Top 15 Renewable Energy Angel Investors in Canada in December 2024
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Renewable energy startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Renewable energy companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Renewable Energy Angel Investors in Canada in December 2024
Investor | Renewable Energy Canada investments |
---|---|
Manjit Minhas | 1 |
Arlene Dickinson | 1 |
Oscar Plag | 1 |
Ashif Mawji | 1 |
Ray Muzyka | 1 |
Matjažek Horne | 1 |
Michael Deeg | 1 |
Vipul Goyal | 1 |
Rus Newton | 1 |
Peter Poka | 1 |
Alex Blikstad | 1 |
Michael Kordyback | 1 |
Kevin Shaw | 1 |
Meltem Demirors | 1 |
Frank Hinek | 1 |
34-year-old Manjit Minhas is the co-founder and co-owner of Minhas Breweries and Distillery and a Dragon on Dragon's Den. Though trained as a petroleum engineer, she has become a specialist in brand development, marketing, sales management and retail negotiations, having been recognized for several business industry awards such as PROFITmagazine's "Top Growth Entrepreneur", Top 100 Women Entrepreneurs in Canada, Calgary's Top 40 under 40, Chatelaine Magazine's "Top Entrepreneur Woman of The Year 2011" and The Sikh Centennial Foundation Award 2014.When Manjit Minhas was 19 years old, she and her brother Ravinder scraped together $10,000 to launch their first beer in Alberta. In 2006, they purchased the second oldest brewery in the United States and renamed it "Minhas Craft Brewery." At the time, this acquisition officially made the Minhas siblings the youngest brewery owners in the world.Their brewery in Monroe, Wisconsin is now the 10th largest in North America, and as a brand they produce more than 90 beers, spirits, liqueurs and wines that ship all across Canada and the U.S., as well as overseas to 15 different countries. Minhas Brewery makes all of the Kirkland brand beer for Costco worldwide, as well as all the craft beers under Trader Joes' label in the US. Today they run a group of companies that generated over $155-million in revenue last year.Manjit lives in Calgary, where she was born and raised, with her husband and two young daughters.
Show more
Investment focus
- Solar, Energy, Health Care
- Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- NEXXBAR — We manufacture All-in-one, one-size-fits-all patented self-treatment tools designed to replace current tools for daily myofascial release, pain management, and recovery. The distinct benefit over other foam rollers, balls, and massage wands is the leverage system, which allows for frequent self-treatment without getting on the floor, contortinginto awkward positions, and exerting the very muscles you are trying to treat. It is portable, convenient, adaptable, and easy to use for all ages and abilities.
- Easy Platter — Easy Platter Personal chefs prepare healthy, delicious custom cuisines in your kitchen for $7.75/Meal. Top-Rated Local Personal chefs prepare incredible meals per your dietary preferences. Sit back, relax while your affordable personal chefs prepare meals for you and your family in your kitchen or
- PilotsFriend West — Precision crafted by bio-scientists and nutritionists, originally made for active duty jet pilots, PilotsFriend is a vitalizing energy tonic that promotes optimal concentration, performance, and health.
Dickinson, owner and CEO of Venture Communications, a company she grew from a small, local firm to one of the largest independent agencies in Canada, is also the CEO of District Ventures and Youinc.com. Companies all aimed at helping market, fund and grow entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial companies. She is a two times best-selling author,accomplished speaker and is best known to Canadians as one of the venture capitalists on the award-winning CBC series’ Dragons’ Den.
Show more
Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Health Care, Wellness
- Funding Round, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Aku Spike — Aku delivers a high-end self acupressure experience anywhere, anytime. Stress relief, relaxation, and treatment for sore back, neck aches, joint pain and more.
- Vertiball — The precision massager that makes your back accessible in a way like never before. Our patent pending suction mounting system to mount onto walls and other flat surfaces. The technology allows you to place the device at specific heights giving you complete control over your sore, tense muscles.
- PilotsFriend West — Precision crafted by bio-scientists and nutritionists, originally made for active duty jet pilots, PilotsFriend is a vitalizing energy tonic that promotes optimal concentration, performance, and health.
Oscar Plag
Show more
Investment focus
- Mining, Bitcoin, CleanTech
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
Ashif Mawji is the Venture Partner at Rising Tide. He attended NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology).
Show more
Investment focus
- Grocery, Big Data, Lighting
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- G2V Optics — G2V Optics is an LED solar simulator manufacturer building advanced products for scientific testing - early-stage, research & development, production, or certification.
- HonestDoor — Free real estate data on residential and commercial properties - sold prices, estimated value of homes, bed and bath. Exclusive houses for sale
- Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.
Originally trained as a medical doctor, Dr. Ray Muzyka cofounded BioWare, a video game development studio focusing on story and character, in the early 1990s. He practiced emergency/family medicine for two years full time, with medicine transitioning to part-time over the following decade as he focused on his role as BioWare’s CEO. BioWare wasacquired by Electronic Arts in 2007, and Dr. Muzyka took on the roles of Senior Vice President at Electronic Arts and General Manager of EA’s BioWare division, which grew over the next five years to span eight development locations worldwide with about 2000 staff (1400 full time). He retired from video games in October 2012, with his third “career chapter” at ThresholdImpact, where he focused on sustainable, profitable impact investing: mentoring and angel investing in information technology, new media, and medical innovations with social entrepreneurs. An active angel investor and entrepreneurial mentor, Dr. Muzyka is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, the A100, the Ashoka Support Network, and the Board of Governors of the University of Alberta (serving as Chair of the Human Resources Committee and on the Learning and Discovery Committee and as a member of the University of Alberta Advancement Council). He is Chair of the University of Alberta’s entrepreneur Venture Mentoring Service, a venture advisor at iNovia Venture Capital, and a member of the Alberta Research and Innovation Advisory Committee and the Alberta Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy. He also serves on a number of private company boards. He previously served on the board of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences from 2001-2008 and was on the Board of Trustees of the Stollery Children’s Health Foundation from 2012-2015. He was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame in 2011 and received the International Game Developers’ Choice Awards 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Muzyka received the inaugural Alumni Innovation Award in 2015 from the University of Alberta. He additionally was named as the 2017 Allard Chair in Business at the MacEwan University’s School of Business and as an Honorary Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary Club International in 2016, in recognition for his philanthropic efforts. Other awards include entry into Canada’s Top 40 under 40 and Ernst and Young’s 2001 Entrepreneur of the Year (IT, Prairies).He obtained his Bachelor of Medical Science from the University of Alberta in 1990, his Doctorate of Medicine from there in 1992, and his MBA from the University of Western Ontario (Ivey School of Business) in 2001.
Show more
Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Leadoptik — Leadoptik is a California-based company is currently operating in stealth mode.
- Modality.AI, Inc. — Modality.ai is an AI-powered platform that detects health conditions using conversational AI. Through dialogue and video, Modality.AI interacts conversationally with the patient to provide health assessment anywhere, anytime. Its system analyzes multimodal data which allows continuous screening and assessing of patients’ health.
- Gray Oncology Solutions — Gray Oncology Solution is a healthcare enterprise software company that commercializes GrayOS, the operating system for oncology.
Matjažek Horne
Show more
Investment focus
- Mining, Bitcoin, CleanTech
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
Michael Deeg
Show more
Investment focus
- Mining, Bitcoin, CleanTech
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
Vipul Goyal
Show more
Investment focus
- Mining, Bitcoin, CleanTech
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
Co-Founder of Global Advisors & CoinShares. Previously JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers & Shell International
Show more
Investment focus
- IaaS, Mining, Bitcoin
- Seed
- Kenya, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
- UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
Peter Poka
Show more
Investment focus
- Mining, Bitcoin, CleanTech
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
Alex Blikstad
Show more
Investment focus
- Mining, Bitcoin, CleanTech
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
Michael Kordyback
Show more
Investment focus
- Mining, Bitcoin, CleanTech
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
Kevin Shaw
Show more
Investment focus
- Mining, Bitcoin, CleanTech
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, an investment firm that manages $750M in assets, and is a trusted partner to investors and entrepreneurs navigating the digital asset ecosystem. Meltem oversees the firm’s managed strategies group and its New York office, and leads corporate development as a board director. Previously, shewas part of the founding team of Digital Currency Group. She teaches at MIT and Oxford, and serves on the WEF Blockchain Council. Meltem leads CoinShares' venture strategy and is an active angel investor, having invested in over 150 companies in the digital currency ecosystem since 2015.
Show more
Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
- Magma — Magma is a decentralized liquid staking protocol built on the Monad Network, an Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 blockchain.
- Fluid Protocol — Fluid Protocol is a decentralized, over-collateralized lending mechanism designed especially for Fuel Network. In order to maximize capital efficiency, Fluid offers users a safe and effective method of releasing liquidity from their collateral without having to liquidate their underlying assets.
Frank Hinek
Show more
Investment focus
- Mining, Bitcoin, CleanTech
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
Investors by industry
Biotech
Proptech
Gaming
FinTech
Health Care
Community
Google
Marketplace
Climate
Consumer
Artificial intelligence
Impact
Energy
Hardware
EdTech
Sustainability
Venture Capital
Clean Energy
B2B
Real Estate
Publishing
Payments
Big Data
Retail
Organic Food
Web3
Education
Finance
Food and Beverage
Video Games
Infrastructure
Financial Services
Photography
Beauty
Medical
Wellness
Social Media
Social Network
Android
Construction
Art
Local
Legal
Digital Media
Manufacturing
eSports
Sports
Music
Mobile
Internet
Enterprise Software
Franchise
Email
Travel
Mobile Advertising
Biotechnology
Recruiting
Hospitality
Fitness
Platforms
Cannabis
Medical Device
Social
Automotive
Crowdfunding
Wine And Spirits
CleanTech
Mobile Apps
Transportation
InsurTech
Enterprise
LGBT
Fashion
Oil and Gas
Life Science
Film
Theatre
Non Profit
Renewable Energy
SaaS
Sporting Goods
Social Impact
Restaurants
Software
Celebrity
Cryptocurrency
Agriculture (agtech)
Media (entertainment)
Facebook
Blockchain
Investors by country
India
Germany
South Korea
United Kingdom
Australia
Canada
New Zealand
Ireland
United States
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Spain
Sri Lanka
China
Middle East
Africa
Indonesia
Europe
Armenia
Singapore
Oceania
Brazil
Japan
South Africa
Vietnam
LATAM
Asia
Denmark
Costa Rica
Bermuda
Egypt
Croatia
Gibraltar
Algeria
Estonia
Ecuador
Greece
Chile
Bulgaria
Ethiopia
Hong Kong
Faroe Islands
France
Ghana
Lebanon
Mali
Liberia
Malta
Liechtenstein
Malaysia
Italy
Panama
Myanmar
Mauritius
Nicaragua
Philippines
Lithuania
Israel
Jersey
Norway
Morocco
Mexico
Peru
Kuwait
Puerto Rico
Tunisia
Uganda
Sierra Leone
Senegal
San Marino
Uzbekistan
Seychelles
Togo
El Salvador
Rwanda
Russian Federation
Tanzania
Ukraine
Zimbabwe
Uruguay
Serbia
Taiwan
Venezuela
Tajikistan
Sweden
Turkey
Poland
Thailand
Zambia
Portugal
Slovenia
Dominican Republic
Azerbaijan
Iraq
Iceland
Bahamas
Namibia
Nigeria
United Arab Emirates
Jamaica
Honduras
Bolivia
Isle of Man
Luxembourg
Albania
Pakistan
Czech Republic
Bangladesh
Argentina
Grenada
Jordan
Romania
Hungary
Georgia
Belgium
Finland
Bahrain
Belarus
Belize
Barbados
Kenya
Kazakhstan
Cayman Islands
Cambodia
Cameroon
Cyprus
Latvia
Oman
Austria
Switzerland
Marshall Islands
Colombia
Guatemala
Angel Investors in Canada by industry
Transportation
FinTech
Consumer
EdTech
Impact
SaaS
Community
Artificial intelligence
Hardware
Gaming
Health Care
Energy
Big Data
Restaurants
Venture Capital
Real Estate
Infrastructure
Fashion
Mobile Apps
Beauty
Web3
Retail
Education
Financial Services
Cryptocurrency
Finance
Payments
Organic Food
Medical
Video Games
Medical Device
Wellness
Sustainability
Email
Internet
Photography
Social Media
Music
Manufacturing
Art
Digital Media
Mobile
Social Network
Enterprise
Legal
Construction
Local
Software
eSports
Enterprise Software
Fitness
CleanTech
Travel
Hospitality
Automotive
InsurTech
Recruiting
Biotechnology
Cannabis
B2B
Publishing
Oil and Gas
Renewable Energy
Blockchain
Wine And Spirits
Life Science
Biotech
Sports
Proptech
Marketplace
Climate
Food and Beverage
Media (entertainment)
Platforms
Agriculture (agtech)