Top 25 Social Media Angel Investors in Canada in July 2025

Investor	Social Media Canada investments
Stephen Tapp	1
Fahim Saleh	1
Roger Dickey	1
Deepak Jain	1
Marc Baghadjian	1
Tanveer Ali	1
Jim Fletcher	1
Paul Olliver	1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	1
Jeff Sagansky	1
William Lohse	1
Howard Love	1
sylvain authier	1
David Wieland	1
Jon Oringer	1
Rahul Vohra	1
Nitesh Banta	1
Jevon MacDonald	1
Jon Oringer	1
Mark Miller	1
Edward Lando	1
Saeed Amidi	1
Clark Valberg	1
Abbas Alidina	1
Jon Oringer	1

Stephen Tapp - Territory Vice President, Head of Canada @ WeWork

Investment focus

Celebrity, Social Media, Enterprise Software
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Influicity — Influicity works with brands and agencies on a wide variety of digital media aspects, from influencer marketing to custom podcasts and beyond.

Fahim Saleh

Investment focus

Apps, Ride Sharing, Social Media
Seed, Angel
Canada, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Picap — Picap is a Colombian ride-hailing service provider that connects people who require a means of transportation and people with motorcycles or cars who want to share their vehicle and earn additional income in the process. Founded in 2016, Picap operates in 13 cities including Bogotá, Medellín, Bucaramanga, Neiva, Villavicencio, Cartagena, Popayán,and Ibagué.
Madlipz — MadLipz is the ultimate short-form voice over app that lets you unleash your creativity with hilarious voiceovers, AI characters, parodies, and more! Dive into a world of laughter and storytelling, and join millions of users in creating and sharing your unique voice-over masterpieces.

Roger Dickey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Made Renovation. He previously worked at Gigster as a Co-Founder & CEO. Roger Dickey attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Canada, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
Double — Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors.
Craftwork — Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners.

Value Creator - People Oriented - Turnaround Champion - Cultural Integration Expert

Investment focus

Art, Gaming, eSports
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Anime Universe — The AU platform will be a fully immersive, safe and trusted environment where we will find a space for ourselves and our communities to create new memories and share our activities.

Marc Baghadjian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lolly. Marc Baghadjian attended Babson College. He has invested in many seed-stage companies.

Investment focus

Internet, Apps, EdTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

WOMBO — WOMBO is the world's best AI-powered lip sync app. Take a selfie, pick a song, and let WOMBO work its magic. Available for early access.
Kadama — 24/7 homework help. Find someone to help write your essay. Subjects like math, science, english, history, and more. Earn money by tutoring on your schedule.
Superpower — The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life.

Tanveer Ali - Executive Director @ Olympic Industries

Investment focus

Sports, Marketplace, Sponsorship
Pre-Seed, Angel
Canada, Bangladesh, United States

Portfolio highlights

Madlipz — MadLipz is the ultimate short-form voice over app that lets you unleash your creativity with hilarious voiceovers, AI characters, parodies, and more! Dive into a world of laughter and storytelling, and join millions of users in creating and sharing your unique voice-over masterpieces.
Socian Ltd — Let us make your Business Converse by bridging the gap between human and machine communication to ensure better tomorrow. Please stay tuned with us and keep supporting us. Exciting things are on the way!
OpenSponsorship — Join 19000+ brands connecting to 11000+ athletes, teams and events globally, on OpenSponsorship to drive marketing and sales using sports; proven to deliver 7x ROI.

Jim is a 30-year veteran of the Canadian venture capital industry. He has participated actively across all funding stages from being part of founding management through personal angel investment, institutional venture capital, corporate venture investment and a variety of public and private exits. He has also been actively involved in numerouspublic policy initiatives designed to foster a healthy Canadian environment for early-stage companies and venture capital investors.Jim has been a Managing Director with Ventures West and Chrysalix Energy Management, overseen corporate venture investing as Treasurer of MacMillan Bloedel, and was founder and CEO of China Capital, CFO of the Angus Reid Group, and a Director of many technology companies. He currently chairs the Boards of Vision Critical Communications Inc., Recombo Inc. and Tyze Personal Networks Inc., and is a member of the Advisory Board of OMERS Ventures.Jim is also actively involved in the non-profit and social enterprise sector. He was a founding partner of BC Technology Social Venture Partners, has served on many other non-profit Boards and is engaged in public policy initiatives to enhance social innovation and finance.

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, News
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Shelfie — Shelfie is an app that connects readers and books. Shelfie lets readers digitize their paper book collections, get free or discounted ebooks of the books they own and discover their next reads.Shelfie has signed deals with over 600 publishers allowing users to download an eBook if they own a print edition for nearly 150,000 titles. Readers justtake a picture of their bookshelf (a "shelfie") and the app will identify and catalog all of their books and let them know which ones are eligible for bundling.
A&K Robotics — A&K Robotics | Autonomous Vehicle Systems
ePACT Network — ePACT will improve emergency preparedness across North America. By connecting every home and organization with shared information and resources, ePACT will have a positive impact on the safety of our communities. Its benefits will encourage users to adopt and share the system, while its tools help North Americans manage unexpected situations.

Paul Olliver is the Managing Partner at Wider Wake.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Content
Seed, Angel
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Embrace — Stay informed with Embrace's mobile monitoring solutions. Optimize app performance & user experience with our comprehensive platform. Learn more now.
#Paid — #Paid is a tech company that operates a creative marketing platform that combines brand and creator collaboration. The platform allows brands to collaborate with relevant artists, travelers, storytellers, and photographers from all over the world for product placement on social media platforms.
Conversion Logic — The givezooks peer to peer technology has been integrated with Salsa Labs. The NEW Salsa now offers a peer to peer module for our Engage customers.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.

Jeff Sagansky - Chief Executive Officer and President @ Double Eagle Acquisition

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, Advertising
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Picklebet — Puntaa is a social daily fantasy sports (DFS) app.
Oddin.gg — Oddin.gg - Esports live odds provider with industry-leading uptime and multiple live markets. B2B Esports data API. Boost volume and profit. Try our demo.
SiBS — Social Bartering System is a platform for community connection and the trade of goods and services. Social Bartering System was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in New York, United States.

William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Advertising
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Beatrust — Tags connect and drive collaboration, expanding your team's potential
SmartNews — Trusted by over 40+ million worldwide readers, SmartNews provides the best news, stories and events across 200+ local news sites.
Greenhouse Software — Greenhouse is a talent acquisition software company that offers its suite of tools and services to help businesses with the hiring process.The platform aims to assist companies with sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding the right talent. It assists employers to establish who they are looking to hire and plan a consistent interviewprocess, enabling recruiters to collect feedback and track employees after they have been hired.Daniel Chait and Jon Stross co-founded the company in 2012 and headquartered it in New York, New York.

Howard Love is aFounder and CEO of LoveToKnow, Angel Investor and Author.

Investment focus

Social Media, Mobile, Apps
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Kasaz — Buying and selling properties in Spain is a daunting task. Low-quality listings, inaccurate location and painful visits-scheduling combined with dated portals makes for a bad user experience.Kasaz' one-stop real-estate portal reduces time to purchase by connecting buyers and sellers in a platform where the quality of the experience is key.The company was founded by Sebastien Marion, a serial entrepreneur who sold his previous startup Comufy to king.com.
DRAAGU — Draagu create value with images untapped in smartphone. Doing so we simplify the traditional image stock selling process and solve one of the A.I industry bottleneck ; creating image data set.Our Free mobile App onboard A.I running on device. The App analyse image content and quality and notify users when it detect one of their image can sell(for communication or A.I training purposes) because it matches a client need. - No prior image selection, and upload needed : everything is automatic. - Privacy is guaranteed by design : the whole process is done on-device and image become visible only when the user decide to sell.Companies have access to fresh, unpublished images. They can create image libraries on-demand, even from their own employees or clients in a closed community.Draagu is unique because: 1/ effortless process : sign-in, and you are done! No image edition, upload or tagging needed > our App notify when you can sell. That allow us to - serve cheaper images (0,5-1€) as user do not have to "work" to sell - retrieve 600 images by users against 20-30 on average by our competitors (faster growth) 2/ privacy guaranteed by design : the whole A.I image analysis is done on device only. Image become visible and leave the phone only when user decide to sell 3/ our images are available on-demand from our users smartphones : we store 1% only of the image we can sell : low cost structure 4/ Clients can buy images an Engage with image makers (that can be their employees and clients) as they are directly in touch, contrary to other platforms 5/ fake free : clients are guaranteed the image they received match their criteria (content, location, time, author) as the App allow only to submit such images 6/ we serve exclusive, unpublished images.
Fetch Delivery — With Fetch, you can get free gift cards simply for shopping, snapping all your receipts and playing games on your phone! Try our rewards app today.

sylvain authier

Investment focus

Apps, Health Care, Mobile Apps
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nurau — We are scientists, students, health professionals, influencers & advocates from Canada with one goal: to openly and honestly talk about mental health.

David Wieland is the co-founder and managing partner of Motivate Ventures, a venture capital firm in Chicago. David is a serial technology entrepreneur with three exits (RIVS, Powersurge Technologies and InnFlux). He is the co-founder, former chairman, and investment committee member of VitalizeVC (fka IrishAngels.). BA Philosophy, Government NotreDame. MBA Northwestern / Kellogg.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Hallow — Pray every day with Mark Wahlberg, Jonathan Roumie, and millions of others around the world on Hallow, the #1 prayer app.
Schoola — Schoola is an American online retail company that sells second hand women's and children's clothing. Schoola solicit the clothing via donation and in return donate a portion of each sales proceeds to the school of the donor's choice. Schoola is a self-service fundraising platform that schools, principals, PTAs and PTOs can use toraise significant funds for schools and other non-profits. To date Schoola has partnered and raised funds for over 10,000 schools throughout the US. Headquartered in San Francisco, Schoola was founded by former school administrator Stacey Boyd and is backed by several prominent angel and institutional investors.
Unsplash — Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Open source fine-tuning & reinforcment learning (RL) for Llama 4, DeepSeek-R1, Qwen3, Gemma 3 and Mistral LLMs! Beginner friendly.

Rahul Vohra is the Founder and CEO at Superhuman. He is also the Technical Advisor at BOLDstart Ventures and Investor & Advisor at Partender and Investor of sendwithus and EasyPost.Rahul Vohra is a former CEO and Co-Founder of Rapportive and Game Designer at Jagex. Rahul received a bachelor of arts in Computer Science at the University ofCambrigdge.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bubbles — Bubbles is a collaboration tool that lets you tag anything on your screen and invite your teammates to discuss in-context. Get excited by organic growth and viral loops, and less so by paid advertising. Are active on one or more social platforms like Medium, Twitter, Product Hunt, etc.
Quest Portal — Quest Portal makes role-play and tell fantastical stories together by means of crafting and creates characters.
Zed Industries — Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Vybe — Virtual Try-On & AI Styling for Fashion Stores
Protege — Protege is the platform for AI Training Data. Protege works with data holders and model builders to empower them to share training data for AI model development.
Chai Discovery — Building frontier artificial intelligence to predict and reprogram the interactions between biochemical molecules.

Jevon MacDonald is the Co-Founder at StartupNorth.

Investment focus

Software, Predictive Analytics, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Shakepay — Shakepay allows Canadians to buy/sell bitcoin and pay their friends. We're on a mission to create open access to building wealth.
Platformatic — OpenSource Platform for ...
Schematic — Convert more users, expand accounts, and prevent churn with better monetization powered by Schematic.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Open source fine-tuning & reinforcment learning (RL) for Llama 4, DeepSeek-R1, Qwen3, Gemma 3 and Mistral LLMs! Beginner friendly.

Mark Miller is the CEO of Volaris Group. Mark Miller attended McMaster University.

Investment focus

News, Security, Social Media
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Samdesk — Samdesk is a global disruption monitoring tool powered by big data and AI. Get real-time crisis alerts when it matters most.

Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Superscale AI — Superscale AI is a marketing services company that helps the users to create content in social media platform.
Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.
Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home

Saeed Amidi is the Founder and CEO of Plug and Play. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Bitwage — Payroll, invoicing & benefits for digital assets. Bitwage offers services for companies and direct to workers. Workers can sign up and get direct deposit accounts to get paid from any company or client. Workers locally receive unique digital asset benefits. Workers internationally get paid faster & cheaper than traditional wires.
Jobspotting — Jobspotting is a recommendations engine that suggests relevant jobs to users based on their skills and experience. The engine is powered by Skills Graph and Semantic Analysis technology. The company was founded in 2013 in Berlin, Germany by ex-Googlers Hessam Lavi, Jan Backes and Manuel Holtz. Robin Haak joined the founding team in 2014 aftermeeting them through the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator Programme, of which he was a co-founder. Jobspotting successfully acquired seed funding.
KaChing! — KaChing! is a revolutionary mobile marketing platform that integrates seamlessly with almost any Point of Sale system to enable fast and secure redemption of mobile coupons. For CPG brands and grocery retailers, we are solving the age-old problems of coupon fraud and manual processing, and using rich datasets to enable targeting of the right couponto the right consumer at the right time. Best of all, KaChing! is free for retailers and requires no new hardware or modifications to POS software. Currently in private beta at select retail stores in the San Francisco Bay Area, KaChing! is launching in 2014 with several west coast supermarket chains.

Clark Valberg Clark Valberg is the Managing Partner at Tiferes Ventures. He previously worked as the CEO and Co-Founder of InVision, the digital product design platform used to make the world’s best customer experiences. InVision is the cornerstone of the product design process for more than 3 million people at tens of thousands of companies,including eighty percent of the Fortune 100 and brands like Airbnb, Amazon, HBO, Netflix, Slack, Starbucks and Uber. He is a former Co-Founder of Epicenter Consulting.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Root — Root is a next-generation social platform that combines communication tools with a customizable app framework, allowing communities to organize, coordinate, and extend their functionality through apps.
Snaptrude — Design buildings with your team & get real-time feedback from stakeholders - on any device, from anywhere in the world.
Voiceflow — Visually design, prototype and publish voice and chat apps across channels like Alexa, Google or any custom channel/modality. Get started today, with no code.

Abbas Alidina is the Founder/CEO at Crowdbabble. He's responsible for Crowdbabble's overall vision and product direction. He focuses on making sure Crowdbabble delights customers by keeping things simple. When he's not dreaming about pie charts, you'll most likely find him watching or playing basketball!

Investment focus

SaaS, Analytics, Social Media
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Crowdbabble — Crowdbabble is the leader in social media analytics, measurement and reporting tools. We track social media performance across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Open source fine-tuning & reinforcment learning (RL) for Llama 4, DeepSeek-R1, Qwen3, Gemma 3 and Mistral LLMs! Beginner friendly.