Top 15 Angel Investors in Canada in October 2024
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Venture capital startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Venture capital companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Angel Investors in Canada in October 2024
Investor | Venture Capital Canada investments |
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Dave Johnson | 1 |
Private Private | 1 |
Patrick Lor | 1 |
Barney Pell | 1 |
Chris Neumann | 1 |
Mike Edwards | 1 |
Alex Norman | 1 |
Jonathan Bixby | 1 |
David Tedman | 1 |
Doug Atkin | 1 |
Private Private | 1 |
Colin Harris | 1 |
Christopher Bissonnette | 1 |
Riley Keohen | 1 |
Geoff Entress | 1 |
Dave Johnson - Director of Engineering, PhoneGap @ Adobe
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Investment focus
- Software, Developer Tools, SaaS
- Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Buddybuild — Xcode Cloud is a continuous integration and delivery service built into Xcode and designed expressly for Apple developers.
- StackShare — StackShare is a Tech Stack Intelligence platform and community helping teams to make data-driven technology decisions.
- 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.
Private Private
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Venture Capital, Financial Exchanges
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Napkin Inc. — We buy, build & grow elite service providers (web2.0, web3.0) to turn all digital transactions into liquid, investible, and tradable royalty streams without borders.Napkin employs and contracts 500+ marketers, advertisers, developers, technologists and financial professionals from around the world. Offices in North America, Latin America, andIndia. Remote staff in Europe, Asia, and MENA regions. We're currently looking to acquire phenomenal talent and tech the following areas: financial exchanges, neobanking, fintech, infrastructure, web2 and web3, cross-border payments, blockchain, AI, custody, treasury management solutions, project management with ISO certifications.
Patrick Lor is Managing Partner at Panache Ventures. He attended the University of Calgary.
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Investment focus
- Software, Enterprise Software, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Leankor — Highly-visual, customer-centric, work and project management solution that provides a comprehensive 360-project view, real-time data and collaboration for accelerated delivery.
- Creative Market — Creative Market is a marketplace for ready-to-use design assets, including fonts, graphics, templates, add-ons, photos, and themes, from independent creators around the world.
- 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.
Barney Pell was the co-founder, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of LocoMobi Inc. Barney has a long history as a leading technology innovator, product visionary, entrepreneur and angel investor based in Silicon Valley. Barney is known for being an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mayfield, a top Venture Capital firm, which he left to becomeFounder and CEO of Powerset, which built a natural-language based search engine that read each sentence in Wikipedia and answered user queries in plain English. Microsoft acquired Powerset in 2008 to help create its new search engine, Bing. Barney then served Microsoft as Search Strategist, Evangelist, and Chief Architect for Local Search at Bing, until leaving Microsoft in September 2011 to return to the start-up world full-time.Barney also has active investor, board member, and advisory roles with multiple start-up companies and non-profits across a variety of industries. Barney is Co-Founder, Vice Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Moon Express, a private company building autonomous robotic lunar landers to enable exploration and commercial development of the solar system. This builds on his earlier career managing advanced software technologies at NASA. Highlights of innovations during Barney’s career at NASA include mission critical software to support planning and collaboration for the Mars Exploration Rovers mission; Clarissa, the first spoken dialog system in space; and the development of the Remote Agent, the first AI system to fly onboard and control a deep space probe. Remote Agent is widely considered one of the top achievements in the history of Artificial Intelligence and was awarded NASA’s "software of the year" award in 1999. Barney is also Associate Founder and Trustee of Singularity University (SU), a new university created to educate leaders for life in a future driven by accelerating technological change.Other recent active angel investments and advisory positions include: Getaround, Robotex, Halcyon Molecular, SpaceX, and CrowdFlower. Recent start-ups that have had successful exits include: Appjet (now Google), Aardvark (now Google), Hot Potato (now Facebook), Etacts (now SalesForce.com), Movity (now Trulia), and LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional social network which recently went public after acquiring its hundred-millionth member.Barney received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and his B.S. degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was a National Merit Scholar.Barney is a frequent speaker at conferences and universities. These include keynote talks at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the Association for Computational Linguistics, Search Marketing Expos, International Semantic Web Conference, World Wide Web Conference, the Informational Retrieval Conference, and panels at SXSW Interactive. Barney has also spoken at the NPA and IPI conferences and has been featured in all major Parking industry magazines.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Mobile, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada
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.
- Ada — Ada is a computer software company that features a chatbot-based platform that helps enterprise businesses to automate customer experience. Its platform operates through both web and mobile machine learning engine that reduces support volume and empowers customers to find answers on their own.The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered inToronto in Canada.
- A&K Robotics — A&K Robotics | Autonomous Vehicle Systems
Chris Neumann is the CEO and Cofounder of DataHero, the leading platform for visualizing data from online services. Chris was previously the first employee at Big Data pioneer Aster Data Systems, where he helped create Aster’s innovative Big Data platform. Chris holds an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University and a BS in Computing Sciencefrom Simon Fraser University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Grocery, Logistics
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Reworkd — End to End Web Scraping
- 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.
- 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.
Mike has a wealth of experience in building and scaling consumer technology companies in private and public markets
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Art, Apps
- Seed, Angel
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Wantering — Wantering is a fashion discovery tool that allows you to discover and buy clothing from across a curated list of boutiques, flash sales sites, and major retailers all in one place.
- Skyscraper — Skyscraper is an all-in-one ad management platform for bloggers. A magical way of running ads on your site that both simple and effective.
- 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.
Alex is a tech entrepreneur, an active angel investor and community builder who is currently the General Partner at N49P, the Canadian Partner of AngelList and the Managing Director of TechToronto. Previously Alex, co-founded, grew, and sold HomeSav. Before HomeSav, Alex worked at Lehman Brothers, McKinsey and several venture-backed start-ups inNYC, the Valley, and London, including Simply Business which recently sold for $400m+ USD.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Draft — Get blog posts, social posts, email copy and more from world class writers. Request quality content for your business in a few clicks.
- Finaeo — Finaeo is powering the future of life and health insurance with our all-in-one platform. Our digital marketplace connects carriers, brokers and clients through a fully-integrated experience.
- Draft — Find & work with content creation freelancers in a trustless way, running on Internet Computer
Jonathan is a successful serial entrepreneur with two exits under his belt. He is passionate about helping those who are taking the entrepreneurial path to start, build and grow companies. Prior to GrowLab, Jonathan Bixby was the CEO and a co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, creator of the first network appliance and cloud service foraccelerating dynamic web applications. Under Jonathan’s leadership, Strangeloop raised over $21M in financing, including a Series A round of $11.5 million, one of the largest rounds of private Series A financing for a technology start-up in Canadian history. Strangeloop was selected the Best Employer in British Columbia for a record five straight years (2008 to 2013). In February 2013 Strangeloop was acquired by Radware (RDWR). Read more here.Prior to forming Strangeloop, Jonathan co-founded IronPoint Technology, the largest content management company in the country. As chairman of the board, Jonathan led IronPoint from start-up to successful acquisition by The Active Network (ACTV) in 30 months. Read about it here.Jonathan also served as vice president of sales, at NTS Internet Solutions and helped that company enjoy a five-year growth rate of more than 600 percent and earn placements on the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 and Fast 500 as well as Profit Magazine’s Profit 100 lists.Jonathan sat on the board of the Vancouver Enterprise Forum, the final jury for the New Ventures BC competition and is a Social Venture Partner (www.bcsvp.com), Jonathan sits on the board of Energy Aware. He is a Business in Vancouver Top 40 Under 40 award recipient.
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Investment focus
- Software, Venture Capital, Enterprise Software
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- CTO.ai — We simplify developer operations using CI/CD workflows that support ChatOps, GitOps, Instant PR Previews, AI Code Review and measure the entire process using DORA metrics, as well.
- 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.
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.
- KOHO Financial — Open a bank account online with instant cash back & premium rewards. Join over 1M Canadians using KOHO's prepaid Mastercard to save. Sign up in minutes!
- 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.
Doug Atkin is the Managing Partner at Communitas Capital and Co-Chairman of Z-Work Acquisition Corporation.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Series D
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- SeatGeek — SeatGeek is the Web's largest event ticket search engine. Discover events you love, search all ticket sites, see seat locations and get the best deals on tickets.
- Abbey Cross — The wholesale marketplace for emerging markets FX. AbbeyCross provides access to real-time, side-by-side, executable pricing from the world's leading providers of emerging markets FX and payment services.
- Alchemy — Whether you're a beginner, working on a side project, or one of the largest teams in the blockchain space, Alchemy makes Ethereum development easy with enhanced APIs, node infrastructure, and developer tooling. Get started for free!
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Venture Capital, Financial Exchanges
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Napkin Inc. — We buy, build & grow elite service providers (web2.0, web3.0) to turn all digital transactions into liquid, investible, and tradable royalty streams without borders.Napkin employs and contracts 500+ marketers, advertisers, developers, technologists and financial professionals from around the world. Offices in North America, Latin America, andIndia. Remote staff in Europe, Asia, and MENA regions. We're currently looking to acquire phenomenal talent and tech the following areas: financial exchanges, neobanking, fintech, infrastructure, web2 and web3, cross-border payments, blockchain, AI, custody, treasury management solutions, project management with ISO certifications.
Colin is Chief Operating Officer of PMC-Sierra Inc. Colin is a founder of PMC-Sierra, has served as Vice President, Chief Operating Officer since February 2007. Prior to this appointment, he served as Vice President of Worldwide Operations at PMC-Sierra from July 2004 and Vice President of IC Technology from May1997 to July 2004. Colin is anelected member of the Global Semiconductor Association Board of Directors and serves on the advisory board of the Design for E-Beam (DFEB) initiative. Colin currently also serves on the board of directors for Yaletown portfolio company Redlen Technologies
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Investment focus
- Software, Industrial Automation, AgTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Metaspectral — Compression.ai is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of machine learning and web services. The company has developed encoding and decoding capability for images using machine learning, which achieves on-average about 95% compression rates of a raw image without significantly losing its quality.
- aDolus Technology Inc. — aDolus provides a cloud platform to safeguard critical infrastructure, brokering information about ICS and IoT software and firmware. There is a $13 billion dollar industry for protecting PC endpoints, but there’s no similar ecosystem for protecting the smart devices used in industries such as energy, medical, and transportation. Multiple vendors,platforms, and geographic locations make the problem complex, yet growing threats to systems and human safety make the need for a solution urgent. Regulation is accelerating this need. With over 50 billion devices connected to the internet, the security market for IoT is projected to reach $74 billion by 2026. This creates a massive opportunity to help critical sectors secure their smart devices. We estimate the annual TAM to be $920 million for the industrial sector alone. The medical, transportation, automotive, and defense sectors present further opportunities.aDolus is the first to market with a solution to analyze and authenticate device software. Early momentum and deep industry ties have yielded a growing database of 32 million records. Our vendor-agnostic platform positions aDolus to capture this lucrative and under-served market.
- Elevated Signals — Elevated Signals provides cannabis producers with user-friendly manufacturing software that combines digital batch production records, inventory tracking and environmental data into a single customizable platform. By digitizing how cannabis operations run and streamlining data collection and aggregation, the system helps businesses significantlylower costs, scale quickly and make more informed decisions.Elevated Signals is used by some of the largest producers in North America, as well as a growing wave of innovative mid-size and craft facilities. It is the fastest-growing regulated manufacturing execution and quality software company in Canada.
Christopher Bissonnette is the President at Pallasite Ventures. Whether it’s as a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer disease therapies, or as an executive in control of investment portfolios and commercial real estate, Christopher has taken an analytical approach throughout his career. This varied experience has given him valuable insightinto Chicago’s most desirable locations for advertisers and a deep understanding of the complex leasing and permitting restrictions involved. As co-founder and CFO of GreenSigns Chicago, Christopher helps ensure that our advertisers and landlords receive the best possible value. As an avid biker and hiker, he helps ensure a high-energy level throughout the GreenSigns’ office.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ViralGains — ViralGains is a video ad journey platform that enables marketers to engage people with relevant brand stories in the contexts that people most favor. Using the platform to engage in a two-way conversation, brands discover exactly what people want and how they feel and build a unique journey that connects highly qualified consumers with relevantmessages that generate awareness, motivate intent, and impact purchase decisions. ViralGains is headquartered in Boston, with regional offices in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York.
- TradingView — Where the world charts, chats and trades markets. We're a supercharged super-charting platform and social network for traders and investors. Free to sign up.
- 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.
Riley Keohen
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Venture Capital, Financial Exchanges
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Napkin Inc. — We buy, build & grow elite service providers (web2.0, web3.0) to turn all digital transactions into liquid, investible, and tradable royalty streams without borders.Napkin employs and contracts 500+ marketers, advertisers, developers, technologists and financial professionals from around the world. Offices in North America, Latin America, andIndia. Remote staff in Europe, Asia, and MENA regions. We're currently looking to acquire phenomenal talent and tech the following areas: financial exchanges, neobanking, fintech, infrastructure, web2 and web3, cross-border payments, blockchain, AI, custody, treasury management solutions, project management with ISO certifications.
Geoff Entress is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. He was formerly a venture partner with Voyager Capital and Madrona Venture Group. Prior to PSL, Geoff was the most active angel investor in the region and has invested in over 200 private Pacific Northwest companies during the last two decades.Geoff represents PSL on the Board ofDirectors for JetClosing. He is also a current investor in over eighty private companies in the region and is a board member of Hiya, Meritage Soups, Bonanza, Foodee and LiquidPlanner.Geoff is also a long-time member of the Executive and Screening committees of the Alliance of Angels, the largest angel investor organization in the Pacific Northwest, as well as serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington, the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Notre Dame and the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.A former securities lawyer and financial analyst, he has also held positions at Perkins Coie, Jones Day, UrbanEarth.com, Salomon Brothers, The Prudential Home Mortgage Company, Mellon Bank, Priority Investment Management and Duquesne Capital Management. Geoff is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Notre Dame.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Migo, Inc. — Founded in 2016, Migo is a free mobile search app for personal transportation, helping consumers choose the best way from Point A to Point B.
- Lockstep — Connected accounting starts at Lockstep. Eliminate cash traps with our AR automation software and discover our modern, easy-use accounting API platform.
- Trainiac — Trainiac by Gympass helps you get into an effective exercise routine by pairing you with a dedicated fitness coach for a personalized fitness plan and weekly workouts you can do anywhere. Available exclusively for Gympass members.
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