Top 15 Publishing Angel Investors in Canada (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Terry McBride
Angel
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1 | Canada | Private Equity | Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment | |
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Ric Arboit
Angel
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1 | Canada | Private Equity | Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment | |
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Mark Jowett
Angel
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1 | Canada | Private Equity | Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment | |
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Dan Fraser
Angel
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1 | Canada | Private Equity | Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment | |
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Elton Pereira
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Video, Consumer, Lifestyle | |
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Matthew Cauble
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | News, Publishing, Broadcasting | |
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Scott Lake
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Health Care, FinTech, Finance | $202k–$1.3M |
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Scott Hawthorn
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | News, Publishing, Broadcasting | |
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Todd Finch
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Apps, Software, iOS | $1.5M–$2.2M |
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Matthew Watson
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D | Video, Publishing, Advertising | |
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Bert Amato
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.5M–$4.8M |
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Andrew Wright
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Angel | Apps, Mobile, CRM | $100k–$2.2M |
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Marc Morin
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, SaaS, Internet | $549k–$1.6M |
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David Kosmayer
Angel
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1 | Canada | Angel | SaaS, E-Commerce, Publishing | |
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Stephen O. Marshall
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | News, Publishing, Broadcasting | |
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Terry McBride is the current CEO and one of three founders of the Nettwerk Music Group, which includes Nettwerk Productions (Canada’s largest independent record label), Nettwerk Management (artist and producer management), Nettwerk One (publishing), and Artwerks (graphic and fashion design). Founded in McBride's apartment in 1984, Nettwerk hascorporate offices in Vancouver, Boston, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, Hamburg and London. Since its inception, Nettwerk has released over 500 different albums and sold over 150 million albums worldwide. In the past few years McBride has spoke at dozens of international conferences about advances in digital technology, intellectual property rights and the future of music distribution. In 2008, McBride co-authored a paper for the British University of Westminster’s “Musictank” entitled Meet the Millennials. In 2004, McBride stepped onto a yoga mat for the first time by way of recommendation from a friend, and it wasn't long before he realized that yoga offered him more than just a flexible body and mind. Acting on this realization, McBride along with his friend and yoga instructor, Lara Kozan, launched a chain of wellness centers called YYoga. It's McBride's vision for YYoga Studios to evolve into social third spaces, focusing on health and wellness for the body, mind, spirit and the community. McBride’s latest endeavor combines his two principle passions in the re-launch of Nutone Music. Encompassing music from the realm of devotional chant, world beat and beyond, Nutone is dedicated to the development of a new genre within today’s musical landscape. McBride explains, “Nutone's mission is to seek out what we feel is the best music that fits into the modern day Yoga studio, various wellness practices and everyday enjoyment of music. With many descriptions from World music to Chant to New Age to Mantra music, Nutone will demystify and clarify for listeners a brand that will be consistent in delivering quality albums.” At the 2003 Juno Awards Terry received the Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award, recognizing an outstanding individual who has contributed to the growth and advancement of the Canadian music industry. Terry has also twice been awarded the Pollstar Industry Award for Personal Manager of the year for his work with Sarah McLachlan (1997) and Avril Lavigne / Coldplay (2002).
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- Industry: Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Private Equity
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nettwerk Music Group — Founded in 1984, Nettwerk Music Group is a leading global independent record label with a legacy of purpose-driven innovation. We nurture a diverse roster of artists within fan-connected communities, helping artists cultivate deeply engaged audiences to build sustainable, long-term careers in the ever-evolving music industry.
Ric Arboit - President @ Nettwerk Music Group
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- Industry: Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Private Equity
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nettwerk Music Group — Founded in 1984, Nettwerk Music Group is a leading global independent record label with a legacy of purpose-driven innovation. We nurture a diverse roster of artists within fan-connected communities, helping artists cultivate deeply engaged audiences to build sustainable, long-term careers in the ever-evolving music industry.
Mark Jowett - Founder @ Nettwerk Music Group
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- Industry: Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Private Equity
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nettwerk Music Group — Founded in 1984, Nettwerk Music Group is a leading global independent record label with a legacy of purpose-driven innovation. We nurture a diverse roster of artists within fan-connected communities, helping artists cultivate deeply engaged audiences to build sustainable, long-term careers in the ever-evolving music industry.
Dan Fraser began his music industry career on the road at 17 years of age, consistently traveling over 250 days per year and moving up through the ranks in the touring world to tour manager, before co-founding the Nettwerk Music Group and becoming President of Nettwerk Management. As president, Fraser oversees all clients, artist managers,employees, financials, and contract negotiations. Further, Fraser manages all aspects of the touring careers of Juno and Grammy award-winning clients. He also contributes to the overall strategic development of the Nettwerk Music Group, along with the other three co-founders. In 1996, Fraser, along with Sarah McLachlan, Terry McBride, and Marty Diamond, co-founded the famed Lilith Fair tours, which ran from 1996-1999, and 2010. Fraser has guided the live carriers of many Nettwerk clients such as Sarah McLachlan, Barenaked Ladies, Dido, Avril, Coldplay, Stereophonics and many others. He currently manages / co manages Joshua Hyslop. Wanting and Juno nominated children’s act Bobs and Lolo. Fraser has sat on several boards such as the 2007 Memorial Cup and 2006 World Junior Hockey Championships held in British Columbia. He was an Executive Producer for the 2002 BC Cancer Benefit and the 2005 Tsunami Relief Benefit. Fraser served on the Ceremonies Production team for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Currently, he sits on the board for the Unison Benevolent Fund.
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- Industry: Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Private Equity
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nettwerk Music Group — Founded in 1984, Nettwerk Music Group is a leading global independent record label with a legacy of purpose-driven innovation. We nurture a diverse roster of artists within fan-connected communities, helping artists cultivate deeply engaged audiences to build sustainable, long-term careers in the ever-evolving music industry.
Elton Pereira is a Partner at SureSwift Capital, Co-Founder of Elton Pereira Records and an Angel Investor in STN Video. Elton Pereira attended the University of Victoria.
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- Industry: Video, Consumer, Lifestyle
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- STN Video — Minute powers videos at scale with technology for publishing, distribution and monetization across premium digital environments.
- Social Nature — Earn cash back on natural products at Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, Sprouts & more. Get free product trials (100% cash back) and high-value cash back offers. 1.2M+ members, paid in 48 hours.
Matthew Cauble is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Rosa Labs.
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- Industry: News, Publishing, Broadcasting
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LIVEKINDLY — LIVEKINDLY is a news and media platform focusing on food, health, sustainable living, and cruelty-free beauty. They build a home for informative and thought-provoking content, focusing on sustainable and compassionate living. The platform transforming the global food system by partnering with forward-looking poultry production companies seeking toembrace and contribute to plant-based options.
Scott Lake is a startup entrepreneur, tech investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the cofounder of Shopify (NYSE: SHOP), then later as founder of Source Metrics.Currently, Scott is a general partner at Hello Ventures, where he leverages all the learning from his entrepreneurial journeys to invest in and advise early-stage techcompanies.Scott also plays an active role with his wife Jess as philanthropic funders of diverse social and public health causes.In his past lives, he has been a bike messenger, a university lecturer, a driver at NATO, and a political science PhD.
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- Industry: Health Care, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $500k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $202k–$878k
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Social Nature — Earn cash back on natural products at Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, Sprouts & more. Get free product trials (100% cash back) and high-value cash back offers. 1.2M+ members, paid in 48 hours.
- Cognito Health — Canada's only integrated online mental health solution. Accessible and affordable treatment for your mental health. Book a free initial assessment today.
- KOHO Financial — Open an everyday spending account online with instant cash back & premium rewards. Join over 1.5M Canadians using KOHO's prepaid Mastercard to spend, save, build and borrow. Sign up in minutes!
Scott Hawthorn is an investor.
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- Industry: News, Publishing, Broadcasting
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LIVEKINDLY — LIVEKINDLY is a news and media platform focusing on food, health, sustainable living, and cruelty-free beauty. They build a home for informative and thought-provoking content, focusing on sustainable and compassionate living. The platform transforming the global food system by partnering with forward-looking poultry production companies seeking toembrace and contribute to plant-based options.
Todd Finch - President & CEO @ Vizible
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- Industry: Apps, Software, iOS
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pressly — Pressly is a smart online platform that helps you aggregate the right content for your audience and establish your brand as a thought leader in your industry.Content is exactly like your audience: It’s all over the web, pinging from social networks to blogs via corporate websites and emails. Pressly allows all of this to happen in a singleplace: your hub.
- Brio — Brio Platform is a comprehensive LP (limited partner) management system designed specifically for alternative asset managers, including those managing private equity, venture capital, real estate, and multi-strategy funds. The platform provides a robust back-office solution and a modern investor portal, covering the entire LP managementlifecycle-from deal marketing and onboarding to compliance, capital calls, distributions, and reporting.Key Features
- Triggerfox Corporation — Triggerfox is the mobile address book for busy professionals. It uses your calendar, email, and social media accounts to build rich profiles for everyone in your contacts list. Triggerfox helps you build better relationships with the people who matter most to your personal and business network. The best ‘relationship builders’ make it a habit tokeep-in-touch by sharing their time, knowledge, generosity and network connections.
Matthew Watson is the Chair and CEO of STN Video (formerly, SendtoNews Video), the leading sports video distribution platform in North America. Matthew graduated from UBC Law School and began his professional career as a corporate lawyer in the Vancouver office of Canada’s largest law firm. Matthew Watson made his first investment and founded anISP called Seaside which he subsequently sold to a large public company. Matthew then joined the executive team of a client, ACD Systems, helping to take them public and then running the operations, business and corporate development as they went from start up to world leader in digital imaging management software. In 2003 Matthew Watson moved to Carmanah Technologies as COO helping guide them from small marine lighting company to world leader in Solar LED lighting and a public company. Matthew was the first investor and CEO of Armorlogic which was acquired by Alert Logic. Matthew Watson is now Chair and CEO of STN Video, North American’s largest sports video platform serving over 700mm video views a month to over 40 million unique viewers.
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- Industry: Video, Publishing, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ArmorLogic —
- STN Video — Minute powers videos at scale with technology for publishing, distribution and monetization across premium digital environments.
- Alert Logic —
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Bert Amato is a Venture Partner at Golden Venture Partners. With over 25 years of software and technology experience, as well as a proven track record in early-stage investing, Bert is our resident unicorn hunter.Currently an investor, advisor, and director to multiple technology companies, he co-founded Delrina Corporation, best known for itscommunications software product, WinFax. As Chief Technical Officer of Delrina, he was responsible for all product strategy and R&D. At Delrina, Bert also held the positions of Director and Executive Vice President of the corporation. Acquired by Symantec Corporation for US$415M, Bert served as a Vice President of Symantec.In investing, Bert has had a solid track record, placing his personal angel and seed stage money in ten companies which have sold. He is currently an angel investor in Wattpad, Farelogix, Echoworx and Infinity Quick.Prior to his work with Delrina, Bert held a technical development position at the IBM Canada Research Laboratory and was a co-founder and executive officer of Schematix Computer Systems Inc., a software and consulting company. He has an Honours Engineering degree from the University of Toronto.
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- Industry: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.8M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
- Basil Systems — Revolutionizing the product lifecycle for life sciences with AI-enabled Data and Analytics, driving smarter decisions and market success
Andrew Wright is the Managing Director of Wright Ventures. He attended the University of Southern California.
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- Industry: Apps, Mobile, CRM
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.2M; Angel $250k–$825k
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Blok24 — Blok24 is building a spontaneity marketplace, connecting people with local businesses for activities happening now.Blok24 is the perfect solution for consumers to discover experiences in their communities, and for local businesses to engage with a targeted audience - people near them who will act in the next 24 hours.http://apple.co/2eNAgUT
- Trainiac — Trainiac by Gympass helps you get into an effective exercise routine by pairing you with a dedicated fitness coach for a personalized fitness plan and weekly workouts you can do anywhere. Available exclusively for Gympass members.
- Magicflix — Magicflix is a safe, curated video service for kids 12 years and younger. Magicflix aggregates videos from award-winning, original content creators from across the world. Magicflix provides a safe environment for children to view videos by curating them to be safe, age-appropriate and positive. Magicflix is now live on the App store. Magicflixis a Techstars Seattle 2014 startup and is based out of Seattle, WA. Magicflix is led by a strong technology team and 3 of Magicflix' 4 founders are moms including the CEO, Mamtha Banerjee. Together with it's content partners, Magicflix' mission is to make the mobile world a safer place for our children.
Marc, our Chief Executive Officer, co-founded Sandvine (TSX:SVC) and served as its Chief Technology Officer, developing the company's vision and technology strategy. Prior to Sandvine, he was co-founder at PixStream which was acquired by Cisco Systems.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $549k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uvaro — Remix your favorite resources and hacks with your best company content in a personalized hub that moves as fast as your team does
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- Dejero — Dejero delivers resilient, uninterrupted internet connectivity for data-intensive applications by intelligently combining multiple networks into a single managed service.
David Kosmayer - Founder and CEO @ Bookmark
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- Industry: SaaS, E-Commerce, Publishing
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bookmark — Bookmark is building a simpler way to save articles, read across devices, and keep a collection you can take with you. Explore our approach and create your account.
Steve joined EdgeStone as a Partner in June 2002 and has over 25 years of transaction and corporate development experience. From 1999 until 2002, he was Executive Vice President, Corporate Development of MDC Corporation (now MDC Partners Inc.), a diversified business services corporation listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, withinvestments in specialty printing, marketing and communications, direct selling, card manufacturing and technology services. From 1982 to 1999, Steve worked at Torys, one of Canada's leading transactional law firms, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions and financing. He became a partner at Torys in 1990 and from 1995 to 1998 was Managing Partner of Torys' European office based in London, England.Steve is Chairman of the Board of EZShield and Eurospec Manufacturing and serves on the Board of Directors of Porter Aviation Holdings and Continental Alloys and Services. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Richards Packaging and served on the Board of Directors of Trimaster Manufacturing and Farley Windows. He holds a L.L.B from the University of Western Ontario and a M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Steve is a member of the Board of Directors of the Sunnybrook Foundation and the Canadian Opera Company.
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- Industry: News, Publishing, Broadcasting
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LIVEKINDLY — LIVEKINDLY is a news and media platform focusing on food, health, sustainable living, and cruelty-free beauty. They build a home for informative and thought-provoking content, focusing on sustainable and compassionate living. The platform transforming the global food system by partnering with forward-looking poultry production companies seeking toembrace and contribute to plant-based options.
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