# Brian Hunter

> Brian Hunter is a seed investor at NorthSpring Capital Partners backing Software and Health Care. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [NorthSpring Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/northspring-capital-partners)
- Location: Kitchener, Canada
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianhunter2/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/batstroker
- Website: https://x.com/batstroker
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brian.hunter.MBA

Brian Hunter is a seed investor at NorthSpring Capital Partners in Kitchener focused on Software and Health Care. Following a 30 years career in providing debt and equity financing to hundreds of businesses in Southern Ontario with Roynat Capital, Canada’s leading private merchant bank, Brian co-founded NorthSpring Capital Partners.Brian was awarded Golden Triangle Angel Network’s Angel of the Year award for 2017 in recognition of his active leadership inmultiple due diligences and successful investments.In 2014 he was named a Paul Harris Fellow for 20 years of service to the Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club including acting as President and as Chairman of the club’s major fundraisers which raised nearly $1 million for local and international causes.Brian earned his BA in Economics and his MBA from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 50% |
| Health Care | 2 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 50% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Legal | 1 | 25% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

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

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mesosil | Mesosil develops responsive antimicrobial materials to prevent infection at the medical device-tissue interface, with lifetime length of effect. Our technology is ideally suited for dental restoratives and dental implant surfaces. The result is greatly improved patient outcome with no change to practitioner workflow, reducing the likelihood ofrecurrent caries and detachment of dental restorations, or peri-implant wound infection that could result in implant loss and implant revision. | $1.6M | Seed | Jun 05, 2024 |  |
| Rehabtronics | Rehabtronics is a technology development firm that focuses on solutions for physical rehab. | $1.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 18, 2021 |  |
| Mesosil | Mesosil develops responsive antimicrobial materials to prevent infection at the medical device-tissue interface, with lifetime length of effect. Our technology is ideally suited for dental restoratives and dental implant surfaces. The result is greatly improved patient outcome with no change to practitioner workflow, reducing the likelihood ofrecurrent caries and detachment of dental restorations, or peri-implant wound infection that could result in implant loss and implant revision. | $675K | Seed | Jul 13, 2021 |  |
| Workwolf | Workwolf is a Toronto-based start-up with a management team who has led 7 start-ups, had 2 successful exits, and has taken a company public with a $1.8B IPO. Workwolf CEO Erik Simins is an SME in HR who previously founded MAGNUS HRS, a staffing company now servicing over 150 enterprise customers. The technology at Workwolf solves two of the biggestpain points in employment: applicant filtration and verification, and does so by empowering users to identify better candidates faster. Winner of global awards in both 2020 and 2021 for innovation and market potential, Workwolf is ramping up for its multi-national roll-out with ManpowerGroup in September that will coincide with a $4.5M Seed financing round. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Dec 15, 2020 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Archangel Network of Funds](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archangel-4de5) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Aurum Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aurum-holdings-627e) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Capital Angel Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-angel-network) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Center of Aging and Brain Health Innovation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/center-of-aging-and-brain-health-innovation-cabhi) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Equation Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/equation-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Globalive](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/globalive-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About NorthSpring Capital Partners

VC Fund · Cambridge, Canada

NorthSpring Capital Partners provides risk capital to small and medium sized companies with the goal of creating value. Investments range between $250,000 and $1 million in the form of subordinated debt and/or equity across a variety of traditional industries located in Southern Ontario. NorthSpring takes a flexible approach when reviewinginvestment opportunities and tailors its investment structure to fit the unique aspects of the business.

1 contacts available at NorthSpring Capital Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Hunter | President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-hunter-30c3 |

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## FAQ

### What does Brian Hunter invest in?

Brian Hunter invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Brian Hunter last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brian Hunter closed in Jun 2024. 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?

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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