# Tobyn Sowden

> Tobyn Sowden is a seed investor at Red Brick backing iOS, Music and Android. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Red Brick](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/red-brick)
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: May 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobyns/

Tobyn Sowden is a seed investor at Red Brick focused on iOS and Music. Tobyn Sowden is the CEO at Redbrick.He attended University of Victoria.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| iOS | 1 | 33% |
| Music | 1 | 33% |
| Android | 1 | 33% |
| Fashion | 1 | 33% |
| Medical | 1 | 33% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Outway | Outway is a premium sock designer and manufacturer. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Victoria, British Columbia. | $3.2M | Seed | May 01, 2022 |  |
| Cognito Health | Cognito Health is a unique model involves a combination of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and medication. Cognito Health offers digital assessments, nurse practitioner visits, counselling, coaching, self directed courses, medication delivery, and daily affirmations all under one pricing plan. | $878.4K | Pre-Seed | Mar 28, 2022 |  |
| Hidden Bands | We put bands on the map. Our free music discovery app brings users into the real world to find exclusive music and engage with artists. Users download our free app, and similar to Pokémon GO they follow a map to capture exclusive free music. We then link the song to the artist's streaming (Spotify, Apple Music) and social platforms (YouTube,IG,Bandcamp) to consume more of the artist's content.Users are rewarded to re-hiding songs in new locations and artists receive full analytics into song plays at a hyper geographic level. Artists use this info to plan tours. Unlike Spotify and YouTube we also allow artists to email users directly inside our app.The app is free for both users and artists and complements existing streaming and social platforms by solving the problem of discoverability in a fun gamified way. |  | Seed | Oct 01, 2021 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Creative BC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creative-bc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Creative BC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creative-bc-3c29) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Export Development Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/export-development-canada) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Garage Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/garage-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hello Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hello-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Newchip Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/newchip) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Red Brick

VC Fund · Victoria, Canada

Redbrick is a digital publishing technology company that disrupts the digital media industry with an innovative stack of technology. They acquires the email and marketing automation platform, Delivra, marking another major milestone towards its goal of supporting the digital entrepreneur. They provide Software Development, software analytics,Software & Technical Consulting, Business Services, graphic designers services.

1 contacts available at Red Brick.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tobyn Sowden | Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tobyn-sowden-5402 |

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## FAQ

### What does Tobyn Sowden invest in?

Tobyn Sowden invests primarily in iOS, Music and Android startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Tobyn Sowden last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tobyn Sowden closed in May 2022. Shizune tracks 3 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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