Top 15 Angel Investors in Canada (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Barney Pell
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Mobile | $750k–$14M |
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Christopher Bissonnette
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology | $653k–$20M |
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G. Scott Paterson
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Post-IPO Equity | Marketplace, SaaS, FinTech | |
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Brent Holliday
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Software, Venture Capital, Enterprise Software | |
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Dave Johnson
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Developer Tools, SaaS | $750k–$6M |
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Riley Keohen
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Marketplace, Venture Capital, Financial Exchanges | |
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Ryan Pawell
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed | Medical, Biopharma, Biotechnology | |
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Geoff Entress
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, The Netherlands | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $609k–$9M |
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Chris Neumann
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Finance, Grocery | $1M–$1.3M |
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Larry Mercado
Angel
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1 | Canada | Pre-Seed | Marketplace, Venture Capital, Financial Exchanges | |
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Private Private
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Marketplace, Venture Capital, Financial Exchanges | |
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Patrick Lor
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS | $750k–$21M |
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Jonathan Bixby
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Software, Venture Capital, Enterprise Software | $750k–$7.5M |
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Doug Atkin
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series D | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $1.2M–$57M |
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Alex Norman
Angel
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1 | Canada, Australia, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $350k–$9M |
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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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $750k–$3.4M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$1.8M; Series A $1.2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Workwolf — Workwolf is a recruitment services company that combines human recruiters with proprietary AI and psychometric technology to deliver predictive hiring intelligence at disruptive pricing. The company addresses a fundamental inefficiency in the $150B+ recruitment industry: traditional agencies charge 15-25% of candidate salary for subjectiveassessments with no performance accountability. Workwolf’s technology-enabled model delivers measurable quality improvements at significantly lower cost per hire. The proprietary technology platform includes two core components: Smart Resume Screening for contextual qualification matching, and Packfinder™ psychometrics for role-specific performance prediction. Unlike generic assessment tools, Packfinder™ models are calibrated using client performance data, creating organization-specific predictions that improve with scale. The business model starts at fees as low as 4% of annual salary for high-volume roles, rather than percentage-based fees of 15-25%, creating favorable unit economics for high-volume clients while maintaining strong margins through technology leverage. This pricing structure aligns incentives around retention rather than salary inflation. Target customers are mid-market companies with consistent hiring volume (2+ hires/month) across multiple locations—particularly retail, hospitality, healthcare, logistics, and call centers. These segments offer predictable demand and benefit most from Workwolf’s pattern recognition capabilities across distributed operations. The platform generates compounding data advantages: each hire provides performance outcome data that refines predictive models, creating a defensible moat as the system processes more hiring decisions within and across client organizations. Workwolf is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
- 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.
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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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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $653k–$5M; Series A $15M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ViralGains — Optimize your ad performance with ViralGains. Collect zero-party data from interactive ads to understand consumer preferences and deliver customized messaging, boosting brand trust, engagement and sales.
- 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.
G. Scott Paterson is based out of Toronto, Ontario, and is the Founder and Executive Chairman of FutureVault and Chairman of the Board of FUTR Corporation. G. Scott previously worked at Symbility Solutions as a Chairman. G. Scott Paterson attended the University of Western Ontario. G. Scott Paterson has received the Purple & White Award.
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- Industry: Marketplace, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Workwolf — Workwolf is a recruitment services company that combines human recruiters with proprietary AI and psychometric technology to deliver predictive hiring intelligence at disruptive pricing. The company addresses a fundamental inefficiency in the $150B+ recruitment industry: traditional agencies charge 15-25% of candidate salary for subjectiveassessments with no performance accountability. Workwolf’s technology-enabled model delivers measurable quality improvements at significantly lower cost per hire. The proprietary technology platform includes two core components: Smart Resume Screening for contextual qualification matching, and Packfinder™ psychometrics for role-specific performance prediction. Unlike generic assessment tools, Packfinder™ models are calibrated using client performance data, creating organization-specific predictions that improve with scale. The business model starts at fees as low as 4% of annual salary for high-volume roles, rather than percentage-based fees of 15-25%, creating favorable unit economics for high-volume clients while maintaining strong margins through technology leverage. This pricing structure aligns incentives around retention rather than salary inflation. Target customers are mid-market companies with consistent hiring volume (2+ hires/month) across multiple locations—particularly retail, hospitality, healthcare, logistics, and call centers. These segments offer predictable demand and benefit most from Workwolf’s pattern recognition capabilities across distributed operations. The platform generates compounding data advantages: each hire provides performance outcome data that refines predictive models, creating a defensible moat as the system processes more hiring decisions within and across client organizations. Workwolf is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
- FUTR Corporation — Our mission is to make consumers financially well.
- InvestX Capital — InvestX is an asset manager providing investors and the wealth management industry with the ability to invest in pre-IPO companies in single and multi position funds.
Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Venture Capital, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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 Johnson is the Sales Application Engineer at MAPAL.
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- Industry: Software, Developer Tools, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $750k–$2.6M; Series A $5.2M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CareGuide — We believe good people deserve the best care. Connect with housekeepers, nannies, pet sitters, and elder \ care providers with ease. Trusted and secure.
- 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.
Riley Keohen
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- Industry: Marketplace, Venture Capital, Financial Exchanges
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Napkin — Discover new opportunities across businesses and assets in the private markets. 3,600+ live deals, $4.9B+ pipeline, 50+ countries.
Ryan Pawell (Founder, Director & Chief Executive Officer) is a Y Combinator alumni, published author and subject matter expert in the areas of fluid dynamics, advanced manufacturing, and biomicrofluidics. Ryan has been invited to present his work by the Australian National Fabrication Facility, White House Cancer Moonshot Taskforce, Air Force,National Institutes of Health, and National Cancer Institute among others.
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- Industry: Medical, Biopharma, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pioneer Fund — 300+ YC alumni investing in the top YC startups
- Avro — Avro Life Science is developing skin patches for generic drug delivery, focusing on therapeutics for children and the elderly. The core of our technology is a novel biopolymer which is used as a platform for passive transdermal drug delivery of small molecules and drugs.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $609k–$6.3M; Series A $1.1M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Desk — Desk is a human transaction coordinator firm that offers to monitor companies and clients' mail, remind deadlines, and prepare paperwork.
- Potato — Potato builds AI-native software that helps scientists research methods, build protocols, design experiments, and improve plate-based assays in one connected workspace.
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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- Industry: Software, Finance, Grocery
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1M–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Revyl — the mobile development platform
- 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.
Larry Mercado is the founder and CEO of DEI.Fund, a venture capital fund of funds focused on delivering capital to historically underserved markets and communities. Larry is also the owner of Bold Biologix, LLC. a sports and cosmetics CBD brand. He has served on numerous non-profit boards and currently serves on the Board of Directors of theCoastal Community Foundation and chairs their Investment Committee and Place Based Impact Investment Committee managing over $400M in assets. In 2009, the South Carolina Hispanic Chamber of Commerce recognized Larry as their Businessman of the Year and in 2013, Governor Nikki Haley appointed him an Ambassador for Economic Development in South Carolina. Larry holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia, an M.S. in Medical Cannabis Science and Therapeutics from the University of Maryland Baltimore and completed the Stanford Executive Program at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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- Industry: Marketplace, Venture Capital, Financial Exchanges
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Napkin — Discover new opportunities across businesses and assets in the private markets. 3,600+ live deals, $4.9B+ pipeline, 50+ countries.
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- Industry: Marketplace, Venture Capital, Financial Exchanges
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Napkin — Discover new opportunities across businesses and assets in the private markets. 3,600+ live deals, $4.9B+ pipeline, 50+ countries.
Patrick Lor is Managing Partner at Panache Ventures. He attended the University of Calgary.
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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $750k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $768k–$1.7M; Series A $7M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
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.
Jonathan Bixby is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Cykel AI. He previously worked at East Side Games Group Inc. as a Board Member. Jonathan Bixby attended the University of British Columbia.
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- Industry: Software, Venture Capital, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $750k–$7.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Douglas Atkin has been an investor, analyst and senior executive in the financial technology industry for over 20 years. He presently manages the GPM-Center Court Fund at Guggenheim Partners. Doug began his career at Instinet where he rose through the ranks to become the company’s CEO, leading its successful $450mm IPO in 2001. He was a Co-founderof Efficient Frontiers, a consulting firm specializing in trading technology, regulation, and market-structure. Doug was also the CEO of Majestic Research which was sold to ITG (NYSE: ITG) in 2010. Doug was selected as one of the Top New Yorkers by New York Magazine for his leading role in redefining the financial marketplace, and Institutional Investor profiled him as one of the top 30 individuals making the greatest impact on e-finance. In addition, Doug sits on the Board of Selerity Financial and the Lauri Strauss Leukemia Foundation.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series D
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.5M; Series A $5M–$15M; Series D $25M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- InvestX Capital — InvestX is an asset manager providing investors and the wealth management industry with the ability to invest in pre-IPO companies in single and multi position funds.
- 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!
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $350k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $700k–$6M; Series A $8.5M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Floqer — Build workflows that leverage 75+ industry-leading data sources and AI-powered web scraping to enrich prospect data, conduct account-based research, and automate sales motion at scale.
- Draft — Get blog posts, social posts, email copy and more from world class writers. Request quality content for your business in a few clicks.
- Draft — Find & work with content creation freelancers in a trustless way, running on Internet Computer
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