Top 20 Music Angel Investors in Canada in December 2024
A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Music startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Music companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Music Angel Investors in Canada in December 2024
Investor | Music Canada investments |
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Ric Arboit | 1 |
Mark Britto | 1 |
Nathalie Marcoux | 1 |
Larry Fichtner | 1 |
Pierre Fleurent | 1 |
Mike Cegelski | 1 |
Edward Lando | 1 |
Martin Ouellet | 1 |
Daniel Robichaud | 1 |
Tobyn Sowden | 1 |
William Tunstall-Pedoe | 1 |
Amit Mital | 1 |
Nasir Jones | 1 |
Larry Marcus | 1 |
Dan Fraser | 1 |
Martin Archambault | 1 |
Naveen Jain | 1 |
Richard Speer | 1 |
Mark Jowett | 1 |
Etienne Veilleux | 1 |
Ric Arboit - President @ Nettwerk Music Group
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Investment focus
- Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
- Private Equity
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Nettwerk Music Group — Label x Artist Management x Publishing x Film + TV
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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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Mobile, Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- 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!
- Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.
- Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.
Nathalie Marcoux is VP finance at Capinabel inc.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Music, Music Streaming
- Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- AmpMe — Sync your phone with friends. Create a portable sound system.
Larry Fichtner
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Investment focus
- 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.
Pierre Fleurent is currently the Senior Advisor at Canaccord Genuity Inc.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Music, Music Streaming
- Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- AmpMe — Sync your phone with friends. Create a portable sound system.
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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Investment focus
- 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!
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- Fun — Fun offers to build a product ecosystem that leverages cross-chain decentralized wallets on the Odsy blockchain.
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Apps, Music, Software
- Seed, Angel
- Canada
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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Investment focus
- Apps, Music, Music Streaming
- Angel
- Canada
Tobyn Sowden is the CEO at Redbrick.He attended University of Victoria.
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Investment focus
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
- LumiQ — LumiQ makes earning CPD hours fun and accessible for individual accounting professionals and teams on-the-go. Get started now!
- Unlikely AI — We are pioneering safe, trustworthy and powerful artificial intelligence
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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Investment focus
- Software, Enterprise Software, Music Streaming
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Magic Spoon — Magic Spoon cereal is high-protein, low-sugar, keto-friendly, and gluten-free. Available in Cocoa, Frosted, Fruity, Blueberry, Peanut Butter, and Cinnamon.
- Everyrealm — Leaders in metaverse innovation and development.
- Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.
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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Investment focus
- Mobile, E-Commerce, Music
- Series B, Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Pela — World's First 100% Compostable, Eco-Friendly iPhone and Android phone cases working towards plastic free oceans!
- Maestro Interactive Inc — Maestro provides a white-label platform for enterprise live streamers to own, engage, and monetize their audiences. We focus on engagement tools that drive actions at key moments while capturing user data to be used in analytics and marketing campaigns. Customers include Microsoft, PlayStation, E3, ESL, Capcom, WB Games, ELEAGUE, and more.
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
- Private Equity
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Nettwerk Music Group — Label x Artist Management x Publishing x Film + TV
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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Investment focus
- Apps, Music, Analytics
- Angel
- Canada
Richard Speer is the Founder and President/CEO at Attraction media.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Music, Music Streaming
- Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- AmpMe — Sync your phone with friends. Create a portable sound system.
Mark Jowett - Founder @ Nettwerk Music Group
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Investment focus
- Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
- Private Equity
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Nettwerk Music Group — Label x Artist Management x Publishing x Film + TV
Etienne Veilleux
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Investment focus
- Apps, Music, Energy
- Angel, Funding Round
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- AmpMe — Sync your phone with friends. Create a portable sound system.
- Distech Controls — Connecting people with intelligent building solutions through forward-thinking technologies and services for better spaces and efficiencies for our customers.
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