Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Angel Investors in Canada (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Scott Banister
Angel
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4 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Internet, Mobile | |
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Marc Morin
Angel
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4 | Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, SaaS, Internet | $549k–$1.6M |
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Russell Cook
Angel
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3 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series C, Series D | Food Delivery, Logistics, Delivery | |
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Tobias Lutke
Angel
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $609k–$74M |
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Nathan Daniels
Angel
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2 | Canada | Seed | iOS, Android, Education | |
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Stewart Butterfield
Angel
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $50k–$100M |
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Satish Kanwar
Angel
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Mobile Apps, FinTech, E-Commerce | $1.5M–$21M |
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David Ross
Angel
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2 | Canada | Venture - Series Unknown | Fashion, Product Design, Media and Entertainment | |
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Tanveer Ali
Angel
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2 | Canada, Bangladesh, United States | Pre-Seed, Angel | Sports, Marketing, Advertising | $77k–$1.1M |
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Tinie Tempah
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, Canada | Seed | FinTech, Art, Apps | $2M–$8.1M |
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Cheryl Cheng
Angel
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2 | United States, Canada | Series A, Seed, Series B | SaaS, Software, Health Care | $2M–$53M |
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James Lochrie
Angel
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2 | Canada | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Analytics | $281k–$5.2M |
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Paul Buchheit
Angel
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2 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $100k–$14M |
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Naveen Jain
Angel
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2 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Web3, Music, Social | $1M–$1.2M |
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Andreas Penna
Angel
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2 | United States, Brazil, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Mobile Apps, FinTech, Machine Learning | $400k–$34M |
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William Tunstall-Pedoe
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, Canada, Germany | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $430k–$3M |
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Marc Baghadjian
Angel
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2 | United States, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed | Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $3.2M–$6M |
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Jim Fletcher
Angel
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2 | Canada | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Mobile, Apps, News | $603k–$835k |
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Arati Sharma
Angel
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2 | Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Content Creators, Art | $1M–$4.8M |
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Mark Miller
Angel
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2 | Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | News, Security, Social Media | |
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Mo Larbi Bennis
Angel
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2 | Canada | Seed, Convertible Note | Consumer, Nightlife, Enterprise | |
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Alex Khein
Angel
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2 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Angel, Seed | CRM, SaaS, Video | |
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Edward Lando
Angel
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | |
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Joel Lessem
Angel
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2 | Canada | Seed | Podcast, E-Learning, Mobile Apps | |
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Deepak Jain
Angel
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2 | Canada | Angel, Pre-Seed | Art, Gaming, eSports | |
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Ben Slager
Angel
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed | iOS, Android, Medical | $250k–$2.5M |
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Fahim Saleh
Angel
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2 | Canada, Colombia | Seed, Angel | Apps, Ride Sharing, Social Media | |
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Jody Mulkey
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | FinTech, Art, Mobile Apps | |
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Guillaume Laliberte
Angel
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1 | Canada | Pre-Seed | Art, Apps, Mobile | |
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John Robinson
Angel
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1 | Canada | Fashion, Product Design, Media and Entertainment | ||
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Michael Perone
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | SaaS, Software, Internet | |
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Guido Giordano
Angel
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1 | Canada, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed | SaaS, Email, Content | |
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Oren Zeev
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, Canada | Series B, Series A, Seed | Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence | $800k–$85M |
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Brian Matthews
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Argentina | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $500k–$13M |
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Jay Weintraub
Angel
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1 | United States, Kenya, Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, Mobile, InsurTech | $250k–$14M |
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Larry Marcus
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series B, Series A | Mobile, Music, Fashion | $1.2M–$115M |
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David Williams
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Angel, Series A | Mobile, Apps, SaaS | $400k–$1.5M |
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Tim Draper
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $350k–$50M |
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Mike Cegelski
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Angel | Analytics, Apps, SaaS | $1.2M–$3.7M |
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David Reckziegel
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Video, Software, Advertising | |
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Melissa Prescott
Angel
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1 | Canada | Pre-Seed | EdTech, Content, E-Learning | |
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Nasir Jones
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | |
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Ron Stevens
Angel
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1 | Canada | Series A | Audio, Messaging, Real Time | |
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David Zhang
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada | Pre-Seed, Series B, Series D | FinTech, Art, Social Media | |
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Terry McBride
Angel
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1 | Canada | Private Equity | Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment | |
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Ric Arboit
Angel
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1 | Canada | Private Equity | Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment | |
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Harley Finkelstein
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States, Sweden | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Marketplace | $2.7M–$39M |
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Paul Olliver
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Angel | Software, Advertising, Content | $1M–$5M |
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Des Traynor
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $2M–$57M |
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Boris Wertz
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence | $744k–$20M |
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Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 143
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Arcee.ai — Learn how Arcee helps you build your own LLMs in your own cloud.
- Stell — Stell is a platform that digitizes the relationship between aerospace companies and their suppliers with a living specification workflow
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $549k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uvaro — Remix your favorite resources and hacks with your best company content in a personalized hub that moves as fast as your team does
- 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.
Russell is the Co-Founder & President of FitOn, Founder of AllTrails (sold to Spectrum Equity), former SVP Operations / Angel Investor @ Postmates (sold to Uber) and former CTO of beRecruited (sold to The Raine Group). He studied electrical engineering, computer science and economics while attending Duke University.
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- Industry: Food Delivery, Logistics, Delivery
- Stage:Seed, Series C, Series D
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Pacaso — Pacaso offers luxury vacation homes for co-ownership. It's the modern way to buy and own a vacation home.
- Rain — Rain Instant Pay Earned Wage Access grants you a chance to get an advance on your salary before thepay date right into your bank account. Get your Salary Today!
- Serve Robotics — Why move a 2-pound burrito in a 2-ton car? Meet Serve, the future of sustainable, self-driving delivery.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $609k–$15M; Series A $4M–$36M; Series B $30M–$74M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
- KOHO Financial — Open an everyday spending account online with instant cash back & premium rewards. Join over 1.5M Canadians using KOHO's prepaid Mastercard to spend, save, build and borrow. Sign up in minutes!
- Wednesday Waffles — Share 5-minute video updates with your closest friends and family every Wednesday. No filters, no algorithms, just real authentic connection.
Nathan Daniels - Board Member @ TBF Environmental Technology
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- Industry: iOS, Android, Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Paigee Draw — PaigeeWorld is a next generation social network for artists and art enthusiasts available on web and mobile. Over 1/2 million registered members. High engagement / user. Potential market size over 285M!PaigeeWorld is a real-time, dynamic social network which allows people to come together to share art, follow their favorite artistsand make friends from around the world. PaigeeWorld is a next generation network and boasts engagement rates over 10x higher than the largest player in this market.
Stewart Butterfield is a Co-Founder at Slack.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $50k–$29M; Series A $3.4M–$75M; Series B $2.6M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Viktor — Viktor is the AI employee that lives in Slack and Microsoft Teams, connects to 9,800+ tools, and does the work. Reports, dashboards, code, campaigns. Start free.
- Centralize — Discover Centra, the AI agent that helps you identify key opportunities, close gaps, and orchestrate wins with intelligent relationship mapping.
- Gardens — Founded by designers of such award-winning indie titles as Journey, What Remains of Edith Finch, Dustforce, Blaseball, and more, Gardens Interactive is a game studio focused on the future of online play, growing lush, living spaces that need to be cared for by their communities, and fostering meaningful, memorable stories between players around theworld.
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.
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $10M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NiaHealth — Get advanced at-home biomarker testing, proactive healthspan diagnostics, and expert guidance to elevate your health. HSA-eligible.
- 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.
David R.is the founder at David Ross Education Trust.
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- Industry: Fashion, Product Design, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- JIGSAW — Shop Jigsaw women's clothing online, including dresses, tops, occasionwear, workwear, skirts, shoes, boots and accessories.
Tanveer Ali is the CEO and Director at Inflection Ventures.
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- Industry: Sports, Marketing, Advertising
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada, Bangladesh, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $77k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Madlipz — MadLipz is the ultimate short-form voice over app that lets you unleash your creativity with hilarious voiceovers, AI characters, parodies, and more! Dive into a world of laughter and storytelling, and join millions of users in creating and sharing your unique voice-over masterpieces.
- Socian AI — Let us make your Business Converse by bridging the gap between human and machine communication to ensure better tomorrow. Please stay tuned with us and keep supporting us. Exciting things are on the way!
- OpenSponsorship — Join 19000+ brands connecting to 11000+ athletes, teams and events globally, on OpenSponsorship to drive marketing and sales using sports; proven to deliver 7x ROI.
Tinie shot to prominence with his chart-topping album 'Disc-Overy' which featured the #1s 'Pass Out' & 'Written In the Stars'. 2 x BRITs, a MOBO and an Ivor Novello followed. His 2nd album 'Demonstration' featured collaborators such as Dizzee Rascal, Emeli Sandé & Laura Mvula. In 2015, Tinie returnedwith 'Not Letting Go' and a feature on KDA's 'Turn The Music Louder'. Both topped the charts to give him 7 UK #1s - the most by any artist this decade.
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- Industry: FinTech, Art, Apps
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.
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Browse database — It's Free!Cheryl Cheng joined BRV in 2008. She focuses on early stage consumer and mobile big data opportunities. Cheryl also runs BRV’s alumni entrepreneur and Fortune 500 programs to bring experience and resources to the current portfolio. Prior to BlueRun, Cheryl worked at Clorox and The Sharper Image launching new products and driving retail marketing with partners across Target, Walmart and grocery. Cheryl has a B.A. from Stanford University and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management where she was a Forte Scholar. She is a mentor at Stanford’s Bio-Design for Mobile Health course, a collaboration between Stanford’s School of Medicine and School of Engineering.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $2M–$5M; Series A $4.7M–$30M; Series B $17M–$53M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stuut — Improve DSO and reduce your outstanding cash balance with AI agents that power workflows from invoice creation through cash application.
- SaveUp — SaveUp is the first free rewards program for saving money and reducing debt. Users earn SaveUp credits for every dollar saved or debt reduced and can use these credits to play for prizes ranging from travel, cars to even a $2M jackpot. While using SaveUp users are provided financial education, suggestions to improve their financial circumstancesand better financial services. SaveUp can be used with 18,000 financial institutions in the US including rewards for savings accounts, 401k, IRA, or reducing debts like credit cards, car loans, student loans and mortgages.
- Dyspatch — Build, collaborate on, and localize on-brand email templates without code. Trusted by Canva, Culture Amp, and 300+ global teams. See how it works.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.2M; Angel $550k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $281k–$560k
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
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.
Paul Buchheit is based out of Mountain View, California and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Standard Capital. Paul Buchheit attended Case Western Reserve University.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 159
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Angel $100k–$1.6M; Series A $2.5M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SiPhox Health — Painless, 5-minute biomarker testing at home. Clear insights, trend tracking, and a personalized plan built around your results.
- BuildForever — We build products that feel personal, magical and deeply human
- Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Andreas Penna - Co-Founder & General Partner @ West Quad Ventures
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, FinTech, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $400k–$8.6M; Series A $5M–$34M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bonsai — Bridging content and commerce. Bonsai brings together products people love and the content they can't get enough of.
- Rain — Rain Instant Pay Earned Wage Access grants you a chance to get an advance on your salary before thepay date right into your bank account. Get your Salary Today!
- Public — Invest in stocks. Learn from others. Public lets you invest in stocks with any amount of money and see what others invest in.
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.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $912k–$3M; Angel $1.2M–$1.4M; Pre-Seed $430k–$902k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Checkstep — Moderate text, image, video and audio in 100+ languages with 98% accuracy. Cut moderation costs 90% and stay DSA and OSA compliant. Book a demo.
- LumiQ — LumiQ makes earning CPD hours fun and accessible for individual accounting professionals and teams on-the-go. Get started now!
- Unlikely AI — The only AI designed for decisions too critical to get wrong. Accurate, explainable and truly trustworthy.
Marc Baghadjian, the Co-Founder and CEO of Hypercard, is an innovative entrepreneur known for pioneering the first consumer credit card powered by employers on the American Express® network. His journey as an immigrant entrepreneur has led him to invest in numerous seed-stage companies, showcasing his commitment to fostering new ventures.Baghadjian's academic background includes attending Babson College, further solidifying his credentials in the business world.
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- Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Pre-Seed $3.2M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Air AI — Air is the leader in Enterprise Readiness. Our mission is to establish readiness as a real-time condition that is continuously achieved.
- Kled AI — Meet Nitrility, The World's First Intellectual Property Marketplace.
- Superpower — The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life.
Jim is a 30-year veteran of the Canadian venture capital industry. He has participated actively across all funding stages from being part of founding management through personal angel investment, institutional venture capital, corporate venture investment and a variety of public and private exits. He has also been actively involved in numerouspublic policy initiatives designed to foster a healthy Canadian environment for early-stage companies and venture capital investors.Jim has been a Managing Director with Ventures West and Chrysalix Energy Management, overseen corporate venture investing as Treasurer of MacMillan Bloedel, and was founder and CEO of China Capital, CFO of the Angus Reid Group, and a Director of many technology companies. He currently chairs the Boards of Vision Critical Communications Inc., Recombo Inc. and Tyze Personal Networks Inc., and is a member of the Advisory Board of OMERS Ventures.Jim is also actively involved in the non-profit and social enterprise sector. He was a founding partner of BC Technology Social Venture Partners, has served on many other non-profit Boards and is engaged in public policy initiatives to enhance social innovation and finance.
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- Industry: Mobile, Apps, News
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $603k–$835k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shelfie — Shelfie is an app that connects readers and books. Shelfie lets readers digitize their paper book collections, get free or discounted ebooks of the books they own and discover their next reads.Shelfie has signed deals with over 600 publishers allowing users to download an eBook if they own a print edition for nearly 150,000 titles. Readers justtake a picture of their bookshelf (a "shelfie") and the app will identify and catalog all of their books and let them know which ones are eligible for bundling.
- A&K Robotics — A&K Robotics | Autonomous Vehicle Systems
- ePACT Network — ePACT will improve emergency preparedness across North America. By connecting every home and organization with shared information and resources, ePACT will have a positive impact on the safety of our communities. Its benefits will encourage users to adopt and share the system, while its tools help North Americans manage unexpected situations.
Arati Sharma is the Founding Partner at Backbone Angels. She attended McMaster University.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Content Creators, Art
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.8M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Three Ships Beauty — Three Ships Beauty is a natural skin care company. We make vegan & cruelty-free natural skincare products. Browse our diverse collection today!
- NiaHealth — Get advanced at-home biomarker testing, proactive healthspan diagnostics, and expert guidance to elevate your health. HSA-eligible.
- #Paid — #Paid is a tech company that operates a creative marketing platform that combines brand and creator collaboration. The platform allows brands to collaborate with relevant artists, travelers, storytellers, and photographers from all over the world for product placement on social media platforms.
Mark Miller is based out of Toronto, Ontario, and is the President, COO, and Board of Director of Constellation Software. Mark previously worked at Computer Modelling Group as a Board Member. Mark Miller attended McMaster University.
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- Industry: News, Security, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Samdesk — Samdesk is a global disruption monitoring tool powered by big data and AI. Get real-time crisis alerts when it matters most.
- Creator.co — Find amazing brands, products and experiences!
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- Industry: Consumer, Nightlife, Enterprise
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- bottlebeez — bottlebeez is a multipurpose suite of mobile and web applications aimed for consumers and businesses within the hospitality and nightlife space.
Alex Khein is a Chief Executive Officer at BlueBay Asset Management.
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- Industry: CRM, SaaS, Video
- Stage:Angel, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- MediaCore — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
- Believe.in — Believe.in provides a white label technology that improves online fundraising, donation processing, and event performance of non-profit organizations.Available in multiple markets, languages, and currencies, Believe.in supports 2.8 million non-profit organizations globally and is easily customized and integrated into any non-profitorganization’s website and existing back-office toolkit.Believe.in was founded in May 2011 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
- Mile High Organics —
Edward Lando is the Founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a Co-Founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 248
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
- Syntetica — Syntetica is a nylon recycling startup that addresses pollution in the fashion industry by transforming discarded nylon products into high-quality, reusable materials. Their innovative processes help reduce waste, conserve resources, and promote sustainability within the fashion sector.
- Unicorn Auctions — Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items.
Joel Lessem is the chief executive officer at Firmex.
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- Industry: Podcast, E-Learning, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- LumiQ — LumiQ makes earning CPD hours fun and accessible for individual accounting professionals and teams on-the-go. Get started now!
Value Creator - People Oriented - Turnaround Champion - Cultural Integration Expert
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- Industry: Art, Gaming, eSports
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Anime Universe Global — The AU platform will be a fully immersive, safe and trusted environment where we will find a space for ourselves and our communities to create new memories and share our activities.
Ben Slager - Co-Chair @ TIGER 21
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- Industry: iOS, Android, Medical
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $250k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Paigee Draw — PaigeeWorld is a next generation social network for artists and art enthusiasts available on web and mobile. Over 1/2 million registered members. High engagement / user. Potential market size over 285M!PaigeeWorld is a real-time, dynamic social network which allows people to come together to share art, follow their favorite artistsand make friends from around the world. PaigeeWorld is a next generation network and boasts engagement rates over 10x higher than the largest player in this market.
- Blue Willow Systems — Philips Lifeline, the #1 medical alert service, trusted by more than 7 million U.S. subscribers for over 40 years. Call 855-681-5351.
Fahim Saleh
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- Industry: Apps, Ride Sharing, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Picap — Picap is a Colombian ride-hailing service provider that connects people who require a means of transportation and people with motorcycles or cars who want to share their vehicle and earn additional income in the process. Founded in 2016, Picap operates in 13 cities including Bogotá, Medellín, Bucaramanga, Neiva, Villavicencio, Cartagena, Popayán,and Ibagué.
- Madlipz — MadLipz is the ultimate short-form voice over app that lets you unleash your creativity with hilarious voiceovers, AI characters, parodies, and more! Dive into a world of laughter and storytelling, and join millions of users in creating and sharing your unique voice-over masterpieces.
Jody Mulkey has worked at Shopzilla since January 1999. After wearing many hats along the way Jody is currently the Chief Information Officer responsible for the overall technology development and operations of the company. Before joining Shopzilla, Mulkey was in charge of the Web presence at Isocor. Before that he worked at WilliamO'Neil + Co., an institutional investment services company. He was part of the team that brought both the flagship WONDA product to the Internet and created an online consumer version of Daily Graphs.Mulkey holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration from the University of Southern California, with concentrations in information systems, and is a graduate of the Entrepreneur Program. He originally hails from the great state of Texas, but is happy to have called California home for the past 18 years. Mulkey is an avid snowboarder and can be found most winter weekends on the slopes of Mammoth Mountain.
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- Industry: FinTech, Art, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- Aspiration — Aspiration is an online financial firm that offers retail banking and investing services built for everyone. Aspiration delivers the financial products that people need in a consumer-focused model that empowers people to choose their fee and aligns the interests of Aspiration and its customers. The company donates a dime of every dollar it earns tohelp Americans that work to climb the ladder of opportunity while making it possible for its customers to choose to give a portion of their profits to a charitable cause of their choice.
- Stasis Labs — Stasis Labs has converted medical hardware into a big data, SaaS product with a cloud-connected vital signs monitoring platform. On average 80% of patients in emerging markets, and 60% of patients in developed countries have their vitals checked manually every 4-8 hours because existing monitoring systems are overly complex and cost prohibitive.Stasis was apart of the first cohort of 11 companies in Techstars Healthcare Accelerator, in Partnership with Cedars-Sinai. Stasis was recently awarded grant funding by the International Finance Corporation, a World Bank Group to help improve the medical technology of India. Currently, Stasis is live in Indian hospitals and continues to roll out their pilot program
Guillaume Laliberte - Founder & CEO @ Setter
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- Industry: Art, Apps, Mobile
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
John Robinson
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- Industry: Fashion, Product Design, Media and Entertainment
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- JIGSAW — Shop Jigsaw women's clothing online, including dresses, tops, occasionwear, workwear, skirts, shoes, boots and accessories.
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Browse database — It's Free!Michael Perone is the Co-Founder of Perch.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Osano — Osano simplifies privacy compliance by helping organizations build, manage, and scale their privacy program. Become compliant with the GDPR, CPRA, and more.
- ON — ON is the industry-leading AI chat platform that powers authentic conversational experiences for some of the world's largest and most popular retail brands, sports teams and content properties.
- Monetizr — Turn gamers' attention into revenue for your brand through targeted in-game mobile ads. Partner with Monetizr and get access to audiences across the globe.
Guido Giordano - Director - Venture Programs @ Invest Ottawa
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- Industry: SaaS, Email, Content
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Gymbag — Gymbag gives fitness centres and personal trainers the power of having their own online store, stocked with supplements, fitness equipment, and healthy food, all ready to go. It's an instant customized storefront with a massive catalogue of products that fitness professionals use to make money while providing a valuable service to theirclients.Our customers pay a monthly fee for their store and the logistics service that comes with it. There is no minimum contract and they keep 75% of the profits they make.Our distribution partners provide us with competitive wholesale pricing for our customers, and they fulfill the orders with plain packaging so they are invisible to the end client.
- Openera — Automatically save, organize, and backup files & attachments to services like Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive. Integrate your email with popular cloud storage services like Dropbox, Box, SkyDrive, and Google Drive. Create rules to automatically save & backup your email attachments. Save photos to Dropbox, documents to Box,spreadsheets to Google Drive - just tell Openera how you want your files & attachments organized, and it will do all the work - automatically.Openera is offered as a fremium / SaaS business model for proffessionals and SMB market.
Oren Zeev is the Founder of [Zeev Ventures](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zeev-ventures#/entity), a One Man VC firm that provides funds for growth-stage companies. He also serves as a board member at [Houzz](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/houzz#/entity), [HomeLight](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/homelight#/entity), [Tipalti](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tipalti#/entity), [TripActions](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tripactions#/entity), [Next Insurance](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/next-insurance#/entity), among others. Oren is a former board of [Audible](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/audible#/entity) (went public and then acquired by AMZN) and of [Chegg](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/chegg#/entity), (NYSE: CHGG) where he was the main investor and one of the two main early backers respectively, a former board member of [RedKix](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/redkix#/entity) (acquired by Facegook) and a former chairman of [Loop Commerce](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/loop-commerce#/entity) (acquired by Synchrony Bank). Prior to that, he was a general partner at [Apax Partners](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/apax-partners#/entity) from 1995 to 2007. Zeev lives in San Francisco, California, United States.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Seed $800k–$23M; Series A $2M–$35M; Series B $6M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Linguana — Linguana builds and monetizes your fully localized YouTube channels in new languages to reach new audiences across the globe and monetize them.
- Venn — Venn creates a new way of urban neighboring by managing homes, creating shared spaces, supporting hyperlocal business initiatives and services, programs events, and facilitating community engagement – all on a neighborhood-wide level. Operating by the motto, “If they build it, they will stay,” venn’s platform encourages urbanites to become activecreators and participants in the development of their community and enables developing neighborhoods to become as vibrant and desirable as the downtown core. Founded in 2016 by people raised in the Big City and in cooperative communities, venn is a new movement of neighboring that impacts tens of thousands of people in three cities (Tel Aviv, Brooklyn, and Berlin) with +75 employees
- Novee Security — Novee delivers AI penetration testing to find vulnerabilities faster, validate defenses, and reduce cyber risk.
Brian Matthews is based out of St. Louis, Missouri, and is the Co Founder & General Partner of Cultivation Capital. Brian previously worked at Regional Business Council as a Member. Brian Matthews attended the Missouri University of Science and Technology.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Canada, Argentina
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.9M; Series A $1.4M–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Adjudica — Adjudica, LLC has developed HealthSight, the world's first group transparency and engagement web platform for employer and government health plans. With a Facebook-like approach to building a sense of community around healthcare, the HealthSight platform is designed to help transform how people view their group healthcare and help plansponsors and members save money and get the best value from their healthcare spending. Adjudica is using a partner channel distribution strategy to provide HealthSight to the thousands of employers that provide healthcare to over 100 million people. Further the HealthSight platform has an opportunity to be a key component of any healthcare reform, providing the engagement that will be necessary for any of the approaches to controlling costs while extending coverage.
- Decide — AI-powered performance advertising built for measurable outcomes. Start a pilot with Decide.
- Figures.com — The Figures.com network is the largest group of action-figure sites online, serving 10 million pages a month to 300,000 unique visitors.
Jay Weintraub is the CEO and Founder of Connectiv Holdings. He previously worked at HR Transform as a Co-Founder. Jay Weintraub attended the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, InsurTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $250k–$4M; Series A $3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- IMRSV — IMRSV is a technology company using computer vision for real-world, real-time data analysis. IMRSV's Cara software is a breakthrough in perceptive computing. Cara turns any webcam into an intelligent sensor enabling new methods of interacting with objects and spaces. Using a basic webcam, anyone can anonymously measure audience gender, age,attention time and glances in real world environments. Use cases include adaptive advertising, retail analytics and internet of things applications. Based in New York City with offices in Singapore, the company is privately backed by various investors.
- Vendelux — AI-Powered Event Intelligence Platform with speaker, sponsor and attendee data covering over 250,000 trade shows and conferences.
- Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.
Actively making new investments in consumer and culture with Marcy Venture Partners, a VC firm co-founded with JAY-Z and Jay Brown. Managing Director at Walden Venture Capital Investments include: Savage X Fenty, Pela, Hungry, Wheels, Hipcamp, Partake Foods, Pandora (founding investor - IPO, exit to Sirius XM) , SoundHound, Aarki, goTenna, Hatch Baby, TouchBistro (exit), Robust Wealth (acquired by Principal Financial Group), Terayon (acquired by Motorola). Angel investments: include Netflix (IPO), BandPage (acquired by Google), Maestro, Jukely, LyricFind. Prior to Walden, Larry was a digital media sell-side Equity Research Analyst at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown. Led IPOs of Terayon, CBS MarketWatch, Netflix (initial S-1 IPO filing), Maxis (acquired by Electronic Arts), Edmark (acquired by IBM) and among other equity and debt financings (Broderbund, Sierra On-line, Excite@Home, Spectrum Holobyte, CBS Sportsline). Prior experience includes Robertson Stephens & Company, Education: Larry received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. See the music he loves at www.pandora.com/people/larry. He was named to the Billboard Power 100 in music and the Twitter 140 to follow.
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- Industry: Mobile, Music, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8M; Series A $1.7M–$50M; Series B $7M–$115M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pela — World's First 100% Compostable, Eco-Friendly iPhone and Android phone cases working towards plastic free oceans!
- Maestro Interactive Inc — Explore Maestro, a leading interactive video platform. Learn how our interactive video tools can help you create more powerful experiences for your audience.
- Fetch Delivery — Fetch is a flexible personal shopper on-demand and delivery service that connects local communities and businesses with customers in need.
Investor in real-time web companies in the US & China via 2020 Ventures, LLC Previously: - Managing Partner at Alacon Ventures, LLC (San Francisco) - Co-founder & Partner at Mandarin Ventures Ltd. (Beijing) - Founder & President of GoodWork International, LLC (Beijing) - Co-founder & SVP Sales & Marketing of Work.com (Redwood City) - Director of E-commerce and Financial Content at Excite.com (Redwood City) - Director of Games Publishing, Powerhouse Entertainment (Dallas) - GM of Consumer Software at Micrografx (Dallas) - Associate M&A at Charterhouse plc (New York) - Analyst, Kidder, Peabody & Co. (New York)
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- Industry: Mobile, Apps, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $400k–$1.5M; Angel $400k–$600k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Artory — Artory connects the art market with the digital-first, financial ecosystem. Combining our leading technology, art expertise, digital certification, and tokenization, Artory secures on the blockchain verified artwork information from expert partners.
- Pathful — Help students discover meaningful career paths with real-world insights from professionals across thousands of industries
- U Grok It — U Grok It is the missing piece to the exploding world of the Internet of Things. Our passive technology that uniquely identifies objects is a key component to digitizing and connecting the physical world. Based on standard UHF RFID U Grok It provides the easy to use way to identify, locate, track and inventory just about anything using yoursmartphone. U Grok It is a complete solution built on our proprietary reader that attaches to any iOS and Android device via the audio port and including vertical applications, a could-based backend that provides recurring revenues and a robust and open software development kit that allows developers tin integrate the features of RFID into their apps. U Grok It makes RFID affordable and accessible.
Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 329
- Round size: Seed $350k–$5.9M; Series A $2.5M–$25M; Series B $3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CASIMIR —
- illumicell AI — illumicell AI combines patented AI algorithms and proprietary microscopy technology to test 50x faster, 20x more effectively, empowering every healthcare provider at the point of care – not just fertility clinics – with accessible, scalable fertility diagnostics.
- SignalRank — SignalRank owns a growing asset portfolio of top performing venture backed companies. It enters at Series B by helping early stage investors maintain their ownership in their best assets. The resulting portfolio is a top decile venture performer since inception in May 2023. SignalRank finances early stage investors’ pro-rata in qualifying Series B rounds through an automated process designed for speed, high-conviction selection, and partner-aligned economics. it can decide inside 24 hours and fund in less than a week. As a result SignalRank has 300+ seed partners who invite it to partner for pro-rata financing in their fastest growing companies. It sees a high percentage of all Series B term sheets prior to close. Capital is supplied from SignalRank’s balance sheet, with no capital calls or partner IC process delays. Check size correlates with capital available. SignalRank handles SPV setup and ongoing administration, with a target of moving from partner allocation request to funding in 5 business days. 20% of the profit on each investment goes directly to partners. SignalRank creates deal-by-deal SPVs; SignalRank does not charge management fees for this partner product. The portfolio can be seen at - https://signalrank.com/signalrank-index.html
Mike Cegelski is the Founder, Chairman, and Managing Partner at Panache Ventures and an Investing Partner at Kanata Ventures, Limited Partner at Brightspark Ventures, Akkadian Ventures, iNovia Capital, Real Ventures, and Plaza Ventures. Prior to that, Mike was a Fellow at Creative Destruction Lab. He attended the Université de Sherbrooke.
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- Industry: Analytics, Apps, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$3.7M; Angel $1.6M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AmpMe — Sync your phone with friends. Create a portable sound system.
- Retinad — Analytics platform made for 360VR media. Drag & drop plugin integration across all major VR headsets.
- Smart Reno — Choose from trusted renovation contractors in Canada for your home. Get free quotes from certified contractors for renovation services today!
David Reckziegel
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- Industry: Video, Software, Advertising
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Unlimited — UNLIMITED is at the forefront in the design and creation of high-end Virtual Reality Experiences. VR is a revolutionary new medium - a mind-blowing hybrid between interactive media and immersive cinematic experiences. They offer branded and original VR content for immersive and interactive media, including films, TV series, games andadvertising.
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Browse database — It's Free!Melissa Prescott
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- Industry: EdTech, Content, E-Learning
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Ron is a Digital Media Software Silicon and Systems Entrepreneur. He is the founder behind award winning Mingleverse Labs Inc, Mixpo Portfolio Broadcasting and Digital 5 Inc. Other previous Start-Up successes at iCompression, Arithmos, S3 Inc. and LSI Logic Canada. Ron is an American/Canadian entrepreneur and angel investor from SiliconValley and resides in Vancouver and San Francisco. Educated in commerce and electrical engineering technology, Ron specializes only in ICT early stage start ups and has been fortunate to be either an engineer, executive or founder of seven Multi-Media software, internet communications and semiconductor start up companies, many achieving great success such as iCompression, S3 Inc, LSI Logic, Arithmos, and digital 5 Inc. Ron has in depth industry knowledge with extensive global business development experience having worked and lived in USA, Canada, Europe and Asia. In Canada, Ron is the co-founder of and current CEO of multiple award winning Mingleverse Laboratories Inc. Previously, Ron was an EIR at BC’s Yaletown Ventures and an LP in YVP II fund, along with 3 other angel investments in BC based companies including Mixpo where he served as its investor then President & CEO and board member until recently. Ron is an Active USA/Canada IT evangelist as well as past chairman of New Media BC Fusion Forum and former OACET member. In USA, Ron was the former winner of Tri-state CEO and company of the year for digital 5 inc and a member of the (NACD) National Association of Directors (http://www.nacdonline.org)
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- Industry: Audio, Messaging, Real Time
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Mingleverse — The ability to show people what you’re talking about is essential to all the most important shared experiences, including social interactions with friends and family, collaborating with the people we work with, and teaching and being taught. A MingleRoom boldly attempts to provide an alternative to having a meeting with people in a physicalspace. A MingleRoom gives you all the same powers you have in a physical venue – talking and being heard, being able to show things to the other people present, hearing what they have to say, and being able to see what they show.A MingleRoom also gives you powers you could never have in a physical meeting, such as the ability to include people from anywhere in the world in your meeting and have access to a 10GB personal document library hosted in the cloud. Anyone can show pretty much anything to pretty much anyone in a MingleRoom. We even let you sell tickets to virtual “events†you may wish to host in your MingleRoom.A basic MingleRoom is totally free and gives you everything you need to have a really good time with friends and family. Pro Plans give you a document library and a few other whistles and bells.
David Zhang joined Silver Lake in 2013 as a Director. Previously, he worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Credit Suisse in San Francisco. Mr. Zhang graduated with distinction from the University of Western Ontario with a B.A. in Honors Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business
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- Industry: FinTech, Art, Social Media
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series B, Series D
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Brex — Simplify expense management with Brex's finance platform. From company cards to banking, Brex helps you drive growth, automate processes, & earn more.
- 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.
- Koji — Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize.
Terry McBride is the current CEO and one of three founders of the Nettwerk Music Group, which includes Nettwerk Productions (Canada’s largest independent record label), Nettwerk Management (artist and producer management), Nettwerk One (publishing), and Artwerks (graphic and fashion design). Founded in McBride's apartment in 1984, Nettwerk hascorporate offices in Vancouver, Boston, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, Hamburg and London. Since its inception, Nettwerk has released over 500 different albums and sold over 150 million albums worldwide. In the past few years McBride has spoke at dozens of international conferences about advances in digital technology, intellectual property rights and the future of music distribution. In 2008, McBride co-authored a paper for the British University of Westminster’s “Musictank” entitled Meet the Millennials. In 2004, McBride stepped onto a yoga mat for the first time by way of recommendation from a friend, and it wasn't long before he realized that yoga offered him more than just a flexible body and mind. Acting on this realization, McBride along with his friend and yoga instructor, Lara Kozan, launched a chain of wellness centers called YYoga. It's McBride's vision for YYoga Studios to evolve into social third spaces, focusing on health and wellness for the body, mind, spirit and the community. McBride’s latest endeavor combines his two principle passions in the re-launch of Nutone Music. Encompassing music from the realm of devotional chant, world beat and beyond, Nutone is dedicated to the development of a new genre within today’s musical landscape. McBride explains, “Nutone's mission is to seek out what we feel is the best music that fits into the modern day Yoga studio, various wellness practices and everyday enjoyment of music. With many descriptions from World music to Chant to New Age to Mantra music, Nutone will demystify and clarify for listeners a brand that will be consistent in delivering quality albums.” At the 2003 Juno Awards Terry received the Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award, recognizing an outstanding individual who has contributed to the growth and advancement of the Canadian music industry. Terry has also twice been awarded the Pollstar Industry Award for Personal Manager of the year for his work with Sarah McLachlan (1997) and Avril Lavigne / Coldplay (2002).
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- Industry: Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Private Equity
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Nettwerk Music Group — Label x Artist Management x Publishing x Film + TV
Ric Arboit - President @ Nettwerk Music Group
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- Industry: Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Private Equity
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Nettwerk Music Group — Label x Artist Management x Publishing x Film + TV
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Marketplace
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$10M; Pre-Seed $4.1M–$5M; Series A $13M–$39M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Paraform — Paraform connects world class teams with elite recruiters for faster, smarter, hiring.
- Stilla AI — Stilla connects to your tools and turns your chats & conversations into done work. Just mention @Stilla to get it done. Ads, code, reports and much more.
- Polar — Polar is the Merchant of Record for developers building AI-era software: payments, subscriptions, and usage-based billing, with global tax handled for you.
Paul Olliver is the Managing Partner at Wider Wake.
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- Industry: Software, Advertising, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Embrace — Stay informed with Embrace's mobile monitoring solutions. Optimize app performance & user experience with our comprehensive platform. Learn more now.
- #Paid — #Paid is a tech company that operates a creative marketing platform that combines brand and creator collaboration. The platform allows brands to collaborate with relevant artists, travelers, storytellers, and photographers from all over the world for product placement on social media platforms.
- Conversion Logic — The givezooks peer to peer technology has been integrated with Salsa Labs. The NEW Salsa now offers a peer to peer module for our Engage customers.
Des is the Co-Founder of Intercom, the platform for all customer interaction needs from marketing to support to product development. Previously he worked as User Experience Lead at web app development agency Contrast, and he was a Co-Founder of popular social networking search engine Bigulo.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8.3M; Series A $6M–$20M; Series B $25M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cargofy — Cargofy it's a mobile assistant, kind of a "Siri" but for truck drivers. We help truckers access to high paying loads through our app, and receive discounts on fuel, maintenance, and truck parts.
- Slashwork — Slashwork is the next-generation tool for companies that value high quality communication, preserving knowledge, and getting the most out of your amazing team.
- Seapoint — Business accounts, treasury and expense automation - built to scale with you. Join our beta programme and get your unfair financial advantage.
Boris Wertz is the Founder & General Partner of Version One Ventures. He previously worked at Ether Capital as a Lead Independent director. Boris Wertz attended the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $850k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $744k–$2.5M; Series A $3.5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Unbounce — Grow your relevance, leads, and sales with Unbounce. Use Unbounce to easily create and optimize landing pages for your small business and boost conversions with AI insights.
- NiaHealth — Get advanced at-home biomarker testing, proactive healthspan diagnostics, and expert guidance to elevate your health. HSA-eligible.
- RewardLoop — Domain name RewardLoop.com offers a captivating blend of reward and continuity, suggesting a seamless and rewarding experience for users. The term loop evokes a sense of endlessness and connectivity, hinting at a cycle of rewards that keeps
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