# Top 20 Renewable Energy Angel Investors in Canada in June 2026 ## Blaine LaBonte - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Big Data, Lighting Blaine LaBonte ## Meltem Demirors - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services 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. ## Frank Hinek - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mining, Bitcoin, CleanTech Frank Hinek ## Vipul Goyal - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mining, Bitcoin, CleanTech Vipul Goyal ## Walter James Treliving - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Solar, Energy, Mobile Jim Treliving is the Chairman and Owner of one of Canada’s most beloved restaurant chains, Boston Pizza International (BPI)—but that’s just the tip of the iceberg of his accolades. Well-known for his role as the encouraging, savvy, entrepreneurial spirit on CBC’s Dragons' Den, Jim has a history rooted in integrity—one which has led him well inthe world of business. One of Canada’s most successful entrepreneurs, Jim has been at the helm of the Boston Pizza name for nearly 50 years which has received prestigious recognition, including Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies Platinum Club, Canada’s 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures, the Henry Singer Award from the Canadian Institute of Retailing and Services and, most recently, the Canadian Franchise Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. ## Grant Van Cleve - Type: Angel - Location: Orange, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech Grant Van Cleve is the President of American Chamber of Commerce in Albania. He is also the Managing Partner at Hangar 75. He is chairman emeritus of TCA Venture Group. He attended the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania. ## Mahir Sahin - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Energy, Software, Renewable Energy Mahir Sahin is Director, Platforms and Ecosystems Partnerships at Google. He attended Duke University. ## Douglas Gray - Type: Angel - Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Lighting, GreenTech, Electronics Douglas Gray is the Founder, President and CEO of Graycon Group Ltd. He is a recognized leader in the IT industry and often speaks on how to use IT to achieve business goals, protect the organization and add value to the people and the bottom line. He began Graycon in 1989, with a goal to shift IT from being technology focused to being an enablingfoundation of the business. Since Graycon’s beginnings, Douglas has led the company to support over 1,000 organizations, has gone public and then re-privatized and has built an steadfast IT firm that employs over 170 IT professionals. Graycon has grown to be the reliable and practical choice for IT Support and Solutions throughout Western Canada.While Douglas has a passionate vision around technology solutions that provide clear business value, he also holds an uncompromising commitment to both the Grayconians who have helped make his vision a reality, and to Graycon’s local communities. Graycon Karma, the belief in “do good things and good things happen”, plays a powerful, guiding role in the partnership between Graycon’s clients, staff and local charities. Graycon’s quarter century of success is based on passionate leadership, enabling management, spectacular people and a sincere belief in being part of the community and giving back. ## Peter Poka - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mining, Bitcoin, CleanTech Peter Poka ## Ashif Mawji - Type: Angel - Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Grocery, Big Data, Lighting Ashif Mawji is the Venture Partner at Rising Tide. He attended NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology). ## Ray Muzyka - Type: Angel - Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology 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. ## Rus Newton - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: IaaS, SaaS, Mining Co-Founder of Global Advisors & CoinShares. Previously JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers & Shell International ## Manjit Minhas - Type: Angel - Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Solar, Energy, Health Care 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. ## Matjažek Horne - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mining, Bitcoin, CleanTech Matjažek Horne ## Michael Kordyback - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mining, Bitcoin, CleanTech Michael Kordyback ## Kevin Shaw - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mining, Bitcoin, CleanTech Kevin Shaw ## Oscar Plag - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mining, Bitcoin, CleanTech Oscar Plag ## Alex Blikstad - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mining, Bitcoin, CleanTech Alex Blikstad ## Arlene Dickinson - Type: Angel - Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Wellness 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. ## Michael Deeg - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mining, Bitcoin, CleanTech Michael Deeg