# Backbone Angels

> Backbone Angels is a VC fund in Toronto backing E-Commerce and Fashion. See 44 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 44
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 2%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/backbone-angels/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/backboneangels/
- Website: https://www.backboneangels.com/

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

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Backbone Angels. Shizune tracks 5 team members at Backbone Angels. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/backbone-angels?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$8M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.4M–$2.1M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $2.2M–$8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 7 | 16% |
| Fashion | 6 | 14% |
| Software | 6 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 11% |
| Retail | 4 | 9% |

85 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 27 | 61% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 5 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 9% |
| Series A | 3 | 7% |
| Angel | 2 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 19 | 43% |
| United States | 19 | 43% |
| Bahamas | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arati Sharma | Founding Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arati-sharma |
| Brittany Forsyth | Founding Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brittany-forsyth |
| Lynsey Thornton | Founding Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lynsey-thornton |
| Marcie Murray | Founding Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcie-murray |
| Solmaz Shahalizadeh | Founding Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/solmaz-shahalizadeh |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wygo | Wygo is a small, privately held platform that enables individuals to create, scale, and participate in local in‑person community events. It provides organizers with tools to list, ticket, and manage recurring or one‑time gatherings, while helping attendees discover and join activities centered on face‑to‑face interaction rather than online content. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Apr 08, 2026 |  |
| Tall Poppy | Tall Poppy builds tools and services to help companies protect their employees against online harassment and abuse. It combines proactive security training, threat monitoring, and detection with incident response when an individual comes under attack. In addition to its standard service, it also offers additional capabilities for high-profile orexecutive staff who face increased risk. |  | Seed | Sep 12, 2023 |  |
| Attn: Grace | Attn: Grace is the Certified B Corp.™ behind the only natural incontinence care line that outperforms conventional brands. Our products and packaging combine innovative, plant-based materials with cutting edge technology to deliver high performance, skin-safe protection women can trust while supporting better overall health and wellbeing. We arealso deeply committed to eliminating the shame and stigma historically associated with urinary incontinence and ensuring women have access to reliable information about this condition, including treatment options that may be available.Attn: Grace was founded by Mia Abbruzzese and Alexandra Fennell in 2019 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | $2M | Seed | Jul 12, 2023 |  |
| Ceremonia | Ceremonia is a new modern haircare brand rooted in Latin heritage. It celebrates the richness of Latinx culture, serving the next-gen. Ceremonia brand will be launched this fall. | $10M | Series A | Apr 27, 2023 |  |
| 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. | $8.1M | Seed | Feb 07, 2023 |  |
| Select Star | Select Star is a modern data governance platform that helps organizations manage and understand their data at scale – enabling AI, analytics, and self-service across the business. It automatically catalogs datasets, traces end-to-end lineage, and builds a shared business glossary and semantic layer, so teams can confidently work with trusted data.With a user-friendly data portal and built-in automation, Select Star supports use cases including data democratization, data governance, semantic layers, and cloud data migrations—serving as a foundational layer for enterprise AI and data initiatives. | $15M | Series A | Jan 31, 2023 |  |
| Daily Blends AI | Healthy meals, Automated fridge, and Grab and go | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| MyFO | MyFO created a digital assistant to help organize and securely store financial information. They specialize in banking infrastructure, fintech, enterprise software, big data, and analytics. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Willful | Willful is building a suite of estate planning products for Canadians, starting with online wills. Using Willful, Canadians can create a will online in less than 20 minutes, for a fraction of the price of a traditional estate lawyer. Our goal is to make it easier to help people prepare for and deal with death, and to give Canadians and theirfamilies peace of mind that they have a plan in place. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Avvinue | Avvinue is a pet travel startup that helps people search and book pet-friendly flights, hotels, activities and more. Book pet-friendly flights for traveling with pets in cabin, in cargo or through private shared charter jets. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |

10 of 44 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Laconia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laconia) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Garage Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/garage-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Elevate Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevate-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [f7 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/f7-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fastbreak Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fastbreak-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Backbone Angels invest in?

Backbone Angels invests primarily in E-Commerce, Fashion and Software startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 44 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Backbone Angels's check size?

Backbone Angels typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$8M at Seed, $1.4M–$2.1M at Pre-Seed and $2.2M–$8M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Backbone Angels participates in.

### How do I contact Backbone Angels?

Public channels for Backbone Angels include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Backbone Angels?

The team at Backbone Angels includes Arati Sharma (Founding Partner), Brittany Forsyth (Founding Partner) and Lynsey Thornton (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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