# John Stokes

> John Stokes is a Series A investor at Real Ventures (Montréal) backing SaaS and Internet. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Real Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/real-ventures)
- Location: Montréal, Canada
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Oct 2021
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/johnstokes
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/iamjohnstokes
- Website: https://x.com/iamjohnstokes

John Stokes is a Series A investor at Real Ventures in Montréal focused on SaaS and Internet. John Stokes is based out of Montreal, Quebec and is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Real Ventures. John previously worked at Breather as a Board Member / Observer. John Stokes attended the Manchester Metropolitan University. John Stokes has been certified ICD.d.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $150k–$10M |
| Series A | $366k–$4.8M |
| Series B | $7M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 4 | 21% |
| Internet | 4 | 21% |
| Software | 4 | 21% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 11% |
| iOS | 1 | 5% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 21% |
| Seed | 3 | 16% |
| Series B | 2 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 11% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Practice | Practice's tools will help you fulfill your potential as a coach. With all your clients' details at your fingertips, you'll never lack the right information when you need it. | $10M | Seed | Oct 28, 2021 |  |
| Breathe Life | Breathe Life is an enterprise Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, for the life insurance industry. We provide insurers with a modern end-to-end platform that increases the speed of policy delivery and reduces operational costs for the distribution of financial security products. | $4.9M | Series A | Aug 26, 2020 |  |
| Breather | Breather is an app and a provider of space-as-a-service, with a growing network of private workspaces built for productivity. It enables businesses to access flexible workspace by the hour, day, or month. Every space is designed to be comfortable, private, and productive, with plug-and-play technology that ensures that can get to work as soon asthe arrival.Founded by CEO Julien Smith in 2012, the company has grown to include hundreds of locations in 10 major across the globe including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London. | $54M | Series C | Dec 05, 2016 |  |
| Breather | Breather is an app and a provider of space-as-a-service, with a growing network of private workspaces built for productivity. It enables businesses to access flexible workspace by the hour, day, or month. Every space is designed to be comfortable, private, and productive, with plug-and-play technology that ensures that can get to work as soon asthe arrival.Founded by CEO Julien Smith in 2012, the company has grown to include hundreds of locations in 10 major across the globe including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London. | $25M | Series B | Sep 17, 2015 |  |
| GuestDriven | GuestDriven is a hospitality-focused guest engagement solution. We help hotels directly interact with guests, learn their preferences, build relationships and upsell inventory through personalized, moment-based targeted offers and communications.Guests are empowered with the ability to personalize and take full control of their stay, resultingin higher satisfaction, better reviews and more brand advocates.Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, GuestDriven has implementations in over 60 cities worldwide. Our team is dedicated to revolutionizing the most universal industry in the world. | $2.2M | Series A | Feb 18, 2014 |  |
| Breather | Breather is an app and a provider of space-as-a-service, with a growing network of private workspaces built for productivity. It enables businesses to access flexible workspace by the hour, day, or month. Every space is designed to be comfortable, private, and productive, with plug-and-play technology that ensures that can get to work as soon asthe arrival.Founded by CEO Julien Smith in 2012, the company has grown to include hundreds of locations in 10 major across the globe including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London. | $1.5M | Seed | Jun 05, 2013 |  |
| Breather | Breather is an app and a provider of space-as-a-service, with a growing network of private workspaces built for productivity. It enables businesses to access flexible workspace by the hour, day, or month. Every space is designed to be comfortable, private, and productive, with plug-and-play technology that ensures that can get to work as soon asthe arrival.Founded by CEO Julien Smith in 2012, the company has grown to include hundreds of locations in 10 major across the globe including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London. | $1.5M | Seed | Jun 05, 2013 |  |
| Sociable Labs | Sociable Labs is a software-as-a-service provider of social and viral marketing solutions. Sociable Labs’ S2S Engine, the Shopper-­to-­Shopper Engine, provides a turnkey solution for digital businesses that want to grow their customer base through referral marketing. The company's S2S Engine is a SAAS solution that makes the process ofinviting friends to a website or mobile app in exchange for a reward provided by the business a seamless process. Sociable Labs integrates directly into the client site where users are prompted to share the brand with their friends. They offer industry's only true Refer a Friend solution as a Performance Marketing Platform. It makes social sharing useful to consumers, driving considerable referral traffic to your site and sales when they get there.Sociable Labs was founded in 2014 and is based in | $7M | Series B | Oct 26, 2011 |  |
| GuestDriven | GuestDriven is a hospitality-focused guest engagement solution. We help hotels directly interact with guests, learn their preferences, build relationships and upsell inventory through personalized, moment-based targeted offers and communications.Guests are empowered with the ability to personalize and take full control of their stay, resultingin higher satisfaction, better reviews and more brand advocates.Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, GuestDriven has implementations in over 60 cities worldwide. Our team is dedicated to revolutionizing the most universal industry in the world. | $1.5M |  | Sep 01, 2011 |  |
| GuestDriven | GuestDriven is a hospitality-focused guest engagement solution. We help hotels directly interact with guests, learn their preferences, build relationships and upsell inventory through personalized, moment-based targeted offers and communications.Guests are empowered with the ability to personalize and take full control of their stay, resultingin higher satisfaction, better reviews and more brand advocates.Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, GuestDriven has implementations in over 60 cities worldwide. Our team is dedicated to revolutionizing the most universal industry in the world. | $1.5M |  | Sep 01, 2011 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Real Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/real-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Montreal Start Up](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/montreal-start-up) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Palos Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/palos-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Positron Dynamics](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/positron-dynamics) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [RRE Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rre-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Slow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/slow-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Real Ventures

VC Fund · Montréal, Canada

Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com

5 contacts available at Real Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| John Stokes | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-stokes-2 |
| Sam Haffar | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ousama-haffar |
| Alan MacIntosh | Partner and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-macintosh |
| Craig Follett | Limited Partner (Investor) | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-follett |
| Hamzah Nassif | Executive | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hamzah-nassif |

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## FAQ

### What does John Stokes invest in?

John Stokes invests primarily in SaaS, Internet and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is John Stokes's check size?

John Stokes typically joins rounds of $150k–$10M at Seed, $366k–$4.8M at Series A and $7M–$25M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds John Stokes participates in.

### When did John Stokes last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for John Stokes closed in Oct 2021. Shizune tracks 19 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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