Top 15 Hospitality Angel Investors in Canada (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Tom Williams
Angel
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2 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $1.3M–$57M |
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Geordie Henderson
Angel
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2 | Canada | Seed, Angel | SaaS, Cloud Computing, Mobile | $597k–$1M |
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Rasool Rayani
Angel
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Mobile, Content | $238k–$2.8M |
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Peter M. Kern
Angel
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2 | Canada, France, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Travel, Mobile, E-Commerce | $1M–$10M |
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Jesse Kaplan
Angel
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2 | Canada | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Mobile, Travel | |
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Darren Huston
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed, Series A | Hospitality | |
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Rajiv Khaneja
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | SaaS, Mobile, Travel | $597k–$3.2M |
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David Arnsdorf
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Angel | SaaS, Mobile, Software | $512k–$1.5M |
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Mo Larbi Bennis
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed, Convertible Note | Consumer, Nightlife, Enterprise | |
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Jean-François Grenon
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Computer, Software, Machine Learning | $744k–$5M |
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Andrew Wilkinson
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, SaaS | $165k–$27M |
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Daniel Iliescu
Angel
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1 | Canada | Pre-Seed | Travel, Hospitality | |
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Ahmed Taha Canbek
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | |
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Donald Carty
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | SaaS, Internet, Software | |
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Steven Myhill-Jones
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | SaaS, Mobile, Travel | $165k–$597k |
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Tom Williams
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M; Series A $7.9M–$32M; Series B $10M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Unito — Unito is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamlesscollaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs.
- Delphia — Delphia puts your data to work for you.
- North One — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.
Geordie Henderson is the General Manager of AWS Cloud Messaging at Amazon Web Services and a Board Member at Technical Safety. He previously worked as the SVP of Engineering and Product Operations at Bench Accounting, VP of Engineering at Hootsuite, and Co-Founder, Director, and Product Manager at Metalogix. Geordie attended the University ofBritish Columbia and McGill University.
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- Industry: SaaS, Cloud Computing, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $597k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Allocadia — Allocadia's performance marketing software helps marketing teams confidently plan budgets and optimize campaigns and manage investments to improve marketing ROI.
- Checkfront — With over 4000 customers in 120 countries, Checkfront is an Built on the _Saas_ model, Checkfront is a fully managed solution. It includes automated updates, backups, and industry-leading security on a high speed, highavailability network.
Rasool is a serial entrepreneur with experience in the software, healthcare, and CPG industries. He continues to maintain his passion for technology as an active angel investor with a focus on b2b, consumer saas and health tech. Rasool maintains an active role with CEO’s as a board member, mentor and advisor. He currently serves on the boards ofthe Victoria Foundation, VIATEC, and Checkfront Software.
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- Industry: SaaS, Mobile, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $500k–$2.8M; Angel $238k–$340k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Outway — Inspiring personal bests.
- Impro — Impro.AI accelerates business performance and growth with AI-powered insights and executive-level daily guidance, optimizing strategies to maximize revenue.
- Cognito Health — Canada's only integrated online mental health solution. Accessible and affordable treatment for your mental health. Book a free initial assessment today.
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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- Industry: Travel, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Canada, France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1.5M; Series A $7.8M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kolet — Get mobile Internet wherever you travel. Keep your physical SIM, no more roaming costs, easy installation and global coverage. Test Kolet for free!
- 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.
Jesse Kaplan
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- Industry: SaaS, Mobile, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buyosphere — Buyosphere: practical products, curated from the stratosphere.
- GuestDriven — GuestDriven is a hospitality-focused guest engagement solution. We help hotels directly interact with guests, learn their preferences, build relationships and upsell inventory through personalized, moment-based targeted offers and communications.Guests are empowered with the ability to personalize and take full control of their stay, resultingin higher satisfaction, better reviews and more brand advocates.Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, GuestDriven has implementations in over 60 cities worldwide. Our team is dedicated to revolutionizing the most universal industry in the world.
Darren Richard Huston is based out of Vancouver, British Columbia and is the Founder, CEO, and Chairman of BlackPines Capital Partners. Darren previously worked at Allegro as a Chairman. Darren Richard Huston attended the Harvard University.
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- Industry: Hospitality
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Operto Guest Technologies — Operto's comprehensive hospitality management software streamlines operations, enhances guest experiences, and drives growth.
Rajiv Khaneja is the Founder at AdButler
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- Industry: SaaS, Mobile, Travel
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $597k–$3.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Outway — Inspiring personal bests.
- Medimap — Medimap.ca creates a one-stop shop for quick access to treatment in the community, users can revolutionize how patients connect with healthcare professionals. It applies to In one location, users may check availability and make an appointment with a range of nearby carers. By facilitating simple access to care, Medimap is revolutionizing the waypatients interact with healthcare professionals. Additionally, it enables the users to schedule an appointment with a variety of nearby care providers in one location and compare availability.
- Checkfront — With over 4000 customers in 120 countries, Checkfront is an Built on the _Saas_ model, Checkfront is a fully managed solution. It includes automated updates, backups, and industry-leading security on a high speed, highavailability network.
David Arnsdorf - Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Pomme Natural Markets
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- Industry: SaaS, Mobile, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $512k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Checkfront — With over 4000 customers in 120 countries, Checkfront is an Built on the _Saas_ model, Checkfront is a fully managed solution. It includes automated updates, backups, and industry-leading security on a high speed, highavailability network.
- Social Nature — Earn cash back on natural products at Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, Sprouts & more. Get free product trials (100% cash back) and high-value cash back offers. 1.2M+ members, paid in 48 hours.
- Shadow Networks — Shadow Networks is a privately-held company that provides wireless internet service, cybersecurity, web designing, and hosting services. The company led by an experienced management team comprising former executives from networking and security leaders like Cisco, McAfee, Symantec, as well as top government research labs. They building a newgeneration of Active Threat Deception™ security solutions designed to combat today’s most dangerous and pervasive threats on Enterprises, Service Providers, and Government networks.Shadow Networks’ solutions will detect and mitigate a large number of new sophisticated attacks on enterprise and government networks; in particular, they targeting Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) that have proven extremely vexing for existing security solutions–many of them are not caught today despite organizations spending over $9B on overall network security.With a proven foundation based on over 5 years of Government-funded research, and with technologies already deployed and proven at the US Department of Defense and other government agencies, the Shadow Networks platform aims to change the economics for APT attacks and turn the tables on attackers.
Mo Larbi Bennis
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- Industry: Consumer, Nightlife, Enterprise
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- bottlebeez — bottlebeez is a multipurpose suite of mobile and web applications aimed for consumers and businesses within the hospitality and nightlife space.
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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- Industry: Computer, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2.5M; Series A $744k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PlayFitt — PlayFitt is a fitness app that motivates everyone to achieve small daily movement goals whenever and wherever they want. PlayFitt employs gamification and machine learning to assist players in moving more. PlayFitt uses video game mechanics to get players hooked on living a healthier lifestyle. PlayFitt is focusing on digital wellness by developingtechnology that is actually beneficial to people's health.
- IntelliSports — Fitness works great if you are already fit. Unfortunately, this represents a very slim band of people. For everyone else moving more would make a huge difference. And there are far more people who are willing and able to move a little more, than there are people who will ever "work out".That’s why PlayFitt isn’t a fitness app. It’s auser engagement machine that gets everyone moving!!!We use the same gaming addictive engagement strategies that drive massive user engagement. We help our users do something that is good for them - just move more.
- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Andrew Wilkinson is the Co-Founder of Tiny. He attended Ryerson University.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $165k–$10M; Series A $18M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.
- Cognito Health — Canada's only integrated online mental health solution. Accessible and affordable treatment for your mental health. Book a free initial assessment today.
- Windsor.io — Windsor lets sales and marketing teams improve conversion with personal videos. Record a single video, hook up your CRM and hit send. Our AI will create and send a personal video to every recipient
Daniel Iliescu
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- Industry: Travel, Hospitality
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bonsai Hospitality Management — Bonsai is on a mission to transform and elevate the short-term rental market to new heights. Through our products and services we plan on creating a more customer experience focused industry where hotel room comforts are married to the uniqueness of Airbnb's. Join us on our mission #tobonsai every BNB!
Ahmed Taha Canbek
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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hey Steward — An Award Winning House Cleaner & Manager company is finally available in North America. Hey Steward is ready to give you hotel comfort at your residential home. Organizing your space has never been easier. Our services include; Steward Signature Home Cleaning, Innovative Tidy Up and Folding with included Laundry Service. You can arrangeeverything directly through your phone and you don’t have to hassle with any other third party. Our goal is to modernize and innovate the home cleaning industry, which is why we identify the current problems as:1. You schedule a home cleaning for next week, but an unexpected incident occurred and now you want to cancel. You call your company and they said that they will charge you a 100$ penalty fee.2. You want to book a home cleaning, but the company requires for you to book it for a 6 months contract otherwise they cannot serve you for one time.3. You want to get a home cleaning, but it is very expensive. Then you look for alternatives and end up hiring a random person who has no insurance. This will put your wealth at a risk.4. You book a cleaning service and cleaners arrive at your place but cannot get in. The company charges for the service even though there was no service at all.Hey Steward provides solutions for your problems because our goal is to become the most user friendly company in this field and we propose our solutions below:1. There is NO CANCELLATION FEE at all times even if you at the last hour. We understand that unexpected problems can happen all the time.2. There is ABSOLUTELY NO CONTRACT, this is an on demand business you will only use as you wish.3. Tidy Up is an innovation where we offer you a CHEAPER option compared to the home cleaning cost. You will have your space organized while paying less.4. We will never charge you if there was no service. Hey Steward wants to make your life EASIER by cooperating with you.HOW IT WORKS? 1. Download the Application 2. Sign up with your Address 3. Use our promos “New Users get 50% home cleaning and free 2 times tidy up for a week” 4. Home As You Like ItLooking to become a Steward? https://heysteward.com/become-a-steward
Donald Carty has served as our Chairman of the Board since 2006. Carty is currently a private investor. Carty served as Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Dell from 2007 until 2008.Carty previously served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and held a variety of other executive positions, for AMR Corporation and American Airlines.Carty also previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Canadian Pacific Air Lines, known in Canada as CP Air. Carty is a director of Talisman Energy Inc. and Canadian National Railway Company. Carty was a member of the boards of directors of Hawaiian Holdings Inc., the sole owner of Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., from July 2004 until February 2007 and again from April 2008 until May 2011, Barrick Gold Corporation, a gold mining company, from February 2006 until December 2013, Dell Inc., a computer technology company, from December 1992 until November 2013 and Gluskin Sheff and Associates, a wealth management firm, from June 2006 until December 2006 and again from April 2008 until May 2011. Carty brings to our board of directors significant expertise in the airline industry from previous executive leadership positions. In addition, Carty’s experience as a director of public companies provides the board of directors with valuable insights to assist in achieving our goals.
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- Industry: SaaS, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Betterez — Betterez is a reservations & ticketing platform built to transform bus & coach travel. The booking software powers dynamic pricing, digital promotions, eCommerce, APIs, increased distribution, faster boarding, and much more.
Steven Myhill-Jones
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- Industry: SaaS, Mobile, Travel
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $165k–$597k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kiind.me — Buy, send and track digital gift cards for your reward and incentive programs.
- Checkfront — With over 4000 customers in 120 countries, Checkfront is an Built on the _Saas_ model, Checkfront is a fully managed solution. It includes automated updates, backups, and industry-leading security on a high speed, highavailability network.
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