# Francois Arbour

> Francois Arbour is a pre-seed investor at Angels of Many backing Software. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Angels of Many](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angels-of-many)
- Location: Montréal, Canada
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Apr 2022
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francois-arbour-investor/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/francoisarbour
- Website: https://x.com/francoisarbour
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/francoisarbour

Francois Arbour is a pre-seed investor at Angels of Many in Montréal focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Francois Arbour is the Co-Founder of Angels of Many. He previously worked at Shutterstock as a VP of Product, Video & Music.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.7M–$2.7M |
| Pre-Seed | $399k–$400k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 43% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 29% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |
| Banking | 1 | 14% |
| FinTech | 1 | 14% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hookdeck | Hookdeck is a fast and reliable event gateway for receiving, processing, and delivering asynchronous messages. It centralizes and streamlines communication between services – external providers (e.g. Shopify), internal endpoints (e.g. APIs), and any combination thereof.Configure Hookdeck platform resources and features such as event routing,filters, and transformations. And let Hookdeck automatically retry failed events for painless error recovery.Our developer tooling enables teams to build, deploy, operate, and observe their event-driven applications with confidence. | $2.7M | Seed | Apr 12, 2022 |  |
| Browse AI | Browse AI provides online RPA software that extracts and monitors web data in the cloud. Their services include downloading data from any website, monitoring websites for changes, turning any website into an API, price monitoring, extracting real estate data, and more. | $400K | Pre-Seed | Jan 27, 2022 |  |
| Wingocard | Wingocard is a mobile banking app designed for teens and parents. It allows parents to instantly transfer money and control how it is spent. In addition, the app and Visa debit card allow teens to purchase items anywhere and send and receive money to friends and family. Launching this fall, the mobile app already has 50,000 new users on its waitinglist. | $1.7M | Seed | May 19, 2021 |  |
| Marlow | Marlow is an innovative FemTech company that has launched the first-ever lubricated tampon for smoother and more comfortable insertion. | $398.5K | Pre-Seed | Apr 15, 2021 |  |
| Sollum Technologies | Sollum Technologies is offers greenhouse producers the only smart LED lighting solution which dynamically reproduces the full spectrum of the sun’s natural light. It is based in Montréal (Québec, Canada), where its design, development and manufacturing activities are concentrated. It works closely with its clients to modulate and create recipesadapted to the growth cycle of each product, regardless of its native climate in the world and the location of the greenhouse. Sollum’s lighting solutions thereby provide unparalleled value in terms of energy savings, productivity and superior produce quality through a flexible, adaptive and easy-to-use application, with great respect for the environment. | $2.9M | Series B | Jun 17, 2020 |  |
| Sollum Technologies | Sollum Technologies is offers greenhouse producers the only smart LED lighting solution which dynamically reproduces the full spectrum of the sun’s natural light. It is based in Montréal (Québec, Canada), where its design, development and manufacturing activities are concentrated. It works closely with its clients to modulate and create recipesadapted to the growth cycle of each product, regardless of its native climate in the world and the location of the greenhouse. Sollum’s lighting solutions thereby provide unparalleled value in terms of energy savings, productivity and superior produce quality through a flexible, adaptive and easy-to-use application, with great respect for the environment. | $717K | Series A | Jan 01, 2017 |  |
| designstripe | designstripe provides non-designers with a combination of customizable content and simple tools for both consumer and enterprise clients. End users looking for design assets no longer have to start from scratch because designstripe has a large repository of customizable assets and illustrations that can be exported to a variety of file types. Sincethe release of its first product, the company has experienced significant growth in terms of new clients and daily users.Francois Arbour founded designstripe in 2020. |  | Pre-Seed |  |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BoxOne Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxone-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Matrix](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alter Ego Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alter-ego-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Angels of Many](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angels-of-many) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Diagram Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diagram-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Investissement Quebec](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investissement-quebec) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Angels of Many

VC Fund · Montréal, Canada

Angels of Many is an investment club focused on helping early-stage companies.

1 contacts available at Angels of Many.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Francois Arbour | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francois-arbour |

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## FAQ

### What does Francois Arbour invest in?

Francois Arbour invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Francois Arbour's check size?

Francois Arbour typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$2.7M at Seed and $399k–$400k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Francois Arbour participates in.

### When did Francois Arbour last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Francois Arbour closed in Apr 2022. Shizune tracks 7 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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