Purple Angel
VC Fund
Nepean, Canada
Purple Angel is a venture capital firm focused on investments in the communications and infrastructure sectors. It was formed in early 2001 by several retired alumni of Bell Northern Research (BNR). To date, Purple Angel has invested in 29 companies, all but two in the National Capital Region.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Purple Angel invests in
SoftwareAnalyticsE-CommerceInternetService Industry
Stages Purple Angel invests in
Funding RoundSeedSeries APre-SeedSeries B
Countries Purple Angel invests in
CanadaUnited States
Round sizes
Seed $229k–$350kSeries A $5M–$6.8M
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $229k–$350k
- Series A
- $5M–$6.8M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (40%)
- Analytics 3 (30%)
- E-Commerce 3 (30%)
- Internet 2 (20%)
- Service Industry 2 (20%)
Stage
- Funding Round 3 (30%)
- Seed 2 (20%)
- Series A 2 (20%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (10%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
Country
- Canada 6 (60%)
- United States 2 (20%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Irving Ebert
Co-Founder
|
Co-Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| IRYSTEC is a startup company, incubated at TandemLaunch Inc., leading the perceptual computational display technology. Our talented team of scientists and engineers along with our excellent advisory board in computer vision, physics and human visual system (HVS) are revolutionizing the natural visual experience of the future. IRYSTEC buildsambient intelligent, perceptual software products customized for every individual. We make your displays look the best to you. | $5M / Series A / Jun 06, 2018 | ||
| Spoonity provides a white labelled, POS-integrated loyalty platform for small to medium sized restaurants. In addition to a loyalty program, we offer mobile pay, segmented marketing campaigns, and big data analytics to help merchants understand their customers. The value of the service extends far beyond simple loyalty; it offers an unprecedentedway to collect and analyze POS data for restaurants. | $229.3K / Seed / Oct 22, 2015 | ||
| The Better Software Company was developed to help businesses become better. The Better Software was created by an entrepreneur with 25 years of experience in starting and operating multiple businesses and a masterful software engineer with the know-how to create software that is intuitive, fast and efficient. | $750K / Pre-Seed / Sep 14, 2015 | ||
| Rare.io provides online retailers with an automated predictive email marketing solution that’s proven to increase email click-through rates and drive repeat business. We are a SaaS based ecommerce marketing automation platform that uses your customer data to provide insights and opportunities to build deeper customer relationships. | $350K / Seed / Jan 01, 2014 | ||
| Privacy Analytics helps companies in the health, consumer internet, and financial industries protect the privacy of personal data. | $1.4M / Nov 01, 2012 | ||
| Natural Convergence, Inc. supplies hosted voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) software for service providers supporting the small business market. The company develops and markets silhouette, a VoIP hosted software for telecom carriers and service providers. It offers services ranging from customizable training, professional services, projectmanagement, starter bundle selections, and a channel program. The company serves customers in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the Caribbean. Natural Convergence, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. | $10M / Series C / Nov 21, 2006 | ||
| eBillme™ is the most secure way to pay online and the only online payment solution that extends the convenience of online banking to the merchant’s checkout process. The service enhances security for online shoppers, and enables merchants to increase sales while reducing transaction costs. Consumers can shop online and pay for their purchasesat their bank, credit union, or bill pay portal using the security and convenience of online banking or by paying the bill at over 75,000 walk-in locations. eBillme is available at ober 800+ online retailers including Sears, Kmart, TigerDirect, ShoeBuy, and more.For more information, please visit www.eBillme.com. | $11M / Sep 20, 2006 | ||
| Natural Convergence, Inc. supplies hosted voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) software for service providers supporting the small business market. The company develops and markets silhouette, a VoIP hosted software for telecom carriers and service providers. It offers services ranging from customizable training, professional services, projectmanagement, starter bundle selections, and a channel program. The company serves customers in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the Caribbean. Natural Convergence, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. | $8.8M / Series B / Aug 06, 2004 | ||
| Natural Convergence, Inc. supplies hosted voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) software for service providers supporting the small business market. The company develops and markets silhouette, a VoIP hosted software for telecom carriers and service providers. It offers services ranging from customizable training, professional services, projectmanagement, starter bundle selections, and a channel program. The company serves customers in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the Caribbean. Natural Convergence, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. | $6.8M / Series A / Jul 17, 2002 | ||
| Atsana's initial market focus is on media processor solutions for wireless media (video, image and audio) applications. Atsana's media processors enable wireless smart phones and PC /network cameras, to deliver multimedia applications such as multimedia messaging, interactive video communications, video streaming and other futuremedia rich content without sacrificing battery life or performance. Atsana's solution fits consumer electronic OEMs growing needs for lower power, higher resolution and programmability. At the heart of Atsana's media processors is a massively parallel, highly scalable, low-power architecture. The patent pending architecture integrates thousands of processing elements into an array of Random Access Memory (RAM). Atsana's media processors deliver the muscle required for encoding or decoding to standards such as MPEG-4, MJPEG or JPEG2000. Atsana provides a total solution including a full suite of algorithms and a software developer's kit for third party developers to create their own applications. Atsana's architecture offers significant power savings by processing media data intelligently, in a massively parallel manner. The achieved efficiencies are critical given the processing demands media applications place on wireless appliances. Because Atsana's processors are programmable they empower OEMs to evolve their products in line with consumers' changing requirements for new applications and higher performance. Atsana's management team is composed of seasoned technology professionals. Alex Leupp, PhD, President and CEO of Atsana, has a diversified and proven track record in the semiconductor industry. During his six years as President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Microelectronics Inc., Mr. Leupp managed a multi-faceted organization of about 2,500 employees. Most recently, Mr. Leupp was President and Chief Executive Officer of 3dfx Interactive, a high performance graphics chip manufacturer. Michael Krause, Atsana's COO, brings 19 years of semiconductor industry experience to the company. Most recently, Mr. Krause served as Executive VP at Tundra Semiconductor. Steve Farnow, PhD, VP of Operations, brings 25 years of semiconductor operations experience from Intel and TI, and most recently as VP of Operations at Hi/fn. Atsana has raised US $16M in financing from semiconductor and wireless focused VCs including Stata Venture Partners (Boston, MA), Atsana's Series A round lead financer. Other investors include the Viterbi Group (San Diego, CA), BDC (Ottawa, ON), Entrust Capital (New York, NY), Primaxis Technology Ventures (Toronto, ON) and the Topol Group (Boston, MA). | $14.6M / Jan 17, 2001 |
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FAQ
What does Purple Angel invest in?
Purple Angel invests primarily in Software, Analytics and E-Commerce startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 10 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 Purple Angel invest in?
Purple Angel typically joins rounds of $229k–$350k at Seed and $5M–$6.8M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Purple Angel's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Purple Angel took part in.
How do I contact Purple Angel?
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Who are the partners at Purple Angel?
The team at Purple Angel includes Irving Ebert (Co-Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Nov 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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