Top 5 Life Science Angel Investors in Canada

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Life science startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Life science companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Life Science Angel Investors in Canada

Investor	Life Science Canada investments
Balaji Srinivasan	2
Rami Essaid	1
Jed McCaleb	1
Dan Schultz	1
Joe Betts-Lacroix	1

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ZeroMark — ZeroMark is a defense product company building technology to ensure safety and precision when using kinetic and non lethal weapons.
Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.
ImmuneAGE Bio — ImmuneAGE Bio is the first drug discovery platform company focused on immune system rejuvenation.

Rami Essaid is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Finmark, a Venture Partner at IDEA Fund Partners, and an Extended Team Member of Ubiquity Ventures. He was the Co-Founder and Chairman of Distil. Rami helps enterprises embrace the cloud to improve their scalability and reliability while maintaining a high level of security.He attendedNorth Carolina State University where he majored in computer engineering.

Investment focus

SaaS, Data Mining, Life Science
Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

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Propellon Therapeutics — Propellon Therapeutics is developing and commercializing novel cancer therapies targeting the WDR5 protein, essential for assembly of methyltransferase complexes and proper histone modification. The overexpression of WDR5 and resulting deregulation of epigenetic mechanisms are implicated in various cancers and correlated with poor patient survival.Established by FACIT, Propellon’s WDR5 inhibitor platform arises from discoveries, research and innovations originating from OICR.

Jed McCaleb is a Board Member and Advisor to the CEO. He is the founder of the Astera Institute, which is dedicated to improving the process of science. He also co-founded the Stellar Development Foundation and created eDonkey2000, one of the largest file-sharing networks in its time. His favorite organisms are the aliens among us, the octopus.

Investment focus

Internet, Payments, SaaS
Seed, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
Stream Token — Stream is a new decentralized blockchain-based token that allows livestreamers to easily and anonymously accept payments from their audience members anywhere in the world, with extremely low transaction fees and no platform lock-in.
Propellon Therapeutics — Propellon Therapeutics is developing and commercializing novel cancer therapies targeting the WDR5 protein, essential for assembly of methyltransferase complexes and proper histone modification. The overexpression of WDR5 and resulting deregulation of epigenetic mechanisms are implicated in various cancers and correlated with poor patient survival.Established by FACIT, Propellon’s WDR5 inhibitor platform arises from discoveries, research and innovations originating from OICR.

Dan Schultz

Investment focus

SaaS, Data Mining, Life Science
Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

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Propellon Therapeutics — Propellon Therapeutics is developing and commercializing novel cancer therapies targeting the WDR5 protein, essential for assembly of methyltransferase complexes and proper histone modification. The overexpression of WDR5 and resulting deregulation of epigenetic mechanisms are implicated in various cancers and correlated with poor patient survival.Established by FACIT, Propellon’s WDR5 inhibitor platform arises from discoveries, research and innovations originating from OICR.

Joe Betts-Lacroix is the CEO at Retro. He previously worked at OQO as a Co-Founder and CTO. Joe Betts-Lacroix attended Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.