Daniel Debow
Angel Investor
Toronto, Canada
Daniel Debow is a seed investor in Toronto focused on Software and SaaS. Daniel Debow is the Chair of the Board of Build Canada. He attended the Stanford Law School. Daniel is the Vice President of Product (Demand) at Shopify. He previously worked as an SVP at Salesforce.com, where he drives marketing for Salesforce Work.com, a sales performance management solution that helps Facebook, LinkedIn, Spotify, and other innovative companies align, motivate, and drive the performance of their sales teams. Prior to joining Salesforce, Daniel was co-founder and co-CEO of Rypple, a social performance management platform acquired by Salesforce in 2012. Prior to Rypple, Daniel was on the founding team of Workbrain, which provided workforce management solutions to Wal-Mart, Citibank, and other large enterprises. Workbrain grew to $100 million in annual revenues before being acquired by Infor in 2007. A sought after speaker on how social media is changing the workplace, Daniel is a contributor to Fortune.com and the Huffington Post. He’s been widely quoted in Wired, the Financial Times, the Economist and Bloomberg Businessweek. Daniel holds a JD/MBA from the University of Toronto and an LLM in Law, Science and Technology from Stanford University.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Daniel Debow invests in
Stages Daniel Debow invests in
Countries Daniel Debow invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $788k–$8.3M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.4M–$2.6M
- Series A
- $15M–$35M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (31%)
- SaaS 2 (13%)
- FinTech 2 (13%)
- Wearables 2 (13%)
- Machine Learning 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (56%)
- Series A 3 (19%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (13%)
- Angel 1 (6%)
- Convertible Note 1 (6%)
Country
- Canada 12 (75%)
- United States 2 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meissner leverages artificial intelligence to discover and develop next-generation superconducting materials. | $2.6M / Pre-Seed / Sep 01, 2026 | ||
| Shakepay is a technology company that provides financial applications for building wealth. Through an app, Shakepay allows Canadians to buy/sell bitcoin and pay their friends. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Montreal, Canada. | $35.2M / Series A / Jan 20, 2022 | ||
| Navigating the trademark search and registration process can be daunting and onerous for business owners and entrepreneurs. Heirlume is the first self-serve online trademark search and registration platform that integrates sophisticated legal thinking with technology. We make the complex trademark search and registration process fast, accurate,trusted and affordable for entrepreneurs and enterprise/e-com partners. Our search tool instantly runs the country-specific legal tests (i.e., “likelihood of confusion”) and performs lawyer analysis. Intelligent search algorithms provide an at-a-glance opinion of registerability (conflicts, descriptiveness, obscenity), displayed in simple visuals. Distilling the multiple data sets involved with drafting a trademark application requires time-consuming legal analysis. Our machine learning auto-suggest trademark application builder performs the lawyer work and removes room for error. While our first go to market strategy will target SME individual users, we see huge potential in expanding our market reach through key B2B partnerships as an upsell/add-on to a domain purchase (GoDaddy), or store set-up (Shopify or Amazon). Ultimately, we believe we can make trademark registration quick, easy and affordable, similar to the experience of registering a domain. | $1.2M / Seed / Apr 30, 2021 | ||
| Navigating the trademark search and registration process can be daunting and onerous for business owners and entrepreneurs. Heirlume is the first self-serve online trademark search and registration platform that integrates sophisticated legal thinking with technology. We make the complex trademark search and registration process fast, accurate,trusted and affordable for entrepreneurs and enterprise/e-com partners. Our search tool instantly runs the country-specific legal tests (i.e., “likelihood of confusion”) and performs lawyer analysis. Intelligent search algorithms provide an at-a-glance opinion of registerability (conflicts, descriptiveness, obscenity), displayed in simple visuals. Distilling the multiple data sets involved with drafting a trademark application requires time-consuming legal analysis. Our machine learning auto-suggest trademark application builder performs the lawyer work and removes room for error. While our first go to market strategy will target SME individual users, we see huge potential in expanding our market reach through key B2B partnerships as an upsell/add-on to a domain purchase (GoDaddy), or store set-up (Shopify or Amazon). Ultimately, we believe we can make trademark registration quick, easy and affordable, similar to the experience of registering a domain. | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Apr 30, 2021 | ||
| Spatial is a gaming platform where millions of creators build and share fun and inspiring experiences that bring people together across web, mobile, and VR. Our goal is to change the way we share fun experiences, tell stories, and make friends. Today, videos are the most common way to talk and share things online, but often people end up justwatching and not interacting. We want the internet to be a more playful and social place.This change is already happening in the world of gaming. We want to accelerate this by making it easier for everyone to create, share, and play fun games with their friends. Just like YouTube did for videos. To turn this vision into reality, we are currently focused on the following three pillars:- Creator Toolkit: a dynamic extension of Unity, the most widely adopted game engine globally. We provide you with easy tools and useful templates so you can focus on what matters most - creating fun games that bring people together. - Virtual Economy (beta): enabling the sale of digital items, avatar enhancements, and power-ups. We’re proud to provide a creator-friendly revenue share that outperforms our competitors, putting more money in your pocket.- Multi-Platform: the only platform where your games are published across web, mobile, and VR, ensuring you reach every player on every device. | $8.3M / Seed / Oct 24, 2018 | ||
| B2B SaaS providing market and competitive intelligence. Helps sales, and the teams that enable them, leverage competitive intelligence to win more business. It was founded in 2015 by Jason Smith and Sarathy Naicker and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. | $4M / Seed / Sep 27, 2017 | ||
| Manifold allows you to discover, buy, and manage the best developer services for your application, regardless of cloud. Manifold is on a mission to reduce the complexity of building and deploying applications with micro-services and third-party infrastructure services. | $15M / Series A / Sep 22, 2017 | ||
| Developer of a SaaS customer engagement platform designed for the world's leading enterprise brands to improve and personalize their apps, websites, and customer communication channels. The Company's platform unifies the digital customer journey, product optimization, and marketing automation in a single, AI driven application. Thisempowers modern engineering and marketing teams to create robust customer experiences, using contextual data and AI orchestration to optimize customer engagement, conversion and revenue. | $2.4M / Seed / May 20, 2015 | ||
| Artivest offers a digital platform for private investment managers and investors. Artivest connect a wider audience of suitable investors with investment opportunities in top-quality private equity and hedge funds that are typically available only at institutional minimum investment sizes. Our technological, financial, and operational expertisepowers a seamless experience for individual investors and a scalable point of access for financial advisors and fund managers. | $15M / Series A / May 04, 2015 | ||
| We are creating a platform to transform the world’s glass into digital displays. | $400K / Angel / Jan 01, 2015 | ||
| See all 16 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Daniel Debow invest in?
Daniel Debow invests primarily in Software, SaaS and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Daniel Debow invest in?
Daniel Debow typically joins rounds of $788k–$8.3M at Seed, $1.4M–$2.6M at Pre-Seed and $15M–$35M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Daniel Debow's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Daniel Debow took part in.
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When did Daniel Debow last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Daniel Debow closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 16 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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