# Arati Sharma

> Arati Sharma is a seed investor at Backbone Angels backing E-Commerce and Content Creators. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Backbone Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backbone-angels)
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aratisharma

Arati Sharma is a seed investor at Backbone Angels in Toronto focused on E-Commerce and Content Creators. Arati Sharma is the Founding Partner at Backbone Angels. She attended McMaster University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$4.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 29% |
| Content Creators | 2 | 29% |
| Art | 1 | 14% |
| Apps | 1 | 14% |
| Beauty | 1 | 14% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 71% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NiaHealth | NiaHealth is a healthcare provider that specializes in blood testing, personalized health analytics, and fitness through an app. | $4.2M | Seed | Jun 26, 2025 |  |
| Three Ships Beauty | We believe all beauty products should be 100% natural and 100% affordable. | $1M | Seed | Jan 11, 2023 |  |
| Fable | Fable is a retail company that manufactures and supplies a range of tableware and other home decor products online. |  | Seed | Mar 08, 2022 |  |
| #Paid | #Paid is a tech company that operates a creative marketing platform that combines brand and creator collaboration. The platform allows brands to collaborate with relevant artists, travelers, storytellers, and photographers from all over the world for product placement on social media platforms. | $14.9M | Series B | Aug 26, 2021 |  |
| Disco | Build your live learning empire. One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities. | $4.8M | Seed | Mar 24, 2021 |  |
| Sheertex | Sheertex is a women's innerwear brand that makes polymer tights and socks. |  | Seed | Mar 08, 2021 |  |
| Peggy | Peggy is the secure marketplace for investment-grade art. In times of societal crisis and turmoil throughout humanity, artists pave the way for social change and transformation. As an investment, art is among the only appreciating asset classes you can also enjoy (like real estate), plus is uncorrelated to traditional markets. This is whybillionaires and banks seek out art as a safe haven to preserve wealth in their portfolios. Yet tragically, the rest of us are unable to participate in the art market, and support the practice of emerging artists who create transformative messages through their works.Peggy partners with galleries and artists, to make living with and investing in art accessible to all. Finally you can buy incredible art at a price you can afford, and can later sell to fellow collectors if your tastes change or you seek to rebalance your art investments. Core to our values, Peggy does good by the artists themselves, who can finally earn artist royalties for all future secondary sales as well - something they miss out on today. Peggy also has powerful benefits for galleries (get in touch!) This is all made possible using sophisticated and proprietary AI and ML which keeps buyers and sellers protected without the need for the antiquated and opaque Auction House model. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2021 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Golden Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/golden-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ScaleUP Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scaleup-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ascential](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascential-plc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Business Development Bank of Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BDC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Business Development Bank of Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-development-bank-of-canada) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Backbone Angels

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

Backbone Angels is a collective of angel investors. The firm was founded in 2021 and is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

5 contacts available at Backbone Angels.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Arati Sharma | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arati-sharma |
| Brittany Forsyth | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brittany-forsyth |
| Lynsey Thornton | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lynsey-thornton |
| Marcie Murray | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcie-murray |
| Solmaz Shahalizadeh | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/solmaz-shahalizadeh |

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## FAQ

### What does Arati Sharma invest in?

Arati Sharma invests primarily in E-Commerce, Content Creators and Art startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Arati Sharma's check size?

Arati Sharma typically joins rounds of $1M–$4.8M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Arati Sharma participates in.

### When did Arati Sharma last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Arati Sharma closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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