Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in Canada in September 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Hardware startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in Canada in September 2025
Investor | Hardware Canada investments |
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Jacky Chen | 6 |
Daniel Debow | 4 |
Scott Banister | 4 |
Dean Bakes | 3 |
Ray Muzyka | 3 |
Christian Sullivan | 3 |
Mark Pincus | 3 |
Greg Rudin | 3 |
Tom Williams | 3 |
Jean-François Grenon | 3 |
Sebastian Marineau-Mes | 3 |
Ellen Levy | 2 |
Kevin Mahaffey | 2 |
Mike McCauley | 2 |
Boris Wertz | 2 |
Kevin Hale | 2 |
Lance Priebe | 2 |
Sergio A. Escobar | 2 |
Paul Geyer | 2 |
Alexis Ohanian | 2 |
Jon Stevenson | 2 |
Kevin Sandhu | 2 |
Vincent Thibault | 2 |
Eliot Durbin | 2 |
Rob Stevens | 2 |
Lee Lau | 2 |
Hanif Joshaghani | 2 |
Scott Roberts | 2 |
Paul Buchheit | 2 |
Paul Rochester | 2 |
Jeff Bonforte | 2 |
Peter M. Kern | 2 |
Cheryl Cheng | 2 |
Matt Mastracci | 2 |
William Tunstall-Pedoe | 2 |
Garry Tan | 2 |
Dennis Bennie | 2 |
Jim Fletcher | 2 |
Alex Karakozoff | 2 |
Bryan Freeman | 2 |
Barney Pell | 2 |
Stephen Curry | 2 |
Dylan Taylor | 2 |
Nick Romano | 1 |
Marc Petit | 1 |
Loi Luu | 1 |
Avichal Garg | 1 |
Dennis Phelps | 1 |
Jim Spatz | 1 |
Ty Danco | 1 |
Jacky is dedicated to angel investment and has built up a portfolio of more than thirty startup companies in Canada and the US. His target investments are the early-stage B2B companies with disruptive technologies and business potential in enterprise software, information technologies, MedTech, and Advanced Manufacturing.Jacky has acquiredconcrete business experiences as a successful founder in the startup ecosystem and an executive of Fortune 500 companies over two decades. His remarkable accomplishments range from building startups from scratch to leading a billion-dollar business with the leverage of 14,000 enterprise channel partners. The unique journey has shaped Jacky's outstanding of investing in early startups.Jacky holds the degrees of Mater's E.E. and MBA, and he graduated from CEIBS and The Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Workwolf — Workwolf is a Toronto-based start-up with a management team who has led 7 start-ups, had 2 successful exits, and has taken a company public with a $1.8B IPO. Workwolf CEO Erik Simins is an SME in HR who previously founded MAGNUS HRS, a staffing company now servicing over 150 enterprise customers. The technology at Workwolf solves two of the biggestpain points in employment: applicant filtration and verification, and does so by empowering users to identify better candidates faster. Winner of global awards in both 2020 and 2021 for innovation and market potential, Workwolf is ramping up for its multi-national roll-out with ManpowerGroup in September that will coincide with a $4.5M Seed financing round.
- Agile Devices — Agile Devices offer catheter-based interventional procedures helping patients during a stroke. It helps medical practitioners reduce the procedure time to respond to time bound emergencies.
- Traction Technology Partners — Traction is a powerful SaaS collaboration platform for evaluating, adopting and managing new technologies across the enterprise. The platform includes Project Management and CRM tools designed specifically for enterprise teams tasked with discovering and evaluating new technologies. Traction is used by IT, Innovation and Corp Dev teams toaccelerate their digital transformation projects, and to speed up the way they find, manage, and adopt new technologies. Traction also offers On-Demand Research services delivered through its platform.
Daniel Debow is the Chair of the Board of Build Canada. He attended the Stanford Law School.Daniel is the Vice President of Product (Demand) at Shopify. He previously worked as an SVP at Salesforce.com, where he drives marketing for Salesforce Work.com, a sales performance management solution that helps Facebook, LinkedIn, Spotify, and otherinnovative companies align, motivate, and drive the performance of their sales teams. Prior to joining Salesforce, Daniel was co-founder and co-CEO of Rypple, a social performance management platform acquired by Salesforce in 2012. Prior to Rypple, Daniel was on the founding team of Workbrain, which provided workforce management solutions to Wal-Mart, Citibank, and other large enterprises. Workbrain grew to $100 million in annual revenues before being acquired by Infor in 2007.A sought after speaker on how social media is changing the workplace, Daniel is a contributor to Fortune.com and the Huffington Post. He’s been widely quoted in Wired, the Financial Times, the Economist and Bloomberg Businessweek. Daniel holds a JD/MBA from the University of Toronto and an LLM in Law, Science and Technology from Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Shakepay — Shakepay allows Canadians to buy/sell bitcoin and pay their friends. We're on a mission to create open access to building wealth.
- Spatial — Experience virtual NFT art exhibitions, meetups, and live events together with lifelike avatars. Customize beautiful 3D spaces. Join now from Web, Mobile, & VR.
- 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.
Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Justpoint — Justpoint is a venture-backed AI-first company redesigning the medical malpractice industry. Our first product allows for a faster and better understanding of the legal merits of a claim as well as an instant understanding of its likely settlement amount.We have previously created companies that effectively changed their industries, fromhealthcare insurance to clinical trial recruitment. To advance the medical malpractice industry, we have put together a team with extensive achievements in healthcare technology, medical malpractice litigation, and artificial intelligence.
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
- Valid — Validated tests product ideas against real users before you launch. We measure the feasibility of your product idea rank value propositions and test messaging.
Dean Bakes is the Principal at M3 Ventures and Investor at Foxtrot, Jaanuu, and Rhone. He is also an Advisory Committee of The Vinetta Project. He was the Creative Director at Michael Andrews Bespoke and the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Charles Dean before that.He brings to M3 Ventures a unique combination of investment acumen,relationship building, and unbridled ambition. Dean has developed a firm knowledge and understanding of branded consumer companies as well as a unique perspective as the founder of his own apparel startup
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Apps, Delivery
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Foxtrot — Foxtrot is a mobile app that lets customers shop their curated collections of drinks, food, and everyday essentials. The customer's order will be delivered straight to them in under an hour. The company was co-founded by Mike LaVitola with Brian Jaffee and Taylor Bloom in 2013 in Chicago, Illinois.
- Blackcart — BlackCart removes friction during checkout, boosts conversions, AOV, and gives customers the best shopping experience. BlackCart allows the customer to pick out items from their favorite stores, get it shipped to try at home for free, and only pay for what they keep.
Originally trained as a medical doctor, Dr. Ray Muzyka cofounded BioWare, a video game development studio focusing on story and character, in the early 1990s. He practiced emergency/family medicine for two years full time, with medicine transitioning to part-time over the following decade as he focused on his role as BioWare’s CEO. BioWare wasacquired by Electronic Arts in 2007, and Dr. Muzyka took on the roles of Senior Vice President at Electronic Arts and General Manager of EA’s BioWare division, which grew over the next five years to span eight development locations worldwide with about 2000 staff (1400 full time). He retired from video games in October 2012, with his third “career chapter” at ThresholdImpact, where he focused on sustainable, profitable impact investing: mentoring and angel investing in information technology, new media, and medical innovations with social entrepreneurs. An active angel investor and entrepreneurial mentor, Dr. Muzyka is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, the A100, the Ashoka Support Network, and the Board of Governors of the University of Alberta (serving as Chair of the Human Resources Committee and on the Learning and Discovery Committee and as a member of the University of Alberta Advancement Council). He is Chair of the University of Alberta’s entrepreneur Venture Mentoring Service, a venture advisor at iNovia Venture Capital, and a member of the Alberta Research and Innovation Advisory Committee and the Alberta Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy. He also serves on a number of private company boards. He previously served on the board of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences from 2001-2008 and was on the Board of Trustees of the Stollery Children’s Health Foundation from 2012-2015. He was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame in 2011 and received the International Game Developers’ Choice Awards 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Muzyka received the inaugural Alumni Innovation Award in 2015 from the University of Alberta. He additionally was named as the 2017 Allard Chair in Business at the MacEwan University’s School of Business and as an Honorary Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary Club International in 2016, in recognition for his philanthropic efforts. Other awards include entry into Canada’s Top 40 under 40 and Ernst and Young’s 2001 Entrepreneur of the Year (IT, Prairies).He obtained his Bachelor of Medical Science from the University of Alberta in 1990, his Doctorate of Medicine from there in 1992, and his MBA from the University of Western Ontario (Ivey School of Business) in 2001.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Leadoptik — Leadoptik is a California-based company is currently operating in stealth mode.
- Modality.AI, Inc. — Modality.ai is an AI-powered platform that detects health conditions using conversational AI. Through dialogue and video, Modality.AI interacts conversationally with the patient to provide health assessment anywhere, anytime. Its system analyzes multimodal data which allows continuous screening and assessing of patients’ health.
- Gray Oncology Solutions — Gray Oncology Solution is a healthcare enterprise software company that commercializes GrayOS, the operating system for oncology.
Christian Sullivan is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Republic Labs and an Advisor and Investor at Republic.Christian has invested in over 200 companies including the seed rounds of Cruise, Relativity Space, Yandex, Yubico, Ozon, and was an early check into investment funds Initialized Capital and Polychain. Christian started his careerin sales and trading in Moscow, Russia in the early 90s where he was a partner at United Financial Group which was later sold to Deutsche Bank in 2007.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Software, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Portal to Bitcoin — The only custody-less interoperability protocol for Bitcoin. Swap native BTC, Ordinals, Runes with L2s and L1s
- Blackcart — BlackCart removes friction during checkout, boosts conversions, AOV, and gives customers the best shopping experience. BlackCart allows the customer to pick out items from their favorite stores, get it shipped to try at home for free, and only pay for what they keep.
- Surge — Surge is a developer of a composable scaling meta-layer to push the bounds of Bitcoin functionality. The company's infrastructure supports app-specific rollups, GameFi, ordinals, and other DeFi use-cases while inheriting Bitcoin's security and liquidity, allowing developers to unlock Bitcoin innovation and focus on launching their ideas.
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.
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Investment focus
- Internet, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Substack — Substack makes it simple for a writer to start an email newsletter that makes money from subscriptions.
- Troveo AI — AI companies are scouring the internet for high-quality video. Troveo helps you capture the value and turn your video into revenue.
- Schemata — Schemata is a three-dimensional content creation company intended to help the Department of Defense and enterprises.
Greg Rudin
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Investment focus
- B2B, Apps, Local
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Goodbill — Goodbill helps people fight hospital bills. It's the fastest and simplest way to save money without weeks of research and hours of phone calls.
- Blackcart — BlackCart removes friction during checkout, boosts conversions, AOV, and gives customers the best shopping experience. BlackCart allows the customer to pick out items from their favorite stores, get it shipped to try at home for free, and only pay for what they keep.
- Cruisebound — Cruising made simple. Cruisebound makes it easy to book your cruise online. Compare cruises from major cruise lines and find the best fit for your vacation needs.
Tom Williams
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Unito — Enterprise-grade integrations that sync business-critical tools. Secure, low-cost, two-way sync that anyone can set up and manage.
- Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
- 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.
Jean François Grenon brings more than 25 years of expertise in the telecom and wireless space. Prior to forming Vectrad Networks and then NTF-Capital in 2003, Jean-François was Chairman and CEO of Innova Corporation, a company he led folllowing its listing on the NASDAQ.Jean-François graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal andholds a Harvard Business School MBA.He sits on the board of several innovation driven corporations including Inter-Mobile S.A.S, a NexTFund portfolio company.
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, Computer
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- PlayFitt — PlayFitt is a fitness platform using experience in Sports Analytics, Machine Learning, Video Games.
- IntelliSports — IntelliSports is a Montreal based technology company that is combining real world sports with a digitally engaging experience and A.I. to create real world gaming.At IntelliSports they firmly believe that getting healthy should be as much fun as Levelling Up in your favourite video game. They are using their experience in Sports Analytics, MachineLearning, Video Games and mass market consumer technology to create a fitness platform where users can train, group up, compete and enjoy many of the most engaging elements of modern video games.
- Sollum Technologies — Sollum Technologies is offers greenhouse producers the only smart LED lighting solution which dynamically reproduces the full spectrum of the sun’s natural light. It is based in Montréal (Québec, Canada), where its design, development and manufacturing activities are concentrated. It works closely with its clients to modulate and create recipesadapted to the growth cycle of each product, regardless of its native climate in the world and the location of the greenhouse. Sollum’s lighting solutions thereby provide unparalleled value in terms of energy savings, productivity and superior produce quality through a flexible, adaptive and easy-to-use application, with great respect for the environment.
Sebastien Marineau is the VP Software at Apple. He attended University of Ottawa.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Foko Retail — A cloud-based workforce management software with capabilities to manage time, attendance, scheduling, absence and employee communications globally.
- Bloks, Inc. — Built purposely for venture teams. Works intelligently behind the scenes by eliminating all the busy work so you can focus on what matters -> picking and building winners
- Nook — Nook is a personal knowledge base that helps capture, organize, and intelligently resurface what you need to know and do throughout your day. Get early access.
Ellen Levy is the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Connect.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Upwage — Our mission is to create $1 trillion in new wealth for the 44% of Americans who make less than $16/hr, using the power of big data & AI.
- Stake — Renters earn Cash back for rent. Building operators outperform the market. That's the Stake win-win. Find out how we're building the financial tools for the next generation of rentals.
- Rattle — Sales automation for scaling teams. Learn how revenue leaders use Rattle to effortlessly update Salesforce, improve pipeline accuracy and skyrocket their success.
Kevin Patrick Mahaffey is the Founder of Lookout and SNR. He is also the Executive Chairman of Stork Club and an Investor.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Karman+ — Mining near Earth asteroids
- Knostic — Knostic provides need-to-know access controls for Large Language Models (LLMs). Its knowledge-centric capabilities enable enterprises to expedite the deployment of LLMs and drive AI-powered innovation while maintaining value, security, and safety.
- Fleet Device Management — Open-source IT and security for teams with lots of workstations and servers. (Linux, macOS, Windows, cloud, data center, OT/ICS, Chrome)
Mike McCauley was co-founder of BufferBox (acquired by Google), a network of automated package delivery lockers. One year after its founding, BufferBox was awarded the 2012 Velocity Venture Fund, and went through the Y Combinator program in Silicon Valley. Mike is now Product Manager of early stage Google X projects and is based in Silicon Valley.Most recently he co-founded a start-up fund to help early-stage tech firms in the Waterloo Region in 2014. Mike completed a BASc, Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2011 and is passionate about sharing his expertise as a founder with others.
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Investment focus
- Software, Recruiting, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Reebee — Reebee is the simplest way to browse your flyers.FEATURES INCLUDE:- Current Flyers - An up to date section illustrating deals you can access in store TODAY!- Upcoming Flyers - A sneak preview of deals soon to come.- Location Services - Only relevant flyers from your area are displayed.- Message Us - This app was built for you, we wouldlove to hear what you think!
- CareGuide — We believe good people deserve the best care. Connect with housekeepers, nannies, pet sitters, and elder \ care providers with ease. Trusted and secure.
- Tulip Retail — Set a new standard for omnichannel retail with a suite of cloud-based solutions built to help create outstanding customer experiences.
Boris Wertz is the Founder & General Partner of Version One Ventures. He previously worked at Ether Capital as a Lead Independent director. Boris Wertz attended the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Helcim — Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid.
- NiaHealth — Get advanced at-home biomarker testing, proactive healthspan diagnostics, and expert guidance to elevate your health. HSA-eligible.
- Agora — Make great governance your competitive advantage. Trusted by Optimism, ENS, Uniswap and more.
Kevin Hale was a partner at Y Combinator. He worked with their portfolio companies on user experience design, product development and customer support. In 2006, he co-founded Wufoo, which was one of the earliest Y Combinator funded startups. The online form builder was later acquired by SurveyMonkey. He attended
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Stilt — The number one place for financial resources and immigration guidance for students and immigrants in the U.S.
- Postscript — Engage with customers wherever they are. Postscript helps you build strong customer relationships across the entire buying experience. Start your free trial today.
- Taali Foods — Taali is a 'better for you' food company. We have a simple vision, we want our products to be a delicious and guilt-free snack that is loaded with the good stuff.Our anchor brand Taali Taali is a guilt-free snack made from popped water lily seeds. Our products are made of Non-GMO, whole, and natural ingredients that you can pronounceand spell to create a difference you can taste. We have on average 20% fewer calories and 67% less fat per serving (28g) than the leading popcorn brand. Roasted never tasted this good.
Lance Priebe
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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 — Fun, science-backed learning games that build future-proof life skills like critical thinking, money smarts, healthy habits, and more. Free for now!
Sergio has a diversified investment portfolio of companies across the United States and Canada ranging from B2B Cloud & SaaS startups (leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Analytics and Security) to B2C Consumer startups (leveraging Mobile Apps, IoT/Wearables and eCommerce). Sergio has +15 years of experience as a multiple timestech entrepreneur with startups in Aerospace, eCommerce, Manufacturing, AgTech and Financial Technologies. Over the last 8 years, he has been deeply involved in the international entrepreneurial scene (incubators and accelerators) through his involvement in Founder Institute, Techstars Startup Programs, McGill X-1, Startup Chile, Startup Peru, Startup Bootcamp FinTech London, MsB Tunisia, Flat6Labs Tunisia, Kuwait National Fund, World Bank 'Tech Entrepreneurship Program for Innovation in the Caribbean', Krypto Labs in the Middle East and Creative Destruction Lab in Artificial Intelligence. He has been pioneering the Canadian investment scene by launching one of Canada's very first super angel funds: BCFventures.vc
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Cloud Infrastructure
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- FightCamp — FightCamp delivers the most exhilarating and effective form of home fitness through interactive boxing workouts, streamed to your device on demand.
- JITbase — JITbase helps to improve workforce efficiency and increase production capacity by collecting data from machines that no one else can access.
- Athennian — Athennian's cloud-based legal entity management software is trusted by law firms, legal departments, and corporate secretaries for entity governance and compliance. Learn more.
Paul Geyer, a successful Medtech Entrepreneur and experienced Board member. Over the past 20 years Paul founded and led two companies through their growth phase, in one case to a successful private exit and in the other case through growth as a public company with numerous acquisitions. Both companies have grown to be anchor medical devicecompanies in the Vancouver area, employing more than 350 people.In 1991 he founded Mitroflow International Inc., a tissue heart valve company. Paul grew the company from 9 employees to more than 125 employees in 1999. In 1999 Paul sold Mitroflow to Sulzer Medica, for more than $50 mil. Paul's leadership resulted in Mitroflow growing to more than 200 employees, making it one of the largest medical devices companies in the Vancouver area. In 2001 Paul started Medical Ventures, a new specialty vascular device company where he is currently Chairman of the Board. From its inception to June 2008, Geyer held the position of CEO at Medical Ventures (now Neovasc) and was responsible for raising over $40 million in Equity financing and growing the company’s product portfolio through internal development and the acquisition of 3 other companies. In 2008 Paul began focusing on sharing is expertise to assist other Entrepreneurs to build successful businesses, through his involvement as a mentor or Board member. He also focused on building the local community through his involvement as a Board member of BC technology industry association, along with a number of non-profit community based organizations. Paul is actively engaged as a Philanthropist, as Chairman of the Board of Social Venture Partners Vancouver, involved with Science World, Entrepreneurship at UBC, Project Somos Children’s Village and other organizations.Paul is currently the CEO of LightIntegra Technology Inc., a spin-off from Canadian Blood Services which has developed the ThromboLux technology, used to determine platelet quality for blood transfusions.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Fitness, Medical Device
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Stoko design — Get the same level of joint support as a rigid knee brace in the form of a compression tight. Covered by insurance. Fast & free shipping. Hassle-free returns. Backed by orthopedic surgeons. Recommended by Olympians.
- Arbutus Medical — Arbutus Medical manufactures medical devices that simplifies orthopedic surgery and reduce the cost of healthcare to help treat patients worldwide.
- HeadCheck Health — HEADCHECK HEALTH simplifies the process of executing and monitoring concussion protocols. Learn more!
Alexis Ohanian is the President and Founder of 776 Foundation. He previously worked at reddit as an Executive Chair and Board Member. Alexis Ohanian attended the University of Virginia.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Laurel — Time by Ping frees lawyers from timekeeping so they can focus on their work, and firms can understand where time is being spent.
- BirthFund — Standing in the gap for families, one birth at a time.
- Chelsea web Design — The world famous Chelsea Football Club is located at Stamford Bridge on the Fulham Road in west London.
Jon Stevenson
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Investment focus
- CAD, Finance, Hardware
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- GrabCAD — GrabCAD is a mechanical engineering community for sharing talent, expand knowledge and collaborate, including free CAD model library and [engineering competitions platformThe founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk previously ran a product development company.GrabCAD was founded in 2009. The company's headquarters is based in Boston, USAwith development team in Estonia.
- Vention — Design and order custom industrial equipment in days. Fast and easy-to-use cloud CAD, loaded with modular parts, that ship next day.
Kevin Sandhu is the Co-Founder and CEO at Otter (www.otter.ca).
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Helcim — Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid.
- Showbie — Showbie combines all of the essential tools for assignments, feedback, and communication in one easy-to-use platform. Showbie's features were designed with teachers and students in mind. Teachers can get set up and start using Showbie's powerful platform within minutes. Teachers who use Showbie love how it transforms their classroomsinto engaging, collaborative, and organized learning environments. Showbie's suite of tools make it easy to give rich, differentiated feedback to students, so everyone gets the help they need to succeed. Showbie allows students to share files and ideas with each other, ensuring everyone is on the same page and encouraging collaboration. Showbie lets teachers work with their peers and easily engage with families. Teachers can set up groups to work directly with colleagues, share best practices, or discuss the needs of particular students. Parents can easily be part of the conversation too; teachers can set up groups just for families where they can post class updates and even permission slips. Because of its easy-to-use, intuitive design, it's no surprise that teachers love Showbie. A 2018 Showbie survey (http://ow.ly/T30r30l0H5j) found that 98% of teachers said it was easy to use and implement and 97% said it helped them improve feedback and speed up grading. With more than 3 million users worldwide, Showbie is poised to become the leading platform for the digital classroom.
- Flahmingo — Saving and investing are not intuitive financial skills for the majority of Canadians. Many Canadians believe investing is only for the rich or that it requires significant capital to start. However, the 'next generation' of investors is changing this narrative by learning by doing and investing early. These new investors are being morethan just conscious of their financial return by also seeking a social return, by investing in brands they know and love, trust, and whose vision they support.Flahmingo is a native mobile application that allows DIY investors to begin investing with as little as $5. Using our proprietary Pies and Slices technology, Flahmingo enables users to build a portfolio of their favourite companies and exchange traded funds (ETFs). Using scheduled deposits and automagic round ups (both investment automation strategies), users seamlessly grow and maintain a diversified portfolio through the purchase and sale of fractional shares'. These fractional shares allow Flahmingo users to own as little as $1 in companies like Tesla, Alphabet, Amazon and even Berkshire Hathaway.
Vincent Thibault Co-Founder at QScale.
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Investment focus
- Email, Software, Web Development
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Eliot Durbin is the General Partner of Boldstart Ventures. He is a former co-founder and Managing Partner at Penny Black. He attended Georgetown University and Columbia University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Open Source, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Look.io — Look IO is a plugin for iPhone, iPad & Android apps that overlays a live chat session with a sales or support agent. The core features are:- Visual Assist: View your user's screen & 'click-in' to provide visual feedback- Live Chat: Support sales & users by answering questions immediately- Chat Anywhere: Connect youraccount to iChat, gTalk or a mobile chat app- Easily Integrate: Get customer data from & to Zendesk, Assistly, Salesforce, etc
- Blaze.io — Blaze is a new technology for accelerating the speed of Websites and cutting bandwidth costs. We do this by dynamically optimizing the frontend code to make pages load more efficiently. Blaze is a cloud based service that requires no software, no hardware and no code changes. Blaze can be deployed in less than 1 hour and can integrate with yourexisting CDN services.Who is it for?Blaze is used by performance architects or operations engineers to accelerate their sites for their users. Blaze can be used on any Web site or intranet application - both static & dynamic. It requires no new hardware or code changes. Why use BLAZE?Improving website speed will reduce customer abandonment & improve your google rank. Blaze also significantly cuts operating costs by improving site efficiency. Deploying Blaze on your site is fast and simple.
- GoInstant — GoInstant Co-browsing allows two or more people to browse the web together in a real-time interactive session. All participants that join a co-browse session can click, scroll, type and browse at the same time. Co-browsing does not require any downloads or plugins to work; all users need is a web browser.A co-browse session can be used toco-browse any website for customer support, sales, e-commerce, training and more. Sign up at http://goinstant.com to be notified as new accounts become available.
Rob Stevens
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Investment focus
- CAD, Solar, Water
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Vention — Design and order custom industrial equipment in days. Fast and easy-to-use cloud CAD, loaded with modular parts, that ship next day.
- OffGridBox — An all-in-one system using solar energy to purify water and distribute clean energy. off grid container, offgrid water, off-grid electric products, solar water box, building off grid, power in a box, off grid technology, shipping container solar system
Lee Lau is a Partner and Co-Founder of Alignvest Management Corporation. Mr. Lau co-founded ATI Technologies in 1985 and built the company into one of the world’s largest supplier of graphic chips and add-in boards to the personal computer industry. In addition to managing the company, Mr. Lau was ATI’s largest shareholder, first employee andresponsible for innovation and development of all products. Mr. Lau helped build ATI into a TSX and NASDAQ listed global market leader, with annual sales in excess of $2.2 billion and over 3,000 employees. ATI was sold in 2006 to Advanced Micro Devices for cash and stock consideration of $5.3 billion. Since then, Mr. Lau has managed his family office investing in a variety of alternative asset products. Prior to founding ATI, Mr. Lau held various design engineering positions with Mitel, Motorola and Plessey.Mr. Lau holds a Masters in Engineering and a BASc from the University of Toronto.
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Investment focus
- Wearables, Software, Internet of Things
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Nymi — Nymi provides a new paradigm for connecting people to their workplace on a platform, which streamlines work securely across different networks and environments. Passwordless, contactless, handsfree.
- Lumotune — We are creating a platform to transform the world’s glass into digital displays.
- Springdel — Move beyond cloud and legacy MDM with an enterprise-grade EdgeOps platform purpose-built for the interactive Edge of Things.
Hanif is a serial entrepreneur who has raised $150M USD across the 4 companies he has founded and invested in over a dozen startups.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Angel, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Helcim — Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid.
- Flahmingo — Saving and investing are not intuitive financial skills for the majority of Canadians. Many Canadians believe investing is only for the rich or that it requires significant capital to start. However, the 'next generation' of investors is changing this narrative by learning by doing and investing early. These new investors are being morethan just conscious of their financial return by also seeking a social return, by investing in brands they know and love, trust, and whose vision they support.Flahmingo is a native mobile application that allows DIY investors to begin investing with as little as $5. Using our proprietary Pies and Slices technology, Flahmingo enables users to build a portfolio of their favourite companies and exchange traded funds (ETFs). Using scheduled deposits and automagic round ups (both investment automation strategies), users seamlessly grow and maintain a diversified portfolio through the purchase and sale of fractional shares'. These fractional shares allow Flahmingo users to own as little as $1 in companies like Tesla, Alphabet, Amazon and even Berkshire Hathaway.
- Littlebird — Littlebird's Toddler CareTracker tells you where your child is, who they are with, and how they are doing. Littlebird has an expanding suite of features including cellular connection, GPS, heart rate, temperature, activity and mode trends and dynamic activity feed connecting you with your little one's caregivers.
Scott Roberts is the VP & Head of Business Development at LinkedIn.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Software, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Pace — Proactively accelerate revenue from self-service users without spreadsheets, dashboards, or favors from engineering.
- Bloks, Inc. — Built purposely for venture teams. Works intelligently behind the scenes by eliminating all the busy work so you can focus on what matters -> picking and building winners
- Nook — Nook is a personal knowledge base that helps capture, organize, and intelligently resurface what you need to know and do throughout your day. Get early access.
Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the originalprototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto in a meeting.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- SiPhox Health — SiPhox Health brings comprehensive, at-home blood testing to your door! Take control of your disease risk and increase your healthspan today with affordable, convenient at-home blood testing. No lab visits, no appointments, no waiting in line.
- Character.ai — Chat with millions of AI Characters on the #1 AI chat app. Where will your next adventure take you?
- Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Paul Rochester is the Chief Executive Officer of Slope45. He attended Queen's University.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- LemonStand — LemonStand eCommerce provides eCommerce software and solutions to mid-sized merchants. Their primary customers are web developers that are seeking a flexible solution that will provide an enjoyable development experience while meeting their customer's requirements, and being easy to use for the day-to-day operations.It was founded in 2010and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Sherpa Digital Media — Sherpa develops an extensible, data-driven streaming video platform for the enterprise.With enterprise video now pervasive, companies are increasingly turning to Sherpa to consolidate live and on-demand video under a single streaming system-of-record. Sherpa’s extensible and data-driven platform securely manages, measures and automates allstreaming video touch points with customers, partners, and employees. Many of the world’s premier enterprises have selected Sherpa to power their expanding digital media programs. Sherpa is privately held and headquartered in Redwood City, California. The company is backed by Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV), Rally Ventures, and individuals.
Jeff Bonforte is the Chief Executive Officer at Grindr. He attended University of California, Los Angeles during 1990 - 1993.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Bloks, Inc. — Built purposely for venture teams. Works intelligently behind the scenes by eliminating all the busy work so you can focus on what matters -> picking and building winners
- Nook — Nook is a personal knowledge base that helps capture, organize, and intelligently resurface what you need to know and do throughout your day. Get early access.
- Checkmate — Never miss a deal.
Peter M. Kern has been a director of Expedia since completion of the IAC/Expedia Spin-Off.Peter Kern is a Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners, LP, a private equity firm.Prior to joining InterMedia, Mr. Kern was Senior Managing Director and Principal of Alpine Capital LLC.Prior to Alpine Capital, Mr. Kern founded Gemini Associates in1996 and served as President from its inception through its merger with Alpine Capital in 2001.Prior to founding Gemini Associates,Peter Kern was at the Home Shopping Network and Whittle Communications.Since April 2013,Peter Kern has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hemisphere Media Group, Inc., a publicly-traded Spanish-language media company.Mr. Kern also serves on the boards of a number of private companies, including Televicentro of Puerto Rico, LLC, Luxury Retreats International Holdings, Inc. and Cine Latino, Inc.Mr. Kern holds a B.S. degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Busbud — Travel the world by bus. Compare and easily book bus tickets from thousands of bus companies for your next destination with Busbud.
- Snapcommerce — A new way to shop that maximizes savings, benefits and rewards on mobile.
- Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
Cheryl Cheng joined BRV in 2008. She focuses on early stage consumer and mobile big data opportunities. Cheryl also runs BRV’s alumni entrepreneur and Fortune 500 programs to bring experience and resources to the current portfolio. Prior to BlueRun, Cheryl worked at Clorox and The Sharper Image launching new products and driving retail marketingwith partners across Target, Walmart and grocery.Cheryl has a B.A. from Stanford University and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management where she was a Forte Scholar. She is a mentor at Stanford’s Bio-Design for Mobile Health course, a collaboration between Stanford’s School of Medicine and School of Engineering.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Email, Content
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Dyspatch — Dyspatch's no-code email builder empowers your team to create, innovate, and grow conversations with your customers globally.
- SamaCare — SamaCare helps you spend less time with prior authorizations and more time with patients - at no cost for medical practices.
- Kiddo — Empowering families. Delivering better care for kids.
Matt lives to pursue challenging technical problems and push the envelope of computing. He served as CTO of DotSpots, and previously worked on building scalable and fast solutions for energy companies, both as desktop and web applications. Along with Ryan Perry, he worked with StumbleUpon to build a newest generation of IE Toolbar prior totheir acquisition by EBay.Matt has a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Calgary
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Investment focus
- Legal, Software, Child Care
- Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- NOBAL Technologies — Adaptable to any environment, anywhere in the world, our interactive intelligent mirror solutions are designed to easily integrate with your physical space.
- Athennian — Athennian's cloud-based legal entity management software is trusted by law firms, legal departments, and corporate secretaries for entity governance and compliance. Learn more.
- CareGuide — We believe good people deserve the best care. Connect with housekeepers, nannies, pet sitters, and elder \ care providers with ease. Trusted and secure.
William Tunstall-Pedoe FREng is a British entrepreneur focused on world-changing products powered with Artificial Intelligence and other deep technology. He is based in Cambridge and London UK. He founded the British company Evi (formerly True Knowledge), the AI platform acquired by Amazon and where William, the team and the technology developed byEvi was used to create Alexa. He left in 2016. William is an active angel investor with investments in more than 100 startups. He is a fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab and a full member of Cambridge Angels.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
- LumiQ — LumiQ makes earning CPD hours fun and accessible for individual accounting professionals and teams on-the-go. Get started now!
- Unlikely AI — Controllable, auditable and hallucination-free AI solutions.
Garry Tan is the incoming President and CEO of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Posterous.com as a Co-Founder. Garry Tan attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
- Standard Fleet — Software for electric vehicle owners
- Rainmaker Technology — Rainmaker uses drone-based cloud seeding to increase rainfall, restore ecosystems, and fight drought. Learn how our scalable weather technology brings water to the West.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
- 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.
Jim is a 30-year veteran of the Canadian venture capital industry. He has participated actively across all funding stages from being part of founding management through personal angel investment, institutional venture capital, corporate venture investment and a variety of public and private exits. He has also been actively involved in numerouspublic policy initiatives designed to foster a healthy Canadian environment for early-stage companies and venture capital investors.Jim has been a Managing Director with Ventures West and Chrysalix Energy Management, overseen corporate venture investing as Treasurer of MacMillan Bloedel, and was founder and CEO of China Capital, CFO of the Angus Reid Group, and a Director of many technology companies. He currently chairs the Boards of Vision Critical Communications Inc., Recombo Inc. and Tyze Personal Networks Inc., and is a member of the Advisory Board of OMERS Ventures.Jim is also actively involved in the non-profit and social enterprise sector. He was a founding partner of BC Technology Social Venture Partners, has served on many other non-profit Boards and is engaged in public policy initiatives to enhance social innovation and finance.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Apps, News
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Shelfie — Shelfie is an app that connects readers and books. Shelfie lets readers digitize their paper book collections, get free or discounted ebooks of the books they own and discover their next reads.Shelfie has signed deals with over 600 publishers allowing users to download an eBook if they own a print edition for nearly 150,000 titles. Readers justtake a picture of their bookshelf (a "shelfie") and the app will identify and catalog all of their books and let them know which ones are eligible for bundling.
- A&K Robotics — A&K Robotics | Autonomous Vehicle Systems
- ePACT Network — ePACT will improve emergency preparedness across North America. By connecting every home and organization with shared information and resources, ePACT will have a positive impact on the safety of our communities. Its benefits will encourage users to adopt and share the system, while its tools help North Americans manage unexpected situations.
Alex Karakozoff
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Investment focus
- Software, Task Management, Meeting Software
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Foko Retail — A cloud-based workforce management software with capabilities to manage time, attendance, scheduling, absence and employee communications globally.
- Tungle.me — Tungle.me makes scheduling meetings easy--across organizations, calendar systems, and time zones. It eliminates costly double bookings, frustrating time zone mishaps, and the endless back and forth emails and phone calls of finding a time to meet. Tungle syncs with your existing calendar -- Outlook (with or without Exchange), Google Calendar,Apple iCal, Entourage for Mac and Lotus Notes (Beta).Tungle.me is free and does not require meeting invitees or visitors to a user's Tungle.me page to sign in or register to schedule meetings. Tungle.me also supports scheduling meetings on-the-go with Tungle.me for iPhone and BlackBerry.
Bryan Freeman - Co-Founder @ HitGrab
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Investment focus
- Analytics, Apps, SaaS
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Farmeron — Farmeron helps farmers across the world to manage their farming data online and to do farm performance analysis using exciting statistics.By integrating Farmeron with machinery being used on farms of the world, we're able to speed up data retrieval process and ease core farming data management operations. Adding an analytics layer on topthis data, Farmeron delivers statistics and reports to farmers, and these can be used to monitor production performance, adjust production plans but also for government reporting needs.
- Seevibes — Back in 2011, Seevibes started with the vision that television is not dead. TV was still the number one media, and more importantly, TV was number one on social media. Despite these facts, nobody was monetizing the Social TV audience.In 2012, the company built a strong credibility around its social TV data, offering analytics dashboard tomonetize the social TV audience and to optimize cross-media planning.In 2013, Seevibes developed its business with the major TV networks and media agencies, but being the leading provider of social TV ratings in Canada was not enough. The company decided to go further and expanded its geo-footprint with the acquisition of TvTweet, one of the first Twitter TV ratings provider in Europe.In 2014, Seevibes seized the opportunity to develop its targeting capacity and launched a unique brand affinity technology to enrich the social media profiling to help media planners to target their sweet spot. Following its success in Canada and France, Seevibes extended its data footprint in the UK, Belgium, Germany and the US to built the largest social TV graph. Based on billion of data points analyzed and enriched by Seevibes exclusive technology, we aggregate all the knowledge about TV viewers’ engagement on social media in order to build smarter marketing solutions.Today, Seevibes has become the leading provider of smart data targeting for efficient social media advertising. Our mission is to help the top brands and media agencies target the most engaged profiles and build tailored audiences to improve Twitter Ads campaign performance — increase reach and lower cost of acquisition.
Barney Pell was the co-founder, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of LocoMobi Inc. Barney has a long history as a leading technology innovator, product visionary, entrepreneur and angel investor based in Silicon Valley. Barney is known for being an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mayfield, a top Venture Capital firm, which he left to becomeFounder and CEO of Powerset, which built a natural-language based search engine that read each sentence in Wikipedia and answered user queries in plain English. Microsoft acquired Powerset in 2008 to help create its new search engine, Bing. Barney then served Microsoft as Search Strategist, Evangelist, and Chief Architect for Local Search at Bing, until leaving Microsoft in September 2011 to return to the start-up world full-time.Barney also has active investor, board member, and advisory roles with multiple start-up companies and non-profits across a variety of industries. Barney is Co-Founder, Vice Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Moon Express, a private company building autonomous robotic lunar landers to enable exploration and commercial development of the solar system. This builds on his earlier career managing advanced software technologies at NASA. Highlights of innovations during Barney’s career at NASA include mission critical software to support planning and collaboration for the Mars Exploration Rovers mission; Clarissa, the first spoken dialog system in space; and the development of the Remote Agent, the first AI system to fly onboard and control a deep space probe. Remote Agent is widely considered one of the top achievements in the history of Artificial Intelligence and was awarded NASA’s "software of the year" award in 1999. Barney is also Associate Founder and Trustee of Singularity University (SU), a new university created to educate leaders for life in a future driven by accelerating technological change.Other recent active angel investments and advisory positions include: Getaround, Robotex, Halcyon Molecular, SpaceX, and CrowdFlower. Recent start-ups that have had successful exits include: Appjet (now Google), Aardvark (now Google), Hot Potato (now Facebook), Etacts (now SalesForce.com), Movity (now Trulia), and LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional social network which recently went public after acquiring its hundred-millionth member.Barney received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and his B.S. degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was a National Merit Scholar.Barney is a frequent speaker at conferences and universities. These include keynote talks at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the Association for Computational Linguistics, Search Marketing Expos, International Semantic Web Conference, World Wide Web Conference, the Informational Retrieval Conference, and panels at SXSW Interactive. Barney has also spoken at the NPA and IPI conferences and has been featured in all major Parking industry magazines.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Mobile, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Workwolf — Workwolf is a Toronto-based start-up with a management team who has led 7 start-ups, had 2 successful exits, and has taken a company public with a $1.8B IPO. Workwolf CEO Erik Simins is an SME in HR who previously founded MAGNUS HRS, a staffing company now servicing over 150 enterprise customers. The technology at Workwolf solves two of the biggestpain points in employment: applicant filtration and verification, and does so by empowering users to identify better candidates faster. Winner of global awards in both 2020 and 2021 for innovation and market potential, Workwolf is ramping up for its multi-national roll-out with ManpowerGroup in September that will coincide with a $4.5M Seed financing round.
- Ada — Ada is a computer software company that features a chatbot-based platform that helps enterprise businesses to automate customer experience. Its platform operates through both web and mobile machine learning engine that reduces support volume and empowers customers to find answers on their own.The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered inToronto in Canada.
- A&K Robotics — A&K Robotics | Autonomous Vehicle Systems
Stephen Curry currently works as the Founder and Partner at Unanimous Media. He previously worked at Slyce.io as co-founder. Stephen Curry attended Davidson College in 2006.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
- Series A, Series C, Series B
- United States, Canada, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Step — Borrow, Bank, and Build Credit all in one app. Step gives you smarter tools to help you take control and grow your money quickly.
- Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
- TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
Dylan Taylor is based out of Denver, Colorado, and is the Chief Executive Office and Chairman at Voyager Technologies. Dylan Taylor attended University of Arizona.
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Investment focus
- Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Xplore — Xplore is flying commercial missions in Earth orbits with their XCRAFT™, and they invite you to join us. They take civilian, commercial and national security payloads to their desired orbit around Earth for their science or reconnaissance missions.
- LeoLabs — LeoLabs' network of ground-based, phased array radars produces high-resolution data on objects in LEO, supporting satellite service industries.
- Space Forge — Space Forge make super materials in space that cannot be made on earth.
Nick is a serial entrepreneur, an accomplished CEO, senior Enterprise Technology executive, Outside Director, and Advisor delivering successful outcomes through leadership, integrity, innovation, and empowerment for over 20 years. Prior to Deeplite Nick was cofounder and CEO of several successful Canadian tech companies including Messagepoint,Prinova Software and Prinova Technologies. Nick leverages extensive experience in corporate governance, formulating and executing cross-functional strategic plans, developing go-to-market strategies including product, marketing, and sales. A revenue driven executive focused on growing and scaling companies whether organic or externally funded.Nick earned his Bachelor of Engineering and Management in Mechanical Engineering from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada and was recently honored by McMaster’s Engineering Faculty as being one of their Top 150 Distinguished Alumni for the role they’ve played in shaping Canada and the world.
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Investment focus
- Software, Embedded Systems, Machine Learning
- Convertible Note
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Deeplite — Deeplite provides an AI-Driven Optimizer to make Deep Neural Networks faster, smaller, energy-efficient from cloud to edge computing.
Marc Petit As general manager of the Enterprise business, Marc Petit oversees growth of Epic Games' Unreal Engine business into markets outside of game development. Prior to joining Epic Games in mid-2016, Marc was a partner and entrepreneur-in-residence at XPND Capital, a Montreal-based investment fund where he co-founded and launchedTaxelco, a sustainable urban transportation company. Between 2002 and 2013, Marc ran Autodesk's Media & Entertainment business unit steering development and marketing of the industry's leading 3D animation and VFX software products 3ds Max, Maya, MotionBuilder, and Flame. Marc started his career at TDI in 1988, and joined Softimage in 1991, where he ran 3D products and oversaw the design and development of Softimage XSI.
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Investment focus
- Video, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Verold (zyenti) — Verold is an online visual editor that allows users to integrate 3D models into their presentations. The platform provides a studio that enables users to customize the lighting and environment setup of their project. They can also add animations, audio, and video assets and share their output in the web through Verold’s embeddable player.In2015, Verold was acquired by Box.
- Thirdshelf — Customer loyalty program for your Lightspeed, Vend or Heartland Retail point of sale. Pay as you grow. No contract required. Start For Free
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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-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 — Ancient8 Chain is a gaming-focused community-driven Ethereum layer 2 built to onboard the next 100M Web3 citizens.
- Astro Space — Astro Space official homepage
Avichal is Managing Partner at Electric Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Avichal sold two companies and was most recently Director of Product at Facebook, which acquired his company Spool in 2012. He previously worked at Google on search ranking and ads ranking, is part-time at YCombinator, and an active angelinvestor.Avichal's firm, Electric Capital, focuses on cryptocurrencies that are rooted in technological utility. Electric performs deep technological diligence, such as compiling code, profiling nodes, and analyzing blockchains with in-house software. The founders of Electric have started and sold five companies, have been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, and are investors in Anchor, Bitwise, Chia, Coda, dYdX, Dfinity, Oasis, Thunder and many other crypto projects.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Key — Unlock new networking and career opportunities with Key, the leading AI-powered professional networking platform. Build and manage communities, host and join exclusive events, and create meaningful connections to supercharge your growth all in one place.
- Matic — The world's most advanced floor cleaner. Your home's best helper.
- Bluenote Health — Accelerate innovation with AI built for and trusted by leading life sciences companies.
Dennis Phelps is the General Partner of IVP.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Apps, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series B, Series C
- United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- PlayVS — Starting this Fall, middle schoolers will have the opportunity for free & fun game play with many of their favorite age-appropriate titles while gaining applicable skills!
- Leo — Leo, formerly known as Surreal, is an augmented reality app that allows people to experience advanced augmented reality through realistic animated and 3D objects. The phone camera becomes a portal and tool that allows anyone to augment their world through Surreal. People can customize any surrounding environment into their wildest dreams:expressing themselves in a new mixed reality space, as well as sharing with family, friends and other social outlets.Surreal has hundreds of realistic animated 3D objects. In addition to that, Surreal has special effects like money falling, balloons flying or a rain of roses. People can customize the real world how they want, and whenever they want.
- Cambrian Asset Management — A Quantitative Investment Firm for Digital Assets
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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Investment focus
- Sports, Big Data, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Brizi — Brizi powers fan experiences and sponsorship activations using innovative crowd-controlled camera technology in-stadium.
- Grüvi — Gruvi is a line of craft brewed alcohol-free beers & wines.
- Harbr — Every external contractor brings their own software and process. Let Harbr reconcile your entire portfolio's data in one central place to bring analytics and insights like never before.
Ty Danco is an entrepreneur and angel investor out of Burlington, VT and Boston, MA. He founded eSecLending in 2000, sold to TA Associates in 2006. He co-founded BuysideFX in late 2011. More on Ty can be found at http:linkedin.com/in/tydanco.
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Investment focus
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- United States, Canada
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.
- Voatz — Voatz uses cutting edge technology to enable secure and accessible mobile voting from anywhere.
- OffGridBox — An all-in-one system using solar energy to purify water and distribute clean energy. off grid container, offgrid water, off-grid electric products, solar water box, building off grid, power in a box, off grid technology, shipping container solar system
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