Top 25 InsurTech Angel Investors in Canada (November 2026)

Neil Mitchell, former managing director at Marsh

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Finance, InsurTech
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

YouSet — Compare and buy home and car insurance from top Canadian insurers in less than 4 minutes, online with YouSet.

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Don Fox, former executive vice president at Intact.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Finance, InsurTech
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

YouSet — Compare and buy home and car insurance from top Canadian insurers in less than 4 minutes, online with YouSet.

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Joe Canavan, principal of Canavan Capital

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Finance, InsurTech
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

YouSet — Compare and buy home and car insurance from top Canadian insurers in less than 4 minutes, online with YouSet.

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Yoshua Bengio (PhD in CS, McGill University, 1991), post-docs at M.I.T. (Michael Jordan) and AT&T Bell Labs (Yann LeCun), CS professor at Université de Montréal, Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms, NSERC Chair, CIFAR Fellow, member of NIPS foundation board and former program/general chair, co-created ICLR conference,authored two books and over 300 publications, the most cited being in the areas of deep learning, recurrent networks, probabilistic learning,natural language and manifold learning. He is among the most cited Canadian computer scientists and is or has been associate editor of the top journals in machine learning and neural networks.

Investment focus

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Canada, United States, France

Investor stats

Total investments: 8
Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$2.5M; Series A $13M–$40M
Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

Noetik — Noetik is an AI-native biotechnology company. Our mission is to leverage advanced machine learning methods to discover and develop cancer immunotherapies.
Entalpic — Entalpic helps industries use cutting-edge AI research to discover new materials and chemistry, enabling smarter and more sustainable industrial processes.
Reliant AI — Simplify the labor-intensive process of collecting, organizing, and inspecting vast amounts of complex data. Built for the life sciences. 100% confidence, every time.

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Nicolas Bouchard, founder of DuProprio.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Finance, InsurTech
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

YouSet — Compare and buy home and car insurance from top Canadian insurers in less than 4 minutes, online with YouSet.

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CEO @ Element AI

Investment focus

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Round size: Seed $1M–$1.5M
Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

Noetik — Noetik is an AI-native biotechnology company. Our mission is to leverage advanced machine learning methods to discover and develop cancer immunotherapies.
Armilla AI — Discover how Armilla AI is revolutionizing AI governance with cutting-edge warranty and insurance solutions. We provide 2-week AI assessments that guarantee performance, transparency, and fairness for enterprises and AI vendors alike. Partner with us to innovate with confidence and trust.
Omnirobotic — Omnirobotic is a developer of autonomous industrial robots used to address manpower shortages. Founded in 2016, Omnirobotic helps manufacturers of high mix products robotize their operations. Using 3D vision and AI, Omnirobotic creates autonomous industrial robots that see, plan, and execute tasks on never-seen-before products, without manualprogramming. Omnirobotic's USP is to transform any industrial robots into an autonomous robot suitable for "a lot of one" manufacturing. Omnirobotic's proprietary technology allows the use of robots in the High Mix, Low Volume manufacturing segment that is bigger than the actual $48B industrial robot system market.Omnirobotic received seed funding in late 2017 and installed its first autonomous robot in 2019.

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Shervin Pishevar is the Co-Founder at Virgin Hyperloop.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 154
Round size: Seed $1M–$4.5M; Series A $4M–$15M; Series B $8.3M–$63M
Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

Limit Break — Limit Break is a blockchain game company.
Teleport — Meet your most compatible connections. Attend members only curated experiences. Receive proposed matches from your AI Matchmaker.
NUE Life Health — NUE Life aims to improve mental wellness by enhancing brain function, performance, and longevity through evidence-based and scientifically proven mental health treatments and products. NUE Life has created a therapeutic ecosystem of ketamine therapy, an interactive companion app, and virtual aftercare programs to help people heal.

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Oleg Rogynskyy is based out of Washington, District of Columbia, and is the Founder and Board Member of Backstory. Oleg previously worked at Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine as a Strategic Advisor. Oleg Rogynskyy attended Boston University. Oleg Rogynskyy has been awarded the Order of Merit, III degree.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Canada, Ukraine

Investor stats

Total investments: 37
Round size: Seed $150k–$11M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $14M–$30M
Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

HIMERA — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.
Pomerium — Protect private applications and services with identity-aware access that evaluates every request from users, services, and AI agents.
Resquared — Resquared has everything you need and more to reach local businesses. Contact data on every local business, optimized email and social outreach tools, and step-by-step built-in playbooks.

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Joseph Fung is based out of Kitchener, Ontario and currently works as a growth coach / fractional EIR for Communitech. Joseph previously worked at Uvaro as a CEO. Joseph Fung attended the University of Waterloo. Joseph Fung has been certified with the Private Capital Governance Program Certificate of Completion.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, B2B
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Round size: Seed $1.3M–$1.5M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

FindBoB — Using behavioral analytics, the only machine learning platform focused on succession planning and talent management within the financial services industry.
Roadmunk — Craft perfect strategic plans with our advanced roadmapping software. Get started with free templates.
Skritswap — skritswap has AI technology that enables anyone to understand anything regardless of complexity.

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Sid Sankaran is the Group CFO of FWD Group. He previously worked at SiriusPoint as a Chairman and CEO. Sid Sankaran attended the University of Waterloo.

Investment focus

Industry: InsurTech, Insurance, Developer APIs
Stage:Seed
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Briza — Briza gives commercial insurance carriers broad digital distribution for their products with a single integration, connecting them to wholesalers, retailers, SaaS platforms.

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3X Founder of Earnest, SolidEnergy, and now working on the next one. Formerly a16z and YC. Active angel investor and board member.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 143
Round size: Seed $500k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $31k–$3.5M; Series A $2.2M–$14M
Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
Deepgram — Deepgram helps enterprises unlock the potential of their audio data with custom-trained speech recognition for accuracy and scale. Deepgram's deep learning speech recognition system searches for keywords in transcripts by sound and text within audio and video files, used for transcribing calls, meetings, and voicemails for searchable notes,providing businesses with a fast, high accuracy speech-to-text on an easy-to-use API.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
TokerBud — TokerBud, a cannabis website, is known for its exceptional products. Their website is a showcase of diverse cannabis varieties, from traditional flower strains to potent concentrates and appetizing edibles, serving different customer requirements and tastes. The platform's user-friendly design and commitment to superior quality

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Jim Texier is a Chief Technology & Product Officer at Lightspeed Commerce.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: Canada, France

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Round size: Seed $2.6M–$2.7M; Series A $11M–$21M
Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

Malou — Malou offers food marketing and digital marketing solutions for restaurants. The company also offers content management, restaurant marketing, reputation management, presence management, and SEO solutions.
YouSet — Compare and buy home and car insurance from top Canadian insurers in less than 4 minutes, online with YouSet.
Quack — An affordable parallel dialer for SDR teams. Leverage the power of parallel & power dialing to call 10X more prospects in 1/10th the time & connect to live prospects within seconds.

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Mike McDerment is the co-founder and CEO of FreshBooks, planet earth’s #1 cloud accounting solution designed for small business owners. In 2003, Mike built FreshBooks for his design firm, scratched his own itch, then moved into his parent’s basement for 3.5 years to get FreshBooks off the ground. Since then over 5,000,000 people have usedFreshBooks to save time billing and collect billions of dollars. Mike and his team dedicate themselves to executing extraordinary experiences everyday for small business owners who want to focus on the work they love, instead of on their paperwork.

Investment focus

Industry: CRM, SaaS, Software
Stage:Seed
Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Round size: Seed $1M–$2.3M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Briza — Briza gives commercial insurance carriers broad digital distribution for their products with a single integration, connecting them to wholesalers, retailers, SaaS platforms.
InsightSquared — InsightSquared offers the industry's most complete and flexible Revenue Intelligence Platform, featuring six integrated solutions in one. We empower revenue professionals to make better decisions by equipping them with actionable, real-time intelligence that drives predictable growth. B2B organizations worldwide rely on InsightSquared to buildstronger, healthier pipelines, improve conversion rates, target rep coaching, boost forecast accuracy and significantly increase competitive win rates. For more information, visit www.insightsquared.com.

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Sid Sankaran is the Group CFO of FWD Group. He previously worked at SiriusPoint as a Chairman and CEO. Sid Sankaran attended the University of Waterloo.

Investment focus

Industry: InsurTech, Insurance, Developer APIs
Stage:Seed
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Briza — Briza gives commercial insurance carriers broad digital distribution for their products with a single integration, connecting them to wholesalers, retailers, SaaS platforms.

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Mike McDerment

Investment focus

Industry: Computer, Software, InsurTech
Stage:Seed
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Briza — Briza gives commercial insurance carriers broad digital distribution for their products with a single integration, connecting them to wholesalers, retailers, SaaS platforms.
SoapBox — Spinach is an AI meeting assistant, which helps run your meeting, summarizes the conversation and automates post-meeting tasks. Spinach integrates with your existing tools and supports 100 languages. -

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Dan Robichaud is a serial entrepreneur and an angel investor. His first company was acquired in 2006 by a Global Fortune 500®. He went on to start and exit 5 other technology companies. His latest venture is PasswordBox, which was acquired by Intel in December 2014. He is a Limited Partner in 7 VC funds and he is an angel investor in more than 45promising start-ups. For 3 years Dan has been the Chief Innovation Officer of Intel Identity division. Since September 2017, Dan Robichaud is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Diagram a launchpad for the most exciting ventures in Fintech and Insurtech. Before his entrepreneurial days, he started as a radio show host on the biggest Canadian radio station CKOI where he pioneered RSS audio podcasting.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Apps, Music
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Round size: Seed $1.2M–$2.6M; Angel $2M–$3M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

YouSet — Compare and buy home and car insurance from top Canadian insurers in less than 4 minutes, online with YouSet.
M1X Global — M1X unlocks new applications of blockchain technology across public sector programs and institutional markets. We partner with governments to identify opportunities, coordinate expertise and support long-term economic development.
Smart Reno — Choose from trusted renovation contractors in Canada for your home. Get free quotes from certified contractors for renovation services today!

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Jean-Michel TEXIER is CTO of Allocine group.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Apps, SaaS
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

Crewdle — By leveraging peer-to-peer technology, Crewdle is able to offer a seemless video conferencing experience that is secure, private, and green. Make the switch today!
Zaddons — Zaddons integrated HRIS extensions simplify complex scheduling and bidding processes, so you work happy.
Orchid B — Orchidb.com is a captivating and sleek domain name perfect for a variety of startup ventures. With its short, 7-letter, 2-syllable structure, this domain is not only easy to remember but also exudes elegance and sophistication. The word orc

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Steve Chen was an internet entrepreneur and the co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of YouTube. Born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Raised in Taiwan, Chen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 15.After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen worked at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley andJawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, a website designed to simplify video sharing online.Chen was named one of the "The 50 people who matter now" by Business 2.0 magazine in 2006. That year, he and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock.Chen most recently co-founded AVOS Systems with YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Canada, Taiwan

Investor stats

Total investments: 70
Round size: Seed $350k–$12M; Series A $3M–$20M; Series B $6M–$40M
Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

Artue — Artue is pioneering the art industry's digital transformation.
E-Pal — E-Pal connects high-caliber gamers worldwide, offering you supportive gaming companions anytime, anywhere. You'll never battle alone!
Moonlake AI — Vibe code games and worlds into existence.

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Nicolas Chapados holds an engineering degree from McGill University and a PhD in Computer Science from University of Montreal, Canada. While still writing his thesis and jointly with his advisor Yoshua Bengio, he co-founded ApSTAT Technologies in 2001, a machine learning technology transfer firm, to apply cutting-edge academic research ideas toareas such as insurance risk evaluation, supply chain planning, business forecasting, and hedge fund management. He also co-founded two spin-off companies: Imagia, to provide AI-based actionable predictive oncology analytics atop medical imaging data, and Chapados Couture Capital, a Quebec-registered quantitative asset manager. Previously, Nicolas was a member of the speech recognition research group at Nortel Networks, where he led the research and implementation of a natural-language dialog manager for continuous speech recognition applications. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, InsurTech, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Armilla AI — Discover how Armilla AI is revolutionizing AI governance with cutting-edge warranty and insurance solutions. We provide 2-week AI assessments that guarantee performance, transparency, and fairness for enterprises and AI vendors alike. Partner with us to innovate with confidence and trust.

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Investment focus

Industry: Legal, Software, InsurTech
Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

MixPose — Yoga streaming with AI
PainWorth — Assess, calculate and settle your injury claim online. For free. Our automated system is faster, fairer, easier and stress-free with full transparency on every step. Resolve your injury claim now.

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RJ Jones is Vice President of Investor Relations at Life360 (NASDAQ: LIF, ASX:360).Before joining Life360 for its US IPO, RJ was Vice President of Investor Relations, Corporate Communications, and Sustainability at Similarweb (NYSE: SMWB).Prior to joining Similarweb, RJ headed the iBuying and Home Improvement businesses of kwx, the holdingcompany for Keller Williams. Immediately prior to joining kwx, RJ was the Chief Operating Officer for Ferry International, a leading real estate agent coaching and training company. Before joining FerryIntl, RJ was Executive Vice President of Finance & Growth at eXp World Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPI), where he ran corporate & business development, financial planning & analysis, and investor relations.Prior to joining eXp World Holdings, RJ was VP of Investor and Corporate Relations at Zillow Group (NASDAQ: Z, ZG). While there he managed relationships with institutional shareholders and regularly presented the Zillow Group story to investor, industry and consumer audiences. He led efforts enabling the Company to raise over $2 billion through public equity and convertible offerings. He possesses extensive M&A experience as he was a key member of 8 deal teams totaling nearly $3 billion in transaction value.Prior to joining Zillow Group, RJ was chief marketing officer and partner with Kosmos Funds, a Seattle-based alternative investment manager, where he led the capital raising efforts for the initial $100 million startup fund. Previously, he worked as a hybrid buy-side and sell-side investment analyst directing up to $500 million of consumer and retail equities investments for Ragen Mackenzie of Wells Fargo Investments. He also previously ran investor relations for Nordstrom. Prior to that RJ joined the team that created the boutique investment bank, Delafield Hambrecht, where he led the consumer equity research efforts of the firm.RJ currently serves as a member of the board of directors at inAssist Health Solutions, a provider of automated auditing of health insurance for consumers that prevents errors and fraudulent billing. RJ was previously a PIPELINE National Mentor - PIPELINE is an exclusive community of entrepreneurial leaders building high-growth companies in the Midwest, supported with grants from the Kauffman Foundation. Before embarking on a civilian career, RJ was a Commissioned Officer in the United States Army. His assignments included company commander and platoon leader positions as a qualified airborne ranger and senior parachutist, with two deployments to Haiti for peace enforcement, peacekeeping and humanitarian missions. He holds a bachelor's in Systems Engineering from the United States Military Academy and an MBA from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, Big Data
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 8
Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

Kineta — Kineta fills a void in the biopharmaceutical industry by efficiently advancing first-in-class novel immunotherapies from discovery to proof of concept.
Humi — Your all-in-one HR, payroll, insurance, and benefits solution. Give all your employee data a home, pay employees with ease, and streamline your group benefits experience.
HUNGRY — HUNGRY connects hundreds of local companies to top chefs & restaurants to provide amazing office food programs in a reliable and efficient way.

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Sharon Ludlow

Investment focus

Industry: InsurTech, Insurance, Developer APIs
Stage:Seed
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Briza — Briza gives commercial insurance carriers broad digital distribution for their products with a single integration, connecting them to wholesalers, retailers, SaaS platforms.

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Alon Neches

Investment focus

Industry: InsurTech, Insurance, Developer APIs
Stage:Seed
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Briza — Briza gives commercial insurance carriers broad digital distribution for their products with a single integration, connecting them to wholesalers, retailers, SaaS platforms.

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Phillip Gibson is based out of Toronto, Ontario, and is the Chief Executive Officer of IAG New Zealand. Phillip previously worked at Accenture as a Senior Executive Advisor. Phillip Gibson attended Troy University.

Investment focus

Industry: Insurance, Apps, SaaS
Stage:Seed
Geography: Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Round size: Seed $2M–$2.6M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

YouSet — Compare and buy home and car insurance from top Canadian insurers in less than 4 minutes, online with YouSet.
QuickFacts — Insurance software built by brokers, for brokers. Save up to 2 hours every day with the platform top brokerages open first every morning.

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