# Top 20 Music Angel Investors in Canada in June 2026

## Mark Jowett
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Alberta, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity
- Focus: Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment

Mark Jowett - Founder @ Nettwerk Music Group

## Larry Fichtner
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Music, Software, Real Time

Larry Fichtner

## Nasir Jones
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile

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.

## Martin Archambault
- Type: Angel
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Music, Analytics

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.

## Richard Speer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Music, Music Streaming

Richard Speer is the Founder and President/CEO at Attraction media.

## Amit Mital
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Apps

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.

## Tobyn Sowden
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: iOS, Music, Android

Tobyn Sowden is the CEO at Redbrick.He attended University of Victoria.

## Martin Ouellet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Quebec, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Music, Software

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.

## Pierre Fleurent
- Type: Angel
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Music, Music Streaming

Pierre Fleurent is currently the Senior Advisor at Canaccord Genuity Inc.

## Naveen Jain
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Web3, Space Travel, Information Technology

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.

## Nathalie Marcoux
- Type: Angel
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Music, Music Streaming

Nathalie Marcoux is VP finance at Capinabel inc.

## Edward Lando
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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.

## Etienne Veilleux
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Music, Energy

Etienne Veilleux

## Terry McBride
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity
- Focus: Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment

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).

## Mike Cegelski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Analytics, Apps, SaaS

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.

## Larry Marcus
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Music, Fashion

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.

## Daniel Robichaud
- Type: Angel
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Apps, Music

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.

## Mark Britto
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Information Technology

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.

## William Tunstall-Pedoe
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning

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.

## Ric Arboit
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity
- Focus: Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment

Ric Arboit - President @ Nettwerk Music Group