Top 20 Legal Angel Investors in Canada in January 2026
Top 20 Legal Angel Investors in Canada in January 2026
| Investor | Legal Canada investments |
|---|---|
| Sergio A. Escobar | 2 |
| Ignacio Plaza | 1 |
| Josh Kivenko | 1 |
| David Naiman | 1 |
| J. Taylor Crandall | 1 |
| Brian Cartmell | 1 |
| Andrew Chau | 1 |
| Neil Grunberg | 1 |
| Conrad Whelan | 1 |
| Niccolo Masi | 1 |
| James Lochrie | 1 |
| Matt Mastracci | 1 |
| Gary Kivenko | 1 |
| Jack Newton | 1 |
| Vinny Lingham | 1 |
| Daniel Klass | 1 |
| Hanif Joshaghani | 1 |
| Michael Bluestein | 1 |
| Lorne Abony | 1 |
| Todd Bissett | 1 |
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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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- 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.
Ignacio Plaza is a partner at Draper Cygnus.
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- Legal, FinTech, Finance
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Roxom Global — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
- iComply Investor Services Inc. — End-to-end KYB Onboarding - AML Transaction Monitoring Software - Automated KYC Verification Software - Start Your Free Trial Today!
Josh Kivenko - Interim Principal @ Sweet Farm Capital
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- Apps, Legal, Mobile
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Capture.it — Capture.it is a billable time capturing application that automatically tracks billable minutes, which slip by during quick calls or email exchanges on its users’ smartphone or desktop. Running securely in the background and integrating with its users practice management system, the application records and allocates time and client details so usersdon’t have to. Capture.it was designed by lawyers on 2014 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
Founder at Wherewithal Partners Inc.
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- Apps, Legal, Mobile
- Seed, Private Equity
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Coreio —
- Capture.it — Capture.it is a billable time capturing application that automatically tracks billable minutes, which slip by during quick calls or email exchanges on its users’ smartphone or desktop. Running securely in the background and integrating with its users practice management system, the application records and allocates time and client details so usersdon’t have to. Capture.it was designed by lawyers on 2014 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
J. Taylor Crandall is a Managing Partner of Oak Hill Capital Partners and has been part of the firm since 1986. Mr. Crandall has senior responsibility for originating, structuring and managing investments for the firm's Media and Telecom and Technology industry groups. Prior to joining Oak Hill, Mr. Crandall was a Vice President withthe First National Bank of Boston, where he managed a leveraged buyout group and the bank's Dallas energy office. Mr. Crandall earned a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Bowdoin College, where he has served on the Board of Overseers.
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- Legal, FinTech, Finance
- Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Wine By Design, Inc. — theFactor - Revolutionizing the alcoholic beverage industry with innovative consulting. Specializing in content creation, strategy, and partnerships in New York, LA, and Napa.
- iComply Investor Services Inc. — End-to-end KYB Onboarding - AML Transaction Monitoring Software - Automated KYC Verification Software - Start Your Free Trial Today!
Brian Cartmell has over 20 years of experience in information technology systems, working as a programmer to CEO of eNIC, the second largest domain registry company in the United States before it was acquired by Verisign in 2001. Cartmell was invited to testify before the United States senate in regards to Internet Governance by ICANN, is theinventor of five issued U.S. patents, led the successful battle against Hormel for the right to include the word "Spam" in trademarks that relate to email services, and is a major shareholder and board member of companies ranging from identity authentication services to all-natural zero calorie sodas.
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- Art, B2B, Legal
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Binded — Binded lets creators claim their copyrights on the blockchain and protect them for free. A creator uploads their art or photos to Binded via our website or integrations with creative tools like Instagram. We create a timestamp in the Bitcoin blockchain and give a certificate as proof. We are developing technology to create uniquefingerprints for all copyrighted works and store them on the blockchain. Like Youtube’s Content ID system for the entire internet. For every copyright claimed, we scan the web and show matches for possible copyright infringement. In 5 years we hope to be the main way copyrights are registered and utilized.
- Approve.com — Simple, Customizable Procurement Processes For Your Organization.
- Vimba —
Andrew Chau is the co-founder of Neo Financial He used to be the co-founder of SkipTheDishes. He handles business development and strategy for this company.
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- Apps, Software, Art
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Resq — At ResQ, we're obsessed with simplifying the repairs and maintenance experience so you can focus on doing what you love. Talk to a ResQ Expert today!
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Sanzo — The 1st Asian-inspired sparkling water, Sanzo uses real fruit + no added sugars to deliver refreshing taste. Whether these flavors are a taste of home or a source of discovery, we're excited to bring you authentic flavors in the most delicious way we know how.
Neil Grunberg serves as Co-Founder and Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at AlayaCare Inc. Mr. Grunberg has spent more than 17 years focused on workforce management, mobility, and operational software. His breadth of expertise ranges from consulting and project management to pre-sales and then eventually onto managing sales andmarketing for a successful startup before joining the Vortex Connect team and then onto AlayaCare.
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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Lawbrokr — Lawbrokr™ is the on-demand legal marketplace for your transactional legal needs. Lawbrokr allows you to search, connect, and communicate with verified lawyers throughout North America, removing the friction of finding a lawyer that is right for you!At lawbrokr, we believe that the consumer experience of getting access to verified lawyers shouldbe simple, fast, and effortless. For Solo Practitioners, lawbrokr’s end-to-end platform puts each lawyer in control of their own demand by driving practitioners to be quick, and responsive to support the growth of their practice.Our goal is to help Solo Practitioners reduce monthly ad spend through traditional channels, and leverage lawbrokr’s technology to drive new business opportunities that are right for them. No lawyer should be sitting on page 25 of a directory waiting to be found. Through lawbrokr, lawyers can review, and accept prospective engagements when they want, reducing cost per acquisition, overhead, and billable hours.
- 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
- Monark — At the Monark Ventures, we help great ideas live up to their fullest potential. We create, lead, and succeed.
Conrad Whelan
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- Marketplace, Internet, Information Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Boxhub — Buy new & used shipping containers with Boxhub. We make buying a shipping & storage containers easy - get it delivered right to your door. Shop today!
- Nana Academy — Nana is a vertically integrated student-to-operator trade skills school, today focused on Appliance Repair. We work with some of the 35 million people who will lose their jobs by 2030 to tech automation, teaching them trade skills, building their experience through our mentorship program, and connecting them to good jobs on our marketplace. Byperfecting this pipeline and teaching life skills to a new generation of tradespeople, we are accelerating the retooling of America’s workforce and creating millions of economic opportunities.
- Shackle — Shackle is an app uses by hotels to provides and maintain hassel free hospitality services in a digital way to guests and travelers.
President and CEO at Glu Mobile.
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- Apps, Legal, Gaming
- Seed
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Capture.it — Capture.it is a billable time capturing application that automatically tracks billable minutes, which slip by during quick calls or email exchanges on its users’ smartphone or desktop. Running securely in the background and integrating with its users practice management system, the application records and allocates time and client details so usersdon’t have to. Capture.it was designed by lawyers on 2014 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
- Astrocade — Astrocade is the ultimate social gaming universe where anyone can create, share, and play casual games. There are always trendy, fun, community-made experiences waiting for you - no coding, no downloads required.
- Autoverse Studios — Autoverse Studios offers Auto Legends, a competitive social auto racing game, focusing on car culture and player engagement, offering a multi-platform experience for real-time tuning and customization.
James Lochrie is an entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist and volunteer. He is the Co-founder of the global fintech company Wave. He is a Partner at Thin Air Labs, overseeing Thin Air Fund 1 and the Capital team. He has worked with thousands of entrepreneurs to help them scale their companies and #BuildWhatsNext.
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- Software, Analytics, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- SomaDetect — SomaDetect measures every critical indicator of dairy quality (fat, protein, somatic cell counts, progesterone) from every cow at every milking. It uses no consumables (no chemicals, no cartridges, no lost milk), is extremely quick (results in seconds, not minutes), and accurate.
- PayShepherd — PayShepherd helps manage contractor billing for industrial facilities and simplifies billing processes. Save time, money, and headaches.
- StellarAlgo — Drive fan engagement and revenue across the entire fan journey. For Major Leagues, Emerging Leagues, Live Events, Media & Gaming, and Corporate Partnerships.
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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- 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.
Gary Kivenko is an experienced management professional with specialties in both operations and marketing strategy. Gary has worked in both large enterprise organizations, as well as emerging businesses. As Cyclica’s Vice President, Operations, he oversees business planning and execution, ensuring that the business is scaled and delivers tocustomers.Gary Kivenko has worked in emerging businesses as well as corporate enterprise, providing management, strategy, leadership, and solutions to problems for nearly 20 years. As Cyclica’s Vice President, Operations, he oversees operations planning and management, client in-take and engagements, project management, and lights-on activities. Prior to joining Cyclica, Gary spent considerable time undertaking independent management consulting projects mainly for start-up clients, as well as developing early stage investments in new ideas. His experience includes strategic planning and execution in IT, marketing and business development, and operations. Prior to this, Gary worked in wireless telecom as well as with consumer prepaid products in various marketing, operations, and planning roles. Gary’s well developed sense of planning, derived from years of cross-functional project success, and a just-do-it mentality, has been honed to help emerging companies find their footing and execute well. Gary is a graduate of the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management where he obtained an MBA, as well as Carleton University’s School of Computer Science where he obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science.
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- Apps, Legal, Mobile
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Capture.it — Capture.it is a billable time capturing application that automatically tracks billable minutes, which slip by during quick calls or email exchanges on its users’ smartphone or desktop. Running securely in the background and integrating with its users practice management system, the application records and allocates time and client details so usersdon’t have to. Capture.it was designed by lawyers on 2014 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
An experienced business leader, software developer and entrepreneur, Jack provides the strategic vision that has made Clio a leader in legal cloud computing.
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- Legal, Legal Tech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Tangibly — Protect your trade secrets and enforce your rights when theft occurs with Tangibly.
- Clearbrief — Do Justice to the Facts. Select any sentence in your Word doc, and our AI instantly finds the best evidence you have to support your argument. 1-Click TOA.
- Hello Divorce — Hello Divorce makes divorce easier and more affordable. Learn about our affordable online divorce plans with as little or as much help as you need, and read our free divorce resources.
Vinny Lingham is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rumi.ai(Waitroom). He previously worked at YPO as a Member. Vinny Lingham attended Harvard Business School Executive Education.
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- Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United States, South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Sweatcoin — Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by physical movement. They verify and convert movement into currency. Users can then donate it to charity, transfer to other users or spend on products, services, and experiences provided by Sweatcoin vendors and user community.Sweatcoin tackles Present Bias by moving the future benefits of exercise into thehere and now- immediately converting movement into a digital currency and changing the perception of physical movement.
- Afterparty — Afterparty is a technology company behind the new Web3 platform enabling creators to directly monetize and manage NFT collector relationships
- Decent Labs — We are rebuilding trust in technology. Decent Labs is developing a more transparent and equitable society by creating startups at the cross-section of financial technology and digital rights.
Daniel Klass is an experienced private equity investor with a BSC in Mathematics, MBA in Finance / Accounting, and a CPA. Daniel practiced accounting for a few years and then spent 10 years at TD Capital and EdgeStone Capital Partners (two of Canada’s largest merchant banks) before raising his own fund. As a result of his true passionfor the lower end of the mid market, Daniel created Klass Capital. He thrives on working closely with his portfolio partners and helping them to build successful, sustainable and scalable businesses. Klass Capital Fund I, LP, founded by Daniel in 2010, is driven by integrity, imagination, partnership and entrepreneurial spirit.
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- Software, SaaS, Legal
- Series B, Pre-Seed
- Canada, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Lawbrokr — Lawbrokr™ is the on-demand legal marketplace for your transactional legal needs. Lawbrokr allows you to search, connect, and communicate with verified lawyers throughout North America, removing the friction of finding a lawyer that is right for you!At lawbrokr, we believe that the consumer experience of getting access to verified lawyers shouldbe simple, fast, and effortless. For Solo Practitioners, lawbrokr’s end-to-end platform puts each lawyer in control of their own demand by driving practitioners to be quick, and responsive to support the growth of their practice.Our goal is to help Solo Practitioners reduce monthly ad spend through traditional channels, and leverage lawbrokr’s technology to drive new business opportunities that are right for them. No lawyer should be sitting on page 25 of a directory waiting to be found. Through lawbrokr, lawyers can review, and accept prospective engagements when they want, reducing cost per acquisition, overhead, and billable hours.
- Wonderflow — The AI platform that transforms customer feedback into actionable insights
- Coconut Software — Put the right expert in the right channel at the right time, so no opportunity is lost.
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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- 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.
Michael Bluestein is a senior corporate and securities lawyer with about 10 years of experience; his strengths include driving for results, strategic thinking and superior client service. His goal is to provide clients with practical solutions to problems while being cognizant of turn-around time and budget. He attended the University of Torontoand Schulich School of Business - York University.Michael Bluestein have a strong background in M&A (purchase and sale of businesses) and corporate finance deals including helping companies incorporate, complete angel/vc financings, complete secured financings and achieve their IPOs. Michael Bluestein have advised public issuers and helped to create two new stock exchanges from the ground up. Michael Bluestein also have extensive tech company experience from his counsel roles as well as from founding a tech start-up. Corporate Counsel seeks to provide Bay Street expertise and service without the Bay Street price. We feel that clients should pay for great advice and not fancy overhead. We take a fixed-fee approach to most matters to ensure that you have a handle on legal fees.
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- Apps, Legal, Mobile
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Capture.it — Capture.it is a billable time capturing application that automatically tracks billable minutes, which slip by during quick calls or email exchanges on its users’ smartphone or desktop. Running securely in the background and integrating with its users practice management system, the application records and allocates time and client details so usersdon’t have to. Capture.it was designed by lawyers on 2014 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
Lorne Abony is the Chairman of the Board at EMMAC Life Sciences. he was a former CEO and Chairman at Vested Finance.
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- Software, Apps, Legal
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Socati — At Socati we produce customizable cannabinoid ingredients in a food-grade facility. Quality, with unrivalled consistency.
- Schoold — Looking for an app that will make your college life tenfold easier? Here are the seven educational apps for students that deserve to be on your smartphone.
- Voxia — Amy collects and analyzes information from all over the web and provides actionable insights about your leads, prospects and clients, all in one click.
Todd Bissett is a corporate and commercial lawyer and partner in the Waterloo office of Miller Thomson. Todd practices primarily in the areas of private equity and venture capital, equity and debt financing, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate and business law. Todd co-heads Miller Thomson's Emerging Growth & Venture Capitalpractice group.Licensed in California as well as Ontario, Todd has previously practiced in Silicon Valley, California and for several years in Greater China, and frequently advises on complex, cross-border transactions and business arrangements. He represents both issuers and investors in investments, and sellers and buyers in M&A transactions, having worked extensively with major institutional and strategic investors, venture capital and hedge funds, and with companies and issuers from early stage start-ups to multinational public and private organizations. Todd has broad industry experience including software, telecommunications and value-added services, manufacturing, gaming, financial services, education, biotech and medical products and services.
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- Legal, Legal Tech, Information Services
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Alexi — Alexsei provides high quality comprehensive answers to legal questions, at a fraction of the cost and an unprecedented turnaround time - enabled by cutting edge scientific research, artificial intelligence and NLP technologies. Alexsei’s advanced artificial intelligence platform delivers affordable and high-quality answers to legal questions inmemo format.
- Skout Deals —
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