Top 10 Publishing Angel Investors in Canada in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Publishing startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Publishing Angel Investors in Canada in December 2024

Investor	Publishing Canada investments
Bert Amato	1
Elton Pereira	1
Scott Hawthorn	1
Matthew Cauble	1
Andrew Wright	1
Marc Morin	1
Scott Lake	1
Stephen O. Marshall	1
Todd Finch	1
David Kosmayer	1

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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.

Investment focus

Content, Software, Education
Seed, Angel, Series A
Canada

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.
Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.

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.

Investment focus

Video, Consumer, Lifestyle
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

STN Video — STN Video is an award-winning online video platform that solves digital video for publishers, content creators, and advertisers. STN Video supplies digital publishers with premium content, advanced player technology, and reliable revenue. With a library of up to 5,000 new videos every day, the STN Video online video platform serves over 1,800publishers and hundreds of premium content providers at zero cost. STN Video’s partners include publishers like the NY Post, NY Daily News, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and premium content providers like MLB, NBA, Bloomberg, AP and Rolling Stone. Using the STN Video online video platform, publishers easily serve official video to keep readers engaged and on-site longer. From “sports to news”, STN Video offers publishers all the content they need to cover their sites. The combination of official, premium content, and top publishers provides a brand-safe environment for advertisers and connects content providers with a broader incremental audience. STN Video’s advanced technology sets it apart, offering the best contextually relevant content via Smart Match, an AI-powered video player. Smart Match matches articles with content from an extensive library of over 1 million videos, allowing publishers to embed relevant videos on every page automatically in seconds. The STN Video online video platform improves user experience, publisher workflow, and both its partners’ top and bottom lines. STN Video shares the revenue it generates with publishing partners and content creators while also accommodating their own advertising sales.
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Scott Hawthorn is an investor.

Investment focus

News, Publishing, Broadcasting
Seed
Canada

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.

Matthew Cauble heads Soylent’s internal project development and marketing, focusing on Soylent product packaging, manufacturing and distribution. He currently manages Soylent’s beta program whereby iterations of the formula, packaging and customer experience are reviewed by a select group in order to ensure the quality and safety of the productshipped to Soylent customers. Prior to joining Soylent, he served as procurement manager at Capital One before co-founding Level RF with Soylent CEO, Robert Rhinehart. He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a Certificate in Finance.

Investment focus

News, Publishing, Broadcasting
Seed
Canada

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.

Andrew Wright is the Managing Director of Wright Ventures. He attended the University of Southern California.

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, CRM
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Blok24 — Providing a surprisingly human shopping experience. Trusted and secure. Millions of domains to choose from.
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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

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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.
Sortable — Sortable is an agnostic, low-cost, broad spectrum platform that helps publishers unify demand partners, data, and tools. We’ve developed a best-in-class UI that contextualizes this data, allowing publishers to more deeply understand the correlation between content, marketing, and monetization.Their ultimate goal is to simplify the complexities ofpublishing operations while generating more revenue for their publisher partners.Sortable began as an online publisher, building 20 websites and apps to help consumers compare competing products in a number of categories, generating over 500 million product comparisons since their creation. In 2014, after realizing that the experience gained from building websites was better used to help fellow publishers, Sortable launched the machine learning ad optimization focused technology company that you see today.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, FinTech, Communities
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

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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.