Top 5 Life Science Angel Investors in Canada in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 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 in February 2025

Investor	Life Science Canada investments
Balaji Srinivasan	2
Joe Betts-Lacroix	1
Jed McCaleb	1
Rami Essaid	1
Dan Schultz	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 co-founder 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, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
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OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

VitaDAO — Join VitaDAO, a community owned collective funding early stage longevity research. We fund and commercialize longevity therapeutics.
Spring Discovery — Giving Scientists AI Superpowers

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, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

AstroForge — We mine asteroids to extract valuable minerals in space at a lower cost and smaller carbon footprint than the current terrestrial mining methods.
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.

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.