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Top 50 Gaming Angel Investors in Canada in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Gaming startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Gaming companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Gaming Angel Investors in Canada in January 2025

Investor	Gaming Canada investments
Jeffrey Howe	4
Dan Plashkes	4
Bryan Rosenblatt	3
Chris Aniszczyk	2
André Zimmermann	2
Jon Oringer	2
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	2
Chris Gonsalves	2
Jon Oringer	2
Drew Brees	2
Jill Denham	2
Mike Fata	2
John W Tomes	2
Lance Priebe	2
Tom Williams	2
Jason Warner	2
Eric Patel	2
Jon Oringer	2
David Albert	2
Arlene Dickinson	2
Peter Wilson	2
Mark Pincus	2
Lanny Lipson	1
Jerin Mece	1
Philip Sane	1
Eric Wetlaufer	1
Danish Chaudhry	1
Andrew Perlman	1
Aman Chatha	1
James Pardieck	1
David Reckziegel	1
Tim Draper	1
Loi Luu	1
William Riggs	1
Aleksander Leonard Larsen	1
Kathia Cambron	1
Ethan Song	1
Bernard Prevost	1
Etienne Plourde	1
Mitch Lasky	1
John Risley	1
Balaji Srinivasan	1
Lauren Rathmell	1
Fred Mancheski	1
Jeff Steinberg	1
Josh Nussbaum	1
Justin Kan	1
Satish Kanwar	1
Manjit Minhas	1
Tim Tokarsky	1

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Jeffrey Howe

Investment focus

Fantasy Sports
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

OwnersBox — Daily Fantasy Sports reinvented! Play OwnersBox's suite of innovative DFS games and compete to win exciting cash prizes.

Dan Plashkes

Investment focus

Fantasy Sports
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

OwnersBox — Daily Fantasy Sports reinvented! Play OwnersBox's suite of innovative DFS games and compete to win exciting cash prizes.

Partner @ Craft Ventures

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Hardware
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed

Chris Aniszczyk is Chief Technology Officer at Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Investment focus

Internet, Developer Tools, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Golioth — Golioth helps developers to build IoT devices, secure your IoT, pipe device data from the edge to the cloud, and manage your IoT fleet from anywhere.
Kubecost — Kubecost provides real-time cost visibility and insights for teams using Kubernetes, helping you continuously reduce your cloud costs.
Battlesnake — Controlled by a web server you build, and the code you write, Battlesnakes move to find food, avoid others, and stay alive.

André holds a degree in Business Administration of the Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo (Brazil) and a GMP at CEDEP/INSEAD, Fontainebleau (France). He has more than 22 years experience within the communication industry, having worked for advertising and media agencies in Brazil and in Spain. After having worked at Havas for 12years, where at the end he accumulated the roles of MD at Havas Digital Brazil and MD at Z+, he became an entrepreneur in 2013 and has since then helped building NetCos (influencer marketing), Adglow (social media advertising), Smartclip Brazil, (video distribution platform), Blasting News Brazil (social journalism), Kiddo (customer experience), Oliver Latam (in house agencies), Audioria (podcast production and distribution) and Corebiz Spain (omnichannel agency). Since 2014 also acting as an angel investor at seed and early stage ventures for companies such as iSPORTiSTiCS (artificial intelligence for sports), Sherwa (gaming network), Donamaid (cleaning services marketplace), Mimo (live commerce), Chilligum Creatives (dynamic creatives), Super Troupers (influencer powered commerce solution) and also through Wow Accelerator. André was also a professor for two years at the Master in Digital Marketing of the Instituto de Empresa, Madrid (Spain) and a VP and board member at the Interactive Advertising Bureau Brazil. In 2014 André was ranked second in the Top 50 Innovators of Marketing and Communication in Brazil list, published by Proxxima (Meio&Mensagem Group).

Investment focus

Software, Video, Computer Vision
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

DISS-CO — DISS-CO's Innovative GRC SaaS. Blockchain and AI for Easy Compliance, Risk Management and Efficient Workflows.
Super Troupers — Traditional influencers platforms give them a fish for each campaign; we give them a fishing rod.
Sherwa Online Services — Bringing a share-economy into the gaming industry - Connecting, learning and earning money while you play!We are bringing a new way for people to connect and play together, while also having the opportunity for users to earn revenue by helping other players and creating exclusive lobbies.We offer instant matchmaking for both users who aretrying to play, those platforms you can only book a match with someone. We offer coaching groups as well as promoting inside events and competitions for exclusive gifts and in-app coins. We allow users the possibility to play with their favourite influencers/streamers. The influencer can create a featured group where people can make a line to play with them.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Easy finetuning for AI and LLMs. Open-source and for beginners. Get faster with Unsloth.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

Investment focus

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

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.

Cofounder & CEO of Community Gaming

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Video Games
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

AAG Ventures — AAG Ventures is the IT business behind AAG, one of the fastest-growing Play-To-Earn guilds in the industry.
Community Gaming — CommunityGaming.io combines social gaming, match automation, and blockchain payment technology to make it easy to organize and compete in esports tournaments. Their solution uses automated software and blockchain payment tech to produce fair, transparent, automated results without the complexity normally associated with blockchain solutions. Ourevent platform is a network of thousands of gamers, dozens of venues, and brands who we've proudly brought together across over 200 live and online esports competitions.
Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Drew Brees is an American football quarterback for the New Orleans Saints of the NFL, an entrepreneur, and an investor.

Investment focus

Sports, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

NorthOne — 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.
Nightfall — Nightfall is one trusted DLP platform to discover, classify, and protect sensitive data across SaaS and cloud apps with machine learning.
WeBuild Stuff — WeBuild Stuff is a disruptive fabrication, manufacturing and installation firm focusing on wood furniture.

Jill Denham

Investment focus

Fantasy Sports
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

OwnersBox — Daily Fantasy Sports reinvented! Play OwnersBox's suite of innovative DFS games and compete to win exciting cash prizes.

Mike Fata is the Founder at Manitoba Harvest. He attended Institute for Integrative Nutrition.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Snack Food
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Canada, United States

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.
Mid-Day Squares — Mid-Day Squares: Perfectly designed to stop your hunger or cravings in between meals. Each Square is packed with Clean Plant Protein, Real Chocolate & Superfoods.
Nuts For Cheese — Nuts For Cheese produces organic, 100% dairy free and plant-based cheese in six delicious flavors.

John W Tomes

Investment focus

Fantasy Sports
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

OwnersBox — Daily Fantasy Sports reinvented! Play OwnersBox's suite of innovative DFS games and compete to win exciting cash prizes.

Lance Priebe

Investment focus

eSports, SaaS, Content Delivery Network
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

WTFast — WTFast is here to help you get rid of pesky online gaming problems and bid farewell to Fortnite lag, PUBG lag, Dota 2 lag, CSGO lag, LOL lag and hundred of other games.
PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
Nurture — Learn Foundational Life Skills Through Immersive Play

Tom Williams

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Unito — Unito keeps your data in sync between multiple tools so everyone is always up-to-date in real-time.
Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
NorthOne — 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.

Jason Warner is the Co-founder, CEO of poolside. He previously worked at Redpoint Ventures as a Managing Director. Jason Warner attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Spain

Portfolio highlights

c/side — Third-party scripts are a key part of the supply chain, giving 3rd party access to sensitive data or allowing malicious actions in the browser of your user. c/side helps you regain control over your website.
Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.
Patronus AI — The industry-first automated evaluation platform that detects Large Language Model (LLM) mistakes at scale and use generative AI with confidence.

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.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, United States

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 is a global plant-based farmacy that offers clean alternatives to over the counter synthetic supplements & beauty products.
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!

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Managing Director, @foodora (a Delivery Hero company)

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Mobile
Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Jiffy — Jiffy is a web and mobile platform that connects homeowners with service providers in real time, based on proximity and availability.
Notch — 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.

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.

Pete Wilson is the Managing Director at HarbourVest Partners.

Investment focus

Fantasy Sports
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

OwnersBox — Daily Fantasy Sports reinvented! Play OwnersBox's suite of innovative DFS games and compete to win exciting cash prizes.

Mark Pincus is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Zynga. He has served as our Chairman from April 2007 to March 2016 and the company's Executive Chairman since March 2016. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer from April 2007 to July 2013 and from April 2015 to March 2016, and as Chief Product Officer from April2007 to April 2014. In 2014, he founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. Pincus also founded Zynga.org in 2009, a non-profit organization dedicated to using social games for social good.From 2003 to 2007, Pincus served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tribe.net, a company he launched and one of the first social networks in the industry. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Chairman of Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software company he founded, and he served as Chief Executive Officer and President from December 1997 to July 1999. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company he founded.Pincus also made founding investments in Napster, Twitter, and Facebook.Pincus graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an angel investor in multiple Silicon Valley startups and regularly gives lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Internet, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Troveo AI — AI companies are scouring the internet for high-quality video. Troveo helps you capture the value and turn your video into passive revenue.
Echo Chunk AI — We build epic strategy games that generate themselves. Starting with Echo Chess: the daily chess puzzler where you are what you eat.
Spring Free EV — Fleet managers, high mileage, and gig drivers. No Personal Credit Required. Learn More About Spring Free EV Today! A Stress-Free, Quick, and Unbiased Process to Get You Into an Electric Vehicle. Pay As You Go.

Lanny Lipson

Investment focus

Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
Seed
Canada

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.

Founder

Investment focus

Organic Food, Food and Beverage
Seed
Canada

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.

Philip Sane

Investment focus

Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
Seed
Canada

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.

Eric Wetlaufer is the Managing Partner at TwinRiver Capital.Eric Wetlaufer attended Wesleyan University.

Investment focus

B2B, Farming, Nutrition
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

FreshSpoke — Purchs is a Distribution as a Service (DaaS) platform with warehousing and delivery and sales support that flex with the needs of growing retail brands.

Startup enthusiast and coffee addict

Investment focus

Other, Software, Financial
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

DAM — DAM is a protocol for creating purchasing power from cross-chain token portfolios through dPRIME, a Dotsama-based stablecoin.
Bware Labs — Bware Labs provides an interface between Blockchain APIs consumers and node providers with integrated payment options and verified reliability, all embedded within our platform and protocol service.
Altitude — Actively managed collateralised loans

Andrew Perlman is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at North Equity. He attended The George Washington University School of Business in 1996.

Investment focus

Water, Wellness, Advertising
Seed, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Flow Alkaline Spring Water — Naturally alkaline spring water in a sustainable package, delivered to your door.
Recurrent Ventures — Recurrent is an innovative digital media company that empowers brands to grow, and connect with consumers in a way that is enjoyable, sustainable, inspiring, and profitable—while maintaining editorial integrity. Its best-in-class brands like Popular Science, The Drive, Domino, MEL, Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, Car Bibles, SAVEUR, Futurism, andTask & Purpose engage a combined audience of more than 50 million monthly unique visitors. Initially founded in late 2018 with the acquisition of The Drive, the portfolio rapidly expanded under the ownership and backing of North Equity LLC to include 20 digital media brands across automotive, home, lifestyle, military, outdoors, and science and tech verticals.

Aman Chatha

Investment focus

Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
Seed
Canada

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.

James Pardieck

Investment focus

Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
Seed
Canada

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.

David Reckziegel

Investment focus

Video, Software, Advertising
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Unlimited — UNLIMITED is at the forefront in the design and creation of high-end Virtual Reality Experiences. VR is a revolutionary new medium - a mind-blowing hybrid between interactive media and immersive cinematic experiences. They offer branded and original VR content for immersive and interactive media, including films, TV series, games andadvertising.

Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
Zest Protocol — Zest Protocol enables users to put their Bitcoin to work. Earn more BTC, or borrow against your BTC.

Loi Luu is a researcher working on cryptocurrencies, smart contract security and distributed consensus algorithms. He is also a regular invited speaker at Bitcoin and Ethereum workshops such as DevCon2, EDCON.Loi believes in the force of the Ethereum and Blockchain technology. Much of his work revolves around this community. He developed Oyente,the first open-source security analyzer for Ethereum smart contracts. Loi also cofounded SmartPool, another open source project which embraces decentralization of mining pools in existing cryptocurrency. He continues to champion decentralisation and trustless properties of the Blockchain with KyberNetwork, taking inspiration and developing value for the community.

Investment focus

Financial, Other, Software
Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Gibraltar

Portfolio highlights

MixMob — A P2E Game on Remix Culture. grab your mask and start your journey - level up from card strategy battle game to full MMO glory!
Ancient8 — GameFi Infrastructure Developer
Astro Space — Astro Space official homepage

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.

Investment focus

SaaS, Robotics, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

SCOUT — Scout Canning is the story of heritage canning reinterpreted by PEI-native, and award-winning Chef, Charlotte Langley.
Heex Technologies — Heex Technologies accelerates AI development by enabling engineering teams to get the most value out of their data

Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.

Investment focus

Gaming, Digital Entertainment, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Norway, Singapore, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

GOALS — Goals is a provider of an online football game. Goals is a multiplayer-first football game primarily for PC and consoles that offers a way for gamers to own in-game digital assets as they play.
Presail — The platform behind Web 3.0's best investment groups. Manage everything in one place: fundraising, investor management, and token vesting.
Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.

Kathia Cambron

Investment focus

Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
Seed
Canada

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.

Ethan Song has lived and worked around the world, with major stints in Shanghai, Paris and Vancouver. His independent travels and his background in theatre and engineering inspired him to merge art with science and technology, and ultimately, to co-found Frank & Oak. As the company’s CEO, Ethan oversees product design and development and thecustomer shopping experience.

Investment focus

Legal Tech, Organic Food, Web Development
Seed, Pre-Seed
Canada

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.
Reactiv — Reactiv is an AI-powered mobile app platform to help you sell more and increase retention, without the headache of managing another channel
Haloo — Navigating the trademark search and registration process can be daunting and onerous for business owners and entrepreneurs. Heirlume is the first self-serve online trademark search and registration platform that integrates sophisticated legal thinking with technology. We make the complex trademark search and registration process fast, accurate,trusted and affordable for entrepreneurs and enterprise/e-com partners. Our search tool instantly runs the country-specific legal tests (i.e., “likelihood of confusion”) and performs lawyer analysis. Intelligent search algorithms provide an at-a-glance opinion of registerability (conflicts, descriptiveness, obscenity), displayed in simple visuals. Distilling the multiple data sets involved with drafting a trademark application requires time-consuming legal analysis. Our machine learning auto-suggest trademark application builder performs the lawyer work and removes room for error. While our first go to market strategy will target SME individual users, we see huge potential in expanding our market reach through key B2B partnerships as an upsell/add-on to a domain purchase (GoDaddy), or store set-up (Shopify or Amazon). Ultimately, we believe we can make trademark registration quick, easy and affordable, similar to the experience of registering a domain.

Bernard Prevost

Investment focus

Pet, Tea, Fitness
Seed, Angel
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Bobba — Bobba provides ready-to-drink bubble tea made with an infusion of real tea and unique fruit juice beads.
Goloot — Reward your everyday.
healthybud — Reinventing the pet pantry. Healthybud crafts treats, toppers and balanced meals with powerful superfoods - so our dogs can live longer, happier & healthier.

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.

Investment focus

Tea, Food and Beverage
Angel
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Bobba — Bobba provides ready-to-drink bubble tea made with an infusion of real tea and unique fruit juice beads.

Mitch Lasky is a general partner at (NASDAQ: JMDT), the leading global publisher of wireless entertainment applications, which he joined as a startup in 2000, took public in 2004, and sold to EA in 2006.Prior to JAMDAT, Mitch served as general manager of eCompanies Wireless LLC, a startup incubator. He also spent five years at Activision, the world’s largest game publisher, most recently as executive vice president of Worldwide Studios. Earlier in his career, Mitch practiced intellectual property law, worked at the Walt Disney Company and started a massively multiplayer online game company.Mitch is currently a board member of He attended Harvard University and University of Virginia School of Law.

Investment focus

Video Games, Software, Mobile
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Rascal Games — Rascal Games creates games that are unapologetically multiplayer.
Games for a living — Elevating play by using the latest tech. Pioneering gaming's future with innovative, engaging, and timeless experiences.
Odyssey Interactive — Odyssey Interactive is a game studio focused on building free-to-play, cross platform, competitive titles set in bright and hopeful anime inspired IP.

John Risley is Chairman and CEO of CFFI Ventures Inc., a diversified holding company operating internationally. The company has majority or significant stakes in a portfolio of young companies ranging from financial services, renewable energy and the tech sector. He is also the Chair of Northern Private Capital, a Toronto based fund which investsin high growth opportunities, and Chair of MDA Corporation, Canada’s iconic space company.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Sharing Economy
Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ClearBank — ClearBank is a clearing and agency banking platform allowing banks and other customers real-time clearance on payment transactions and other financial services. Its services include account management, liquidity management, transaction analysis, and real-time access to payment schemes. These services help clients to make transactions fast andcost-effective for their customers.The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Bristol City, United Kingdom.
Harbr — Harbr analyzes submissions and automatically retrieves missing information so teams can stop wasting time chasing documents.
ZeroIN — For ingredient manufacturers seeking to enhance the taste profile of their sweeteners, ZeroIN develops technology to produce next-gen sweeteners with the same bulk, sweetness, and taste as sugar but no aftertaste.

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Software, Financial, Other
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Den — Stop wrangling signers, squinting at addresses, and spending hours creating transactions. Start executing fast to propel your team forward.
Proven — Proven
Salsa (prev. Pearl) — Meet & Chat throught POAPs. The app to connect with web3 people and brand you care about.

Rathmell, a trained biochemist, started working with Lufa Farms as a researcher at McGill’s MacDonald campus. She played a large role in the development of the plant science and growing science that Lufa eventually implemented, including the NFT and drip irrigation systems, the use of biological pest controls, the microclimate and crop rotationsystems, and the selection of crop varieties. Rathmell currently supervises all greenhouse operations as well as research and development

Investment focus

Agriculture, Hospitality, Organic Food
Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Lufa Farms — Find out how to subscribe to weekly fully customizable local food baskets.

Fred Mancheski

Investment focus

Gaming, Computer, Software
Angel, Funding Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

FluGen — FluGen is a biopharmaceutical company specializing on the prevention and treatment of seasonal and pandemic influenza worldwide.
Phoenix Labs — We aspire to create timeless games shared for generations, powered by an unwavering regard for players and each other.

Jeff Steinberg

Investment focus

Sports, Winery, Distillery
Series A, Private Equity
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

LiveBarn — Watch your favorite amateur sports athletes and teams live and on-demand anywhere, anytime, and on any device with LiveBarn.
Siempre Spirits — Handmade in a small Mexican town named Tequila, this platinum and consumer's choice award winning 100% Agave spirit is unmatched in taste and quality.

Josh joined Metamorphic Ventures in 2013.Prior to Metamorphic, Josh worked in Business Development for startup, JustDecide, a social decision-making company. Prior to JustDecide, Josh worked in digital marketing and branding at Bayard Advertising.Josh is also a member of the executive board at Tech@NYU, New York City’s largest studenttechnology organization. For multiple semesters he was in charge of “Startup Week” where he helped organize events with top entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in New York City.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Internet, Software
Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
CryptoKitties — CryptoKitties is a mobile game that enables users to collect and breed virtual cats on the blockchain. The collectible, breedable, and adorable CryptoKitties aim to make blockchain technology accessible to everyday consumers by putting a furry face on the concept of digital collectibles.With each CryptoKitties unique 256-bit genome empower nearly4-billion potential genetic combinations.

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Stash. He previously worked at Atrium as a CEO. Justin Kan attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Nigeria, India

Portfolio highlights

Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
Qualified Health — Discover the Infrastructure for enforceable governance, agent creation, and post-deployment monitoring for Generative AI in healthcare

Satish Kanwar is a VP of Product at Shopify, where he oversees strategic product initiatives for over 1 million merchants globally. Satish led Shopify’s formative expansion from online stores to multi-channel commerce, accelerating merchants' sales across eCommerce, brick-and-mortar, and new sales channels. Satish previously co-founded userexperience studio Jet Cooper, which was acquired by Shopify in order to establish its product development footprint in Toronto. Satish is an active angel investor, public speaker, and advisor.He attended the University of Toronto Scarborough.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, FinTech, Art
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.

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.

Investment focus

Energy, Gaming, Software
Angel
Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.
Easy Platter — Easy Platter Personal chefs prepare healthy, delicious custom cuisines in your kitchen for $7.75/Meal. Top-Rated Local Personal chefs prepare incredible meals per your dietary preferences. Sit back, relax while your affordable personal chefs prepare meals for you and your family in your kitchen or
PilotsFriend West — Precision crafted by bio-scientists and nutritionists, originally made for active duty jet pilots, PilotsFriend is a vitalizing energy tonic that promotes optimal concentration, performance, and health.

Former Micromuse and WysDM executiveMr. Tim Tokarsky served as Chief Operating Officer of WysDM Software Inc. (formerly SysDM Inc.) and also served as its Vice President of Business Development since January, 2004.Mr. Tokarsky was responsible for developing and managing SysDM's technology partner and reseller relationships whilemanaging its marketing programs. His IT career began at Goldman Sachs, where he was responsible for the global systems monitoring design and rollout. In 1995, he joined Merrill Lynch as Vice President of Distributed Systems Management with responsibility for the design and implementation of Merrill Lynch's global distributed systems management strategy. Mr. Tokarsky joined Micromuse's executive team in 1997, pre-IPO, as Vice President of Application Development. He served as Senior Vice President of Business Development of Micromuse where he was responsible for Micromuse's product market strategy, marketing, partnerships and acquisition activity. He designed and oversaw development of three software solutions: Netcool/Impact, Netcool/Reporter and Netcool/NT Service Monitors. He served as a Director of BrightScope Inc. since September 2009. Mr. Tokarsky received BSc in Geophysics from McGill University.

Investment focus

Sports, Hardware, Software
Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Relocalize — Relocalize is a food tech platform that produces, processes, and packages food locally using automated micro-factories.
Sportlogiq — Sportlogiq is a venture-backed startup that develops sports statistics solutions. Using feeds from current broadcast cameras, the company uses player tracking and activity recognition to analyze player movement and provide context to game analysis. Sportlogiq was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.
Accion Systems — Satellites have changed a lot in the last decade. Propulsion has too. At Accion, we reinvented propulsion for New Space, and created a more efficient ion thruster: the Tiled Ionic Liquid Electrospray (TILE) engine.

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