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Top 10 Publishing Angel Investors in Canada (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Canada Publishing startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Canada Publishing startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Marc Morin
Angel
1 Canada Seed, Series A Software, Internet, SaaS $549k–$1.6M
Bert Amato
Angel
1 Canada, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$4.8M
David Kosmayer
Angel
1 Canada Angel SaaS, E-Commerce, Publishing
Scott Hawthorn
Angel
1 Canada Seed News, Publishing, Broadcasting
Todd Finch
Angel
1 Canada Seed Apps, Software, iOS $1.5M–$2.2M
Stephen O. Marshall
Angel
1 Canada Seed News, Publishing, Broadcasting
Scott Lake
Angel
1 Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, FinTech, Finance $190k–$1.3M
Elton Pereira
Angel
1 Canada Seed Video, Consumer, Lifestyle
Matthew Cauble
Angel
1 Canada Seed News, Publishing, Broadcasting
Andrew Wright
Angel
1 United States, Canada Seed, Angel Apps, Mobile, CRM $100k–$2.2M
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Marc Morin
Angel · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
  • 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.
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Bert Amato
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
  • 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
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David Kosmayer
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Publishing startups

David Kosmayer - Founder and CEO @ Bookmark

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, E-Commerce, Publishing
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bookmark — Domain name Bookmark.com offers a digital sanctuary for users to save, organize, and revisit valuable content. This concise, 2-syllable, 8-letter URL evokes feelings of efficiency, convenience, and connection in the vast online landscape. S
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Scott Hawthorn
Angel · 1 investments in Canada Publishing startups

Scott Hawthorn is an investor.

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Investment focus

  • 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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Todd Finch
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Publishing startups

Todd Finch - President & CEO @ Vizible

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Stephen O. Marshall
Angel · 1 investments in Canada Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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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Scott Lake
Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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 $190k–$805k
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

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  • 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!
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Elton Pereira
Angel · Victoria, British Columbia, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Consumer, Lifestyle
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • Social Nature — Join 1M+ members earning cash back on better-for-you products. Discover new brands by reading verified reviews, get exclusive cash back offers, and save money with Social Nature.
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Matthew Cauble
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Publishing startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Andrew Wright
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Canada Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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 — 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.
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Publishing Angel investor funding in Canada at a glance

Stats across 13 deals from 18 investors.

18
investors
in Canada Publishing startups
13
deals
in Canada Publishing startups
$1.5M
median round
in Canada Publishing startups
6%
lead investors
lead at least one round
46%
Seed
most common funding stage

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