Top 50 Sports Angel Investors in Canada in July 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Sports startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Sports Angel Investors in Canada in July 2025
Investor | Sports Canada investments |
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Peter Wilson | 6 |
Dan Plashkes | 4 |
Jeffrey Howe | 4 |
Lance Priebe | 3 |
Jean-François Grenon | 3 |
Ray Muzyka | 2 |
Paul Geyer | 2 |
Jill Denham | 2 |
Ndamukong Suh | 2 |
Drew Brees | 2 |
Eric Wellwood | 2 |
Arlene Dickinson | 2 |
John W Tomes | 2 |
Kyle Wellwood | 2 |
Jayson Tatum | 1 |
Mark Mastrov | 1 |
John Currie | 1 |
TJ Hockenson | 1 |
Shannon Byrne Susko | 1 |
Jacky Chen | 1 |
Aditya Bali | 1 |
David Tedman | 1 |
Jim Spatz | 1 |
Michael Dornbrook | 1 |
Norm Francis | 1 |
Jared Allen | 1 |
Nolan Bushnell | 1 |
Mitch Marner | 1 |
Lance Tracey | 1 |
Brian Wong | 1 |
Ryan Holmes | 1 |
Mike Walsh | 1 |
Jim Estill | 1 |
Deepak Jain | 1 |
Roger Ehrenberg | 1 |
Jez San | 1 |
Greg Zeschuk | 1 |
Dennis Phelps | 1 |
Greg Peet | 1 |
Seth Boro | 1 |
Nick Robertson | 1 |
Greg Malpass | 1 |
Satish Kanwar | 1 |
Jeff Chang | 1 |
David Grutman | 1 |
Brett Wilson | 1 |
Hans Knapp | 1 |
George Kittle | 1 |
Simon Whitfield | 1 |
Brenda Irwin | 1 |
Pete Wilson is the Managing Director at HarbourVest Partners.
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Investment focus
- Fantasy Sports
- Seed, Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- OwnersBox — Daily Fantasy Sports reinvented! Play OwnersBox's suite of innovative DFS games and compete to win exciting cash prizes.
Dan Plashkes
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Investment focus
- Fantasy Sports
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- OwnersBox — Daily Fantasy Sports reinvented! Play OwnersBox's suite of innovative DFS games and compete to win exciting cash prizes.
Jeffrey Howe
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Investment focus
- Fantasy Sports
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- OwnersBox — Daily Fantasy Sports reinvented! Play OwnersBox's suite of innovative DFS games and compete to win exciting cash prizes.
Lance Priebe
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Investment focus
- eSports, SaaS, Content Delivery Network
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- WTFast — WTFast is here to help you get rid of pesky online gaming problems and bid farewell to Fortnite lag, PUBG lag, Dota 2 lag, CSGO lag, LOL lag and hundred of other games.
- PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
- Nurture — Fun, science-backed learning games that build future-proof life skills like critical thinking, money smarts, healthy habits, and more. Free for now!
Jean François Grenon brings more than 25 years of expertise in the telecom and wireless space. Prior to forming Vectrad Networks and then NTF-Capital in 2003, Jean-François was Chairman and CEO of Innova Corporation, a company he led folllowing its listing on the NASDAQ.Jean-François graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal andholds a Harvard Business School MBA.He sits on the board of several innovation driven corporations including Inter-Mobile S.A.S, a NexTFund portfolio company.
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, Computer
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- PlayFitt — PlayFitt is a fitness platform using experience in Sports Analytics, Machine Learning, Video Games.
- IntelliSports — IntelliSports is a Montreal based technology company that is combining real world sports with a digitally engaging experience and A.I. to create real world gaming.At IntelliSports they firmly believe that getting healthy should be as much fun as Levelling Up in your favourite video game. They are using their experience in Sports Analytics, MachineLearning, Video Games and mass market consumer technology to create a fitness platform where users can train, group up, compete and enjoy many of the most engaging elements of modern video games.
- Sollum Technologies — Sollum Technologies is offers greenhouse producers the only smart LED lighting solution which dynamically reproduces the full spectrum of the sun’s natural light. It is based in Montréal (Québec, Canada), where its design, development and manufacturing activities are concentrated. It works closely with its clients to modulate and create recipesadapted to the growth cycle of each product, regardless of its native climate in the world and the location of the greenhouse. Sollum’s lighting solutions thereby provide unparalleled value in terms of energy savings, productivity and superior produce quality through a flexible, adaptive and easy-to-use application, with great respect for the environment.
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.
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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.
Paul Geyer, a successful Medtech Entrepreneur and experienced Board member. Over the past 20 years Paul founded and led two companies through their growth phase, in one case to a successful private exit and in the other case through growth as a public company with numerous acquisitions. Both companies have grown to be anchor medical devicecompanies in the Vancouver area, employing more than 350 people.In 1991 he founded Mitroflow International Inc., a tissue heart valve company. Paul grew the company from 9 employees to more than 125 employees in 1999. In 1999 Paul sold Mitroflow to Sulzer Medica, for more than $50 mil. Paul's leadership resulted in Mitroflow growing to more than 200 employees, making it one of the largest medical devices companies in the Vancouver area. In 2001 Paul started Medical Ventures, a new specialty vascular device company where he is currently Chairman of the Board. From its inception to June 2008, Geyer held the position of CEO at Medical Ventures (now Neovasc) and was responsible for raising over $40 million in Equity financing and growing the company’s product portfolio through internal development and the acquisition of 3 other companies. In 2008 Paul began focusing on sharing is expertise to assist other Entrepreneurs to build successful businesses, through his involvement as a mentor or Board member. He also focused on building the local community through his involvement as a Board member of BC technology industry association, along with a number of non-profit community based organizations. Paul is actively engaged as a Philanthropist, as Chairman of the Board of Social Venture Partners Vancouver, involved with Science World, Entrepreneurship at UBC, Project Somos Children’s Village and other organizations.Paul is currently the CEO of LightIntegra Technology Inc., a spin-off from Canadian Blood Services which has developed the ThromboLux technology, used to determine platelet quality for blood transfusions.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Fitness, Medical Device
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Stoko design — Get the same level of joint support as a rigid knee brace in the form of a compression tight. Covered by insurance. Fast & free shipping. Hassle-free returns. Backed by orthopedic surgeons. Recommended by Olympians.
- Arbutus Medical — Arbutus Medical manufactures medical devices that simplifies orthopedic surgery and reduce the cost of healthcare to help treat patients worldwide.
- HeadCheck Health — HEADCHECK HEALTH simplifies the process of executing and monitoring concussion protocols. Learn more!
Jill Denham
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Investment focus
- Fantasy Sports
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- OwnersBox — Daily Fantasy Sports reinvented! Play OwnersBox's suite of innovative DFS games and compete to win exciting cash prizes.
Ndamukong Ngwa Suh is an engineer, entrepreneur, investor, and all-pro defensive lineman for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Suh strives to inspire the next generation of young athletes and “unexpected” investors to create generational wealth through continued smart investment decisions.
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Consumer Electronics, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- XSET — XSET is the world's most diverse, innovative, socially conscious Esports "SET" ever assembled. Style, Substance and Victory! The Future is Set. #RepTheSet
- Looped — Looped is the ultimate virtual venue for interactive live streaming and virtual video call meet & greet experiences. Our platform connects creators and fans on a global level.
- Momentous — Momentous is a human performance company dedicated creating no-compromise products and tools that support the endless improvement of personal performance.
Drew Brees is an American football quarterback for the New Orleans Saints of the NFL, an entrepreneur, and an investor.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- North One — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.
- Nightfall — Nightfall is one trusted DLP platform to discover, classify, and protect sensitive data across SaaS and cloud apps with machine learning.
- WeBuild Stuff — WeBuild Stuff is a disruptive fabrication, manufacturing and installation firm focusing on wood furniture.
Eric Wellwood (born March 6, 1990) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and current head coach for the Flint Firebirds of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). He played parts of three National Hockey League (NHL) seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers. He is the younger brother of Kyle Wellwood.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Sports, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- HeadCheck Health — HEADCHECK HEALTH simplifies the process of executing and monitoring concussion protocols. Learn more!
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.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Health Care, Wellness
- Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cyder — Cyder is an end-to-end loyalty platform that allows credit unions to seamlessly issue, redeem, and integrate white-labeled rewards into everyday banking.
- 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.
John W Tomes
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Investment focus
- Fantasy Sports
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- OwnersBox — Daily Fantasy Sports reinvented! Play OwnersBox's suite of innovative DFS games and compete to win exciting cash prizes.
Kyle Wellwood
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Sports, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- HeadCheck Health — HEADCHECK HEALTH simplifies the process of executing and monitoring concussion protocols. Learn more!
Jayson Tatum
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Investment focus
- Sports, Information Technology, Fitness
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- Canada, Portugal, United States
Portfolio highlights
- TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
- TheProgram.ai — Gamifying Wellness For Your Community Engage your community with Wellnify.ai, the all-in-one white-label wellness solution that uses the power of gamification and the science of behaviour change to foster healthier, happier communities. Engage your workforce, students, fans, athletes, or the general public effortlessly. Request Demo View Pricing (Coming Soon) Drag Why Choose Wellnify? Wellnify leverages
- League One Volleyball — The largest community of youth volleyball clubs with its professional league launching in January 2025, League One Volleyball (LOVB) is re-imagining the future of volleyball.
Mr. Mark S. Mastrov serves as the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer at Fitness Holdings Worldwide, Inc. Mr. Mastrov serves as a Founding Partner at Steve Nash Fitness World, Inc. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. until October 2006. He is considered an innovator and visionary within the health andfitness industry. Mr. Mastrov started 24 Fitness in 1983. From there, he built a fitness empire of more than 420 clubs located in 16 U.S. States, Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. Recently, he founded the New Evolution Fitness Company (NEFC). Mr. Mastrov is the Chairman of New Evolution Ventures, which he co-founded. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. He has been a Director of Netpulse, Inc. since March, 2011.
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Health Care, Apps
- Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Aviron — Aviron Ltd engages in the research and development of specific antiviral agents against chronic Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection. The company has strategic alliances with CHEMRAR Hi-Tech Center, Chemical Diversity Research Institute, and DRUGS TECHNOLOGY, Ltd. Aviron Ltd was founded in 2010 and is based in Moscow, Russian Federation.
- Fitplan — Fitplan partners with an ever-growing team of world-class fitness icons, athletes, and professional trainers. They create exclusive training programs & meal plans that you can access through Fitplan.
- Sequoia Games — Sequoia Games is a team of all-stars working together to bring to life your favorite games. We combine professional sports with the latest technology and leadership with passion. What you get is greatness.
John Currie was formerly Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of lululemon athletica. Along with lululemon’s executive team, John led the growth of the company from US$150mm to US$1.8B in revenues, and from 75 stores to 300 stores, over a 7 year period.Prior to joining lululemon in 2007, he was Chief Financial Officer ofIntrawest Corporation, a world leader in destination resorts and leisure travel. In 2014, as the head of the special committee of the Board of Coastal Contacts Inc., the worlds’ largest online retailer of vision care products, John oversaw its sale to Essilor. He is also a board member of the Vancouver Airport Authority. John brings more than 30 years of experience in sound financial management of private and public companies in the retail & consumer space.
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Stoko design — Get the same level of joint support as a rigid knee brace in the form of a compression tight. Covered by insurance. Fast & free shipping. Hassle-free returns. Backed by orthopedic surgeons. Recommended by Olympians.
TJ Hockenson
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Investment focus
- Sports
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- The Curling Group — The Curling Group is a sports business venture dedicated to revolutionizing the sport of curling through strategic investments and a commitment to innovation and content production.
Shannon Byrne Susko has been working with executives and leaders who want to grow, both personally and professionally, for over 10 years. Shannon has worked with companies like Intel Wearables, Shoes.com, Hot Head Games, SAAM SMIT and Silverchef – to name a few. In 2014, she released her first book, “The Metronome Effect: The Journey to PredictableProfit.”Shannon’s technical expertise is coupled with extensive sales, marketing and operations experience. Previously, Shannon has served as president of DST Subserveo, as well as co-founder, president and CEO of Subserveo Inc. Before her time at Subserveo, she led the sale of Paradata Systems Inc. to Payment Processing Inc., where she joined their team as Executive Vice-President of Product & Technology.Shannon holds Bachelor’s degrees in Commerce and Science and a Master’s degree in Computing Science. In 2012, she also received the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors.Shannon has been married for 15 years and lives in Whistler with her 3 children.
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Investment focus
- Communities, Local, Internet
- Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Guiides — Guiides provide a frictionless online experience of discovering adventures and booking a local guide to take you there.
- ShareShed — ShareShed empowers people to live an environmentally conscience, affordable, and community minded lifestyle by facilitating effortless community gear sharing. ShareShed’s online marketplace allows users to rent outdoor adventure equipment like kayaks and tents through its website and mobile app.
Jacky is dedicated to angel investment and has built up a portfolio of more than thirty startup companies in Canada and the US. His target investments are the early-stage B2B companies with disruptive technologies and business potential in enterprise software, information technologies, MedTech, and Advanced Manufacturing.Jacky has acquiredconcrete business experiences as a successful founder in the startup ecosystem and an executive of Fortune 500 companies over two decades. His remarkable accomplishments range from building startups from scratch to leading a billion-dollar business with the leverage of 14,000 enterprise channel partners. The unique journey has shaped Jacky's outstanding of investing in early startups.Jacky holds the degrees of Mater's E.E. and MBA, and he graduated from CEIBS and The Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Workwolf — Workwolf is a Toronto-based start-up with a management team who has led 7 start-ups, had 2 successful exits, and has taken a company public with a $1.8B IPO. Workwolf CEO Erik Simins is an SME in HR who previously founded MAGNUS HRS, a staffing company now servicing over 150 enterprise customers. The technology at Workwolf solves two of the biggestpain points in employment: applicant filtration and verification, and does so by empowering users to identify better candidates faster. Winner of global awards in both 2020 and 2021 for innovation and market potential, Workwolf is ramping up for its multi-national roll-out with ManpowerGroup in September that will coincide with a $4.5M Seed financing round.
- Agile Devices — Agile Devices offer catheter-based interventional procedures helping patients during a stroke. It helps medical practitioners reduce the procedure time to respond to time bound emergencies.
- Traction Technology Partners — Traction is a powerful SaaS collaboration platform for evaluating, adopting and managing new technologies across the enterprise. The platform includes Project Management and CRM tools designed specifically for enterprise teams tasked with discovering and evaluating new technologies. Traction is used by IT, Innovation and Corp Dev teams toaccelerate their digital transformation projects, and to speed up the way they find, manage, and adopt new technologies. Traction also offers On-Demand Research services delivered through its platform.
I build products and companies that impact daily lives and want to bring these ideas to life as fast as possible. I also advise, mentor and invest in startups to help others makes this a reality. Currently COO of KitchenMate, where we're on a mission to enable access of nutritious meals for everyone (Techstars Toronto 2018).Formerly theco-founder of BufferBox (uWaterloo Velocity, Y Combinator S'12, acquired by Google) and PM @ Google X - Robotics.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Fitness, Big Data
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Lumotune — We are creating a platform to transform the world’s glass into digital displays.
- TritonWear — TritonWear builds the world’s most accurate sports wearable and the only one that provides personalized, AI-based auto-coaching driven by an individual's data. By addressing the largest problem plaguing the projected $15B fitness and sports wearables market - inaccurate data and no actionable feedback - TritonWear has taken a unique positionin the market.
David Tedman first honed his digital pioneering inclinations at the Vancouver Film School, earning his degree in Interactive Media in 2002. Soon after, he founded Novare Res, a multi-disciplinary design company that later merged with Invoke and laid the foundations for his serial successes in product development. Tedman's accomplishments, todate, include incubating memelabs, a leading branded contesting and social engagement platform and co-founding HootSuite, an award-winning social media dashboard, which spun off into its own company after Invoke helped build its first one million user base.Tedman happily splits his time between Vancouver and New York, is constantly thinking of new high-performing business models, and is perpetually looking forward to the next basketball game.
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Investment focus
- Software, Sports, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Taloflow — Taloflow analyzes 4,000+ vendor data points to provide you with the best possible recommendation for cloud object storage. Complete a 5-minute use case questionnaire to get started.
- Commit — Commit is the professional network for the world's best Startup Engineers.
- Hack Capital Ventures — Hack Capital is a software company that helps digital companies hire, train, retain, and motivate employees to do the best work of their lives. The company is building vertically integrated systems of intelligence that will help startup companies, as they grow, to manage their scale intelligently.
Jim Spatz is the Chairman and CEO of Southwest Properties Limited, one of Atlantic Canada’s leading real estate developers. Southwest owns, operates and develops residential and commercial real estate in Atlantic Canada, extended stay accommodations across Canada, as well as a multi-unit residential portfolios in four Florida cities.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Big Data, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Brizi — We're on a mission to build the world's largest network of group memories. Brizi lets anyone tap into nearby cameras to capture group memories at iconic places. Licensed across sports and landmarks including NBA basketball, European soccer, Grand Slam tennis, and at the Washington Monument, to engage guests, offer a new type ofsponsorship asset, and collect valuable user, population, and imaging data.
- Grüvi — Gruvi is a line of craft brewed alcohol-free beers & wines.
- Harbr — Every external contractor brings their own software and process. Let Harbr reconcile your entire portfolio's data in one central place to bring analytics and insights like never before.
Michael Dornbrook Member of the Board of Directors at Modulate.ai. He attended University of Chicago during 1981-1983.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Modulate — Modulate uses revolutionary machine learning to proactively detect and escalate toxic behavior in your game. ToxMod becomes an expert in your code of conduct and empowers your moderators to make the right decisions to protect your community from the worst behavior happening in voice chat in real time.
- Hearo.Live - Multiplayer TV — Laugh, talk, and cheer with friends while watching YouTube, Netflix, ESPN, and more in full-screen HD, like you're on a big cozy couch together. #MultiplayerTV #TheFutureOfTogether
- UptimeHealth — UptimeHealth, headquartered in Boston, MA, is a fast-growing software startup that simplifies medical device service events, purchases, and compliance practices through automation and predictive analytics.
Pivotal Software was founded by Norm Francis in 1994. Francis was a co-founder of Basis Software Group (BSG) the company that developed ACCPAC, an accounting software package which was purchased by Computer Associates in 1985. Francis invented the concept of 360-degree customer relationship management (CRM), a concept that continues to be usedtoday to describe the unification of activities across the organization by employees who play a role in the customer relationship. The company released its first customer relationship management product, Pivotal Relationship Version 1, in April 1996; this product is the predecessor to the current Pivotal CRM product line.The company changed its name to Pivotal Corporation in June 1999 to reflect its broadening focus beyond just software into professional services, content, hosted application services and other online services. Pivotal Corporation went public in August 1999 and its shares were listed on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol PVTL.In February 2000, Pivotal Corporation was selected by Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect, to showcase its Pivotal CRM software at the worldwide premiere of Microsoft Windows 2000. Pivotal CRM, then called Pivotal eRelationship, was the first eBusiness relationship management (eBRM) solution to be certified for Windows 2000.Pivotal Corporation was acquired by CDC Corporation, in February 2004. The acquisition added 1,700 customers, as well as marketing, sales, service, and partner management capabilities to CDC Software’s business unit focused on front-office solutions for mid-sized enterprises.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, SaaS, Fitness
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Allocadia — Allocadia's performance marketing software helps marketing teams confidently plan budgets and optimize campaigns and manage investments to improve marketing ROI.
- Stoko design — Get the same level of joint support as a rigid knee brace in the form of a compression tight. Covered by insurance. Fast & free shipping. Hassle-free returns. Backed by orthopedic surgeons. Recommended by Olympians.
- LightIntegra Technology, Inc. — LightIntegra Technology is a privately funded medical diagnostics company and launched from the Canadian Blood Services R&D labs through the efforts of research scientist Dr. Elisabeth Maurer. LightIntegra strives to minimize platelet refractoriness. To this end, LightIntegra created ThromboLUX, a rapid in-vitro test that provides sizedistribution information for microparticles in blood products. As a routine test for platelet concentrates, ThromboLUX may identify which platelet units would be best suited for prophylaxis and which units are better suited for therapeutic use. Her years of research on platelet function led to a breakthrough discovery using dynamic light scattering to characterize platelets. Dr. Maurer recognized the opportunity to use this breakthrough - coupled with advances in laser and optics technology – to address a market need to provide a safe, quick and simple diagnostic test for microparticles, platelet quality and function.
Jared Allen
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Investment focus
- Sports
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- The Curling Group — The Curling Group is a sports business venture dedicated to revolutionizing the sport of curling through strategic investments and a commitment to innovation and content production.
Nolan Bushnell is the Founder and CEO of X2 Games. He previously worked at modalVR as a CoFounder and Chairman. Nolan attended the University of Utah.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, eSports
- Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- WTFast — WTFast is here to help you get rid of pesky online gaming problems and bid farewell to Fortnite lag, PUBG lag, Dota 2 lag, CSGO lag, LOL lag and hundred of other games.
- Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
- Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
Mitch Marner
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Investment focus
- Sports, Fitness, Software
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- TheProgram.ai — Gamifying Wellness For Your Community Engage your community with Wellnify.ai, the all-in-one white-label wellness solution that uses the power of gamification and the science of behaviour change to foster healthier, happier communities. Engage your workforce, students, fans, athletes, or the general public effortlessly. Request Demo View Pricing (Coming Soon) Drag Why Choose Wellnify? Wellnify leverages
Lance Tracey - Founding Partner @ Full Stack
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Communities
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Taloflow — Taloflow analyzes 4,000+ vendor data points to provide you with the best possible recommendation for cloud object storage. Complete a 5-minute use case questionnaire to get started.
- SceneBox — SceneBox helps computer vision engineers sift through their large datasets to uncover the failure states and interesting data they need to train machine learning models faster.
- Quantified Citizen — Join groundbreaking studies, receive rich health insights and make an impact on global health and science. Download Quantified Citizen today!
Brian Wong is the co-founder and CEO of Kiip (pronounced "keep"), a category-creating mobile rewards network that is redefining mobile advertising through an innovative platform that leverages "moments of achievement" in games and apps to simultaneously benefit users, developers and advertisers. Backed by Relay Ventures,Interpublic Group, Hummer Winblad, True Ventures, Digital Garage and others, the company has raised $15.4 million in funding to date.Kiip has been named one of the world's 50 Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company, listed by Forbes as one of the 4 Hot Online Ad Companies to Put on Your Watch List and included on the Dow Jones FasTech50 List. After skipping four K-12 grades, Brian received his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia at age 18, and shortly after became one of the youngest people to ever receive venture capital funding.He has been recognized with many awards for his accomplishments and leadership, including: the Top 20 Under 20 awards for all of Canada; Business Insider's Top 25 Under 25 in Silicon Valley, 30 Under 30 in Advertising and 18 Most Important People in Mobile Advertising; Forbes' 30 Under 30 in 2011 and 2012; Mashable's Top 5 Entrepreneurs to Watch; iMedia 25; One of AdWeek's Seven Would-be Mobile Titans; and the AdAge Creativity Top 50.Before starting Kiip, Brian led key publisher and tech partnerships at the social news website Digg.com, where he accelerated the company’s mobile presence by launching the Digg Android mobile app.
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Investment focus
- Communities, Local, Internet
- Angel
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Guiides — Guiides provide a frictionless online experience of discovering adventures and booking a local guide to take you there.
- ShareShed — ShareShed empowers people to live an environmentally conscience, affordable, and community minded lifestyle by facilitating effortless community gear sharing. ShareShed’s online marketplace allows users to rent outdoor adventure equipment like kayaks and tents through its website and mobile app.
Ryan Holmes is the CEO and Founder of HootSuite. Thought leader, dog lover and serial entrepreneur, he has redefined the face of social media - bringing Twitter, Facebook and other social networks out of the dorm room and into the boardroom.Holmes has grown HootSuite from a lean startup to a global leader in social media with 8 million users,including 79 of the Fortune 100 companies. A college drop-out, he started a paintball company and pizza restaurant before founding Invoke Media, the company that developed HootSuite in 2009.Today, Holmes is an authority on the social business revolution, quoted in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and called upon to speak at TEDx and SXSW Interactive Conferences. An angel investor and advisor, he mentors startups in Canada and around the world. Through HootSuite University, Holmes partners with major universities to deliver social media coursework to the next generation of business leaders.
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- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, Hong Kong
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- Truss — Send and receive business payments online with no limits, no percentage fees and no bullsh*t. Bring your business payments into the 21st century.
- Surf — Surf for Brands allows you to generate the highest quality first party data, with consumer opt-in options. Generate ethical, high quality data now - Learn more
- 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.
Mike Walsh serves as a General Partner at Structure Capital. Mike Walsh launched Structure Capital. He serves as an Advisor of S4 Style, Inc. He Co-Founded Leverage Software, Inc. and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Co-founding Leverage Software, Mike Walsh co-founded and served as Vice President of Sales at mvion and Vice Presidentof Sales and Business Development for Project Arena. After a decade of software sales and sales management, he Founded and sold an enterprise social networking company. Mike Walsh also focused his efforts on investing and was a first round investor in Uber. He is a pioneer in Active Relationship Networks and is instrumental in developing revolutionary business applications for social networking including sales lead generation, employee recruitment and marketing. He designed missile defense systems, designed and sold air and water pollution control systems and was Early Angel Investor in Salesforce.com. Mike Walsh holds M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business, and Columbia University and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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- Mobile Apps, Internet, Logistics
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Canada
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- HONK — Drive customer loyalty with the highest rated customer satisfaction scores in the industry. Lots of companies make promises. We've built the technology to follow-through on ours.
- Guiides — Guiides provide a frictionless online experience of discovering adventures and booking a local guide to take you there.
- PROTO — Connect from anywhere for telemedicine, entertainment, shopping, fitness and beyond. Book an interactive demo today.
Jim Estill founded EMJ Data in 1979 and grew the company to $350,000,000 in sales. Jim sold EMJ to SYNNEX in September 2004 and became CEO of SYNNEX Canada growing sales from $800,000,000 to $2 Billion in May 2009. Jim was one of the founding board members of RIM where he served for 13 years.
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- Apps, Beauty, Mobile
- Seed, Angel
- Canada
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- PumpUp — PumpUp is a positive community to share and achieve your health goals. The PumpUp community is a safe and supportive space to share your journey toward a healthy body and healthy mind. Share your challenges and triumphs, track your fitness, and receive unparalleled support from a global community of like-minded people. PumpUp equips you withthe tools you need to live a healthy lifestyle in a positive way. With millions of inspiring people cheering you on, it’s never been easier to become the best version of you! PumpUp is headquartered in Toronto, with offices in San Francisco.
- Well.ca — Well.ca is Canada's online destination for health, beauty and baby products and offers over 40,000 products with free shipping on all orders over $29. They also boast Canada's largest online assortment of Green & Natural products. With offices and a warehouse located in Guelph, Ontario, and an office in downtown Toronto, Well.ca is aproudly Canadian company that focuses on giving customers a simple and hassle-free shopping experience.
Value Creator - People Oriented - Turnaround Champion - Cultural Integration Expert
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- Art, Gaming, eSports
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- 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.
Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a firm that invests in companies creating competitive advantage through data.
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- Advertising, FinTech, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Evertune — Evertune is a SaaS company that offers enterprises AI chatbot brand monitoring and analytics services
- Fantasy Life — Fantasy Life keeps you up to date on all of the latest NFL news, fantasy analysis, sports betting tips, and hot topics around the fantasy watercooler.
- Gemini Sports Analytics — The first AI cloud for sports
Jez San - CEO & founder @ FunFair Technologies
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- eSports, Ethereum, Blockchain
- Seed
- Malta, Canada
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- Award Pool — Award Pool is an integrated web3 platform that empowers brands, creators and collectors with amazing engagement tools and features to create, collect, and trade unique experiences, collectibles, and payments securely.
- Virtue Poker — Virtue Poker is a decentralized poker platform that uses the Ethereum blockchain and peer-to-peer networking to provide an online poker site that's safe, honest, and fun.
Gregory P. Zeschuk co-founded Bioware Corp. in 1995 and went on to produce a series of genre-defining video game titles that include Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the Mass Effect series. Following Bioware’s acquisition by Electronic Arts, Greg became a VP at EA and General Manager of BioWare’s Austinstudio. In 2013, as a means of commemorating his contributions to the video game industry as a whole, Greg received the Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the Game Developers Choice Awards.
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- Apps, Mobile, Sports
- Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
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- Empire Kred — See what you're worth on the Social Media Stockmarket! Run and complete Missions to grow your audience and discover new content and people. Build your Influence with Empire.Kred
- Biba Ventures — Active outdoor play is essential to the development of healthy children. Getting enough active outdoor play is a concern that most modern parents are familiar with.For those parents concerned that their children are spending too much time sitting in front of a screen, Biba is a game-changer. It allows kids to have the fun, and sought after,digital rewards that they are so accustomed to, while also encouraging active play.
Dennis Phelps is the General Partner of IVP.
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- Mobile, Apps, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series B, Series C
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- PlayVS — PlayVS is an operator of an eSports platform used to organize competitions in eSports on behalf of high school. Its platform offers to organize online tournaments and wagers for cash and prizes and helps to play and stay up-to-date on high school e-sports programs that enable teen gamers to form teams at their high schools to compete with playersfrom other schools and the battle for titles at state championships.
- Leo — Leo, formerly known as Surreal, is an augmented reality app that allows people to experience advanced augmented reality through realistic animated and 3D objects. The phone camera becomes a portal and tool that allows anyone to augment their world through Surreal. People can customize any surrounding environment into their wildest dreams:expressing themselves in a new mixed reality space, as well as sharing with family, friends and other social outlets.Surreal has hundreds of realistic animated 3D objects. In addition to that, Surreal has special effects like money falling, balloons flying or a rain of roses. People can customize the real world how they want, and whenever they want.
- Cambrian Asset Management — A Quantitative Investment Firm for Digital Assets
Greg is an accomplished business leader, entrepreneur, angel investor, and corporate director specifically with technology companies. He specializes in creating customer-centric and operationally-focused corporate cultures transforming early-stage companies from R&D organizations to viable commercial enterprises. While CEO at A.L.I.Technologies, he grew the business from 14 to 400 employees and over $100 million in annual revenues resulting in a sale to McKesson Corp. in 2002 for $526 million in cash, marking one of the most important transactions in the image management market. After joining McKesson to head their Medical Imaging Group, he grew annual revenues 200% over two years to $100 million, entirely through internally-generated growth. In 2002, Greg was recognized as Ernst & Young's Pacific Entrepreneur of the Year and in 2007, appointed "Person of the Year" by the B.C. Technology Industry Association. He currently serves on a number of company Boards, is Co-Chair of the B.C. Premier's Technology Council, and serves on the Board of Governors of the University of British Columbia (ranked among the top 30 in the world)
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- Mobile, Sports, Health Care
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- HeadCheck Health — HEADCHECK HEALTH simplifies the process of executing and monitoring concussion protocols. Learn more!
Seth Boro is the Managing Partner at San Francisco Office of Thoma Bravo, LLC. since June 2005.Previously, Seth was an Associate at Summit Partners and an Analyst at Credit Suisse and First Marathon Securities (National Bank Financial).Seth also worked at ServiceSource in San Francisco, CA.Seth currently serves as a Member of the Board of Directorsat Hyland Software, Vision Solutions, LANDesk Software, Inc., Tripwire, Inc., Blue Coat Systems, Inc., InfoVista, S.A., Mediware Systems, Inc., Keynote Systems, Inc., Empirix, Inc., Global Healthcare Exchange, Inc., SailPoint Technologies, Inc., Compuware Corporation, Dynatrace, Riverbed Technology, Inc., DigiCert, Inc. and SolarWinds, Inc..Previously, Seth served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Flexera Software, Inc., Entrust, Inc., SonicWALL, Inc., Network Instruments, LLC. and Crossbeam Systems, Inc.. Seth earned his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and his Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s University School of Business.
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- Sports, Software, Risk Management
- Private Equity, Angel
- United States, Canada
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- Aptean — Aptean (formerly Made2Manage) provides industry-focused mission critical enterprise software solutions. The company builds solutions to support business functions such as manufacturing, sales and marketing, service and support, supply chain, and finance and administration.Its products are focused on various applications: customer relationshipmanagement, enterprise resource planning, -manufacturing execution, supply chain management, complaints management, business intelligence, data integration and monitoring, and power management.
- SailPoint — Secure your enterprise. Empower your workforce. Doing it right has moved beyond human capacity. Discover the core of identity security. Learn More Trusted
- Ottawa Senators Hockey Club — The official National Hockey League website including news, rosters, stats, schedules, teams, and video.
Nick Robertson is a CEO and Co-Founder at ASOS.
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Investment focus
- Marketing, Privacy, Consumer
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Nez — nez is a hyper local marketing channel for the eating and drinking out of home sector. With the use of mobile application, nez connects operators with their core audience of local office and retail workers.
- people.io — Our #1 trending app unifies data from across your life, helping to give you control over the access, use and value of your personal data. Get started today and realise the value of your data.
- AFC Wimbledon — AFC Wimbledon is a continuation of the former Wimbledon Football Club, which no longer exists after the franchising of its league place to Milton Keynes. The team won the FA Cup in 1988 and notably rose “from the dead” in 2002. Now it is looking to come back home to Plough Lane.
Greg founded Traction on Demand, a Burnaby-based cloud technology consultancy and software development firm, in 2006. His original intention was to serve a small number of clients by helping them unite their sales and marketing teams; however, Traction has since grown into a nationally-recognized brand with offices and 250+ employees across NorthAmerica. It is now ranked as one of the continent’s fastest growing technology companies.
Greg’s commitment to workplace culture and community has landed Traction on Demand on Canada’s Top 10 Best Places to Work list for the past three years. Additionally, Traction is a current finalist for Deloitte’s Best Managed Companies in Canada. Individually, Greg has been recognized for both his unconventional leadership style and expertise in cloud computing and data. In 2013, Business in Vancouver named him one of the Top Forty Under 40, awarding him once again with CEO of the Year in 2016.
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- Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Seed
- Canada
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- Stoko design — Get the same level of joint support as a rigid knee brace in the form of a compression tight. Covered by insurance. Fast & free shipping. Hassle-free returns. Backed by orthopedic surgeons. Recommended by Olympians.
Satish Kanwar is a VP of Product at Shopify, where he oversees strategic product initiatives for over 1 million merchants globally. Satish led Shopify’s formative expansion from online stores to multi-channel commerce, accelerating merchants' sales across eCommerce, brick-and-mortar, and new sales channels. Satish previously co-founded userexperience studio Jet Cooper, which was acquired by Shopify in order to establish its product development footprint in Toronto. Satish is an active angel investor, public speaker, and advisor.He attended the University of Toronto Scarborough.
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- Mobile Apps, FinTech, Art
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
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- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
- Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.
Jeff Chang was the Head of Growth Engineering at Whatnot. Jeff previously worked at Pastel Labs as a Founder. Attended University of California, Berkeley.
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- Software, Developer Tools, Sports
- Seed
- United States, Canada
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- PopSQL — PopSQL is a developer of collaborative SQL query editing software designed to share queries and visualize data. The company's software stores SQL queries and runs regularly, grouping them into folders that can be kept private or shared among the team, track changes so it can be reverted if or when something breaks, enabling users to workcollaboratively on queries and then distribute among the team.
- Skio — Skio helps brands on Shopify sell subscriptions without ripping their hair out. Easily migrate from ReCharge. Increase conversions by 72% with 1-click checkout (Shop Pay). Reduce customer tickets by 25% with passwordless login.
- Offsight — Factory ready project management software for the modular and offsite construction industry. We solve the delivery, quality, traceability and communication challenges of modular, offsite and project based manufacturing.
David Grutman
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- Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Apps
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada
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- Betr — At betr, It provides tools to support responsible play and give you control over your gambling. It encourage you to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within your personal limits.
- Immi — immi has 6g of net carbs, is packed with 21g of protein and 18g of fiber, is keto-friendly, and is entirely plant-based.
- Rob’s Backstage Popcorn — Rob's Backstage Popcorn was born backstage with the Jonas Brothers and now they are sharing it with the world. Made with a secret recipe, we guarantee you've never tasted popcorn like this before. Available for sale on eatrobs.com and at select Live Nation venues on the 2021 Remember This Tour.
Brett Wilson is the Board of Director at Viant. He previsoly serves on the board member of Arize AI.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada
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- Arize AI — Arize AI offers a platform that explains and troubleshoots production AI. The company was founded in 2019 and based in Berkeley, California.
- LatchBio — The command center for all gene-editing bioinformatics. Analyze your CRISPR data without code in 5 minutes.
- WeTravel — WeTravel is an online payment platform that offers organizers with pre-departure tools to collect funds and organize logistics.Travel companies create elegant booking pages in minutes to collect deposits, set automatic payment plans, and manage financials securely from all over the world.Its platform has been used for a wide variety of trips,such as yoga retreats, student trips, bachelorette trips, dance trips, company retreats or sports team travel. Its website allows organizers to create a beautiful website for their trip in minutes. Organizers can collect deposits directly on the Wetravel platform and then easily transfer the funds to their account or directly to a travel agent or airline (even internationally, at much better exchange rates than banks.
Hans co-founded Yaletown Venture Partners and brings over 15 years of legal counsel, corporate governance, turn-around, and investing experience to the Yaletown team. Hans manages Yaletown's investment in Redlen Technologies, Equicare Health, Genologics, Thetus, and Mixpo. In addition, as Yaletown's General Counselhe directs ourfirm's investment transactions, operations and legal affairs. Prior to Yaletown, Hans was Vice President of Investments and Corporate Counsel for Brigill Investments, a private Vancouver-based venture capital firm. Earlier in his career he practiced law in the commercial litigation group of Borden Ladner Gervais and held a judicial clerkship at British Columbia's highest court, the BC Court of Appeal. A recipient of Business in Vancouver's "Top 40 Under 40" award, Hans has B.A. and LLB degrees from the University of British Columbia and is called to the Bar of British Columbia.
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- Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- Canada
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- VitaminLab — Looking for personalized vitamins based on your health goals, DNA or blood? Choose how you want to formulate and get an all-in-one formula just for you.
- 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.
- Nanoprecise Sci Corp — Predictive Maintenance, Automated Ai Based Predictive Maintenance, Machine Doctor, Wireless Industrial Iot Sensors, Artificial Intelligence in Maintenance, Scaling Iot Solutions
George Kittle
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- Retail, Automotive, E-Commerce
- Funding Round
- United States
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- RealTruck.Com — RealTruck.com is your source for truck, Jeep & Bronco accessories, from tonneau & bed covers, nerf bars, running boards, to wheels & tires.
- The Curling Group — The Curling Group is a sports business venture dedicated to revolutionizing the sport of curling through strategic investments and a commitment to innovation and content production.
Simon St. Quentin Whitfield (born 16 May 1975 in Kingston, Ontario) is a retired Olympic triathlon champion from Canada.
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- Retail, Cycling, Consumer
- Seed
- Canada
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- Vanhawks — How to make money, enjoy sports, improve personal finance, and enjoy apps
- 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.
Brenda Irwin joined the Providence Health Care Board in 2012.Brenda is the founder of Angel Links Capital, managing investments for private investors across a range of sectors, including health and wellness. Previously, she was a venture capitalist for 13 years as a member of BDC Venture Capital’s life sciences team. Before entering the worldof finance, Brenda enjoyed a career as a middle school science teacher.Her other non-profit experience includes tenure as vice-president for the Take A Hike, Youth At Risk Foundation while it went through a decade of program growth and community expansion. She is dedicated to mentorship and finds time to explore British Columbia’s beauty when training for triathlons. Brenda has a BSc from the University of Guelph and an MBA from the University of British Columbia.
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- Communities, SaaS, Music
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada
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- Vanhawks — How to make money, enjoy sports, improve personal finance, and enjoy apps
- LUCID — LUCID curates and creates personalized therapeutic music using biometrics, psychometrics, and AI to improve mental health and wellness.
- 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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