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Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Canada (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Canada Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Canada Payments startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Zaeem Shaukat Mirza
Angel
4 United States, Canada, Sweden Equity Crowdfunding, Secondary Market, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $101k–$11M
Adegoke Olubusi
Angel
3 Canada, Mexico, United States Pre-Seed FinTech, Finance, Payments $250k–$2.1M
Dimeji Sofowora
Angel
3 Canada Pre-Seed FinTech, Finance, Payments $1M–$1M
Arjun Sethi
Angel
3 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.2M–$80M
Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
3 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $625k–$7.5M
Balaji Srinivasan
Angel
3 United States, India, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $800k–$28M
Dan Park
Angel
2 Canada, United States Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Finance
Mo Larbi Bennis
Angel
2 Canada Seed, Convertible Note Consumer, Nightlife, Enterprise
Michael Katchen
Angel
2 Canada Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Apps, FinTech $7.4M–$39M
Anatoly Yakovenko
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency $2.5M–$74M
Raj Gokal
Angel
2 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $800k–$24M
Meltem Demirors
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $885k–$30M
Prosper Otemuyiwa
Angel
2 Nigeria, Canada, United States Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, CRM, Finance $200k–$1M
Micheal Hyatt
Angel
2 Canada, United States Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, FinTech $358k–$27M
Anshul Ruparell
Angel
2 Canada, Brazil Series A FinTech, Finance, Software $23M–$27M
Kirk Simpson
Angel
2 Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Finance, Software, Sales $1.6M–$7.7M
Ross Jones
Angel
2 Canada, United States Series A, Seed FinTech, Finance, Software
James Lochrie
Angel
2 Canada Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Analytics $274k–$5.1M
Tom Williams
Angel
2 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Financial Services $1.3M–$67M
William Mougayar
Angel
1 United States, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Blockchain
Mr. Block
Angel
1 Canada Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Kevin Lin
Angel
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Spencer Tucker
Angel
1 Canada Series A Internet, Software, Analytics
Ashwath Bhat
Angel
1 Canada Angel Internet, Cryptocurrency, Loyalty Programs
C Brian Fox
Angel
1 Canada Seed Billing, FinTech, Financial Services
Daniel Curran
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Hanif Joshaghani
Angel
1 Canada Pre-Seed, Angel, Series A FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Scott Lake
Angel
1 Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, FinTech, Communities
Andrew Macdonald
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Accounting, Wine and Spirits
Rachid Ajaja
Angel
1 Canada Pre-Seed Information Technology, SaaS, Software
Lisa Shields
Angel
1 Canada, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Energy
N. Murray Edwards
Angel
1 Canada Series A SaaS, FinTech, Finance
Alex Tapscott
Angel
1 Canada Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Karel Vuong
Angel
1 Canada, Philippines, United States Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Dare Okoudjou
Angel
1 Canada, Germany, Nigeria Seed, Series A FinTech, Insurance, Credit
Roham Gharegozlou
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Poland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Jevon MacDonald
Angel
1 Canada, United States Seed, Series A Software, Predictive Analytics, Enterprise Software
Kyle Daley
Angel
1 Canada, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Payments, InsurTech, Insurance
Larry Sukernik
Angel
1 United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
Hart Lambur
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Switzerland Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Kevin Sandhu
Angel
1 Canada Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
DCF GOD
Angel
1 United States, Canada, France Seed, Angel Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Spada ₿oom
Angel
1 Canada Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Vijay Ratnaparke
Angel
1 India, Canada Seed, Angel Internet, Automotive, Cryptocurrency
Andrew Izyumov
Angel
1 United States, Brazil, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Alan Rutledge
Angel
1 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Samvit Ramadurgam
Angel
1 United States, India, Spain Seed, Series A Software, Analytics, Financial Services
Robert Aron Zawiasa
Angel
1 Canada, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Marc Alloul
Angel
1 Canada Seed, Angel, Series A Analytics, Gaming, FinTech
Raouf Ben-Har
Angel
1 United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Enterprise Software, B2B, E-Learning
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Zaeem Shaukat Mirza
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Canada Payments startups

Zaeem is a dynamic professional with a passion for launching, building, and managing global brands and companies. He has a proven track record of creating substantial revenue impact through precision marketing, demand generation, scaled customer acquisition, digital strategies, and e-commerce initiatives.With experience spanning over 90 countriesand 175 cities, Zaeem has honed his expertise in global marketing, marketing operations, growth marketing, user acquisition, digital transformation, e-commerce, online sales, customer relationship management, and demand generation at scale. He has had the privilege of working with industry-leading companies such as Rewaa, Dentsu iProspect, AmoebaCom, Qatar Airways, and Google, where he has driven scale and efficiency in global business and marketing operations.Zaeem has successfully managed diverse teams and portfolios across 24 languages, with marketing budgets exceeding $100 million, contributing to revenues in the billions. His commitment to social impact is evident through his consultancy work with various organizations in management, fundraising, and non-profit marketing.An alumnus of INSEAD, Singapore, where he graduated from the Marketing Academy, Zaeem aspires to pursue a Ph.D. in Marketing Technology. His academic credentials include being a University of Mumbai ranker, a mass communication graduate from St. Xavier’s College (Mumbai, IN), and a post-graduate in advertising management from MICA (IN).Zaeem is also a dedicated mentor and investor, driven by a desire to nurture entrepreneurs who are passionate about technology, product innovation, or social impact. His enthusiasm for continual learning sees him facilitating media and business school programs, conducting corporate workshops, and speaking at industry conferences on topics such as marketing strategy, e-commerce, brand management, and non-profit marketing.Outside of work, Zaeem enjoys slow traveling, reading, painting, exploring new business opportunities, and spending quality time with family and friends.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Equity Crowdfunding, Secondary Market, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $133k–$4M; Secondary Market $212k–$11M; Equity Crowdfunding $101k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Caary — CAARY is a digital credit, lending and payments platform, offering a corporate credit card for SMEs, including start-ups. It enables these businesses to better access credit and manage their spending, through provision of virtual and physical credit or payment cards to employees, utilizing a digital dashboard for receipt management, cardmanagement, and integration to the accounting system, eliminating time-consuming reconciliation. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
  • Treasure Card — Teach your kids to save smart & spend wisely
  • Manzil — Manzil provides halal investment and financing solutions for the Muslim community in Canada. Learn more about halal home financing to halal investing here.
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Adegoke Olubusi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Canada Payments startups

Goke is one of Africa's finest entrepreneurs at the forefront of technology disruptions across Africa. A Johns Hopkins University alumni and previously an engineer at eBay, PayPal and Goldman Sachs in the U.S., Goke has a penchant for solving tough problems. He served on the founding team of Africa's leading social network with 30m+ usersand received multiple honours/awards from Forbes, Chevron, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Payments
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, Mexico, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $250k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Panda Salud — Singapore pools merupakan layanan live draw sgp yang sudah bisa anda saksikan melalui live draw sgp prize. Result sgp pools diadakan setiap jam 17.45 wib.
  • Payday — Send and receive money globally. Create virtual Mastercards that work anywhere online.
  • Payday Global — Send & Receive money globally
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Dimeji Sofowora
Angel · 3 investments in Canada Payments startups

Dimeji Sofowora is a co-founder at Helium Health.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Payments
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $1M–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Payday — Send and receive money globally. Create virtual Mastercards that work anywhere online.
  • Payday Global — Send & Receive money globally
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Arjun Sethi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Canada Payments startups

Arjun Sethi is the Co-CEO of Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. He attended the University of Maryland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 198
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.5M; Series A $4M–$24M; Series B $16M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nibiru Chain — Nibiru is a smart contract ecosystem with a high-performance, EVM-equivalent execution layer. Nibiru is engineered to meet the growing demand for versatile, scalable, and easy-to-use Web3 applications.
  • Sleek — Sleek is a FREE browser extension that offers seamless checkout from every store on the internet AND gives you up to 25% cash back when shopping online.
  • Circuit & Chisel — Circuit & Chisel is an agentic AI platform that enables agents to make transactions between autonomous agents.
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel · 3 investments in Canada Payments startups

Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • tushop — Tushop is a community group buying platform where members can sell groceries to those in their social networks and communities.
  • Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
  • Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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Balaji Srinivasan
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 3 investments in Canada Payments startups

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including anonline MOOC.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 234
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$15M; Pre-Seed $800k–$4.2M; Series A $6M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BizScout — BizScout is an online platform of Off market deals for verified buyers and sellers.
  • Parallax — Parallax offers a cross-border payments platform for freelancers, remote workers, and businesses. The service enables receiving international client payments, holding funds in USD, exchanging currencies, and sending money to domestic bank accounts and mobile wallets. Users manage balances and transfers through a web app with quoted rates anditemized fees. The platform supports global payouts and recurring disbursements to partners and team members. Compliance measures include identity verification and transaction monitoring aligned with regulatory standards. Documentation and support resources guide account setup, funding, and cash-out.
  • Blueprint Bryan Johnson — On the surface, Blueprint may seem something about health, wellness and aging. It's really a system to make tomorrow better for you, me, the planet and our shared future with AI.
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Dan Park
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Payments startups

Dan Park is based out of Toronto, Ontario and is the Chief Executive Officer and Industry Advisory Council of Clutch. Previously, he served as the GM & Head of Uber Eats Canada at Uber. He graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kissmetrics — Advanced: The Simple Process That Works To Turn Ice Cold Prospects Into Happy Customers (w/ Automated Conversion Funnels & Sequences).
  • Float Financial — Float offers modern financial services, powerful software and industry-leading support designed for every company and stage of growth. Our product suite includes corporate cards, bill pay, expense management and high-yield accounts, giving finance teams everything they need to manage spending and cash flow efficiently.
  • Float Financial — Float Financial: Corporate cards, expense management, bill payments & high-yield accounts for Canadian businesses. Modern banking built for growth.
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Mo Larbi Bennis
Angel · 2 investments in Canada Payments startups

Mo Larbi Bennis

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consumer, Nightlife, Enterprise
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • bottlebeez — bottlebeez is a multipurpose suite of mobile and web applications aimed for consumers and businesses within the hospitality and nightlife space.
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Michael Katchen
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Payments startups

Founder & CEO. Entrepreneur, passionate about transforming investment management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Series A $7.4M–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Float Financial — Float offers modern financial services, powerful software and industry-leading support designed for every company and stage of growth. Our product suite includes corporate cards, bill pay, expense management and high-yield accounts, giving finance teams everything they need to manage spending and cash flow efficiently.
  • Exact Technology — Discover innovative solutions to measure, monitor, and control concrete curing with EXACT Technology, ensuring efficiency, safety, and sustainability.
  • Float Financial — Float Financial: Corporate cards, expense management, bill payments & high-yield accounts for Canadian businesses. Modern banking built for growth.
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Anatoly Yakovenko
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Canada Payments startups

Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$11M; Series A $9.5M–$74M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ZAR — ZAR establishes a connection between cash-based economies and the web3 framework, facilitating adoption of stablecoins.
  • Circuit & Chisel — Circuit & Chisel is an agentic AI platform that enables agents to make transactions between autonomous agents.
  • Inference — Inference is a distributed GPU cluster for LLM inference based on Solana, providing a fast, scalable, and token-based API for models such as DeepSeek V3 and Llama 3.3.
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Raj Gokal
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Canada Payments startups

Raj leads operations, product, and finance. He has spent 10 years in product management and finance.He was a venture investor at General Catalyst, started the consumer medical device company Sano which attracted over $20m in investment, and led product management at Omada Health as it grew tenfold.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$9.1M; Pre-Seed $800k–$5M; Series A $8.3M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ego.tech — Ego is a protocol that seeks to transform personal data found on the Internet into a financial asset.
  • Circuit & Chisel — Circuit & Chisel is an agentic AI platform that enables agents to make transactions between autonomous agents.
  • Raise — Raise is a digital prepaid and retail payment platform where consumers save money on every purchase at over 4,000 brands and earn rewards with Raise Pay. As a digital partner to more than 600+ national brands, Raise offers an innovative way for retailers to increase brand loyalty, engagement, and retention by adding value for their core consumers.Raise has saved its millions of members more than $200 million and received $147 million in funding from leading investors including Accel, PayPal, Bessemer Venture Partners, and New Enterprise Associates. Raise is available on both iOS and Android or at raise.com
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Meltem Demirors
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Canada Payments startups

Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, an investment firm that manages $750M in assets, and is a trusted partner to investors and entrepreneurs navigating the digital asset ecosystem. Meltem oversees the firm’s managed strategies group and its New York office, and leads corporate development as a board director. Previously, shewas part of the founding team of Digital Currency Group. She teaches at MIT and Oxford, and serves on the WEF Blockchain Council. Meltem leads CoinShares' venture strategy and is an active angel investor, having invested in over 150 companies in the digital currency ecosystem since 2015.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$8M; Pre-Seed $885k–$3M; Series A $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rover — Rover is a liquid staking protocol on Botanix that exchanges Bitcoin for rovBTC.
  • SpaceComputer — SpaceComputer uses satellites to create a secure blockchain system that resists cyberattacks and physical tampering.
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
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Prosper Otemuyiwa
Angel · 2 investments in Canada Payments startups

Prosper Otemuyiwa is a Co-founder of forLoop Africa. He attended Babcock University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, CRM, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Frain technologies — We're passionate about the product delivery value chain.
  • Famasi — Find, Order & Refill medications across 1000+ pharmacies in Nigeria. Delivered in 1 hour. Compare prices, get the best offers, and enjoy free monthly delivery on recurring orders.
  • Sendchamp — Messagebird For Africa: Sendchamp provides Communication APIs & CRM for developers & businesses to reach their customers via different messaging channels such as SMS, Email, Voice, Whatsapp, and other digital messaging channels. Our APIs and No code tools help businesses in Africa from the stage of Customer Onboarding, CustomerEngagement, Customer Service & Customer Retention.
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Micheal Hyatt
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Payments startups

Michael Hyatt is the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of BlueCat Networks and a recipient of the Top 40 Under 40™ Award. BlueCat is a four-time winner of “Deloitte’s Fast 50” and has received Gartner’s highest “Strong Positive” rating. Michael also co-founded Dyadem, a highly successful software company that was acquired by IHS (NYSE: IHS).Michael is a weekly business commentator on CBC Newsworld and has been featured on the cover of Canadian Business Magazine. He is also a finalist in Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award and an active participant and lender for three special charities: Kiva.org, OneProsper and Future Possibilities for Kids.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $358k–$3.7M; Series A $13M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MinuteBox — Centralize legal entity records with MinuteBox. Automate compliance tracking and governance processes. Improve corporate record-keeping accuracy.
  • Enso Connect — Seamless digital guest experience from booking through the entire stay and long-lasting relationships after check-out. Vacation rentals & Hotels remarketing tool.
  • GoBolt — Elevate your logistics game while reducing your carbon footprint with GoBolt, your trusted 3PL provider focused on sustainability.
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Anshul Ruparell
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Payments startups

Anshul Ruparell is the Founder of Tourmalet Partners. He previously worked at Properly as a Co-Founder and CEO. Anshul Ruparell attended Columbia Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Software
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Canada, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Series A $23M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Float Financial — Float offers modern financial services, powerful software and industry-leading support designed for every company and stage of growth. Our product suite includes corporate cards, bill pay, expense management and high-yield accounts, giving finance teams everything they need to manage spending and cash flow efficiently.
  • InstaCarro — InstaCarro is an online platform that enables individuals to buy and sell cars. The company aims to add value both to individuals who want to sell their cars and to resellers.For individuals who want to sell, InstaCarro delivers the convenience of online quotes, higher than average prices and immediate payment after inspection. For buyers, itoffers online access to the large inventory of cars previously inspected and guarantees immediate return if a car purchased is in different conditions than reported. It was launched by Diego Fischer and Luca Cafici in July 2015 and is operated from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • Float Financial — Float Financial: Corporate cards, expense management, bill payments & high-yield accounts for Canadian businesses. Modern banking built for growth.
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Kirk Simpson
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Payments startups

Kirk Simpson is the CEO of Confirm. He is a passionate team builder, innovator, and entrepreneur with more than two decades of experience leading disruptive technology ventures.Before his current role at Confirm, Kirk co-founded Wave Financial Inc., a company dedicated to providing financial services and software solutions to small businesses.Under his leadership as CEO, Wave expanded significantly, achieving $100M in annual revenue and growing its team to 370 employees. This growth culminated in Wave’s acquisition by H&R Block for $537M in June 2019.In the same year, Kirk’s exceptional leadership was recognized when he was named Canada’s Most Admired CEO in the growth category by Waterstone Human Capital.Beyond his role at Confirm, Kirk actively contributes to the North American startup ecosystem as an angel investor and advisor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Software, Sales
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$7.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mantle — Mantle is building the next generation of tools to transform how private assets are managed.
  • Ten Key Labs — Mantle is a next generation ownership and equity management platform for modern founders, powered by AI.
  • Float Financial — Float offers modern financial services, powerful software and industry-leading support designed for every company and stage of growth. Our product suite includes corporate cards, bill pay, expense management and high-yield accounts, giving finance teams everything they need to manage spending and cash flow efficiently.
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Ross Jones
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in Canada Payments startups

Jones began his career over 20 years ago in private equity. He worked at Bain & Co. and in the Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley & Co. before joining Berkshire Partners in 1993.Jones became a Managing Director of Berkshire in 2000 and has been a director of a number of companies in consumer products, retailing, manufacturingand business services.Jones earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gardenuity — Easy to grow Outdoor Herb + Veggie Gardens and Indoor Desktop Gardens. Improve your health and well-being through the restorative power of nature.
  • AUI (Augmented Intelligence) — Apollo is a groundbreaking language model that combines the best of generative and rule-based AI to create agents that can be tailored to any business.
  • Float Financial — Float Financial: Corporate cards, expense management, bill payments & high-yield accounts for Canadian businesses. Modern banking built for growth.
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James Lochrie
Angel · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.1M; Angel $550k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $274k–$502k
  • 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.
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Tom Williams
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Canada Payments startups

Tom Williams

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Series A $7M–$21M; Series B $10M–$67M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Unito — Unito is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamlesscollaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs.
  • North One — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.
  • Possible Finance — Get money in minutes, build credit history and avoid hidden fees with Possible Finance. Apply in the app with just a few taps and manage money on your terms.
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William Mougayar
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

William Mougayar is a Toronto-based investor, researcher, blogger, and best-selling author of The Business Blockchain (Wiley, 2016). He is a direct participant in the crypto-technology market, working alongside startups, entrepreneurs, pioneers, leaders, innovators, creators, enterprise executives and practitioners.William is the generalpartner at Virtual Capital Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund, and currently on the Board of Directors of OB1, the OpenBazaar open source protocol that is pioneering decentralized peer-to-peer commerce, a Board Advisor to the Ethereum Foundation, a member of OMERS Ventures Board of Advisors, an Advisory Board member to the Coin Center and Bloq. He blogs regularly about the present and future of blockchains at Startup Management.Previously, he held senior positions at Hewlett-Packard, Cognizant and Aberdeen Group, and he founded 3 startups, CYBERManagement, Eqentia, and Engagio.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Blockchain
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Decrypt — The next-generation media outlet navigating the intersection of culture and technology.
  • Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
  • CryptoKitties — CryptoKitties is a mobile game that enables users to collect and breed virtual cats on the blockchain. The collectible, breedable, and adorable CryptoKitties aim to make blockchain technology accessible to everyday consumers by putting a furry face on the concept of digital collectibles.With each CryptoKitties unique 256-bit genome empower nearly4-billion potential genetic combinations.
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Mr. Block
Angel · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Mr. Block is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bitlayer — Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer.
  • Infrared Finance — Infrared Finance is a proof-of-liquidity protocol that enables liquidity staking within the Berachain ecosystem using Proof-of-Liquidity (PoL).
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Kevin Lin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 120
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
  • Asterix — Asterix offers digital ownership and unlocks new possibilities.
  • Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
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Spencer Tucker
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Spencer Tucker is the Chief Gaming Officer of Yuga Labs. He previously worked at Scopely as a President, Games. Spencer Tucker attended American InterContinental University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Analytics
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Helika — Helika is a web3 product analytics platform that helps projects better understand their users, increase engagement, and drive growth.
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Ashwath Bhat
Angel · Newyork, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Chief Financial Officer at Fractal

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Cryptocurrency, Loyalty Programs
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Cultos — Our fully customizable white label solutions provides brands with a robust set of products to quickly launch a token-based loyalty program.
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C Brian Fox
Angel · Nashville, Tennessee, United States · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Brian Fox, CPA, MBA, is recognized as the creator of Electronic Confirmations and he received the first six patents granted on electronic audit confirmations. Brian is the President and Founder of Confirmation.com and former Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt University. He is also one of the founders and a Board member of Rivio.com, a joint-venturebetween the AICPA and Confirmation.com. Brian was named one of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting,” is a five-time winner of the accounting profession’s “Top 40 Under 40 CPA in America,” and was named as an Entrepreneur of the Year in Nashville. He was also recognized as one of Nashville’s “40 Under 40” and as one of Nashville’s Emerging Leaders in its inaugural class. Prior to Confirmation.com, Brian was in Dallas where he worked in audit for Ernst & Young LLP and in mergers and acquisitions for PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Brian completed his MBA at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management with a dual concentration in Finance and Electronic Commerce and received a BBA in Accounting from Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Billing, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • PayShepherd — PayShepherd helps manage contractor billing for industrial facilities and simplifies billing processes. Save time, money, and headaches.
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Daniel Curran
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
  • RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
  • GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease
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Hanif Joshaghani
Angel · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Hanif is a serial entrepreneur who has raised $150M USD across the 4 companies he has founded and invested in over a dozen startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Helcim Inc. — Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid.
  • Flahmingo — Saving and investing are not intuitive financial skills for the majority of Canadians. Many Canadians believe investing is only for the rich or that it requires significant capital to start. However, the 'next generation' of investors is changing this narrative by learning by doing and investing early. These new investors are being morethan just conscious of their financial return by also seeking a social return, by investing in brands they know and love, trust, and whose vision they support.Flahmingo is a native mobile application that allows DIY investors to begin investing with as little as $5. Using our proprietary Pies and Slices technology, Flahmingo enables users to build a portfolio of their favourite companies and exchange traded funds (ETFs). Using scheduled deposits and automagic round ups (both investment automation strategies), users seamlessly grow and maintain a diversified portfolio through the purchase and sale of fractional shares'. These fractional shares allow Flahmingo users to own as little as $1 in companies like Tesla, Alphabet, Amazon and even Berkshire Hathaway.
  • Littlebird — Littlebird's Toddler CareTracker tells you where your child is, who they are with, and how they are doing. Littlebird has an expanding suite of features including cellular connection, GPS, heart rate, temperature, activity and mode trends and dynamic activity feed connecting you with your little one's caregivers.
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Scott Lake
Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Scott Lake is a startup entrepreneur, tech investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the cofounder of Shopify (NYSE: SHOP), then later as founder of Source Metrics.Currently, Scott is a general partner at Hello Ventures, where he leverages all the learning from his entrepreneurial journeys to invest in and advise early-stage techcompanies.Scott also plays an active role with his wife Jess as philanthropic funders of diverse social and public health causes.In his past lives, he has been a bike messenger, a university lecturer, a driver at NATO, and a political science PhD.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, FinTech, Communities
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Social Nature — With Social Nature, people can try natural products for FREE in exchange for writing a product review on social media, #trynatural.
  • Cognito Health — Canada's only integrated online mental health solution. Accessible and affordable treatment for your mental health. Book a free initial assessment today.
  • KOHO Financial — A no-fee spending account with instant cash back & money management app designed to simplify your personal finances. Sign up in minutes to join over 1 million Canadians who use KOHO's prepaid Mastercard to budget and save.
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Andrew Macdonald
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Andrew Macdonald - Senior Vice President, Mobility and Business Operations @ Uber

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Accounting, Wine and Spirits
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Empower Sleep — Empower Sleep provides personalized sleep care online
  • 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.
  • Float Financial — Float Financial: Corporate cards, expense management, bill payments & high-yield accounts for Canadian businesses. Modern banking built for growth.
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Rachid Ajaja
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Rachid Ajaja is the CEO and Co-Founder of AllianceBlock.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Vezgo — Vezgo is the easiest way for people to connect their crypto accounts to your app.
  • Genesis Shards — Crafting a whole new suite of NFT powered products across multiple blockchains
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Lisa Shields
Angel · Vancouver, Alberta, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Lisa Shields is FI.SPAN’s founder and CEO. FI.SPAN is Lisa’s second financial technology startup - she also founded and led Hyperwallet Systems Inc for 15 years; today it is recognized as a leading global payments processor for business to consumer mass payouts. She is a member of the Canadian FinPay Committee, was named the EY RegionalEntrepreneur Of The Year in 2015 and received a Women in Payments Innovation Award in 2016.A firm believer in inclusive commerce, Lisa is always looking for new ways to unite ecosystem participants for the benefit of end users. She also has a personal interest in the underbanked and speaks frequently and passionately on the importance of low-cost, compliant payments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MergeBase — MergeBase develops cyber defenses for vulnerable 3rd-party and open source components and libraries. MergeBase focuses on providing clients with robust security against the number one source of data breaches today: vulnerabilities in software components. Feel free to compete digitally by utilizing open source and commercial libraries. MergeBaseallows you to build securely on external software components.
  • Neutronpay — Lightning Network Infrastructure API for Global Remittances, Payments, Spending, Payouts and Banking.
  • Validere — Measure and capitalize on emission reductions while improving operations with all-in-one commodity & carbon management platform for oil and gas.
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N. Murray Edwards
Angel · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Mr. Norman Murray Edwards is the Owner of 1189591 Alberta, Ltd. Mr. Edwards is a co-Owner of Calgary Flames Limited Partnership. He served as President of Edco Financial Holdings Ltd., a subsidiary of Rio Alto Exploration Ltd. Mr. Edwards has extensive experience in the financial industry, as a lawyer and as director of numerous public and privatecompanies. He served as a Partner of Burnet, Duckworth and Palmer in Calgary. He serves as the Chairman of the Board at Magellan Aerospace Corp., Ensign Energy Services Inc. and Ensign Drilling, Inc. He has been the Chairman of Canadian Natural Resources Limited since April 2, 2012. He served as Chairman of Penn West Energy Trust (formerly, Penn West Petroleum Ltd.) until May 27, 2005. Mr. Edwards served as Vice-Chairman of Canadian Natural Resources Limited until April 2, 2012. He served as a Vice Chairman of Burnet, Duckworth and Palmer in Calgary. He serves as a Director of Calgary Flames Limited Partnership. He has been a Director of Ensign Energy Services Inc. since October 1989. Mr. Edwards serves as a Director of Calgary Flames Limited Partnership. He has been a Director of Magellan Aerospace Corporation since 1995 and Canadian Natural Resources Limited since September 1988. Mr. Edwards serves as a Director of Ensign Resources Service Group Inc. and Penn West Petroleum Ltd. Mr. Edwards serves as a Director OF C.D. Howe Institute. Mr. Edwards served as a Director of Business Development Bank of Canada since March 31, 1998. He served as a Director of Penn West Energy Trust from September 23, 1992 to May 27, 2005. Mr. Edwards is a Member of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and Banff Centre, the Canada West Foundation and the C.D. Howe Institute. He holds a Bachelors of Commerce degree (Great Distinction) from the University of Saskatchewan and a Bachelors of Laws degree (Honours) from the University of Toronto.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Payfirma — Payfirma is your one-stop merchant services partner for secure credit card processing. We offer one solution that lets you take payments any way your customers want to pay.
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Alex Tapscott
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Alex Tapscott is a globally recognized thought-leader, speaker and writer focused on the impact of emerging technologies on business, society and government. Alex is the co-author (with Don Tapscott) of the critically acclaimed #1 Globe and Mail Non-fiction best-seller, Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing MoneyBusiness and the World. His writing has been featured in TIME, Fortune, Forbes, the Harvard Business Review, the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail and dozens of other publications. In 2014, Alex published the seminal white paper “A Bitcoin Governance Network.” Prior to writing Blockchain Revolution, Alex worked for 7 years in Canadian and U.S. Capital Markets – raising hundreds of millions of dollars in critical growth capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • SX Network — The global liqudity hub for betting
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Karel Vuong
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Karel is the Co-Founder of Treasure, a community-driven gaming ecosystem building the next gaming and entertainment powerhouse. Since launching in September 2021, Treasure has become home to over 15+ games and hundreds of thousands of players to emerge as one the leading web3 gaming ecosystems. Some of Treasure's games include: The Beacon,Kaiju Cards, Mighty Action Heroes, Zeeverse, Kuroro Beasts, and Knights of the Ether.Karel was previously a Senior Associate and Chief of Staff at Sagard and Portage wearing many hats and working closely with Paul Desmarais III on special projects and across communications, investor relations, fundraising, operations, and more. Before Sagard, was the first employee at Diagram to launch a $30M venture builder and served as a founding member of initial two portfolio companies, Dialogue (IPO - TSX:CARE; later acquired by Sun Life) and Collage (acquired by People Corporation).Started career in product management and software engineering at various startups and tech companies in Toronto, Waterloo, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, Philippines, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Helika — Helika is a web3 product analytics platform that helps projects better understand their users, increase engagement, and drive growth.
  • Satsuma — Speed up your app with our best-in-class blockchain indexing and query platform. Never worry about downtime or lag again.
  • Delegate — Delegate focuses on increasing the security of on-chain identities and digital asset management such as NFTs and ERC20 tokens.
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Dare Okoudjou
Angel · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Dare Okoudjou is the Founder and CEO of MFS Africa, a leading Pan-African Fintech company, operating the largest digital payments hub on the continent. The MFS Hub is connected to 170 million mobile wallets in Sub-Saharan Africa offering unparalleled reach into the growing African middle class. The company allows merchants, banks, mobile operatorsand money transfer companies to take advantage of the unique ubiquity of mobile wallets as a safe, convenient, and cost-effective transaction channel. MFS Africa works in close partnership with players across the ecosystem to bring simple and secure mobile financial services to un- and under-banked customers. MFS Africa was recently named by the international business magazine Fast Company as one of Africa’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies. Prior to founding MFS, Dare worked at MTN Group, where he developed its mobile payment strategy and led its implementation across the company’s operations in 21 countries throughout Africa and the Middle East. He began his career as a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Paris. He has an MSc in Telecom Engineering from ENST-Paris and an MBA from INSEAD.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Insurance, Credit
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, Germany, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • maviance — Maviance is a German-based consulting (business and IT) and software development company that develops industry-specific for web and mobile applications for businesses and governments. It creates sustainable and customized solutions to meet the requirements of customers by combining its industry experience with solution-oriented skills of businessre-design, concept, project management, programming, and testing.Our commitment to excellence and sustainability is evident in suite of innovative and scalable smart mobile enterprise applications in industries like Microfinance, Metering, Insurance and Sales Automation. Each of our applications consists of a web-based back office server, mobile clients and APIs for SMS, mobile billing, mobile payment and integration into existing systems. Maviance serves clients in the financial services, telecommunications and public sectors, increasing productivity, reducing costs and improving their management capabilities. Founded in 2008, maviance GmbH is headquartered in Leipzig, Germany.
  • Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
  • Payday — Send and receive money globally. Create virtual Mastercards that work anywhere online.
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Roham Gharegozlou
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Roham is founder and CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio that specializes in emerging technology. Axiom Zen’s first public blockchain project, CryptoKitties, is the world’s most successful blockchain game and the first decentralized application to effectively engage a consumer audience. CryptoKitties has been covered by Fortune,Bloomberg, and the BBC, accounting for roughly a quarter of the Ethereum network’s traffic within a week of launch and introducing hundreds of thousands of new users to blockchain technology. Axiom Zen was named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business. Their products have touched 200+ million consumers and are used by the world’s leading companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA, as well as by eminent academic institutions and government organizations. They pride themselves in diversity of talent: a team of ~80+ creatives includes published authors, over a dozen former founders, diversity from 20+ national origins, and decades of collective experience at startups and Fortune 500s alike. Axiom Zen has been working with Bitcoin and various forms of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies since 2014. Axiom Zen is also the team behind ZenHub, the world’s leading collaboration solution for technical teams using GitHub; and the developer of Timeline, named Apple’s Best App of January, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, and Best New App in 88 countries. Axiom Zen is the creator of Toby, recognized as Top Chrome Extension of the year by both Google and Product Hunt, and the parent company of Hammer & Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR). Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, and Fast Company. History Prior to founding Axiom Zen, Roham served with the Rising Tide Fund bas

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Code — Code is a Canadian payment platform provider that makes it simple for web developers to collect modest payments from consumers worldwide.
  • Bastion — Bastion blends the best of web2 and web3 technologies to broaden opportunities for organizations and their customers.
  • Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.
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Jevon MacDonald
Angel · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Jevon MacDonald is the Co-Founder at StartupNorth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Predictive Analytics, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Shakepay — Shakepay allows Canadians to buy/sell bitcoin and pay their friends. We're on a mission to create open access to building wealth.
  • Cape Privacy — Cape encrypts your documents and redacts any sensitive data. You get the best language model while preserving your privacy.
  • Platformatic — OpenSource Platform for ...
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Kyle Daley
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Kyle Daley - Product and Founding Team Member @ Chime

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, InsurTech, Insurance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Octamile — Octamile is Africa's best Embedded Insurance & Claims Automation solution for Insurers & B2C businesses. Get a quote today...
  • Sleek — Sleek is a FREE browser extension that offers seamless checkout from every store on the internet AND gives you up to 25% cash back when shopping online.
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Larry Sukernik
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Larry Sukernik is a Co-Founder at Reverie. He attended Rutgers Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Sovereign Labs — Build real-time blockchains with the industry's most flexible and performant toolkit, Sovereign SDK.
  • Syndicate — Syndicate enables developers to create scalable, atomically composable appchains with complete control over the network, sequencer, and economy.
  • Mainstream Labs — Modular, end-to-end governance platform.
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Hart Lambur
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Hart Lambur is the Co-Founder, CEO & Board Member of umaproject.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Gyroscope — Gyroscope: an asset-backed stablecoin built on resilient DeFi infrastructure leveraging a diversified reserve, autonomous monetary policy, and innovative AMMs
  • SX Network — The global liqudity hub for betting
  • DELV — Element is an open source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets
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Kevin Sandhu
Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Kevin Sandhu is the Co-Founder and CEO at Otter (www.otter.ca).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Helcim Inc. — Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid.
  • Showbie — From assignments to collaboration, Showbie helps you bring your classroom together in one simple, easy to use app.
  • Flahmingo — Saving and investing are not intuitive financial skills for the majority of Canadians. Many Canadians believe investing is only for the rich or that it requires significant capital to start. However, the 'next generation' of investors is changing this narrative by learning by doing and investing early. These new investors are being morethan just conscious of their financial return by also seeking a social return, by investing in brands they know and love, trust, and whose vision they support.Flahmingo is a native mobile application that allows DIY investors to begin investing with as little as $5. Using our proprietary Pies and Slices technology, Flahmingo enables users to build a portfolio of their favourite companies and exchange traded funds (ETFs). Using scheduled deposits and automagic round ups (both investment automation strategies), users seamlessly grow and maintain a diversified portfolio through the purchase and sale of fractional shares'. These fractional shares allow Flahmingo users to own as little as $1 in companies like Tesla, Alphabet, Amazon and even Berkshire Hathaway.
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DCF GOD
Angel · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups, 19 in the past 12 months

DCF GOD

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Heurist — Heurist is a Layer 2 network for AI model hosting and inference based on ZK Stack. It offers serverless access to open-source AI models stored on a decentralized network of computer resources.
  • Echelon — Echelon is a high-efficiency money market that allows users to borrow and lend assets via non-custodial pools, earning interest and increasing purchasing power through leverage.
  • Meridian — Meridian is a Movement-native decentralized liquidity marketplace and liquid staking system that allows users to trade and earn with their assets smoothly.
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Spada ₿oom
Angel · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Spada₿oom is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Infrared Finance — Infrared Finance is a proof-of-liquidity protocol that enables liquidity staking within the Berachain ecosystem using Proof-of-Liquidity (PoL).
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Vijay Ratnaparke
Angel · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Vijay Ratnaparke is a CIO at Robert Bosch GmbH.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Automotive, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Cultos — Our fully customizable white label solutions provides brands with a robust set of products to quickly launch a token-based loyalty program.
  • Pi Beam — Pi Beam builds connected e-vehicles, for two-, three-, and four-wheeler offerings for last-mile logistics, and shared and owned passenger movement.
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Andrew Izyumov
Angel · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Andrey Izyumov

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Vezgo — Vezgo is the easiest way for people to connect their crypto accounts to your app.
  • Approveit — Manage spend with ease and save hundreds of collective hours on editing payment data, sending approval emails, and looking for the right person to ask.
  • Freedom Biosciences — Freedom Biosciences is a biotechnology platform developing next-generation psychedelic therapeutics.
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Alan Rutledge
Angel · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Alan Rutledge

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bujeti — Number #1 Spend management in Nigeria. Discover an all-in-one finance solution that helps businesses manage expenses, budget, issue corporate cards, invoice clients, reimburse employees, and more. Book a free demo!
  • FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
  • SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
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Samvit Ramadurgam
Angel · Berkeley, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Samvit went through the Y Combinator program and started his first venture-backed company when he was nineteen years old. Prior to starting Equidate, Samvit co-founded Streem, a cloud storage company which was acquired by Box in 2014. Samvit is an active angel investor and frequently invests in startups through S2 Capital, where he serves asfounding partner. His previous work spans numerous startups,most recently including Asana where he built out distributed systems infrastructure and Livemagic where he developed audio fingerprinting algorithms. In a previous life, he conducted research on high temperature superconductivity at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Samvit holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • AiPrise — Combine identity verification, fraud protection and compliance in one single platform, allowing you to expand globally hassle free.
  • Integration Labs — RootFi provides a dependable and secure integration layer with an expanding list of APIs, allowing you to focus on developing features that your consumers will appreciate. Begin shipping solutions for credit risk assessment, accounting automation, and analytics.
  • Grey — Open international bank accounts for free to receive and make foreign payments instantly or convert currencies - all in one place.
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Robert Aron Zawiasa
Angel · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Robert Aron Zawiasa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Party.Space — Host stunning virtual parties, custom corportate celebrations & virtual events in metaverse for your team. Any scale 3D space for any kind of event!
  • Mainstream Labs — Modular, end-to-end governance platform.
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Marc Alloul
Angel · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Marc Alloul is the Co-Founder & President of Budgeto. He previously worked at Breathe Life as an Investor & Advisor. Marc Alloul attended Telecom Paris.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Analytics, Gaming, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Helika — Helika is a web3 product analytics platform that helps projects better understand their users, increase engagement, and drive growth.
  • Bring It On — Bring It On Games is the ultimate online casino experience, offering a wide selection of real money games that you can play from the comfort of your home. Visit now!
  • Bring It On — Bring It On is a mission to redefine the skill games category, merging strong technological infra.
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Raouf Ben-Har
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Payments startups

Raouf Ben-Har is the Co-founder at Andalusia Labs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Enterprise Software, B2B, E-Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Slide — Slide enables dApps to serve effortless web3 experiences to everyday users.
  • Kinetic — Kinetic is building the next-generation NFT marketplace.
  • Stride Labs — A protocol for multichain liquid staking in the Cosmos ecosystem
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Payments Angel investor funding in Canada at a glance

Stats across 26 deals from 51 investors.

51
investors
in Canada Payments startups
26
deals
in Canada Payments startups
$2M
median round
in Canada Payments startups
6%
lead investors
lead at least one round
54%
Seed
most common funding stage

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