# Dan Martell

> Dan Martell is a seed investor at High Speed Ventures (Moncton) backing Apps and Software. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [High Speed Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-speed-ventures)
- Location: Moncton, Canada
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dmartell
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/danmartell
- Website: http://www.danmartell.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/danmartell

Dan Martell is a seed investor at High Speed Ventures in Moncton focused on Apps and Software. Dan Martell is the Founder and CEO of Saas Academy. He previously worked at Flowtown as a CMO and Co-Founder. Dan Martell attended Microsoft Certified Professional.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $168k–$6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 3 | 25% |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| SaaS | 2 | 17% |
| Local | 2 | 17% |
| Mobile | 2 | 17% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 58% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 58% |
| Canada | 2 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Neutonic | Neutonic is a nootropic energy brand crafted for those striving to perform at their best | $6M | Seed | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| BuddyPro | BuddyPro is a platform for building AI experts from know-how. If you are an expert, coach, consultant, or you teach anything and you have some know-how, books, online courses or youtube videos, you upload them and build your own AI within a week. Then you sell it for a premium subscription to your audience, $1-2K per year. Then people consult withyour AI 24/7 instead of talking to you and it gives them your advice, personalized to their specific life story and current situation.It's a single-thread chat, talks like a human and forms a long-term mentorship relationship with the clients. It has human-like memory, remembers what user talked about, even months and years back and always uses the memory for putting things into context.After you launch your BuddyPro, you don't have to deliver anything else, it just works for you, you don't have to create new content or consult with your clients, the AI does it for you.Your BuddyPro helps clients put your know-how into action much better than online courses, it's extremely personalized and proactive.BuddyPro can be your premium stand-alone product, lots of experts who launched their AI on our platform stopped doing online courses and the month when they launched their AI Expert is very often the most successful month of their whole career.We already have 500+ experts that launched or are preparing their AI, total recurring revenue of their AI experts is over $4.5M dollars. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 01, 2025 |  |
| Neutonic | Neutonic is a nootropic energy brand crafted for those striving to perform at their best | $3.7M | Seed | Jul 01, 2025 |  |
| Founderpath | Founderpath helps founders get capital without having to raise equity. Founders connect their bank accounts, customer information, and other data to get a credit score. Based on this credit score, Founderpath lends the company money. Better credit scores get better rates, cheaper capital. Founderpath has a debt fund so it invests directly incompanies. | $10M | Debt Financing | Feb 16, 2021 |  |
| Sprig | Sprig is an online app that provides healthy organic meals delivered in 15 minutes. It is a mobile application that enables users to find and order healthy meals and have them delivered in a minimal time frame. All the ingredients used in these meals are locally-sourced, sustainable, and seasonal.Sprig was launched by Morgan Springer, NeerajBerry, Matt Kent, and Gagan Biyani in April 2013 and is based in San Francisco, United States. | $1.2M | Seed | Nov 06, 2013 |  |
| LeadSift | LeadSift is an intent data provider that mines publically available information to identify when individuals are taking relevant actions outside of your owned channels. They work with some of the fastest-growing B2B software companies in The World, helping them drive tangible results with intent. | $788K | Seed | Nov 16, 2012 |  |
| Getaround | Getaround empowers users to instantly rent and drive great cars shared by people in their city. Cars can be rented by the hour, or the day, with a $1M insurance policy and 24/7 roadside assistance included. By using its app, people skip the lines and paperwork at traditional rental car counters, and the hassle of buying and maintaining a car.Powered by Getaround ConnectTM, the patented connected car technology, Getaround creates a fun and safe carsharing experience is without the need to meet the car owner, carry an access card, or coordinate picking up a car key. People share everything from a Prius to a Tesla and earn thousands in extra income each year, offsetting the high cost of car ownership while also making a positive impact on the environment. | $13.9M | Series A | Aug 02, 2012 |  |
| HighScore House | HighScore House is rethinking the way kids earn the things that they want, while making the lives of families easier and more positive than ever before.We use game design to motivate kids to take on new challenges and help develop important habits like delayed gratification.Parents create a virtual economy in their home where kids earnstars for completing tasks and redeem them for real parent approved rewards. | $168K | Seed | Jan 26, 2012 |  |
| Intercom | Intercom is a Conversational Relationship Platform (CRP) that helps businesses build better customer relationships through personalized, messenger-based experiences. It’s the only platform that delivers conversational experiences across the customer journey, with solutions for Conversational Marketing, Conversational Customer Engagement andConversational Support.Intercom is bringing a messenger-first experience to all business-to-customer communication, powering 500 million conversations per month and connecting 4 billion unique end users worldwide across its more than 25,000 paying customers, including Atlassian, Sotheby’s and New Relic.The company was founded in 2011 in San Francisco by Eoghan McCabe, Des Traynor, Ciaran Lee and David Barrett, with the mission to make internet business personal. Intercom was valued at $1.275 billion in 2018 and has secured $241 million in funding from investors including Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners and Social Capital. | $1M | Seed | Jan 25, 2012 |  |
| Manpacks | Manpacks.com is a web-based service for the delivery of men's essentials, including underwear, razors, condoms, grooming and other products from top-name brands such as Calvin Klein, Champion, Gillette, Saxx, Grooming Lounge, and PACT. Scheduled deliveries occur on 3-month intervals with customers managing their service via dashboardswhere they modify upcoming orders, delay shipments, or "ship now" to receive products right away. | $500K | Angel | Aug 01, 2011 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Zelkova Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zelkova-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Digital Garage](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-ga) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [East Valley Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-valley-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Pathfinder](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ff-angel-llc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hinge Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hinge-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About High Speed Ventures

VC Fund · Kelowna, Canada

High Speed Ventures is a privately-held company for SaaS acquisitions

2 contacts available at High Speed Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dan Martell | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-martell |
| Matt Verlaque | Operating Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-verlaque |

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## FAQ

### What does Dan Martell invest in?

Dan Martell invests primarily in Apps, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Dan Martell's check size?

Dan Martell typically joins rounds of $168k–$6M 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 Dan Martell participates in.

### When did Dan Martell last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dan Martell closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 12 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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