# Top 35 Wellness Angel Investors in Canada in June 2026

## Ray Muzyka
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology

Originally trained as a medical doctor, Dr. Ray Muzyka cofounded BioWare, a video game development studio focusing on story and character, in the early 1990s. He practiced emergency/family medicine for two years full time, with medicine transitioning to part-time over the following decade as he focused on his role as BioWare’s CEO. BioWare wasacquired by Electronic Arts in 2007, and Dr. Muzyka took on the roles of Senior Vice President at Electronic Arts and General Manager of EA’s BioWare division, which grew over the next five years to span eight development locations worldwide with about 2000 staff (1400 full time). He retired from video games in October 2012, with his third “career chapter” at ThresholdImpact, where he focused on sustainable, profitable impact investing: mentoring and angel investing in information technology, new media, and medical innovations with social entrepreneurs. An active angel investor and entrepreneurial mentor, Dr. Muzyka is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, the A100, the Ashoka Support Network, and the Board of Governors of the University of Alberta (serving as Chair of the Human Resources Committee and on the Learning and Discovery Committee and as a member of the University of Alberta Advancement Council). He is Chair of the University of Alberta’s entrepreneur Venture Mentoring Service, a venture advisor at iNovia Venture Capital, and a member of the Alberta Research and Innovation Advisory Committee and the Alberta Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy. He also serves on a number of private company boards. He previously served on the board of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences from 2001-2008 and was on the Board of Trustees of the Stollery Children’s Health Foundation from 2012-2015. He was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame in 2011 and received the International Game Developers’ Choice Awards 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Muzyka received the inaugural Alumni Innovation Award in 2015 from the University of Alberta. He additionally was named as the 2017 Allard Chair in Business at the MacEwan University’s School of Business and as an Honorary Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary Club International in 2016, in recognition for his philanthropic efforts. Other awards include entry into Canada’s Top 40 under 40 and Ernst and Young’s 2001 Entrepreneur of the Year (IT, Prairies).He obtained his Bachelor of Medical Science from the University of Alberta in 1990, his Doctorate of Medicine from there in 1992, and his MBA from the University of Western Ontario (Ivey School of Business) in 2001.

## Jane Wang
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Sales, Wellness, Insurance

Founder and CEO of Optimity. Proactive Health Evangelist; Data Science Nerd; Authentic Leader #Anomaly #WonderWoman #Pioneer

## Paul Stamets
- Type: Angel
- Location: Olympia, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, mHealth, Wellness

Paul Stamets, speaker, author, mycologist, medical researcher and entrepreneur, is considered an intellectual and industry leader in fungi: habitat, medicinal use, and production. His research is considered breakthrough by thought leaders for creating a paradigm shift for helping ecosystems worldwide. He has received numerous awards, including:Invention Ambassador (2014-2015) for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the National Mycologist Award (2014) from the North American Mycological Association (NAMA), and the Gordon & Tina Wasson Award (2015) from the Mycological Society of America (MSA). In 2020, Paul was inducted into the Explorer’s Club. He has been awarded myriad patents in the field of mycology. Paul is the founder and sole owner of Fungi Perfecti, LLC, 
the maker and marketer of the category-leading myco-supplement Host Defense line.

## Paul Sabourin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Women's, Wellness, E-Commerce

Paul Sabourin is Chairman and Chief Investment Officer at Polar Asset Management Partners. Paul received a B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1975 and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario (now Ivey) in 1980. Paul started his career at Burns Fry Ltd. in 1982, gaining experience in research and institutional equity trading. In 1987, Paulbecame a Director at Burns Fry, and a member of the Executive Committee, responsible for managing the institutional equity trading group.Paul co-founded Polar in 1991. As Chief Investment Officer, he sets investment strategy and oversees Polar’s investment management team. He also acts as Lead Portfolio Manager for Polar’s Multi-Strategy team.Paul is a member of the Ivey Advisory Board, and Chair of the Entrepreneurship Council at Western University. Paul is also a board member of Trillium Health Partners Foundation, Canadian Stage Company, and the AGO’s Canadian and Indigenous Acquisitions Committee. He actively supports the annual fundraising campaign of the United Way Toronto and is an avid collector of Canadian modern art

## Arlene Dickinson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Wellness

Dickinson, owner and CEO of Venture Communications, a company she grew from a small, local firm to one of the largest independent agencies in Canada, is also the CEO of District Ventures and Youinc.com. Companies all aimed at helping market, fund and grow entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial companies. She is a two times best-selling author,accomplished speaker and is best known to Canadians as one of the venture capitalists on the award-winning CBC series’ Dragons’ Den.

## Barney Pell
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Information Technology

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.

## John Currie
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care

John Currie was formerly Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of lululemon athletica. Along with lululemon’s executive team, John led the growth of the company from US$150mm to US$1.8B in revenues, and from 75 stores to 300 stores, over a 7 year period.Prior to joining lululemon in 2007, he was Chief Financial Officer ofIntrawest Corporation, a world leader in destination resorts and leisure travel. In 2014, as the head of the special committee of the Board of Coastal Contacts Inc., the worlds’ largest online retailer of vision care products, John oversaw its sale to Essilor. He is also a board member of the Vancouver Airport Authority. John brings more than 30 years of experience in sound financial management of private and public companies in the retail & consumer space.

## Nadav Ben-Chanoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

## Joshua Landy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Medical, Software, Wellness

Joshua Landy - Founder & Chief Medical Officer @ Figure 1

## Rian Gauvreau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Big Data, Hardware, Software

Rian combines his years of experience with law firm IT with his in-depth software development experience to help create software law firms love to use.

## Milad Alucozai
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Recognized by Business Insider in 2025 as “one of the top 100 early-stage investors,” Dr. Alucozai has experience translating exceptional science and technology into scalable commercial ventures. Alongside his experience as a founder and operator, he has actively invested in over 100 startups across North America and Europe. He has often been thefirst investor to back high-growth companies like Seqera Labs. Milad began his career as a neuroscientist at the intersection of bioengineering, computational biology, and machine learning, where he commercialized platforms designed to deliver promising medicines to patients more efficiently and safely. His focus as an investor has been to accelerate the journey of groundbreaking discoveries from the lab to the market, particularly in the life sciences sector and related computational fields.Milad is a co-founder and General Partner at Pamir Ventures, an early-stage venture firm that invests in technical pioneers developing B2B companies utilizing AI in antiquated industries. He is also a co-founder of Revalia Bio, which aims to establish a human-centric infrastructure for drug discovery and development. By using non-transplantable human organs donated for research, Revalia offers the scientific community unparalleled insights into patient biology, ultimately aiding in the creation of improved treatments and cures. Throughout his operating and investing career, Milad has played a crucial role in helping founders secure hundreds of millions in capital and facilitating over $1 billion in startup-pharma partnerships. His previous roles include supporting business development at Accenture, Absci, Bit Bio, Numerate, Mekonos, and AstraZeneca. Through Digitalis Commons, he was an Expert in Residence in support of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), where he aided the US government and ARPA-H mission to enable transformative biomedical and health breakthroughs, providing health solutions through $1.5 billion in non-dilutive investments. He was a National Science Foundation Scholar and Macklin Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medicine. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Neuroscience from Purdue University’s Honors Program, earned a master’s in Immunology and Public Health as a George J. Mitchell Scholar, and holds a doctorate from the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. Additionally, he completed a Visiting Scholar appointment at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University.

## Ajay Agrawal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Medical

Ajay Agrawal is the Co-Founder of Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation. He previously worked at Queen's School of Business as a Assistant Professor. Ajay Agrawal attended the University of British Columbia.

## Francois Arbour
- Type: Angel
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Banking, FinTech

Francois Arbour is the Co-Founder of Angels of Many. He previously worked at Shutterstock as a VP of Product, Video & Music.

## Huda Idrees
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Fertility, Consumer Goods

Huda is the Founder and CEO of Dot Health, a real-time personal health data platform. With a background in engineering from the University of Toronto and a prolific career at some of Toronto's best known startups including Wattpad, Wave, and Wealthsimple, her latest venture is transforming the way people access and control their own healthinformation for good. Huda's work has been featured in The Globe and Mail, Metro News, CNBC, and Metro Morning. She has been recognized amongst the Top 5 CEOs in Toronto Life and as a Top 25 Women of Influence in 2017.

## David Ceolin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Wellness, E-Commerce

David Ceolin

## Jonathan Ehrlich
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS

Jonathan Ehrlich is the Founding Partner of Roar Ventures. He previously worked at Bulletin as a Board Member. Jonathan Ehrlich attended Ivey Business School at Western University.

## Andrew Wilkinson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Andrew Wilkinson is the Co-Founder of Tiny. He attended Ryerson University.

## Andrew Perlman
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Water, Wellness, Advertising

Andrew Perlman is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at North Equity. He attended The George Washington University School of Business in 1996.

## Jim Estill
- Type: Angel
- Location: Guelph, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Beauty, Mobile

Jim Estill founded EMJ Data in 1979 and grew the company to $350,000,000 in sales. Jim sold EMJ to SYNNEX in September 2004 and became CEO of SYNNEX Canada growing sales from $800,000,000 to $2 Billion in May 2009. Jim was one of the founding board members of RIM where he served for 13 years.

## Edward Lando
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Norm Francis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, SaaS, Fitness

Pivotal Software was founded by Norm Francis in 1994. Francis was a co-founder of Basis Software Group (BSG) the company that developed ACCPAC, an accounting software package which was purchased by Computer Associates in 1985. Francis invented the concept of 360-degree customer relationship management (CRM), a concept that continues to be usedtoday to describe the unification of activities across the organization by employees who play a role in the customer relationship. The company released its first customer relationship management product, Pivotal Relationship Version 1, in April 1996; this product is the predecessor to the current Pivotal CRM product line.The company changed its name to Pivotal Corporation in June 1999 to reflect its broadening focus beyond just software into professional services, content, hosted application services and other online services. Pivotal Corporation went public in August 1999 and its shares were listed on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol PVTL.In February 2000, Pivotal Corporation was selected by Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect, to showcase its Pivotal CRM software at the worldwide premiere of Microsoft Windows 2000. Pivotal CRM, then called Pivotal eRelationship, was the first eBusiness relationship management (eBRM) solution to be certified for Windows 2000.Pivotal Corporation was acquired by CDC Corporation, in February 2004. The acquisition added 1,700 customers, as well as marketing, sales, service, and partner management capabilities to CDC Software’s business unit focused on front-office solutions for mid-sized enterprises.

## Scott Lake
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, FinTech, Finance

Scott Lake is a startup entrepreneur, tech investor, and philanthropist.  He is best known as the cofounder of Shopify (NYSE: SHOP), then later as founder of Source Metrics.Currently, Scott is a general partner at Hello Ventures, where he leverages all the learning from his entrepreneurial journeys to invest in and advise early-stage techcompanies.Scott also plays an active role with his wife Jess as philanthropic funders of diverse social and public health causes.In his past lives, he has been a bike messenger, a university lecturer, a driver at NATO, and a political science PhD.

## Tobyn Sowden
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: iOS, Music, Android

Tobyn Sowden is the CEO at Redbrick.He attended University of Victoria.

## Rob Fraser
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Medical, Shopping, Wellness

Rob Fraser currently works as the Founder and CEO for Endur Apparel.

## Steve Schlafman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Apps, News

Steve Schlafman is a Founder & Coach at High Output. He attended Northeastern University from 2000 to 2003.

## Jason Warner
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools

Jason Warner is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Co-founder and CEO of Poolside. Jason previously worked at Redpoint as a Managing Director. Jason Warner attended the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

## Greg Malpass
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care

Greg founded Traction on Demand, a Burnaby-based cloud technology consultancy and software development firm, in 2006. His original intention was to serve a small number of clients by helping them unite their sales and marketing teams; however, Traction has since grown into a nationally-recognized brand with offices and 250+ employees across NorthAmerica. It is now ranked as one of the continent’s fastest growing technology companies.
Greg’s commitment to workplace culture and community has landed Traction on Demand on Canada’s Top 10 Best Places to Work list for the past three years. Additionally, Traction is a current finalist for Deloitte’s Best Managed Companies in Canada. Individually, Greg has been recognized for both his unconventional leadership style and expertise in cloud computing and data. In 2013, Business in Vancouver named him one of the Top Forty Under 40, awarding him once again with CEO of the Year in 2016.

## Darrell Kopke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care

Darrell Kopke is a Director, CDL-Vancouver at Creative Destruction Lab. He attended The University of British Columbia.

## Candice Faktor
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Wellness, Education, E-Commerce

Candice Faktor is the founder of Disco.

## Zach Coelius
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Zach Coelius - Managing Partner @ Coelius Capital

## Jacky Chen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Jacky is dedicated to angel investment and has built up a portfolio of more than thirty startup companies in Canada and the US. His target investments are the early-stage B2B companies with disruptive technologies and business potential in enterprise software, information technologies, MedTech, and Advanced Manufacturing.Jacky has acquiredconcrete business experiences as a successful founder in the startup ecosystem and an executive of Fortune 500 companies over two decades. His remarkable accomplishments range from building startups from scratch to leading a billion-dollar business with the leverage of 14,000 enterprise channel partners. The unique journey has shaped Jacky's outstanding of investing in early startups.Jacky holds the degrees of Mater's E.E. and MBA, and he graduated from CEIBS and The Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania.

## Thaddeus Young
- Type: Angel
- Location: Memphis, Tennessee, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Software, Wellness, Analytics

Thaddeus Young is the current Founder of Reform Ventures. He previously worked at Brooklyn Nets as a Professional Athlete. Thaddeus Young attended Georgia Institute of Technology.

## Rasool Rayani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Mobile, Content

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.

## Paul Geyer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Fitness, Wellness

Paul Geyer, a successful Medtech Entrepreneur and experienced Board member. Over the past 20 years Paul founded and led two companies through their growth phase, in one case to a successful private exit and in the other case through growth as a public company with numerous acquisitions. Both companies have grown to be anchor medical devicecompanies in the Vancouver area, employing more than 350 people.In 1991 he founded Mitroflow International Inc., a tissue heart valve company. Paul grew the company from 9 employees to more than 125 employees in 1999. In 1999 Paul sold Mitroflow to Sulzer Medica, for more than $50 mil. Paul's leadership resulted in Mitroflow growing to more than 200 employees, making it one of the largest medical devices companies in the Vancouver area. In 2001 Paul started Medical Ventures, a new specialty vascular device company where he is currently Chairman of the Board. From its inception to June 2008,  Geyer held the position of CEO at Medical Ventures (now Neovasc) and was responsible for raising over $40 million in Equity financing and growing the company’s product portfolio through internal development and the acquisition of 3 other companies. In 2008 Paul began focusing on sharing is expertise to assist other Entrepreneurs to build successful businesses, through his involvement as a mentor or Board member. He also focused on building the local community through his involvement as a Board member of BC technology industry association, along with a number of non-profit community based organizations. Paul is actively engaged as a Philanthropist, as Chairman of the Board of Social Venture Partners Vancouver, involved with Science World, Entrepreneurship at UBC, Project Somos Children’s Village and other organizations.Paul is currently the CEO of LightIntegra Technology Inc., a spin-off from Canadian Blood Services which has developed the ThromboLux technology, used to determine platelet quality for blood transfusions.