Top 50 Web3 Angel Investors in Canada
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Web3 startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Web3 companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Web3 Angel Investors in Canada
Investor | Web3 Canada investments |
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Balaji Srinivasan | 6 |
Meltem Demirors | 5 |
William Mougayar | 3 |
Bryan Rosenblatt | 3 |
Mark Pincus | 2 |
Josh Nussbaum | 2 |
Mike Murchison | 2 |
Rasool Rayani | 2 |
Michael Dunworth | 2 |
Jack Herrick | 2 |
Chris Gonsalves | 2 |
Anthony Sassano | 2 |
Kain Warwick | 2 |
Sandeep Nailwal | 2 |
Steve Huffman | 2 |
Mai Fujimoto | 2 |
Jeff Morris Jr. | 2 |
Avichal Garg | 2 |
Matt Bellamy | 2 |
Tinie Tempah | 2 |
Anatoly Yakovenko | 1 |
Owl eth | 1 |
Tobias Lütke | 1 |
Michael Katchen | 1 |
Paul Desmarais III | 1 |
Khaled Verjee | 1 |
Tarun Katial | 1 |
Rachid Ajaja | 1 |
Deepak Jain | 1 |
Jason Kim | 1 |
Vijay Ratnaparke | 1 |
Mathieu Baril | 1 |
Omar Shakeeb | 1 |
Andrew Chau | 1 |
David Zhang | 1 |
Satish Kanwar | 1 |
Lisa Shields | 1 |
Emile Dubie Dubie | 1 |
Bill Crowley | 1 |
Mr. Block | 1 |
Jody Mulkey | 1 |
David Dias | 1 |
Larry Fichtner | 1 |
Daniel Curran | 1 |
Spencer Tucker | 1 |
Alex Adelman | 1 |
Robert Aron Zawiasa | 1 |
Spada ₿oom | 1 |
Sameer Mehta | 1 |
Rudy Kadoch | 1 |
Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- ZeroMark — ZeroMark is a defense product company building technology to ensure safety and precision when using kinetic and non lethal weapons.
- Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.
- ImmuneAGE Bio — ImmuneAGE Bio is the first drug discovery platform company focused on immune system rejuvenation.
Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, an investment firm that manages $750M in assets, and is a trusted partner to investors and entrepreneurs navigating the digital asset ecosystem. Meltem oversees the firm’s managed strategies group and its New York office, and leads corporate development as a board director. Previously, shewas part of the founding team of Digital Currency Group. She teaches at MIT and Oxford, and serves on the WEF Blockchain Council. Meltem leads CoinShares' venture strategy and is an active angel investor, having invested in over 150 companies in the digital currency ecosystem since 2015.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Freatic — We bridge the gap between individuals with untapped knowledge and actors who can take advantage of these opportunities.
- Eclipse — The first customizable, modular rollups, using the Solana VM. Sign up to access our testnet.
- Root Protocol — Root is building an operating system with the composition of an intent-centric aggregator of digital identity, virtual accounts, social graphs, and more to enable unified access to Web3.
William Mougayar is a Toronto-based investor, researcher, blogger, and best-selling author of The Business Blockchain (Wiley, 2016). He is a direct participant in the crypto-technology market, working alongside startups, entrepreneurs, pioneers, leaders, innovators, creators, enterprise executives and practitioners.William is the generalpartner at Virtual Capital Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund, and currently on the Board of Directors of OB1, the OpenBazaar open source protocol that is pioneering decentralized peer-to-peer commerce, a Board Advisor to the Ethereum Foundation, a member of OMERS Ventures Board of Advisors, an Advisory Board member to the Coin Center and Bloq. He blogs regularly about the present and future of blockchains at Startup Management.Previously, he held senior positions at Hewlett-Packard, Cognizant and Aberdeen Group, and he founded 3 startups, CYBERManagement, Eqentia, and Engagio.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Blockchain
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Decrypt — The next-generation media outlet navigating the intersection of culture and technology.
- Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
- CryptoKitties — CryptoKitties is a mobile game that enables users to collect and breed virtual cats on the blockchain. The collectible, breedable, and adorable CryptoKitties aim to make blockchain technology accessible to everyday consumers by putting a furry face on the concept of digital collectibles.With each CryptoKitties unique 256-bit genome empower nearly4-billion potential genetic combinations.
Bryan Rosenblatt (born July 4, 1989 in New York, New York, United States) is an American Venture Capitalist and entrepreneur. He is a Partner at Craft Ventures, a venture firm with over $2 billion AUM started by David Sacks. He is also a founder of Riverside Ventures, which he started in 2017, and a former executive at Reddit and Twitter. Hepreviously worked at Reddit as the Head of Sales. Bryan Rosenblatt attended the University of Connecticut School of Business and Charles University.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
- Jomboy Media — We cover the topics we love, including sports, movies, songs, and history. If we can talk about it with enthusiasm, we've got a show for it.
- Underdog Fantasy — Fantasy sports for real money
Mark Pincus is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Zynga. He has served as our Chairman from April 2007 to March 2016 and the company's Executive Chairman since March 2016. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer from April 2007 to July 2013 and from April 2015 to March 2016, and as Chief Product Officer from April2007 to April 2014. In 2014, he founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. Pincus also founded Zynga.org in 2009, a non-profit organization dedicated to using social games for social good.From 2003 to 2007, Pincus served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tribe.net, a company he launched and one of the first social networks in the industry. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Chairman of Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software company he founded, and he served as Chief Executive Officer and President from December 1997 to July 1999. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company he founded.Pincus also made founding investments in Napster, Twitter, and Facebook.Pincus graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an angel investor in multiple Silicon Valley startups and regularly gives lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Internet, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Loop — Control your freight spend with Loop. A tech-first audit and pay platform loved by Shippers, Carriers and 3PLs.
- Echo Chunk AI — We build epic strategy games that generate themselves. Starting with Echo Chess: the daily chess puzzler where you are what you eat.
- Spring Free EV — Fleet managers, high mileage, and gig drivers. No Personal Credit Required. Learn More About Spring Free EV Today! A Stress-Free, Quick, and Unbiased Process to Get You Into an Electric Vehicle. Pay As You Go.
Josh joined Metamorphic Ventures in 2013.Prior to Metamorphic, Josh worked in Business Development for startup, JustDecide, a social decision-making company. Prior to JustDecide, Josh worked in digital marketing and branding at Bayard Advertising.Josh is also a member of the executive board at Tech@NYU, New York City’s largest studenttechnology organization. For multiple semesters he was in charge of “Startup Week” where he helped organize events with top entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in New York City.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Internet, Software
- Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
- CryptoKitties — CryptoKitties is a mobile game that enables users to collect and breed virtual cats on the blockchain. The collectible, breedable, and adorable CryptoKitties aim to make blockchain technology accessible to everyday consumers by putting a furry face on the concept of digital collectibles.With each CryptoKitties unique 256-bit genome empower nearly4-billion potential genetic combinations.
Mike Murchison is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ada, the leading provider of AI customer support chatbots. Ada provides a simple and powerful authoring environment, cutting edge machine learning, and lightning-fast deployment, automating millions of chat conversations per month for clients such as TELUS, Coinbase, and Shopify. In partnership withGenesys, Ada is helping companies improve their customer experience, dramatically reduce costs, and increase support team productivity.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Art
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Lancey — Lancey is an interactive demo builder designed for sales and marketing teams to grow pipeline and close deals.
- Shakepay — Shakepay allows Canadians to buy/sell bitcoin and pay their friends. We're on a mission to create open access to building wealth.
- Garnet Labs — Proactively monitor your CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions. Stay ahead of issues, prevent supply chain attacks and secure your software release process.
Rasool is a serial entrepreneur with experience in the software, healthcare, and CPG industries. He continues to maintain his passion for technology as an active angel investor with a focus on b2b, consumer saas and health tech. Rasool maintains an active role with CEO’s as a board member, mentor and advisor. He currently serves on the boards ofthe Victoria Foundation, VIATEC, and Checkfront Software.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Content, Cloud Computing
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Outway — Inspiring personal bests.
- Defined — Crypto DeFi data & infrastructure for pricing, charts, indexing, & custom APIs.
- Cognito Health — Canada's only integrated online mental health solution. Accessible and affordable treatment for your mental health. Book a free initial assessment today.
Michael Dunworth Formerly CRM Manager and Analyst at Midwinter Financial. Co-Founded FullSociety.com in 2011 and merged with TimeOut.com in 2012.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Wyre — Wyre is a developer of a blockchain-based payment platform designed to change the future of how international payments are done. The company's platform provides real-time payouts, same-day transfers, and direct-to-bank transfers, enabling businesses to move money across borders from country-to-country at a competitive foreign exchange rate.Wyre's business owners can easily create an account and send money to any person or business without worrying about high foreign exchange rates, hidden fees, complicated payout timing, and high payment fees. It also provides onramps and off-ramps, foreign exchange, and crypto liquidity to users of various crypto projects including decentralized exchanges.Wyre was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
- XMTP — 2M+ web3 identities trust XMTP for secure & private messaging
- Zapper — Your home to web3. Explore wallets, NFTs, DeFi, Daos and more...
Jack Herrick is a serial entrepreneur and current CEO and Founder of wikiHow.Jack founded wikiHow, which is like Wikipedia for how-to. Jack started and self financed wikiHow from inception to it's current position as one of the most popular sites on the web receiving over 25 million unique visitors per month. Prior to wikiHow, Jack wasco-CEO of eHow. With Josh Hannah, Jack purchased eHow in 2004. Between 2004 and 2006 eHow grew 30x in traffic and revenue and became the largest pure play how-to site on the web. Demand Media acquired eHow in 2006.In 2002 Jack co-founded Luminescent Technologies with Dan Abrams, Eli Yablonovitch, and Stan Osher. Luminescent is a computational semiconductor lithography company that has raised over $25 MM in venture capital. From 1999-2001 Jack was CEO and co-founder at BigTray, a Sequoia funded e-commerce company. BigTray was sold in 2001 and remains the largest online vendor of restaurant equipment and supplies.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
- SX Network — Scaling Polygon for betting, DeFi and NFTs
- Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts
Cofounder & CEO of Community Gaming
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Video Games
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- AAG Ventures — AAG Ventures is the IT business behind AAG, one of the fastest-growing Play-To-Earn guilds in the industry.
- Community Gaming — CommunityGaming.io combines social gaming, match automation, and blockchain payment technology to make it easy to organize and compete in esports tournaments. Their solution uses automated software and blockchain payment tech to produce fair, transparent, automated results without the complexity normally associated with blockchain solutions. Ourevent platform is a network of thousands of gamers, dozens of venues, and brands who we've proudly brought together across over 200 live and online esports competitions.
- Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.
Anthony Sassano is a Product Marketing Manager at Set Labs. He attended La Trobe University.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.
- Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.
Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
- Firewall — Firewall is building a security layer for Web3, including the Safe Sequencer and its modular components that mitigate smart contract hacks before they impact users. Backed by NIV, Breyer Capital and Hack VC.
- Polynomial — Trade DeFi options with highly efficient liquidity.
Sandeep Nailwal - Co-Founder @ Polygon
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mira — Mira is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to increase access to advanced AI.
- Compute Labs — computing Labs is a tokenized real-world asset (RWA) company dedicated to democratizing access to the computing industry using blockchain technology.
- OpenLedger — OpenLedger is the sovereign data blockchain for AI.
Steve Huffman is the CEO of Reddit. He is a former co-founder and CTO at Hipmunk. Prior to founding Hipmunk, Steve founded the social news site Reddit in 2005 with his college roommate, Alexis Ohanian. Reddit has since grown into the largest social news site and one of the largest communities on the Internet. In 2010, Adam pulled Steve out ofretirement to start Hipmunk.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Agora — Simplify your compensation practices and effectively communicate total rewards to your people.
- Fathom — Instantly summarizes your meetings so you can focus on the conversation instead of taking notes.
- JustPaid — Stay in control of your business with payments, AI-powered automation, benchmarking, contract tracking, opportunity alerts, and more, all in one platform.
Mai Fujimoto is known domestically and internationally as Miss Bitcoin. She has been promoting the spread of Bitcoin around the world since 2011.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Marketplace, Art
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Canada, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- RSS3 — RSS3 structures open information for the next Twitter, Google, and OpenAI.
- GCR DAO — Global Coin Research is a Community-led DAO for Web3 Research & Investing. We source, vet & fund Pre-Seed to Series A opportunities. Join to Invest Together!
- Brand New Vision — Brand New Vision uses smart contracts to help creators sell digital fashion and other accessories.
Jeff Morris Jr. is the Founder & Managing Partner at Chapter One.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Productivity Tools
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Cord — Cord is everything you need to build amazing chat, commenting, and collaboration experiences.
- Bubbles — Bubbles is a collaboration tool that lets you tag anything on your screen and invite your teammates to discuss in-context. Get excited by organic growth and viral loops, and less so by paid advertising. Are active on one or more social platforms like Medium, Twitter, Product Hunt, etc.
- Syndicate — Infrastructure for powerful web3 products at scale
Avichal is Managing Partner at Electric Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Avichal sold two companies and was most recently Director of Product at Facebook, which acquired his company Spool in 2012. He previously worked at Google on search ranking and ads ranking, is part-time at YCombinator, and an active angelinvestor.Avichal's firm, Electric Capital, focuses on cryptocurrencies that are rooted in technological utility. Electric performs deep technological diligence, such as compiling code, profiling nodes, and analyzing blockchains with in-house software. The founders of Electric have started and sold five companies, have been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, and are investors in Anchor, Bitwise, Chia, Coda, dYdX, Dfinity, Oasis, Thunder and many other crypto projects.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Key — Key provides a unique method to making significant professional relationships while also promoting career advancement, financial well-being, and work-life balance
- Matic — The world's most advanced floor cleaner. Your home's best helper.
- Magrathea — Magrathea Metals is a mining company that unlocks centuries of growth in human civilization by reducing the socioenvironmental impacts.
Matthew James "Matt" Bellamy (born 9 June 1978) is an English musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, pianist, and principal songwriter of rock band Muse. He is often recognized for his eccentric stage persona, wide tenor vocal range, and piano and guitar abilities.
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MindPortal — The future of personal computing.
- 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.
- Nobell Foods — Farm fresh animal-free cheese that melts, stretches, tastes, goozes, oozes, bubbles, pops, tingles, and everything else to make your brain explode.
Tinie shot to prominence with his chart-topping album 'Disc-Overy' which featured the #1s 'Pass Out' & 'Written In the Stars'. 2 x BRITs, a MOBO and an Ivor Novello followed. His 2nd album 'Demonstration' featured collaborators such as Dizzee Rascal, Emeli Sandé & Laura Mvula. In 2015, Tinie returnedwith 'Not Letting Go' and a feature on KDA's 'Turn The Music Louder'. Both topped the charts to give him 7 UK #1s - the most by any artist this decade.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Art, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.
Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Code — Code is a Canadian payment platform provider that makes it simple for web developers to collect modest payments from consumers worldwide.
- Helius — Solana RPCs, APIs, webhooks and infrastructure to build and ship crypto apps, fast. Get started for free in 1 click.
- Sphere — Better cross-border payments through beautiful interfaces for businesses to buy, sell, send and manage stablecoins.
Owl.eth is a individual angel invetsor.
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Investment focus
- Ethereum, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Portals — Portals is a #DeFi yield and protocol aggregator for transaction bundling, any-to-any swaps, and real-time data
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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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Liquid AI — Liquid AI is an MIT spin-off with a presence in Boston, MA, and Palo Alto, CA. Our mission is to build state-of-the-art, general-purpose AI systems from first principles and deploy capable, efficient, highly aligned, and trustworthy AI for all.
- Extropic AI — The next era of computing isn't dead. It's alive. More coming soon.
- Perplexity AI — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Founder & CEO. Entrepreneur, passionate about transforming investment management.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, FinTech, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Resq — At ResQ, we're obsessed with simplifying the repairs and maintenance experience so you can focus on doing what you love. Talk to a ResQ Expert today!
- KEEP Labs — The Modern medicine Cabinet and Data Platform. We partner with healthcare organizations to improve patient adherence by integrating and augmenting their programs, not displacing them.
- Float — Spend, track, approve, and reconcile all your CAD and USD expenses in one platform. Corporate cards tied with intelligent spend management software.
Paul is the Executive Chairman of Portag3 Ventures and also serves as the Senior Vice-President of Power Financial and Power Corporation. Before joining Power as Vice-President in May 2014, he was Assistant Vice-President in the Risk Management Group of Great-West Lifeco beginning in 2012. Previously, he worked in project management and corporatestrategy at Imerys in France. He began his career in 2004, working for five years with Goldman Sachs in the United States, in the Investment Banking and Investment Strategy Groups, as well as in the Special Situations Group.In May 2014, Paul was named a director of Great-West Life, Investors Group, Mackenzie, Pargesa and Groupe Bruxelles Lambert. He is also Chairman of Sagard Capital and Wealthsimple, and Vice-Chairman of Imerys. In December 2016, Paul was named a director of Personal Capital.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Seed, Private Equity, Series B
- Canada, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 메이저사이트[마이멜로디] — Securely interpret DeFi and crypto portfolios with Octav's best-in-class cross-chain monitoring & pre-tax facilitator. Maximize efficiency for finance, accounting, tax professionals. Advanced labeling, reporting & reconciliation of DeFi investments. Latest Web3 dashboard. Elevate Decentralized Finance now.
- Stack Wealth — Stack is a personalised online wealth management platform helping you invest in Indian & US equity, debt, gold, real estate & more. Our investment team has 50+ years of experience in wealth management.
- Performance Equity Management — At PEM, our focus is Access, Selection, and Portfolios. Our team has an average 20 years of experience investing in private equity, with a breadth and depth of relationships that give us access to some of the best managers and deals.
Khaled Verjee
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Ethereum, Internet
- Seed, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- ChainSafe Systems — ChainSafe Systems is a global leader in blockchain protocol and infrastructure development located in Toronto.
- Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.
With 20 years of experience in Indian media industry, Tarun is currently spearheading the task of establishing ZEE5 as the Numero Uno OTT brand in the country. He is credited with setting up the team and the business at ZEE5 and has worked across content, business, product, technology and data analytics monetisation to build the OTT brand into acohesive platform. He has also made investments in AI & ML and is the frontrunner for introduction of innovative features that attract and enhance user experiences, making ZEE5 a Single Entertainment Hub. During his career, Tarun worked with advertising agencies like Saatchi & Saatchi, Enterprise Nexus and Ogilvy & Mather, with television network companies like Star Network and Sony Entertainment Television as well as radio network 92.7 BIG FM.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Retail, Internet
- Seed, Angel
- India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
Rachid Ajaja is the CEO and Co-Founder of AllianceBlock.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, SaaS, Software
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Vezgo — Vezgo is the easiest way for people to connect their crypto accounts to your app.
- Genesis Shards — New marketplace for pre-IDO tokens on NFTs
Value Creator - People Oriented - Turnaround Champion - Cultural Integration Expert
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Investment focus
- Art, Gaming, eSports
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Anime Universe — Anime Universe Corporate Site
Jason Kim
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Mainstream Labs — Modular, end-to-end governance platform.
Vijay Ratnaparke is a CIO at Robert Bosch GmbH.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Automotive, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Angel
- India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Cultos — Cultos is an online platform that enables brands and creators to supercharge their rewards, loyalty, and influencer marketing with Web3.
- Pi Beam — Pi Beam builds connected e-vehicles, for two-, three-, and four-wheeler offerings for last-mile logistics, and shared and owned passenger movement.
Mathieu Baril is Co Founder CEO of Octav Labs. He previously worked at Phoenix as a SVP. Mathieu Baril attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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Investment focus
- Ethereum, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Portals — Portals is a #DeFi yield and protocol aggregator for transaction bundling, any-to-any swaps, and real-time data
Omar Shakeeb is the co-founder of Second_Lane.
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Investment focus
- Web3, Blockchain, Machine Learning
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Inference Labs — Inference Labs is advancing the use of zero-knowledge cryptography to guarantee the computational integrity of off-chain AI models. This approach enables AI operators to safeguard and conceal the Intellectual Property inherent in their Neural Networks, without disclosing the confidential weights and biases of their proprietary models. InferenceLabs is creating a network that aggregates verified intelligence (zk-VIN), offering a suite of tools for owners, users, and operators to efficiently integrate their artificial intelligence using zero-knowledge cryptography.
Andrew Chau is the co-founder of Neo Financial
He used to be the co-founder of SkipTheDishes. He handles business development and strategy for this company.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Software, Art
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Resq — At ResQ, we're obsessed with simplifying the repairs and maintenance experience so you can focus on doing what you love. Talk to a ResQ Expert today!
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Sanzo — The 1st Asian-inspired sparkling water, Sanzo uses real fruit + no added sugars to deliver refreshing taste. Whether these flavors are a taste of home or a source of discovery, we're excited to bring you authentic flavors in the most delicious way we know how.
David Zhang joined Silver Lake in 2013 as a Director. Previously, he worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Credit Suisse in San Francisco. Mr. Zhang graduated with distinction from the University of Western Ontario with a B.A. in Honors Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Art, Social Media
- Pre-Seed, Series B, Series D
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Brex — Brex is all-in-one finance for growing businesses. It helps companies spend, save, and earn smarter—and take every dollar further—by doing more than a bank, bookkeeping, or reward program could ever do alone. After completing the Y Combinator accelerator program in 2017, Brex has grown to over 600 employees and raised over US$940 million in venturecapital.
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Koji — Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize.
Satish Kanwar is a VP of Product at Shopify, where he oversees strategic product initiatives for over 1 million merchants globally. Satish led Shopify’s formative expansion from online stores to multi-channel commerce, accelerating merchants' sales across eCommerce, brick-and-mortar, and new sales channels. Satish previously co-founded userexperience studio Jet Cooper, which was acquired by Shopify in order to establish its product development footprint in Toronto. Satish is an active angel investor, public speaker, and advisor.He attended the University of Toronto Scarborough.
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- Mobile Apps, FinTech, Art
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
- Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.
Lisa Shields is FI.SPAN’s founder and CEO. FI.SPAN is Lisa’s second financial technology startup - she also founded and led Hyperwallet Systems Inc for 15 years; today it is recognized as a leading global payments processor for business to consumer mass payouts. She is a member of the Canadian FinPay Committee, was named the EY RegionalEntrepreneur Of The Year in 2015 and received a Women in Payments Innovation Award in 2016.A firm believer in inclusive commerce, Lisa is always looking for new ways to unite ecosystem participants for the benefit of end users. She also has a personal interest in the underbanked and speaks frequently and passionately on the importance of low-cost, compliant payments.
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- Software, Information Technology, Energy
- Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
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- MergeBase — MergeBase develops cyber defenses for vulnerable 3rd-party and open source components and libraries. MergeBase focuses on providing clients with robust security against the number one source of data breaches today: vulnerabilities in software components. Feel free to compete digitally by utilizing open source and commercial libraries. MergeBaseallows you to build securely on external software components.
- Neutronpay — Lightning Network Infrastructure API for Global Remittances, Payments, Spending, Payouts and Banking.
- Validere — Measure and capitalize on emission reductions while improving operations with all-in-one commodity & carbon management platform for oil and gas.
Emile Dubie is a individual angel investor.
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- Ethereum, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Portals — Portals is a #DeFi yield and protocol aggregator for transaction bundling, any-to-any swaps, and real-time data
Bill Crowley is the Senior Director of Product, Commerce Services and Payouts at Paypal.Bill Crowley attended Dalhousie University.
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- Bitcoin, Payments, Information Technology
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Neutronpay — Lightning Network Infrastructure API for Global Remittances, Payments, Spending, Payouts and Banking.
Mr. Block is an individual investor.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Infrared Finance — Infrared Finance is a proof-of-liquidity protocol that enables liquidity staking within the Berachain ecosystem using Proof-of-Liquidity (PoL).
Jody Mulkey has worked at Shopzilla since January 1999. After wearing many hats along the way Jody is currently the Chief Information Officer responsible for the overall technology development and operations of the company. Before joining Shopzilla, Mulkey was in charge of the Web presence at Isocor. Before that he worked at WilliamO'Neil + Co., an institutional investment services company. He was part of the team that brought both the flagship WONDA product to the Internet and created an online consumer version of Daily Graphs.Mulkey holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration from the University of Southern California, with concentrations in information systems, and is a graduate of the Entrepreneur Program. He originally hails from the great state of Texas, but is happy to have called California home for the past 18 years. Mulkey is an avid snowboarder and can be found most winter weekends on the slopes of Mammoth Mountain.
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- FinTech, Art, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Aspiration — Aspiration is an online financial firm that offers retail banking and investing services built for everyone. Aspiration delivers the financial products that people need in a consumer-focused model that empowers people to choose their fee and aligns the interests of Aspiration and its customers. The company donates a dime of every dollar it earns tohelp Americans that work to climb the ladder of opportunity while making it possible for its customers to choose to give a portion of their profits to a charitable cause of their choice.
- Stasis Labs — Stasis Labs has converted medical hardware into a big data, SaaS product with a cloud-connected vital signs monitoring platform. On average 80% of patients in emerging markets, and 60% of patients in developed countries have their vitals checked manually every 4-8 hours because existing monitoring systems are overly complex and cost prohibitive.Stasis was apart of the first cohort of 11 companies in Techstars Healthcare Accelerator, in Partnership with Cedars-Sinai. Stasis was recently awarded grant funding by the International Finance Corporation, a World Bank Group to help improve the medical technology of India. Currently, Stasis is live in Indian hospitals and continues to roll out their pilot program
David Dias is a individual angel investor.
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- Ethereum, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Canada
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- Portals — Portals is a #DeFi yield and protocol aggregator for transaction bundling, any-to-any swaps, and real-time data
Larry Fichtner
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- Music, Software, Real Time
- Series A
- Canada
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- Beatdapp — Beatdapp offers a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real-time.The service reduces the tracking discrepancies between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and rights holders, increasing royalty revenue for rights holders while limiting legal exposure to royalty lawsuits for DSPs. Think of it like a PWC formusic play count.
Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Brazil
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- CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
- RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
- GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease
Spencer Tucker is the Chief Gaming Officer of Yuga Labs. He previously worked at Scopely as a President, Games. Spencer Tucker attended American InterContinental University.
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- Internet, Software, Analytics
- Series A
- Canada
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- Helika — Helika is a web3 product analytics platform that helps projects better understand their users, increase engagement, and drive growth.
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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- Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada
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- Limit Break — Limit Break is a blockchain game company.
- Daylight — Discover new relevant things to do in crypto: mints, claims, votes, and more.
- Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.
Robert Aron Zawiasa
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- Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
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- Party.Space — Host stunning virtual parties, custom corportate celebrations & virtual events in metaverse for your team. Any scale 3D space for any kind of event!
- Mainstream Labs — Modular, end-to-end governance platform.
Spada₿oom is an individual investor.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Canada
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- Infrared Finance — Infrared Finance is a proof-of-liquidity protocol that enables liquidity staking within the Berachain ecosystem using Proof-of-Liquidity (PoL).
Sameer Mehta - Co-Founder & Chief product officer @ boAt
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- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, Canada
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- Cultos — Cultos is an online platform that enables brands and creators to supercharge their rewards, loyalty, and influencer marketing with Web3.
- Floryo — Floryo asserts that it offers daily household essentials that are freshly made. The company currently offers more than 40 different types of freshly processed flour that have been tailored to fulfil functional nutrition standards.
- Wyld — India's first social currency payment card that let's every digital content creator monetize their social network. Use your WYLD card to purchase your favorite brands, post about it on Instagram and earn massive cashbacks in exchange. Got Instagram? Get WYLD!
Rudy Kadoch is a individual angel investor.
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- Ethereum, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Canada
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- Portals — Portals is a #DeFi yield and protocol aggregator for transaction bundling, any-to-any swaps, and real-time data
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