Ivan Yuen
Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder @ Wattpad
Toronto, Canada
Ivan Yuen is a seed investor at Wattpad in Toronto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Ivan Yuen has worked with start-ups for over 25 years, leveraging technology to build scalable and transformative businesses. Ivan is the co-founder of Wattpad, a platform that revolutionizes the way people share and discover stories. Wattpad's explosive growth led to over US$120M in venture backing from top VCs in the US, Canada and Asia. In2021, Wattpad was successfully acquired by Naver, the South Korean internet giant, for US$645M. Ivan holds a BASc degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Ivan Yuen invests in
Stages Ivan Yuen invests in
Countries Ivan Yuen invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $3.4M–$7.5M
- Pre-Seed
- $100k–$2.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (29%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (29%)
- FinTech 1 (14%)
- Training 1 (14%)
- Wellness 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (57%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (43%)
Country
- Canada 3 (43%)
- United States 2 (29%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Epyk
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A mobile first story world like no other. | $100K / Pre-Seed / Feb 01, 2026 | |
NiaHealth
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NiaHealth is a healthcare provider that specializes in blood testing, personalized health analytics, and fitness through an app. | $4.2M / Seed / Jun 26, 2025 | |
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NiaHealth
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NiaHealth is a healthcare provider that specializes in blood testing, personalized health analytics, and fitness through an app. | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Apr 17, 2025 | |
Kruzee
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Kruzee is an online driving school, at customers' doorstep. | $398.8K / Pre-Seed / Jun 07, 2022 | |
Shakudo
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Eliminate the complexity of managing your data stack. Shakudo creates compatibility across the best-of-breed data tools for a more reliable, performant, and cost effective data stack than ever before. | $3.4M / Seed / Aug 01, 2021 | |
Agora
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Agora is a compensation platform that helps companies figure out how to pay their employees by making data-driven decisions. It helps companies centralize their data, set their pay structure, benchmark themselves against similar companies in real-time, and communicate total rewards to their candidates and employees. Figure streamlines complicatedmanual compensation processes into simple, secure, and collaborative workflows.Agora's mission is to bring equity and transparency to compensation for companies, employees, and candidates. | $7.5M / Seed / May 06, 2021 | |
Disco
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Build your live learning empire. One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities. | $4.8M / Seed / Mar 24, 2021 |
Co-Investors
About Wattpad
Wattpad is a digital entertainment company providing an online social storytelling platform for original stories.The company utilizes the power of community and technology to enable the creation and distribution of content across a variety of formats. Its flagship app, Wattpad, is home to a community of more than 65 million people who spend over20 billion minutes a month engaged in original stories. Tap by Wattpad, the company’s second storytelling product, offers short, chat-based stories in over a dozen languages. Wattpad Studios co-produces stories for film, television, digital, and print, together with industry partners. Wattpad Brand Solutions offers a full suite of advertising products to help brands build deep engagement with Millennial and Gen Z consumers.It was established by Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2006.
Wattpad Contacts
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Ivan Yuen
Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder
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Allen Lau
Co-Founder and CEO
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Bert Amato
Investor
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Daniel Budlovsky
CFO
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Daniel Kenny-Godoy
Director of Ad Operations & Programmatic
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FAQ
What does Ivan Yuen invest in?
Ivan Yuen invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-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 Ivan Yuen's check size?
Ivan Yuen typically joins rounds of $3.4M–$7.5M at Seed and $100k–$2.5M 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 Ivan Yuen participates in.
When did Ivan Yuen last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ivan Yuen closed in Feb 2026. 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.
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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 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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