# Brandon Chu

> Brandon Chu is a seed investor at Shopify (Toronto) backing CMS and PaaS. See 4 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Shopify](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shopify)
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonmchu
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/brandonmchu
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandon.mk.chu

Brandon Chu is a seed investor at Shopify in Toronto focused on CMS and PaaS. Brandon Chu is the VP Product Acceleration at Shopify. He attended the University of Toronto.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CMS | 1 | 25% |
| PaaS | 1 | 25% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| FinTech | 1 | 25% |
| Finance | 1 | 25% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 50% |
| Canada | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ownright | Doormat is a real estate lawyer that combines legaltech and proptech by enhancing the property legal process with advanced technology solutions online to ease the real estate buying and selling process. | $929.7K | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2023 | https://doormat.ca |
| Sanity | Sanity is the platform for structured content that lets teams build exceptional digital experiences. By treating content as data, modern organizations use our APIs to build optimal editing workflows and share content between systems to increase digital velocity. Our mission is to be the most versatile system for creating and distributing digitalcontent to any device, application or channel..Sanity was founded in Norway and has offices in Oslo and San Francisco. |  | Corporate Round | Jun 28, 2022 | https://sanity.io |
| 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 | https://www.disco.co/ |
| Pipe | Pipe operates a global trading platform for recurring revenue streams, connecting companies to institutional investors to trade in real time. It makes recurring revenue streams tradable for their annual value offering more cash flow for scaling companies | $50M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 09, 2021 | http://www.pipe.com |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Raptor Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raptorgroup) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alate Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alate-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Garage Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/garage-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Golden Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/golden-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Graph Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/graph-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Shopify

VC Fund · Ottawa, Canada

Shopify is a cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Merchants can use the software to design, set up, and manage their stores across multiple sales channels, including web, mobile, social media, marketplaces, brick-and-mortar locations, and pop-up shops. The platform also provides merchants witha powerful back-office and a single view of their business.Shopify offers online retailers a suite of services including marketing, customer engagement, payments, and shipping tools to simplify the process of running an online store for small merchants. They launched an application programming interface (API) platform and App Store that allows developers to create applications for Shopify online stores and then sell them on the Shopify App Store.The Shopify platform was engineered for reliability and scale, making enterprise-level technology available to businesses of all sizes. Shopify currently powers over 800,000 businesses in approximately 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Tesla, Red Bull, Nestle, GE, Kylie Cosmetics, and many more.

5 contacts available at Shopify.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bharati Balakrishnan | Country Head & Director, India | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bharati-balakrishnan |
| Bram Sugarman | Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at Shopify | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bram-sugarman |
| Brennan Loh | Director of Marketing Partnerships | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brennan-loh |
| Brittany Forsyth | SVP of HR | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brittany-forsyth |
| Daniella Bellaire | Head of Global Sales Craft | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniella-bellaire |

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## FAQ

### What does Brandon Chu invest in?

Brandon Chu invests primarily in CMS, PaaS and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Brandon Chu?

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### When did Brandon Chu last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brandon Chu closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 4 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?

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