Top 20 Music Angel Investors in Canada in May 2026
Top 20 Music Angel Investors in Canada in May 2026
| Investor | Music Canada investments |
|---|---|
| Mark Jowett | 1 |
| Larry Fichtner | 1 |
| Nasir Jones | 1 |
| Daniel Robichaud | 1 |
| Mark Britto | 1 |
| William Tunstall-Pedoe | 1 |
| Martin Archambault | 1 |
| Ric Arboit | 1 |
| Richard Speer | 1 |
| Amit Mital | 1 |
| Tobyn Sowden | 1 |
| Martin Ouellet | 1 |
| Dan Fraser | 1 |
| T. Chen Fong | 1 |
| Mike Cegelski | 1 |
| Pierre Fleurent | 1 |
| Larry Marcus | 1 |
| Naveen Jain | 1 |
| Nathalie Marcoux | 1 |
| Edward Lando | 1 |
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Mark Jowett - Founder @ Nettwerk Music Group
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- Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
- Private Equity
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Nettwerk Music Group — Nettwerk Music Group operates as a record label and artist management company. It manages various artists. The company provides synchronization, co-writer, and other crucial publishing activities for its North American artists and writers.
Larry Fichtner
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- Music, Software, Real Time
- Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Beatdapp — Beatdapp offers a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real-time.The service reduces the tracking discrepancies between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and rights holders, increasing royalty revenue for rights holders while limiting legal exposure to royalty lawsuits for DSPs. Think of it like a PWC formusic play count.
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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- E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
- 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.
Dan Robichaud is a serial entrepreneur and an angel investor. His first company was acquired in 2006 by a Global Fortune 500®. He went on to start and exit 5 other technology companies. His latest venture is PasswordBox, which was acquired by Intel in December 2014. He is a Limited Partner in 7 VC funds and he is an angel investor in more than 45promising start-ups. For 3 years Dan has been the Chief Innovation Officer of Intel Identity division. Since September 2017, Dan Robichaud is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Diagram a launchpad for the most exciting ventures in Fintech and Insurtech. Before his entrepreneurial days, he started as a radio show host on the biggest Canadian radio station CKOI where he pioneered RSS audio podcasting.
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- Apps, Music, Music Streaming
- Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- AmpMe — Sync your phone with friends. Create a portable sound system.
- YouSet — Compare and buy home and car insurance from top Canadian insurers in less than 4 minutes, online with YouSet.
With over 20 years as an entrepreneur, sales and financial services executive, Mark Britto is responsible for making BOKU the leading mobile payments platform.Mark joins BOKU after six years as the CEO of Ingenio, a service marketplace and performance advertising company, which he led to a 2007 acquisition by AT&T.Prior to Ingenio, Markspent 4 years as SVP of worldwide services and sales at Amazon.com, where he signed landmark deals with brands such as Toys R Us, Borders, Circuit City and Target.Mark's first start-up, Accept.com, was bought by Amazon.com in 1999 and served as the primary backbone of Amazon's global payments platform.Mark began his career in senior credit and risk management roles at leading national banks FirstUSA and Bank of America.
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- Mobile, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Sokin — Sokin is a leading financial service provider that enables global payments for both consumers and businesses. Sokin believes in giving you the power to make payments and transfer money as many times as you want per month! Whether it’s sending money back home or transfers to friends or even settling with businesses using Sokin, our innovativeprocess makes the task quick and easy.Sokin delivers global payments for a fixed fee, is commission and hassle free!Transferring money internationally is complicated and expensive. Sometimes there is a lack of transparency in the fees you pay. With our transparent fixed monthly costs, for businesses and consumers, there are no hidden charges. You will not have to spend hours researching the best rates!Our cost effective solution is simple to understand: One Monthly Fee. This will to allow you to make payments in over 200 countries and the ability to exchange money in over 150 countries in over 35 different currencies. Sokin can also transfer any currency into any bank account in China within 2 hours excluding weekends and Chinese bank holidays.To find out more about the only payment provider to provide global payments for a fixed fee, commission free and hassle free – download our app and sign up to ensure you don’t miss out on key messages!
- MONI — MONI is building the bridge between the now and the future of banking and financial services. Our mission is to provide simple low-cost mobile personal banking tools for everyone, everywhere – and credit in real-time.We do not believe in the anarchy of destructing the old, we believe in future-proof evolution. We are building a hub connectingthe current banking, payment and credit provisioning systems to new technologies such as cryptocurrencies. Our technology reduces system complexity, cuts out middlemen, reduces costs for all parties, and decreases fraud.MONI technology, accessible from any feature or smartphone, enables every citizen to identify themselves and provides them with basic financial services. Our technology works today, on any carrier network, anywhere in the world.
- ClearForce — ClearForce is an analytic technology company and leading provider of Behavioral Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS). ClearForce enables organizations to discover and act upon early behavioral indicators that signal risk to the organization, customers, co-workers, and self-harm. Our solution extends to any public or private sector use case where people createrisk.
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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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Checkstep — Checkstep is the trusted AI content moderation software that helps global platforms detect harmful content, enforce policies, and stay compliant at scale. Combine powerful automation with human expertise to deliver safe, relevant, and compliant digital experiences.
- 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.
Martin-Luc Archambault is an accomplished serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of leadership experience in imagining, building and selling technology. At the age of 21, he created, CDT Inc., a web publishing & advertising company, and quickly grew it to profitability before selling it to Zango within three years. Since then, he hasrelentlessly been bringing new ideas to life, making him a proud recipient of an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® Award in 2012.SPOTR, his latest Montreal startup, gives life to your moments by letting you caption and share your stories through pictures. He is a board member at Anges Quebec and a mentor at FounderFuel and Growlab. Recently he has been working on a new mobile app called AMP, a mobile application that allows the creation of a musical ambiance, by synchronizing an unlimited amount of smart phones, thus creating a giant speaker.He lives and breathes technology innovations: he has made over 20 successful investments including Wajam, PasswordBox (sold to Intel), Anomalous Networks (sold to Tangoe – NASDAQ: TNGO), Frank & Oak, VarageSale, Mirego, .Club, Playerize, SmartReno, Viral ninja, Laurea Virtua, Instabrand, Sarbakan, Crowdbase, Planbox, Artfox, Acadam, Minitrade, Real Ventures, and many more... No idea is too big for Martin-Luc as long as he’s investing in the right people.
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- Apps, Music, Analytics
- Angel
- Canada
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.
Ric Arboit - President @ Nettwerk Music Group
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- Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
- Private Equity
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Nettwerk Music Group — Nettwerk Music Group operates as a record label and artist management company. It manages various artists. The company provides synchronization, co-writer, and other crucial publishing activities for its North American artists and writers.
Richard Speer is the Founder and President/CEO at Attraction media.
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- Apps, Music, Music Streaming
- Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- AmpMe — Sync your phone with friends. Create a portable sound system.
Amit Mital is a Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director at National Security Council. Amit earned an MS in Engineering from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College.
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- Software, Enterprise Software, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Beatdapp — Beatdapp offers a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real-time.The service reduces the tracking discrepancies between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and rights holders, increasing royalty revenue for rights holders while limiting legal exposure to royalty lawsuits for DSPs. Think of it like a PWC formusic play count.
- CRED — Join 9M+ CRED members to earn rewards on your credit card bill payments.
- aDolus Technology Inc. — aDolus provides a cloud platform to safeguard critical infrastructure, brokering information about ICS and IoT software and firmware. There is a $13 billion dollar industry for protecting PC endpoints, but there’s no similar ecosystem for protecting the smart devices used in industries such as energy, medical, and transportation. Multiple vendors,platforms, and geographic locations make the problem complex, yet growing threats to systems and human safety make the need for a solution urgent. Regulation is accelerating this need. With over 50 billion devices connected to the internet, the security market for IoT is projected to reach $74 billion by 2026. This creates a massive opportunity to help critical sectors secure their smart devices. We estimate the annual TAM to be $920 million for the industrial sector alone. The medical, transportation, automotive, and defense sectors present further opportunities.aDolus is the first to market with a solution to analyze and authenticate device software. Early momentum and deep industry ties have yielded a growing database of 32 million records. Our vendor-agnostic platform positions aDolus to capture this lucrative and under-served market.
Tobyn Sowden is the CEO at Redbrick.He attended University of Victoria.
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- iOS, Music, Android
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Outway — Inspiring personal bests.
- Hidden Bands — We put bands on the map. Our free music discovery app brings users into the real world to find exclusive music and engage with artists. Users download our free app, and similar to Pokémon GO they follow a map to capture exclusive free music. We then link the song to the artist's streaming (Spotify, Apple Music) and social platforms (YouTube,IG,Bandcamp) to consume more of the artist's content.Users are rewarded to re-hiding songs in new locations and artists receive full analytics into song plays at a hyper geographic level. Artists use this info to plan tours. Unlike Spotify and YouTube we also allow artists to email users directly inside our app.The app is free for both users and artists and complements existing streaming and social platforms by solving the problem of discoverability in a fun gamified way.
- Cognito Health — Canada's only integrated online mental health solution. Accessible and affordable treatment for your mental health. Book a free initial assessment today.
A career entrepreneur and angel investor, Martin has a flair for innovation. Since selling his first company, Taleo, his passion is to invest in the growth of emerging technology companies and the development of Québec’s entrepreneurial potential.
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- Apps, Music, Software
- Seed, Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- AmpMe — Sync your phone with friends. Create a portable sound system.
- Caristix — Caristix provides HL7 FHIR software, solutions, tools and services for health data integration, quality and standards. HL7 and FHIR expertise for hospitals.
Dan Fraser began his music industry career on the road at 17 years of age, consistently traveling over 250 days per year and moving up through the ranks in the touring world to tour manager, before co-founding the Nettwerk Music Group and becoming President of Nettwerk Management. As president, Fraser oversees all clients, artist managers,employees, financials, and contract negotiations. Further, Fraser manages all aspects of the touring careers of Juno and Grammy award-winning clients. He also contributes to the overall strategic development of the Nettwerk Music Group, along with the other three co-founders. In 1996, Fraser, along with Sarah McLachlan, Terry McBride, and Marty Diamond, co-founded the famed Lilith Fair tours, which ran from 1996-1999, and 2010. Fraser has guided the live carriers of many Nettwerk clients such as Sarah McLachlan, Barenaked Ladies, Dido, Avril, Coldplay, Stereophonics and many others. He currently manages / co manages Joshua Hyslop. Wanting and Juno nominated children’s act Bobs and Lolo. Fraser has sat on several boards such as the 2007 Memorial Cup and 2006 World Junior Hockey Championships held in British Columbia. He was an Executive Producer for the 2002 BC Cancer Benefit and the 2005 Tsunami Relief Benefit. Fraser served on the Ceremonies Production team for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Currently, he sits on the board for the Unison Benevolent Fund.
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- Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
- Private Equity
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Nettwerk Music Group — Nettwerk Music Group operates as a record label and artist management company. It manages various artists. The company provides synchronization, co-writer, and other crucial publishing activities for its North American artists and writers.
Dr. Fong is a Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary. He was formerly the Head of the Department of Radiology at the University of Calgary and the Calgary Health Region. Dr. Fong is active in funding and nurturing start-up companies. Over the past two decades, he funded over 50 companies in diverse technology sectors,with an emphasis in medical devices. Dr. Fong is the co-founder and board member of Calgary Scientific Inc. and is also on the board of Clarius Mobile Health, Cohesic Inc. and Innovere Medical. In addition to seed investing, Dr. Fong is active in the Calgary community sitting on six charitable boards and foundations.In 2015, Dr. Fong joined the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) at the University of Toronto business school as a mentor. CDL helps young entrepreneurs to shape or pivot their nascent ideas. He is widely credited with launching CDL at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary, bringing together seasoned business leaders from Alberta, Canada and the US to grow budding companies. Dr. Fong is on the Strategic Advisory Board of CDL and a Fellow of CDL in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver. In 2017, Dr. Fong was named to the Order of Canada for his contribution to medical technology innovation and philanthropy.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Oncoustics AI — Oncoustics is creating and deploying advanced AI solutions for low cost, non-invasive surveillance, diagnostics, and treatment monitoring of diseases with high unmet clinical need. Unlike other players in the space, Oncoustics does not do image recognition. Instead, Oncoustics applies AI to raw ultrasound signals from readily available handheldultrasound devices to rapidly differentiate healthy versus diseased tissues. There's a wealth of information in these raw signals and this approach reveals novel biomarkers that can be aligned with existing standards and categorization systems. Initially targeting liver disease, a $30B global diagnostic market, Oncoustics has filed a Breakthrough Device Designation Request with the FDA for the OnX that detects liver fibrosis and the 510K is underway. Several follow-on liver products are in development. Oncoustics also has clinical data on other organ indications including prostate, kidney, breast and thyroid diseases and cancers.
- SunGreenH2 — SunGreenH2 creates the world's highest performance advanced materials for electrolysis i.e. green hydrogen production. Achieve high efficiency, low cost green H2 production on site for your application in the Power-to-X, Hydrogen refuelling, Energy Storage and Buildings sectors. Revolutionising zero emissions and improving profitability.
- EZee Assist — EZee Assist provides instant answers to franchisee operational questions. Continue using preferred channels of support and start receiving instant answers.
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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- Analytics, Apps, SaaS
- Seed, Angel
- Canada, United States
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!
Pierre Fleurent is currently the Senior Advisor at Canaccord Genuity Inc.
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- Apps, Music, Music Streaming
- Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- AmpMe — Sync your phone with friends. Create a portable sound system.
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 CapitalInvestments include: Savage X Fenty, Pela, Hungry, Wheels, Hipcamp, Partake Foods, Pandora (founding investor - IPO, exit to Sirius XM) , SoundHound, Aarki, goTenna, HatchBaby, 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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- Mobile, Music, Fashion
- Series B, Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada
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- 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 — With Fetch, you can get free gift cards simply for shopping, snapping all your receipts and playing games on your phone! Try our rewards app today.
Naveen Jain is the Founder and CEO of Viome Life Sciences. He previously worked at Intelius as a Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Naveen Jain attended XLRI- Xavier School of Management.
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- Web3, Space Travel, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Vuru — Vuru's analysis engine does thousands of hours of stock analysis in seconds. It takes complex financial data and distills them down into clear, transparent reports that show investors the fundamentals that matter. These fundamentals are simple to understand so that investors of any skill level can leverage them. All of this is entirelyautomated, and completely free to our users.We provide three core products:1. In-depth stock reports based on the fundamentals of the company and its valuations. We cover over 5,500 stocks. 2. A robust portfolio tool that helps investors identify strengths and weaknesses in the stocks that they own and the overall strength of their portfolio. 3. A powerful stock screener that allows investors to easily discover stocks according to its valuation and qualitative criteria.
- Safe Cash — Safe Cash makes cash more secure, convenient, and profitable for banks, merchants, and consumers. Safe Cash provides the Safe Cash Platform, which is a cryptographically-secure digital platform for exchanging digital tokens. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Allora Labs — The source for NFT pricing. Upshot uses machine learning to provide deep insight into NFT markets and unlocks a wave of exotic new DeFi possibilities.
Nathalie Marcoux is VP finance at Capinabel inc.
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- Apps, Music, Music Streaming
- Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- AmpMe — Sync your phone with friends. Create a portable sound system.
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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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- Flent — Flent offers fully furnished designer homes.
- Swaive — Swaive operates a financial firm that invests in risk-free instruments. The organization allows you to park your money without risk.
- ToolBelt — The only platform built specifically for licensed pros in residential construction looking for work or finding labor.
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