Top 35 Video Games Angel Investors in Canada (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Lance Priebe
Angel
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2 | Canada, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | eSports, SaaS, Gaming | $75k–$538k |
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André Zimmermann
Angel
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2 | Brazil, Spain, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $179k–$1M |
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Chris Gonsalves
Angel
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2 | United States, Canada, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games | $181k–$5M |
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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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Greg Zeschuk
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Apps, Mobile, Sports | |
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Nolan Bushnell
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Angel, Debt Financing | Mobile, eSports, Video Games | |
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Jon Oringer
Angel
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1 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $175k–$56M |
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Khaled Verjee
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, Blockchain, Web3 | $4.5M–$9M |
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Dennis Phelps
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series D, Series A | Mobile, Internet, Software | $500k–$100M |
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Çağlar Kılınç
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | ||
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Zyshan Kaba
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Software, Blockchain, Video Games | |
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Steven DeNure
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Gaming, Animation, Metaverse | |
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Mark Pincus
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Internet, Software | $1.1M–$116M |
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Jarl Mohn
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series B, Series A | Software, SaaS, Mobile | $655k–$12M |
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Sebastien Borget
Angel
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1 | United States, France, Estonia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | $250k–$60M |
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Aleksander Leonard Larsen
Angel
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1 | Norway, Denmark, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games | $1.6M–$60M |
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Raymond Tonsing
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software | $1M–$115M |
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Richard D. Adler
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Private Equity | Video, Software, Advertising | $825k–$871k |
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Steve Chen
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Taiwan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $350k–$40M |
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Mitch Lasky
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Spain | Series B, Series A, Series C | Video Games, Gaming, Software | $2.7M–$101M |
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Michael Litt
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed | Internet, Software, Computer | $1.1M–$11M |
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Paul Della Bitta
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed | Computer, Video Games, Online Games | |
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Wei Guo
Angel
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1 | United States, China, Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $245k–$19M |
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Eros Resmini
Angel
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1 | United States, Sweden, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Communities, Video Games | $1.1M–$6M |
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Anthony Sassano
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $1M–$50M |
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Danish Chaudhry
Angel
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1 | United States, Bulgaria, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 | $1.5M–$10M |
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Alex Adelman
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | $1.1M–$40M |
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Chris Ye
Angel
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1 | Canada, India, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Software, Virtual Reality | $592k–$11M |
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Kieran Warwick
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Panama | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Gaming | $250k–$4.5M |
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Fred Mancheski
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Angel | Gaming, Computer, Software | |
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Tobias Lutke
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $609k–$74M |
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Matthew Gillis
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed | Mobile, Content, Computer | $2.1M–$2.5M |
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Justin Kan
Angel
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1 | United States, Nigeria, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $890k–$23M |
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Loi Luu
Angel
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1 | Singapore, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 | $1.2M–$6M |
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Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel
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1 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $100k–$5.5M |
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Lance Priebe is the Founder of Hyper Hippo Entertainment.
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- Industry: eSports, SaaS, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $183k–$538k; Angel $75k–$423k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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 — Nurture transforms screen time into interactive stories that build curiosity, resilience, creativity, and empathy.
André holds a degree in Business Administration of the Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo (Brazil) and a GMP at CEDEP/INSEAD, Fontainebleau (France). He has more than 22 years experience within the communication industry, having worked for advertising and media agencies in Brazil and in Spain. After having worked at Havas for 12years, where at the end he accumulated the roles of MD at Havas Digital Brazil and MD at Z+, he became an entrepreneur in 2013 and has since then helped building NetCos (influencer marketing), Adglow (social media advertising), Smartclip Brazil, (video distribution platform), Blasting News Brazil (social journalism), Kiddo (customer experience), Oliver Latam (in house agencies), Audioria (podcast production and distribution) and Corebiz Spain (omnichannel agency). Since 2014 also acting as an angel investor at seed and early stage ventures for companies such as iSPORTiSTiCS (artificial intelligence for sports), Sherwa (gaming network), Donamaid (cleaning services marketplace), Mimo (live commerce), Chilligum Creatives (dynamic creatives), Super Troupers (influencer powered commerce solution) and also through Wow Accelerator. André was also a professor for two years at the Master in Digital Marketing of the Instituto de Empresa, Madrid (Spain) and a VP and board member at the Interactive Advertising Bureau Brazil. In 2014 André was ranked second in the Top 50 Innovators of Marketing and Communication in Brazil list, published by Proxxima (Meio&Mensagem Group).
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Brazil, Spain, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Pre-Seed $179k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DISS-CO — Manage GRC platform workflows, AI compliance, regulatory compliance, compliance management software, and automation in one AI-powered compliance platform.
- Super Troupers — Traditional influencers platforms give them a fish for each campaign; we give them a fishing rod.
- Sherwa Online Services — JalaLive sajikan kumpulan fakta unik dan menarik seputar penyelenggaraan edisi pertama format 32 tim ini.
Cofounder & CEO of Community Gaming
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- Industry: Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $181k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AAG Ventures — A bold new Saakuru Labs focused on incubating AI-native companies and game studios.
- Community Gaming — Community Gaming is an esports tournament platform, building efficient payment infrastructure to enable gamers to earn and achieve. The CG platform equips players, tournament organizers, and game developers with the tools needed to create and participate in scalable grassroots tournaments.
- Sequence — Sequence is the modular crypto infrastructure stack that unifies wallets, 1-click cross-chain payments, and real-time data layers across EVMs.
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.
- A&K Robotics — A&K Robotics | Autonomous Vehicle Systems
Gregory P. Zeschuk is the General Manager of Blind Enthusiasm Group. He attended Queen's University.
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- Industry: Apps, Mobile, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Nolan Bushnell is the Board Member of Gravity Jack. He previously worked at BrainRush Inc. as a Founder. Nolan attended the University of Utah.
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- Industry: Mobile, eSports, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Oomba — Oomba serves the rapidly expanding eSports market by providing large-scale venues and a complete set of cloud-based tournament management and live-streaming solutions for the millions of players, tournament organizers, and gaming leagues worldwide. With its acquisition of GameWorks Oomba is building out eSports stadiums across the US.Oomba ispositioned to revolutionize the eSports and gaming industry by “eloquently organizing how people play” in leagues and tournaments while recording their results, stats, and rankings in the Cloud. Their multi-sided platform incorporates teams, leagues, live tournaments, governing bodies, game publishers, sponsorships, as well as, driving value for B2B solutions and consumers alike. Based in Irvine, CA, the Company was founded by Michael Williams, CEO, founder of Planetwide Games, and Tremor Entertainment. Aiding Williams in the creative development of Oomba is co-founder and visionary, Nolan Bushnell, famed video game developer and founder of both Atari and Chuck E. Cheese restaurants.Oomba officially launched its mobile app and website at Gen Con 2014, showcasing the innovative tournament organization, webcasting, and social networking functions by breaking the Guinness World Record for largest Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament of all time.
- 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.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 115
- Round size: Seed $375k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $175k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$56M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
- Unsloth AI — Unsloth is an open-source, no-code web UI for training, running and exporting open models in one unified local interface.
- OneImaging — OneImaging makes life-saving diagnostics affordable, accessible, and personal. We connect employers, health plans, and members to a trusted national network of imaging centers, delivering faster answers with transparent pricing and premium care across MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, mammograms, X-rays and more. We serve organizations looking to control medical spend and individuals who need reliable results without delays. Every scan booked through OneImaging is proof that healthcare can be simpler, cheaper, and kinder.
Khaled Verjee
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Web3
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $4.5M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WOMBO — WOMBO is the world's best AI-powered lip sync app. Take a selfie, pick a song, and let WOMBO work its magic. Available for early access.
- ChainSafe Systems — ChainSafe is a leading blockchain R&D firm, specializing in protocol engineering, cross-chain interoperability & web3 gaming.
- Sequence — Sequence is the modular crypto infrastructure stack that unifies wallets, 1-click cross-chain payments, and real-time data layers across EVMs.
Dennis Phelps is the General Partner of IVP.
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- Industry: Mobile, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series D, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Series A $6.5M–$30M; Series D $10M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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 is the AI-powered augmented reality camera and creative platform. Capture, transform, and share stunning AR photos and videos.
- Cambrian Asset Management — A Quantitative Investment Firm for Digital Assets
Çağlar Kılınç is the co-founder of Rhino Runner and Neurolize.
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- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Arvis Games — Arvis Games creates, develops, and publishes games that are deep, diverse, extensible, and simple to learn. They develop IP-based games like Fight Buddy, USC Reach, and Board Royale. Their mission is to turn people's experiences into lasting memories by creating well-designed and well-crafted games.
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Video Games
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sequence — Sequence is the modular crypto infrastructure stack that unifies wallets, 1-click cross-chain payments, and real-time data layers across EVMs.
Steven DeNure is the Founder of WildBrain.
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- Industry: Gaming, Animation, Metaverse
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dark Slope Studios — Dark Slope combines advanced technologies with compelling storytelling to reimagine and create the future of entertainment.
Mark Pincus is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder of Playful.AI. Mark previously worked at Tribe.net as a CEO and Co-Founder. Mark Pincus attended Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: FinTech, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 101
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Series A $2.7M–$40M; Series B $8.5M–$116M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- fomo — Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships.
- PlayerZero — PlayerZero builds an engineering world model so SRE, QA, and support teams resolve incidents, prevent defects, and close tickets faster.
- SalesPatriot — We deploy AI into supply chains that the West depends on.
Jarl Mohn is based out of Washington,District of Columbia and is the President Emeritus of NPR. Jarl worked at E! Entertainment Television as a President/CEO. Jarl Mohn attended the Temple University.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $655k–$2.2M; Series A $800k–$7M; Series B $6M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dack — Operto's comprehensive hospitality management software streamlines operations, enhances guest experiences, and drives growth.
- Lantern — Lantern is a public benefit corporation that provides a single source of guidance for navigating life before and after a death. It offers free, custom roadmaps to make sure you or a loved one have everything in order. Whether you're pre-planning or have recently lost someone, Lantern has all of the tools, resources, and services you need toconfidently manage the process while coping with the loss of a loved one.
- Abstract — Abstract provides an AI-driven policy intelligence platform that analyzes legislative, regulatory, and media data to help organizations identify risks and opportunities. The platform uses large language models and retrieval-augmented generation to process complex information and present it in a structured format. Abstract enables businesses tomonitor regulatory developments, assess potential impacts, and integrate insights into decision-making workflows.
Sebastien Borget is based out of Paris, Île-de-France and serves as the Global Ambassador of The Sandbox. Sebastien attended The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Pre-Seed $250k–$7M; Series A $5M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rocapine — We craft apps that help people feel truly alive
- VOYA Games — Voya Games is a Berlin-based game development studio. The company focuses on creating a network of interconnected Web3 games centered around player ownership and tokenized economies. Their flagship title, Craft World, is a casual resource management game set in a post-apocalyptic world where players collaborate with friendly dinosaurs to rebuildcivilization. Craft World integrates blockchain features such as NFTs and a utility token called Dyno Coin, enabling players to own, trade, and participate in a decentralized game economy.
- Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.
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- Industry: Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Norway, Denmark, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$8.2M; Series A $20M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Makina — The DeFi Execution Engine. Community Chat: https://t.co/ngGchIz7Cm Support: https://t.co/LSN1rdjT94
- Pixels — Pixels is a play-to-earn MMO game built around the NFT assets you already own. Build your NFT a home in the metaverse and get farming.
- Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
Raymond Tonsing is a San Francisco based venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He founded Caffeinated Capital, an early stage venture capital firm, and now serves as its managing director. Raymond holds a bachelor's degree in Arts from University of Colorado Boulder.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 117
- Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $4.5M–$38M; Series B $20M–$115M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Farcaster — Farcaster is a social network that helps coders, fitness enthusiasts, and meme makers find people based on their interests. The company focuses on increasing daily active users and adding developer primitives to the protocol, such as channels and direct message delivery. It aims to create a decentralized social network that allows users tocommunicate directly without the need for intermediaries.
- Friend — Your new roommate is waiting.
- Blowfish — Blowfish detects and prevents fraud before any fraud occurs.
Richard D. Adler
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- Industry: Video, Software, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Private Equity
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $825k–$871k
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Unlimited — UNLIMITED is at the forefront in the design and creation of high-end Virtual Reality Experiences. VR is a revolutionary new medium - a mind-blowing hybrid between interactive media and immersive cinematic experiences. They offer branded and original VR content for immersive and interactive media, including films, TV series, games andadvertising.
- LL Flooring — Shop low-cost hardwood, vinyl, laminate & waterproof flooring at Lumber Liquidators. Get professional installation and service at Lumber Liquidators' 200+ flooring stores.
- Nectar Technologies — Nectar's Precision Beekeeping Technology helps you raise thriving colonies and improve your beekeeping operation.
Steve Chen was an internet entrepreneur and the co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of YouTube. Born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Raised in Taiwan, Chen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 15.After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen worked at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley andJawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, a website designed to simplify video sharing online.Chen was named one of the "The 50 people who matter now" by Business 2.0 magazine in 2006. That year, he and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock.Chen most recently co-founded AVOS Systems with YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Taiwan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Round size: Seed $350k–$12M; Series A $3M–$20M; Series B $6M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Artue — Artue is pioneering the art industry's digital transformation.
- E-Pal — E-Pal connects high-caliber gamers worldwide, offering you supportive gaming companions anytime, anywhere. You'll never battle alone!
- Moonlake AI — Vibe code games and worlds into existence.
Mitch Lasky is a general partner at (NASDAQ: JMDT), the leading global publisher of wireless entertainment applications, which he joined as a startup in 2000, took public in 2004, and sold to EA in 2006.Prior to JAMDAT, Mitch served as general manager of eCompanies Wireless LLC, a startup incubator. He also spent five years at Activision, the world’s largest game publisher, most recently as executive vice president of Worldwide Studios. Earlier in his career, Mitch practiced intellectual property law, worked at the Walt Disney Company and started a massively multiplayer online game company.Mitch is currently a board member of He attended Harvard University and University of Virginia School of Law.
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- Industry: Video Games, Gaming, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Series A $2.7M–$19M; Series B $7.3M–$80M; Series C $6.8M–$101M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Levellr — Levellr software helps creators & brands to build, manage and monetise messaging communities within existing apps, including Discord & Telegram. Our tools, which sit on top of Discord & Telegram, help our customers to acquire powerful-first party data on superfans, build highly engaged communities & generate tangible revenueopportunities, whilst also providing our customers with community strategy & on-going moderation services to ensure their communities thrive.
- Fundamental Research Labs — Altera build digital human beings that live, love and grow.
- Games for a living — Play the Future
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Browse database — It's Free!Michael Litt is based out of Waterloo, Ontario and is the co-founder and CEO of Vidyard and also the Advisory Board of Maropost. Michael previously worked at Communitech as a Board of Directors. Michael Litt attended the University of Waterloo.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Computer
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Revlo — Revlo is the fan engagement platform for broadcasters on Twitch. We offer a suite of tools that help Twitch broadcasters better engage and monetize their fans.Broadcasters use Revlo to integrate a custom currency into their Twitch channel that viewers earn for watching their stream. The currency allows them to reward loyal fans and gamify theviewing experience.For example, viewers can spend their currency on getting a discount on merchandise or joining the next viewer game. Viewers can also use Revlo to compete on a leaderboard, bet on matches, and enter into giveaways. Fans can interact with the broadcaster on Revlo or using chat commands on Twitch.
- Wrk — Unlock seamless automation with Wrk. Our AI automation tools and business automation solutions help you streamline workflows, cut costs, and scale effortlessly.
- CareGuide — We believe good people deserve the best care. Connect with housekeepers, nannies, pet sitters, and elder \ care providers with ease. Trusted and secure.
Paul Della Bitta is based out of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and is the Head of Wizards of the Coast of Hasbro. Paul previously worked at Blizzard Entertainment as a Vice President & Commercial Leader.
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- Industry: Computer, Video Games, Online Games
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sword & Wand — Sword & Wand is a fully remote studio that focuses on shared online experiences and systemically driven replayability. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Kissimmee, Florida, United States.
- Odyssey Interactive — Odyssey Interactive is a game studio focused on building free-to-play, cross platform, competitive titles set in bright and hopeful anime inspired IP.
Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, China, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 162
- Round size: Seed $245k–$4.3M; Angel $375k–$10M; Series A $7M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
- Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
- Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.
Eros Resmini - Partner, Sales And Marketing @ 9+ Program
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- Industry: Software, Communities, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Sweden, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hiber — Hiber has created a gaming and entertainment platform where people can play and create on their mobile devices and PCs. Hiber was founded in 2017 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden and operates Hiber social Apps (Hiber), and a web-based entertainment platform, HiberWorld.The team originally created HiberWorld as a place for people to createtheir own 3D interactive experiences and share them with others, without the need to code. Initially, everything was browser-based and in 2019 the company reached a major milestone when it released touch creation mode, bringing the experience of making and sharing UGC creations to mobile devices with touch screens.Since then, More than 1 Million experiences have been created including virtual worlds, 3D hangouts, games, playgrounds, speed-run challenges, interactive science museums, roller coasters, pixel art showcases, and more.As the company has added more social features, it has seen explosive growth amongst mobile users. At its root, Hiber is giving people a new language with which to communicate using interactive 3D elements, without the need to code, so anyone can tell their story or deliver their message to the world.
- imagi — Programming has never been this much fun! Learn to create with code, share your designs with friends on the imagiLabs app and customize your imagiCharm - a fun, easy-to-use, colorful, and educational toy for girls. Imagine it. Code it. Wear it.
- Oath Care — Onboarding for motherhood: Oath puts Intimate community and medical professionals at your fingertips, supporting you from pregnancy through pediatrics.
Anthony Sassano is a Product Marketing Manager at Set Labs. He attended La Trobe University. and a Founder of The Daily Gwei
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RISE Labs — RISE is a high-performance Ethereum L2 where orderbooks are a native primitive. Purpose-built for onchain financial markets. Secured by Ethereum.
- Spire Labs — Infinite Appchains, one Ethereum. Powering @baibai_cx
- Valantis Labs — Use stHYPE to stay liquid and trade with up to 40% off trading fees on @HyperliquidX https://t.co/ZpHjKLF4DJ
Danish Chaudhry is a GP & Co-Founder at Paper Ventures.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Bulgaria, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$7M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$3.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $5.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nexio — Making Bitcoin Productive
- Turtle Club — Aggregated, diligenced, personalized onchain yield management.
- Neutral Trade — Quant Strategies Marketplace backed by @yzilabs @incubator @ergonia_ | Official Links: https://t.co/LducMMFsw0
Alex Adelman is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Lolli. Alex was previously the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Cosmic (acquired by PopSugar, then Ebates). He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and currently resides in New York, New York. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in Economics.
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3M; Series A $9M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Limit Break — Limit Break is a blockchain game company.
- Daylight — Clicker is the social network for traders.
- Sequence — Sequence is the modular crypto infrastructure stack that unifies wallets, 1-click cross-chain payments, and real-time data layers across EVMs.
Chris Ye - CEO @ Uken Games
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- Industry: Gaming, Software, Virtual Reality
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $592k–$673k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mantle — A next generation platform for modern founders, powered by AI.
- Sinn Studio — Swordsman is a physics-based combat game designed for virtual reality. Slash your way through medieval Earth to become the ultimate Swordsman.
- Campfire (YC W22) — Start having fun with your remote friends with Campfire.
Kieran Warwick Co-Founder at Illuvium
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada, Panama
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$550k
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fjord Foundry — Fjord enables teams the ability to openly and fairly generate liquidity by connecting inspired projects with passionate supporters via Liquidity Bootstrapping Pools.
- Zaros Finance — Zaros is a protocol that provides efficient liquidity, boosts staking rewards from LSTs, and aims to become the preferred liquidity hub for on-chain derivatives.
- Layer Social Labs — A home for global companionship and endless entertainment. Post More, Play More, Earn More.
Fred Mancheski
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- Industry: Gaming, Computer, Software
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FluGen — FluGen is a biopharmaceutical company specializing on the prevention and treatment of seasonal and pandemic influenza worldwide.
- Phoenix Labs — We aspire to create timeless games shared for generations, powered by an unwavering regard for players and each other.
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Browse database — It's Free!Tobi Lütke founded Shopify in 2004. He has served as the Chief Executive Officer since 2008. Tobi worked on the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created many popular open source libraries such as Active Merchant.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $609k–$15M; Series A $4M–$36M; Series B $30M–$74M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
- KOHO Financial — Open an everyday spending account online with instant cash back & premium rewards. Join over 1.5M Canadians using KOHO's prepaid Mastercard to spend, save, build and borrow. Sign up in minutes!
- Wednesday Waffles — Share 5-minute video updates with your closest friends and family every Wednesday. No filters, no algorithms, just real authentic connection.
Matthew Gillis is based out of Baltimore, Maryland, and is the Chief Business Officer of AccuWeather. Matthew previously worked at Digital Turbine as a President. Matthew Gillis attended Wilfrid Laurier University.
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- Industry: Mobile, Content, Computer
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- icejam — Free-to-play mobile games needs a big idea and icejam is making it happen. Founded by former EA Mobile leader, Stuart Duncan, icejam is located in Canada’s mobile games hub in Charlottetown PEI. Creativity flourishes in the state-of-the-art mobile games studio located in its historic loft like setting almost within a stones throw from the ocean.icejam leadership brings a great heritage in mobile games with its management team having delivered game titles such as NHL PowerShot Hockey, Trade Nations, NBA Jam, and The Simpsons: Tapped Out. With a runway secured by private capital including investment by Build Ventures and financial backing from Innovation PEI and ACOA, icejam is taking on the world of F2P mobile games once again.
- ICX Media — ICX Media is a data-as-a-service company providing breakthrough data, analytics and intelligence to brands, media and entertainment companies and agencies. The ICX platform leverages machine learning and data science to analyze billions of district data points to best predict what type of video content is most likely to engage specific targetaudiences. Leading media companies, particularly CTV and streaming focused companies, use ICX to more effectively create and market content that resonates with their target audiences. Brands and agencies use ICX to better create and target highly engaging content for target consumers. Clients include numerous large media and entertainment companies, brands and agencies around the world.
Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Stash. He previously worked at Atrium as a CEO. Justin Kan attended Yale University.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Pre-Seed $890k–$20M; Series A $7.5M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Convex — All gas, no breakages. Convex is the reactive backend platform that keeps up with you and your agents.
- FLORA — FLORA is an applied AI HCI company building creative tools.
- Samepage — Building your second brain for product leaders
Loi Luu is a researcher working on cryptocurrencies, smart contract security and distributed consensus algorithms. He is also a regular invited speaker at Bitcoin and Ethereum workshops such as DevCon2, EDCON.Loi believes in the force of the Ethereum and Blockchain technology. Much of his work revolves around this community. He developed Oyente,the first open-source security analyzer for Ethereum smart contracts. Loi also cofounded SmartPool, another open source project which embraces decentralization of mining pools in existing cryptocurrency. He continues to champion decentralisation and trustless properties of the Blockchain with KyberNetwork, taking inspiration and developing value for the community.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2M; Series A $5M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
- SpaceComputer — SpaceComputer uses satellites to create a secure blockchain system that resists cyberattacks and physical tampering.
- Avara Ventures — Avara creates smart contract-enabled products and public goods (open source protocols) that incorporate decentralized blockchain technologies and token-based economies.
Nadav Ben-Chanoch
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 178
- Round size: Seed $329k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
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