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Top 50 Machine Learning Angel Investors in Canada in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Machine learning startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Machine learning companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Machine Learning Angel Investors in Canada in April 2025

Investor	Machine Learning Canada investments
Tom Williams	4
Jaclyn Johnson	4
Harley Finkelstein	3
Tobias Lütke	3
Daniel Debow	3
William Tunstall-Pedoe	2
Satish Kanwar	2
Dennis Bennie	2
Sanders Lee	2
Marc Morin	2
Blaine LaBonte	2
Ashif Mawji	2
Jean-François Grenon	2
Jonathan Ehrlich	2
Lance Priebe	2
Jordan Banks	2
Ethan Song	1
Anatol Von Hahn	1
John Byard	1
Yoshua Bengio	1
Jonathan Milner	1
Marc G. Bellemare	1
Hugo Larochelle	1
bumpkins profile	1
Basil Bouraropoulos	1
Curtis Gavura	1
Milad Alucozai	1
Daniel Robichaud	1
Kim Kaplan	1
Zoey McKenzie	1
Fabio Banducci	1
Lance Tracey	1
Chris Rowen	1
Nasir Jones	1
Nick Romano	1
Melissa Prescott	1
Melissa Prescott	1
Howard Stotland	1
Jeffery Lawrence	1
Will Elsaghir	1
Benjie Cherniak	1
Kulveer Taggar	1
Nate Smith	1
Paul Graham	1
Julian ,,	1
Omar Shakeeb	1
Richard Dai	1
Sandeep Nailwal	1
Santiago R Santos	1
Tobias ,,	1

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Tom Williams

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Unito — Unito keeps your data in sync between multiple tools so everyone is always up-to-date in real-time.
Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
NorthOne — 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.

Jaclyn Johnson created her career. A powerhouse entrepreneur, by the time she was 28, Johnson had sold her first business, (No Subject)and launched her second multimillion dollar company, Create and Cultivate. Johnson recognized a gap in conversations, resources, events and community for female millennial entrepreneurs and responded with asolution, Create and Cultivate, the wildly popular media platform and nationwide conference. In the process, Jaclyn’s own work-life philosophy, built on the cornerstones of female empowerment, hustling-hard and innovation have propelled her voice to the forefront of the discussion on workplace equality, a new thought-leader for millennial women and Gen-Z-ers on the career come up. A graduate of NYU, Johnson’s trajectory has been skyrocketing since she founded (No Subject) in 2010. With the launch of Create and Cultivate in 2012, she gained global visibility. Six years later, Create and Cultivate is bigger than ever, with hundreds of thousands of followers and attendees, and over 75 events to date. The conference has landed major cities around the country and boasts sponsors that include top Fortune 500 companies like Amazon, LinkedIn, QuickBooks and Microsoft to the buzziest brand names like Laura Mercier, LaCroix, Clinique, Chandon, Urban Outfitters and more. Past speakers and panelist include the biggest celebs and CEO’s like Kim Kardashian West, Chelsea Handler, Jessica Alba, Chrissy Teigen, Gloria Steinem, Issa Rae, Nicole Richie and more front-runners in fashion, technology, design and business. Named a Forbes 30 Under 30, an Adweek Disruptor and profiled in Fast Company, the LA Times, Entrepreneur and more, Johnson has earned her way to the frontlines of a workplace revolution at a time when change-agents and disruptors are flexing real influence.

Investment focus

Consumer Goods, Beauty, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Diem — 8,346 Followers, 1,333 Following, 1,194 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Diem (@askdiem)
Ronati — Simple technology for dealers and resellers of antique, vintage and unique items.
Ceremonia — Ceremonia is a new modern haircare brand rooted in Latin heritage. It celebrates the richness of Latinx culture, serving the next-gen. Ceremonia brand will be launched this fall.

Harley Finkelstein is the Co-Founder of Firebelly Tea and the President of Shopify. He previously worked at C100 as a Board Member. Harley Finkelstein attended the University of Ottawa and Concordia University.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Apps
Seed, Series A, 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!
Foraged — 13K Followers, 701 Following, 195 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Foraged Market (@foraged.market)
Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.

Tobi Lütke founded Shopify in 2004. He has served as the Chief Executive Officer since 2008. Tobi worked on the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created many popular open source libraries such as Active Merchant.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Butler — Streamline your workflow with AI-powered summaries, contextual chat, a native meeting bot and more, all in one place.
Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.

Daniel is the Vice President of Product (Demand) at Shopify. He previously worked as an SVP at Salesforce.com, where he drives marketing for Salesforce Work.com, a sales performance management solution that helps Facebook, LinkedIn, Spotify, and other innovative companies align, motivate, and drive the performance of their sales teams. Prior tojoining Salesforce, Daniel was co-founder and co-CEO of Rypple, a social performance management platform acquired by Salesforce in 2012. Prior to Rypple, Daniel was on the founding team of Workbrain, which provided workforce management solutions to Wal-Mart, Citibank, and other large enterprises. Workbrain grew to $100 million in annual revenues before being acquired by Infor in 2007.A sought after speaker on how social media is changing the workplace, Daniel is a contributor to Fortune.com and the Huffington Post. He’s been widely quoted in Wired, the Financial Times, the Economist and Bloomberg Businessweek. Daniel holds a JD/MBA from the University of Toronto and an LLM in Law, Science and Technology from Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Shakepay — Shakepay allows Canadians to buy/sell bitcoin and pay their friends. We're on a mission to create open access to building wealth.
Spatial — Experience virtual NFT art exhibitions, meetups, and live events together with lifelike avatars. Customize beautiful 3D spaces. Join now from Web, Mobile, & VR.
Haloo — Navigating the trademark search and registration process can be daunting and onerous for business owners and entrepreneurs. Heirlume is the first self-serve online trademark search and registration platform that integrates sophisticated legal thinking with technology. We make the complex trademark search and registration process fast, accurate,trusted and affordable for entrepreneurs and enterprise/e-com partners. Our search tool instantly runs the country-specific legal tests (i.e., “likelihood of confusion”) and performs lawyer analysis. Intelligent search algorithms provide an at-a-glance opinion of registerability (conflicts, descriptiveness, obscenity), displayed in simple visuals. Distilling the multiple data sets involved with drafting a trademark application requires time-consuming legal analysis. Our machine learning auto-suggest trademark application builder performs the lawyer work and removes room for error. While our first go to market strategy will target SME individual users, we see huge potential in expanding our market reach through key B2B partnerships as an upsell/add-on to a domain purchase (GoDaddy), or store set-up (Shopify or Amazon). Ultimately, we believe we can make trademark registration quick, easy and affordable, similar to the experience of registering a domain.

William Tunstall-Pedoe FREng is a British entrepreneur focused on world-changing products powered with Artificial Intelligence and other deep technology. He is based in Cambridge and London UK. He founded the British company Evi (formerly True Knowledge), the AI platform acquired by Amazon and where William, the team and the technology developed byEvi was used to create Alexa. He left in 2016. William is an active angel investor with investments in more than 100 startups. He is a fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab and a full member of Cambridge Angels.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
LumiQ — LumiQ makes earning CPD hours fun and accessible for individual accounting professionals and teams on-the-go. Get started now!
Unlikely AI — Controllable, auditable and hallucination-free AI solutions.

Satish Kanwar is a VP of Product at Shopify, where he oversees strategic product initiatives for over 1 million merchants globally. Satish led Shopify’s formative expansion from online stores to multi-channel commerce, accelerating merchants' sales across eCommerce, brick-and-mortar, and new sales channels. Satish previously co-founded userexperience studio Jet Cooper, which was acquired by Shopify in order to establish its product development footprint in Toronto. Satish is an active angel investor, public speaker, and advisor.He attended the University of Toronto Scarborough.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, FinTech, Art
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.

Dennis Bennie is a pioneer, entrepreneur and innovator in the Canadian technology industry. Over the past 20 years, Bennie's entrepreneurial management has powered Mission Electronics, Ingram Canada and Delrina. In 1997, he founded the XDL Venture Capital Fund, focusing on information technology opportunities. The $25 million fund hasyielded exceptional returns to date. One of its most noteworthy investments was a 1997 start-up, Delano Technology Corporation (NASD:DTEC). XDL Intervest, a $150 million fund was started in 1999 and is now fully invested. Bennie currently manages an experienced team investing in private equity opportunities as the XDL Capital Group. From 1988 to 1996, Mr. Bennie was CEO of Delrina Corporation, an independent software developer and publisher, which forged the new software categories of electronic forms and PC fax communications. Under Mr. Bennie's leadership, Delrina pioneered the development of PC fax software called WinFax and became a world leader in the communication software market with annual sales revenue exceeding $130 million. Listed on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, Delrina cultivated a reputation for leadership, growth and profitability, and completed several public offerings. In November 1995, the company was successfully sold to Symantec Corporation for share consideration valued at $560 million. Mr. Bennie entered the world of technology in 1979, when he co-founded Mission Electronics. He drove the expansion of this leading British audio equipment manufacturer to become a dominant force in the high-end stereo market. In 1982 he sold his interest in Mission Electronics and founded Aviva Software, an independent, mass-market software developer. Under his direction, the company expanded its scope to include software distribution and merged with Ingram Micro Inc. in 1986 to become Canada's largest software distributor. Residing in Toronto, Canada, with his wife Laura and three daughters, Dennis is an avid golfer and runner. A member of the World President's Organization, he also regularly serves on various charitable boards including the Toronto Hospital Board.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
Tread — Tread's construction fleet management software makes the business of moving construction materials easier and more profitable. Request a demo today!
Thriver — Discover, book, and manage workplace culture services and employee experiences all in one place. Empower your team with effective employee engagement activities.

Sanders Lee is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Hope Well. He previously worked in Groundbreak Ventures as a Founder and Partner. Sanders Lee attended the University of Augsburg.

Investment focus

FinTech, Big Data, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

ZayZoon — ZayZoon is a pioneer in earned wage access (EWA) with our flagship product Wages On-Demand. Employees can access part of their payday in advance.
HonestDoor — Free real estate data on residential and commercial properties - sold prices, estimated value of homes, bed and bath. Exclusive houses for sale

Marc, our Chief Executive Officer, co-founded Sandvine (TSX:SVC) and served as its Chief Technology Officer, developing the company's vision and technology strategy. Prior to Sandvine, he was co-founder at PixStream which was acquired by Cisco Systems.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
Dejero — Dejero delivers resilient, uninterrupted internet connectivity for data-intensive applications by intelligently combining multiple networks into a single managed service.
Sortable — Sortable is an agnostic, low-cost, broad spectrum platform that helps publishers unify demand partners, data, and tools. We’ve developed a best-in-class UI that contextualizes this data, allowing publishers to more deeply understand the correlation between content, marketing, and monetization.Their ultimate goal is to simplify the complexities ofpublishing operations while generating more revenue for their publisher partners.Sortable began as an online publisher, building 20 websites and apps to help consumers compare competing products in a number of categories, generating over 500 million product comparisons since their creation. In 2014, after realizing that the experience gained from building websites was better used to help fellow publishers, Sortable launched the machine learning ad optimization focused technology company that you see today.

Blaine LaBonte

Investment focus

Information Technology, Big Data, Lighting
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

G2V Optics — G2V Optics is an LED solar simulator manufacturer building advanced products for scientific testing - early-stage, research & development, production, or certification.
HonestDoor — Free real estate data on residential and commercial properties - sold prices, estimated value of homes, bed and bath. Exclusive houses for sale
INGU — Currently, inline inspection in the oil and gas sector is a series of staged engineering events, designed to assess the condition of pipeline assets. It is costly, infrequent, and only addresses those lines that are within reach. In fact, it is estimated that 40% of the world’s pipelines are unpiggable. The vulnerabilities between inspections,which are typically years apart, or the inability to conduct inspections at all, puts the world’s aging pipeline infrastructure at risk. In order to address these issues, we have focused on changing the economics, the technology, and the workflow associated with inline inspection. We have introduced the industry’s first self-serve inspection model that eliminates significant engineering and downtime costs. We have developed miniature, multi sensor Pipers® technology that freely flows within any and all active pipelines, regardless of location, condition, material or configuration. This technology is capable of inspecting pipelines as small as 2 inches in diameter, and surveying for leaks, geometric defects, magnetic anomalies, and deposits in a single run. Further, we have reduced the cost of inline inspection by a factor of 10, making it possible for integrity programs to be more present, more often, across all of their assets. Finally, such accessible technology has given us the opportunity to work with a complete range of clients – large and small, private and public – resulting in rich datasets libraries that offer unprecedented contextual analysis and continuous advancement of our data analytics capabilities. Our approach provides clients with uninterrupted access to up-to-date condition-critical data, allowing them to optimize planning, decision-making, and actions.

Ashif Mawji is the Venture Partner at Rising Tide. He attended NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology).

Investment focus

Grocery, Big Data, Lighting
Seed, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

G2V Optics — G2V Optics is an LED solar simulator manufacturer building advanced products for scientific testing - early-stage, research & development, production, or certification.
HonestDoor — Free real estate data on residential and commercial properties - sold prices, estimated value of homes, bed and bath. Exclusive houses for sale
Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Computer
Seed, Series A, Angel
Canada

Portfolio highlights

PlayFitt — PlayFitt is a fitness platform using experience in Sports Analytics, Machine Learning, Video Games.
IntelliSports — IntelliSports is a Montreal based technology company that is combining real world sports with a digitally engaging experience and A.I. to create real world gaming.At IntelliSports they firmly believe that getting healthy should be as much fun as Levelling Up in your favourite video game. They are using their experience in Sports Analytics, MachineLearning, Video Games and mass market consumer technology to create a fitness platform where users can train, group up, compete and enjoy many of the most engaging elements of modern video games.
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.

Jonathan Ehrlich is the Founding Partner of Roar Ventures. He previously worked at Bulletin as a Board Member. Jonathan Ehrlich attended Ivey Business School at Western University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Klue — Klue is a competitive intelligence platform that enables product marketers to collect, curate, and deliver competitive intelligence across every department of every business.
Properly — Properly is your hassle-free partner to buy and sell homes in Canada.
Luxury Presence — Luxury Presence helps realtors thrive online with beautiful, award winning real estate agent websites and marketing. Trusted by 20+ of the WSJ Top 100 agents.

Lance Priebe

Investment focus

eSports, SaaS, Content Delivery Network
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

WTFast — WTFast is here to help you get rid of pesky online gaming problems and bid farewell to Fortnite lag, PUBG lag, Dota 2 lag, CSGO lag, LOL lag and hundred of other games.
PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
Nurture — Learn Foundational Life Skills Through Immersive Play

Jordan Banks is the Co-Founder at Thunder Road Capital. Jordan Banks attended York University - Osgoode Hall Law School.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

More Labs — smart supplements for people who want more out of life
Integrate.ai — Integrate.ai enables your federated machine learning and analytics roadmap. Valuable data is becoming harder to access. Grow your business by building new product features that harness the collective intelligence of your customers' data.
Peloton Innovations — Peloton Innovations is the world’s first startup studio aimed at disrupting the $50 billion security industry. Based in Toronto, Peloton creates impactful B2B and B2C products and services for use in the rapidly evolving protection sector.

Ethan Song has lived and worked around the world, with major stints in Shanghai, Paris and Vancouver. His independent travels and his background in theatre and engineering inspired him to merge art with science and technology, and ultimately, to co-found Frank & Oak. As the company’s CEO, Ethan oversees product design and development and thecustomer shopping experience.

Investment focus

Legal Tech, Organic Food, Web Development
Seed, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Blume — Blends with benefits. Organic superfood powders for your mug, cup, bowl and baking sheet. We believe wellness should be fun and accessible. All of our colorful lattes are vegan, refined sugar-free and less than $1/serving.
Reactiv — Reactiv is an AI-powered mobile app platform to help you sell more and increase retention, without the headache of managing another channel
Haloo — Navigating the trademark search and registration process can be daunting and onerous for business owners and entrepreneurs. Heirlume is the first self-serve online trademark search and registration platform that integrates sophisticated legal thinking with technology. We make the complex trademark search and registration process fast, accurate,trusted and affordable for entrepreneurs and enterprise/e-com partners. Our search tool instantly runs the country-specific legal tests (i.e., “likelihood of confusion”) and performs lawyer analysis. Intelligent search algorithms provide an at-a-glance opinion of registerability (conflicts, descriptiveness, obscenity), displayed in simple visuals. Distilling the multiple data sets involved with drafting a trademark application requires time-consuming legal analysis. Our machine learning auto-suggest trademark application builder performs the lawyer work and removes room for error. While our first go to market strategy will target SME individual users, we see huge potential in expanding our market reach through key B2B partnerships as an upsell/add-on to a domain purchase (GoDaddy), or store set-up (Shopify or Amazon). Ultimately, we believe we can make trademark registration quick, easy and affordable, similar to the experience of registering a domain.

Anatol Von Hahn - Advisor @ Peotic

Investment focus

FinTech, Privacy, Analytics
Seed, Angel
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

MindBridge — We help financial professionals access better ways of working by identifying, surfacing, and analyzing risk across broad financial datasets.
Peotic — Peotic's Personal Data Platform enables richer consumer profiles for insights, marketing, and measurement while giving data control to consumers.

John Byard

Investment focus

Hardware, Smart Home, Direct Marketing
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Airzai — Started purely as a passion project by a group of experienced entrepreneurs who are a little too passionate about fragrance. What started as a curiosity to solve some fundamental pain points of the current fragrance products available in the market such as synthetic air fresheners, high-maintenance diffusers, and unreliable essential oils, turnedinto a full-fledge venture backed by some of the most renowned investors and world-class team members. The flagship product, AIRZAI Aroma is a patent-pending innovative smart-home diffuser that helps in uplifting mood and transform home into smelling like luxury resort. AIRZAI is designed in California by industry experts in Design, Technology, and Natural Scenting.

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

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Entalpic — Entalpic is an AI-driven discovery platform for sustainable industries aiming to optimize carbon-intensive sectors.
Reliant AI — Reliant AI operates as an AI generated data analytics software provider.
Abridge — For patients, clinicians, and enterprise, our audio-based solutions capture the details and summarize medical conversations, anywhere care happens.

Having worked in the life sciences industry for over ten years as an academic researcher, Jonathan identified the market opportunity for supplying high quality antibodies to support protein interaction studies and, in 1998, founded Abcam with David Cleevely and Professor Tony Kouzarides. Jonathan is a Non-Executive Director of Horizon DiscoveryGroup plc, The Evolution Education Trust, GeoSpock Ltd and Sydicate Room Group Ltd. He is also Chairman of Axol Bioscience Ltd, PhoreMost Ltd, Repositive Limited, Definigen Limited and Cambridge Allergy Ltd. Jonathan holds an executive director position at Meltwind Limited, being a designated member of Meltwind Advisory LLP. Jonathan is an experienced entrepreneur and investor and is passionate about supporting UK life science and high-tech start-ups. He has provided considerable investment and support to over 30 companies and has assisted three AIM IPOs.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Quibim — Leading radiomics company pioneering quantitative imaging biomarkers and medical applications in precision medicine.
Epitopea — Epitopea is a transatlantic biotechnology company developing transformational immunotherapies to treat cancer by targeting a new class of antigens that are broadly shared between patients with the same cancer indication. Cryptigen™ TSAs are discovered by a proprietary approach deploying immunopetidomics, mass spectrometry, genomics, andbioinformatics, which allows the identification of conserved, aberrantly-expressed, tumour-specific antigens, hidden in cancer's 'junk' DNA. These hidden Cryptigen™ TSAs have been identified by research led by Drs. Claude Perreault and Pierre Thibault at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer at Université de Montréal.
Exciting Instruments — Exciting Instruments Limited is a joint company founded in Sheffield that combines the software prowess of Bulldozer Limited with Dr. Timothy Craggs' knowledge of single molecules. Through the use of cloud connectivity and real-time data visualisation, we are a genuine science and software partnership on a mission to assist you in streamliningthe procedure for creating discoveries in biophysics, life sciences, drug discovery, and medical diagnostics.

Marc G. Bellemare is a Research Scientist at Deepmind.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical Device
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ubenwa Health — Ubenwa is a medtech company using AI to analyze infant cries, turning devices with microphones into life-saving tools for early health detection. Discover our cutting-edge technology today.

Hugo Larochelle is Research Scientist at Google and Assistant Professor at the Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS).

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical Device
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ubenwa Health — Ubenwa is a medtech company using AI to analyze infant cries, turning devices with microphones into life-saving tools for early health detection. Discover our cutting-edge technology today.

blah - teh software was teh busted and they didn't want to fix it or hire someone to fix it, odd folks, these.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Sorare — Global Fantasy Football. Collect limited edition digital collectibles, Manage your team and earn prizes!
Hoth Intelligence — Hoth Intelligence home page. Space age surgical technology brought down to earth.
Floating Point Group — Floating Point Group is a trading platform provider offering innovative, industry-leading trade execution and settlement

Basil Bouraropoulos is the Chief Executive Officer at Stradigi AI.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Machine Learning
Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Stradigi AI — Stradigi AI is an Artificial Intelligence SaaS company that accelerates time-to-value for data-driven decisions across all business functions. The Kepler AI business platform puts AI capability within reach of business users for game-changing, measurable insights. Any company with data can access automated machine learning workflows to create aproject lifecycle that speeds and scales AI deployment.

Curtis Gavura is the president and co-founder at Stradigi AI

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Machine Learning
Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Stradigi AI — Stradigi AI is an Artificial Intelligence SaaS company that accelerates time-to-value for data-driven decisions across all business functions. The Kepler AI business platform puts AI capability within reach of business users for game-changing, measurable insights. Any company with data can access automated machine learning workflows to create aproject lifecycle that speeds and scales AI deployment.

Dr. Milad Alucozai is an Afghan-American neuroscientist, entrepreneur, biotech executive, and global investor with nearly two decades of experience in deep tech, primarily in life sciences. He pushes the boundaries of bioengineering and computational advancements, integrating machine learning and artificial intelligence into biology and medicine.With a strong commitment to commercializing transformative technologies and fostering startup ecosystems worldwide, he is a thought leader and formal mentor for entrepreneurs through organizations like Creative Destruction Lab and the Wyss Institute at Harvard Medical School.Currently, Milad is the head of Bio and Deep Tech at BoxOne Ventures, where he spearheads the firm’s investments in early-stage companies with breakthrough scientific ideas. With nearly 80 early-stage investments, they are recognized as one of North America’s most active venture firms. He is also a Venture Partner at Entrepreneur First, a global fund that has built over 500 companies from scratch with an enterprise value of $10bn. He supports founders with strategy, scaling, business development, securing growth capital, and leadership training, often being their first investor and guiding them from startup inception to IPOs or acquisitions.He started his career in translational neuroscience and multiphysics laboratories before transitioning into founding roles at biotech startups. He is part of the founding team at Mekonos, a San Francisco-based company creating a proprietary cell-engineering platform to support the future of cell and gene therapies. He was also part of the founding team at Corstem, which specialized in machine learning and artificial intelligence software and was later acquired by Circle Cardiovascular, a platform in over 1000 hospitals and more than 40 countries. At Accenture, Milad directed teams of data scientists, designers, and engineers in developing artificial intelligence platforms for global pharmaceutical companies and hospital networks.Milad serves as a Fellow in Healthcare Engineering at the Regenstrief Center. In 2020, he served as an External Advisor to AstraZeneca. He was recognized as a National Science Foundation Scholar and Macklin Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medicine. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Neuroscience from Purdue University’s Honors Program. As a George J. Mitchell Scholar, he completed his master’s in Immunology and earned his doctorate from the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Arpeggio Bio — We engineer medicine based not on a single target, but the biological network as a whole.
Future Fields — Future Fields Cellular Agriculture: Serum-Free Growth Media Supplements and Recombinant Proteins - Optimized for the Future of Food.
Eigen Therapeutics — Eigen Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing combination therapeutics for cancer. The company is in the research and development of synergistic therapies that improve efficacy while reducing the toxicity of small molecule therapies and immunotherapies, enabling physicians to get access to novel drugs in areas of unmet medical needs.

Daniel Robichaud is often described as one of Montreal’s better known serial entrepreneurs. Leveraging more than 12 years of experience in online strategy, mobile development and business start-ups, Daniel is a recognized leader in the investment and technology industries locally, a Limited Partner in two funds as well as a member of AngelInvestors Groups.After selling his first company in 2006 to a Global Fortune 500© firm, Daniel started five other successful businesses who’ve all been sold since. Among them, Streamtheworld.com, sold to a California group, Mobilito, sold to the biggest ad agency in Canada and Radioactif, an ISP that merged with an established cable company.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Angel, Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nesto — LOW FROM THE GET GO. With nesto's exclusive mortgage solution, score the lowest rate on your first try! New mortgage - Mortgage Renewal / Refinance.
Retinad — Analytics platform made for 360VR media. Drag & drop plugin integration across all major VR headsets.
XeoHive Technology — XeoHive Technology is a Canadian-based startup that provides a comprehensive set of AI-powered investment tools for the digital assets market.

Kimberly Kaplan currently works as Chief Executive Officer and the Founder of the Snack App.

Investment focus

FinTech, Insurance, Machine Learning
Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Metaspectral — Compression.ai is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of machine learning and web services. The company has developed encoding and decoding capability for images using machine learning, which achieves on-average about 95% compression rates of a raw image without significantly losing its quality.
Apollo Insurance — Insurance doesn't have to be difficult. APOLLO Insurance is a friend of Canadian small businesses, here to help you get through your day.

Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Emerging VC

Investment focus

Legal Tech, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Haloo — Navigating the trademark search and registration process can be daunting and onerous for business owners and entrepreneurs. Heirlume is the first self-serve online trademark search and registration platform that integrates sophisticated legal thinking with technology. We make the complex trademark search and registration process fast, accurate,trusted and affordable for entrepreneurs and enterprise/e-com partners. Our search tool instantly runs the country-specific legal tests (i.e., “likelihood of confusion”) and performs lawyer analysis. Intelligent search algorithms provide an at-a-glance opinion of registerability (conflicts, descriptiveness, obscenity), displayed in simple visuals. Distilling the multiple data sets involved with drafting a trademark application requires time-consuming legal analysis. Our machine learning auto-suggest trademark application builder performs the lawyer work and removes room for error. While our first go to market strategy will target SME individual users, we see huge potential in expanding our market reach through key B2B partnerships as an upsell/add-on to a domain purchase (GoDaddy), or store set-up (Shopify or Amazon). Ultimately, we believe we can make trademark registration quick, easy and affordable, similar to the experience of registering a domain.

Fabio Banducci

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

SceneBox — SceneBox helps computer vision engineers sift through their large datasets to uncover the failure states and interesting data they need to train machine learning models faster.

Lance Tracey - Founding Partner @ Full Stack

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Communities
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Taloflow — Taloflow analyzes 4,000+ vendor data points to provide you with the best possible recommendation for cloud object storage. Complete a 5-minute use case questionnaire to get started.
SceneBox — SceneBox helps computer vision engineers sift through their large datasets to uncover the failure states and interesting data they need to train machine learning models faster.
Quantified Citizen — Join groundbreaking studies, receive rich health insights and make an impact on global health and science. Download Quantified Citizen today!

Chris Rowen is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer at BabbleLabs.

Investment focus

Autonomous Vehicles, Automotive, Robotics
Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Algolux — Torc Robotics, self-driving truck company, announced the acquisition of artificial intelligence company, Algolux, to further its driverless freight solution.
DeepScale — Site will be available soon. Thank you for your patience!

Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housingin Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life.The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am... (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time.Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010).Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Magic Spoon — Magic Spoon cereal is high-protein, low-sugar, keto-friendly, and gluten-free. Available in Cocoa, Frosted, Fruity, Blueberry, Peanut Butter, and Cinnamon.
Everyrealm — Leaders in metaverse innovation and development.
Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.

Nick is a serial entrepreneur, an accomplished CEO, senior Enterprise Technology executive, Outside Director, and Advisor delivering successful outcomes through leadership, integrity, innovation, and empowerment for over 20 years. Prior to Deeplite Nick was cofounder and CEO of several successful Canadian tech companies including Messagepoint,Prinova Software and Prinova Technologies. Nick leverages extensive experience in corporate governance, formulating and executing cross-functional strategic plans, developing go-to-market strategies including product, marketing, and sales. A revenue driven executive focused on growing and scaling companies whether organic or externally funded.Nick earned his Bachelor of Engineering and Management in Mechanical Engineering from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada and was recently honored by McMaster’s Engineering Faculty as being one of their Top 150 Distinguished Alumni for the role they’ve played in shaping Canada and the world.

Investment focus

Software, Embedded Systems, Machine Learning
Convertible Note
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Deeplite — Deeplite provides an AI-Driven Optimizer to make Deep Neural Networks faster, smaller, energy-efficient from cloud to edge computing.

Melissa Prescott

Investment focus

EdTech, Content, E-Learning
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Tech Spark AI — Tech Spark is Canada's first edtech company committed to culturally relevant and equitable tech education for Black and students of colour, girls, and teachers.

Melissa Prescott

Investment focus

EdTech, Content, E-Learning
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Tech Spark AI — Tech Spark is Canada's first edtech company committed to culturally relevant and equitable tech education for Black and students of colour, girls, and teachers.

Howard Stotland - President @ Otimo Retail

Investment focus

Mobile, Recruiting, Human Resources
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Wirkn — Hyperlocal recruiting for retail, restaurants & hospitality.

Jeffery Lawrence

Investment focus

Dental, Software, Health Care
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

OraQ AI — OraQ AI is a clinical decision support system that empowers patients to improve wellness practice through a holistic approach. OraQ AI was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Alberta, Canada.

Will Elsaghir

Investment focus

Dental, Software, Health Care
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

OraQ AI — OraQ AI is a clinical decision support system that empowers patients to improve wellness practice through a holistic approach. OraQ AI was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Alberta, Canada.

Benjie Cherniak

Investment focus

Sports, Gaming, Apps
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Future Anthem — Future Anthem's all-in-one product, Amplifier AI, is built to personalise the player experience for everyone.
Ultimate Odds — Ultimate Odds is a next generation gaming product that combines sports betting and fantasy into one highly engaging experience. Ultimate Odds is at the forefront of the US sports gaming industry with a modern product that educates new bettors and creates a competitive space for sports fans.
Basketball Forever — Basketball Forever.

Kulveer Taggar is an angel investor and former CEO of Zeus. He holds a master's degree from the University of Oxford.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Onyx — The open-source AI enterprise search platform that helps teams find information across all company data.
Taxo — Taxo helps healthcare providers and payers save time and money by automating administrative tasks using AI. Streamline prior authorizations, benefits verification, and patient follow-ups.
Momentic — Supercharge your QA process with Momentic's advanced AI tools for automated testing. Ship faster with reliable, AI-driven tests.

Nate Smith is an advisor at Lever.

Investment focus

Logistics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cartage — Cartage is a managed logistics service provider for shippers. We act as your logistics team and coordinate freight carrier-direct. Powered by AI, led by industry experts.

Paul Graham

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Egypt, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Anthrogen — Anthrogen is a Biotechnology Research firm using bacteria and enzymes for reducing carbon in the air by transforming it into chemicals.
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible

Julian is the co-founder of aevoxyz.

Investment focus

Web3, Blockchain, Machine Learning
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sanctum — Sanctum offers the ability to launch millions of new LSTs utilizing solana.
Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI

Omar Shakeeb is the co-founder of Second_Lane.

Investment focus

Web3, Blockchain, Machine Learning
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI

Richard Dai

Investment focus

Blockchain, Web3, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
Moku — Moku is a web3 gaming platform that enables players connect to gaming guilds, NFT casting pages, game strategy communities, and more.
Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI

Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
Optimum — Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tailored for use across various blockchains.
Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.

Santiago R Santos is the Founder of Mona.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Apps, Web3
Seed
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Huma Finance — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
Pulse — Pulse is a developer of an all-in-one health and wellness platform designed to integrate a wearable gadget and a fitness tracking software.
FortyTwo — Fortytwo is a decentralized AI network that employs swarm intelligence by linking consumer devices to execute small AI models. It provides a scalable and cost-efficient alternative to centralized AI systems, enabling users to contribute computing resources while ensuring data privacy. Fortytwo's goal is to create a reasoning engine thatoperates on a planetary scale and is driven by the community.