rose.
- Harbr — Turn credit onboarding into a repeatable, scalable business process. Collect everything once. Trigger every decisioning service automatically. Your workflow, not ours.
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- Industry: Mobile, Apps, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Since 1999, Mark MacLeod has been helping fund, grow and exit venture-backed startups as either a CFO, advisor or VC. Mark has been involved with many high profile companies including FreshBooks, Shopify, Frank & Oak and many, many others.Mark MacLeod is the founder of SurePath Capital Partners, the premier strategic financial advisor totoday's emerging technology leaders.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Bitcoin
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $900k–$9.1M; Series A $9.9M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ChefHero — notch simplifies wholesale food and beverage ordering for restaurants and suppliers of all sizes. Make all your orders, chat, and pay in one place.
- Shakepay — Shakepay allows Canadians to buy/sell bitcoin and pay their friends. We're on a mission to create open access to building wealth.
- Wrk — Unlock seamless automation with Wrk. Our AI automation tools and business automation solutions help you streamline workflows, cut costs, and scale effortlessly.
Ryan Holmes is based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, and is the Interim CEO, Founder and Director of the Board of Hootsuite. Ryan previously worked at Aritzia as a Board of Directors. Ryan Holmes attended the University of Victoria. Ryan Holmes has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $657k–$4M; Angel $551k–$1M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Favs — We build experiences that bring you closer to the people you care about while helping you remember what matters most.
- Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
- Go Oil — Go Oil is car maintenance made easy. Our service vans come to you and change your car's oil, rotate your truck's tires, replace your SUV's battery and more
Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 298
- Round size: Seed $356k–$6.5M; Series A $2.5M–$25M; Series B $3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CASIMIR —
- illumicell AI — illumicell AI combines patented AI algorithms and proprietary microscopy technology to test 50x faster, 20x more effectively, empowering every healthcare provider at the point of care – not just fertility clinics – with accessible, scalable fertility diagnostics.
- SignalRank — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.
Peter Harrison has over 35 years of executive and investment experience spanning the private and public technology sectors. Mr. Harrison is currently the Founder and General Partner of Sanderhill Capital, a fund focused on social and environmental impact investing. He is also an operating executive with Marlin Equity Partners as well as a boardtrustee of George Washington University where he chairs the ESG taskforce. Mr. Harrison earned a BS in Software Engineering in the UK before moving to the US in 1986. In 1990 he co-founded, Seer Technologies, an IBM backed spin-off from CSFB where he was working at the time. He led the growth of Seer’s international business growing the company to over $120 million culminating in an IPO in 1995. In 1996 Mr. Harrison joined Versata, an early stage technology start-up in the Bay Area where he led the growth of their revenues 60 fold in four years culminating in an IPO in 2020 which on the opening day was ranked as the 25th biggest opening of all time. In 2001 Mr. Harrison joined GlobalLogic as CEO, a technology service firm, which at the time had less than 20 people and over the next 10 years grew it to over 6,000 attracting investments from NEA, Sequoia Capital and Goldman Sachs and acquiring five companies along the way. GlobalLogic was itself acquired by Apax in 2013 resulting in a greater than a 10x return on capital. In 2013 Mr. Harrison took over as CEO of Snagajob, a marketplace for hourly workers with over 60 million users. While there, he recapitalized the business and grew software revenues 10 fold over five years. He presently sits on a number of technology boards and collaborates with several VC’s and PE’s advising them on new investments and M&A. Over his career Mr. Harrison has had a direct hand in raising $400 million in both public and private markets that have resulted in the creation of companies with a combined market value of more than $8 billion dollars.
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- Industry: SaaS, B2B, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Influ2 — Reach named buyers at every stage of the buying journey. Revenue follows focus.
- 7shifts — Restaurant Employee Scheduling Software. Make scheduling, timesheets, team communication, task and tip management, and labor compliance easy. Get started for free.
Ryan Garrah is a President at Emerson Canada.
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- Industry: CleanTech, GreenTech, Sustainability
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Relocalize — Relocalize is a food tech platform that produces, processes, and packages food locally using automated micro-factories.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Industrial Automation
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $603k–$1M; Series A $4.5M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
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.
- Elevated Signals — Elevated Signals builds manufacturing operations software for regulated industries like cannabis, nutraceuticals, food, and beverage. As an alternative to rigid ERPs and fragile spreadsheets, its GMP-ready platform connects inventory, quality & compliance, planning, and costing into one easy-to-use system - empowering teams to plan smarter, actfaster, and scale with confidence.Purpose-built for complex, fast-growing operations, the platform supports vertically integrated producers, white-label and co-manufacturers, and GMP-ready, export-focused facilities that need airtight traceability and flexibility. It's used across teams: operations and QA capture production floor data in real time, while finance, compliance, sales, and planning rely on it for informed decision-making and audit readiness.It provides:- Real-time visibility into materials and processes - Embedded quality assurance and compliance - A structured but adaptable system that supports how manufacturers actually workFeatures available:- Inventory Management - Work Orders & Production Tracking - SKU & Product Management - Vendor & Procurement Management - Production Planning (New Module) - Embedded Quality Assurance (QA) - Traceability & Compliance - Role-Based Access & Permissions - Reporting & Export Tools
- Nanoprecise Sci Corp — Predictive Maintenance, Automated Ai Based Predictive Maintenance, Machine Doctor, Wireless Industrial Iot Sensors, Artificial Intelligence in Maintenance, Scaling Iot Solutions
In his role as General Partner at ScaleUP Ventures, Kevin Kimsa is responsible for investing in and supporting early stage portfolio companies in the North American market, with a focus on Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech.Prior to founding ScaleUP Ventures, Kevin has spent more than 20 years in operational managementpositions at growth companies including live event e-commerce platform provider AudienceView Ticketing Inc., where he current serves as Executive Chair. His entrepreneurial successes also include co-founding IP billing software firm Solect Technology Group (sold to Amdocs Inc. in 2000 for US$1.2 billion), and software firm Casero Inc. (sold to Radialpoint in 2009.)Kevin’s solid track record in operations includes roles as the CEO and COO at companies he founded or co-founded, and successful completion of numerous financing rounds with a mixture of venture capitalists and strategic investors.Kevin is a 2002 recipient of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 Award, and is a Board member of Toronto East General Hospital and the Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology, University of Waterloo (Advisory Board). He holds a Bachelor of Mathematics degree with a major in computer science and statistics from the University of Waterloo.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $5M–$7.5M; Series A $3M–$9M; Series B $8.1M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Thriver — Discover, book, and manage workplace culture services and employee experiences all in one place. Empower your team with effective employee engagement activities.
- XGS Energy — Reimagining geothermal energy with the first 24/7, carbon-free, scalable, truly closed-loop heat-harvesting system. Reach your full geothermal production potential--with a fraction of the water and cost of other geothermal systems.
- Skyward Wildfire Technologies — We stop lightning strikes over high-risk areas to prevent catastrophic wildfires from starting. Interested in learning more?
Chris Rickett, co-founder of Digital Main Street.
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- Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GoodGood — GoodGood is creating a better kind of local commerce, helping neighborhoods discover specialty treats, niche beverages, and your next oh-my-god-I'm-obsessed favorite craft items.
James McCann is the Founder and CEO of Food Retail Ventures. He attended the University of Manchester.
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- Industry: Grocery, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Series A $4.5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Halla — Halla Intelligence is a digital solution that leverages over 100 billion shopper and product data points to recommend and promote what grocery items.
- Flashfood — Get massive savings on fresh food items like meat and produce that are nearing their best before date at grocery stores across Canada and the U.S.
- Afresh — A solution built specifically to manage fresh department inventory, forecasting, ordering, merchandising, and store operations. Afresh eliminates food waste, improves perimeter operations, and transforms demand planning chainwide.
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Browse database — It's Free!Dror Balshine is the President at Sol Cuisine Inc. Dror Balshine attended The University of British Columbia.
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- Industry: Organic Food, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nuts For Cheese — Nuts For Cheese produces organic, 100% dairy free and plant-based cheese in six delicious flavors.
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- Industry: Organic Food, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Blume — Blends with benefits. Organic superfood powders for your mug, cup, bowl and baking sheet. We believe wellness should be fun and accessible. All of our colorful lattes are vegan, refined sugar-free and less than $1/serving.
Aman Chatha
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- Industry: Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.
Dario Meli is the Executive Chairman of Quietly Media Inc. He previously worked at Music Direction as a Partner. Dario Meli attended the Vancouver Film School.
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- Industry: Logistics, Content Creators, Marketing Automation
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1M–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.
- Creator.co — Find amazing brands, products and experiences!
- Go Oil — Go Oil is car maintenance made easy. Our service vans come to you and change your car's oil, rotate your truck's tires, replace your SUV's battery and more
Steve Wood is working as the VP of Product, Developer Platform at Slack.He attended Queen's University.
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- Industry: CleanTech, GreenTech, Sustainability
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Relocalize — Relocalize is a food tech platform that produces, processes, and packages food locally using automated micro-factories.
Jerry Grandey is a former president and CEO of uranium producer Cameco Corporation.
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- Industry: B2B, Consumer, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Arctic Shelf — Cubbi is a manufacturer and designer of refrigerated lockers catering to schools and workplaces.
Mike Durland is the former Group Head and CEO, Global Banking and Markets, for Scotiabank. He retired from Scotiabank in 2016 to pursue a variety of business, philanthropic, and academic interests. Today, he is the CEO of Melancthon Capital, a member of the Business Strategy Committee for the Global Risk Institute, the Chair of the Board ofDirectors of DeepLearning, a founding principal in Cabot Links, a member of the Board of Directors of TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture, a member of the advisory board of Riipen Networks Inc., a member of the Board of Directors of the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation, a member of the Advisory Board of the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University, and a member of the Advisory Boards of the Center for Social Impact and the Master of Management Analytics Program, both at Queen’s University. He holds a B.Comm degree from St. Mary’s University, a PhD in Finance and Operations Research from Queen’s University, and an honorary doctorate from St. Mary’s University.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Recruiting
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TruLeaf — At TruLeaf, we’re leading a new evolution in plant science that improves predictability in agriculture. Our Smart Plant Systems® leverage multi-level farming technology to create efficient, controlled indoor farms that can be located anywhere from the heart of an urban centre to remote locations or harsh climate areas, where growing would otherwisenot be possible.It’s a practical, sustainable solution that avoids some of the challenges of traditional farming, providing a predictable, year-round supply of fresh, high-nutrient plants to meet the needs of grocery retailers, functional food producers, pharma and health product manufacturers.We’re more than plant growers; we’re a multi-disciplinary team with world-leading expertise in plant science, environmental controls, new product development, marketing and supply chain management. By combining proven agricultural technologies with our own innovations in farm design, racking, lighting configurations and irrigation mechanics, we’re pioneering proprietary, world-leading processes and plant recipes with exciting commercial possibilities in multiple industries.
- Ideal — Ideal is a talent intelligence system that helps enterprise teams make more accurate, efficient, and fair decisions. Discover our product!
Lachy Groom is the Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence. He previously worked at Stripe as the Head of Stripe Issuing.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 225
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$10M; Series A $8.5M–$35M; Series B $20M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ambrook — Ambrook offers specialized accounting software for family-run farms, ranches, and agribusinesses. The platform includes bookkeeping, invoicing, bill payment, and analytics tools. Ambrook aims to help these businesses manage finances, track profitability, and prepare for the future.
- Meticulous — Meticulous auto-generates and auto-maintains visual frontend browser tests, providing a level of coverage that is unattainable with manually written tests.
- Netic — The AI revenue engine for essential service industries that keep America running.
Eric Patel was first elected to the Ritchie Bros. Board in 2004. Mr. Patel has extensive business and financial experience, most recently as CFO of Pembrook Mining Corp. (formerly Paget Resources Corporation), a private mining company that he left in 2010. Prior to that Mr. Patel acted as the CFO of CrystalDecisions, Inc., a privately heldsoftware company. Mr. Patel joined Crystal Decisions in 1999 after holding executive level positions, including that of CFO, with University Games, Inc., a privately held manufacturer of educational toys and games. Before 1997, Mr. Patel worked for Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream as Director of Strategy, for Marakon Associates strategy consultants and for Chemical Bank. Mr. Patel sits on the Advisory Board of ACL Services Ltd, the board of Daiya Foods Inc. and is treasurer of B.C. Social Ventures Partners, a not for profit-organization. Mr. Patel holds an MBA degree. Mr. Patel is currently a member of the Audit Committee and is Chair of the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TMRW Foods — TMRW Foods is a Canadian producer of plant-based proteins, producing out of their wholly owned HACCP certified facility in British Columbia, Canada. TMRW products can be found in retailers across Canada, and a local delivery platform is available for Lower Mainland Vancouver. TMRW has tripled their distribution points from the end 2020 to Q2 2021.
- Apothékary — Apothékary provides a tailored, holistic approach to medicine and wellness to clients in over 23 countries globally. Rooted in Eastern medicine and over 5,000 years of research and tradition, the company puts out both traditional medicinal practice and goods to meet the requirements of their clients in natural sleep, stress, skincare, and more. Theproduct portfolio of the company is prepared with products from Mother Nature's pantry, driven by the notion that food is medicine.
- Eclipse Foods — Eclipse Foods is the sweet tooth for all food lovers of plant-based, vegan ice cream. We offer delicious, cruelty-free vegan ice cream. Learn more today!
Oren Zeev is the Founder of and one of the two main early backers respectively, a former board member of Zeev lives in San Francisco, California, United States.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Round size: Seed $800k–$29M; Series A $2M–$37M; Series B $6M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Linguana — Linguana builds and monetizes your fully localized YouTube channels in new languages to reach new audiences across the globe and monetize them.
- Venn — Venn creates a new way of urban neighboring by managing homes, creating shared spaces, supporting hyperlocal business initiatives and services, programs events, and facilitating community engagement – all on a neighborhood-wide level. Operating by the motto, “If they build it, they will stay,” venn’s platform encourages urbanites to become activecreators and participants in the development of their community and enables developing neighborhoods to become as vibrant and desirable as the downtown core. Founded in 2016 by people raised in the Big City and in cooperative communities, venn is a new movement of neighboring that impacts tens of thousands of people in three cities (Tel Aviv, Brooklyn, and Berlin) with +75 employees
- Novee Security — Novee delivers AI penetration testing to find vulnerabilities faster, validate defenses, and reduce cyber risk.
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