# Top 50 Blockchain Angel Investors in Canada in May 2026

## Meltem Demirors
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

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.

## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

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.

## William Mougayar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency

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.

## Bryan Rosenblatt
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Retail

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.

## Mai Fujimoto
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Marketplace, Art

Mai Fujimoto is known domestically and internationally as Miss Bitcoin. She has been promoting the spread of Bitcoin around the world since 2011.

## Tinie Tempah
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Art, Apps

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.

## Matt Bellamy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Anthony Sassano
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency

Anthony Sassano is a Product Marketing Manager at Set Labs. He attended La Trobe University.

## Michael Dunworth
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Michael Dunworth Formerly CRM Manager and Analyst at Midwinter Financial. Co-Founded FullSociety.com in 2011 and merged with TimeOut.com in 2012.

## Mark Pincus
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Software, FinTech

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.

## Rasool Rayani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Content, Cloud Computing

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.

## Kain Warwick
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services

Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft

## Steve Huffman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Financial Services

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.

## Josh Nussbaum
- Type: Angel
- Location: Manhattan, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Internet, Software

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.

## Jeff Morris Jr.
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Productivity Tools, Blockchain

Jeff Morris Jr. is the Founder & Managing Partner at Chapter One.

## Avichal Garg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stanford, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Financial Services

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.

## David Zhang
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series B, Series D
- Focus: FinTech, Art, Social Media

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

## Jack Herrick
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Software

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.

## Waikit Lau
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Blockchain

Waikit Lau is the Founder of RemoteHQ. He Founded and grew 2 startups to successful exits, one acquired for $86M. Helped take the company public. 17+ years of experience in Technology and Finance, across product, marketing, and sales functions. Advisor and/or investor in BladeLogic (NASD: BLOG, acquired by BMC for $800M), Endeca (acquired byOracle for more than $1B), WaveSmith (acquired by Ciena for $178M), Netli (acquired by Akamai for $170M), Berkeley Design Automation (acquired by Mentor Graphics).

## Aaron Henshaw
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Infrastructure, Venture Capital

Aaron Henshaw is the Head of Engineering at Grand St.

## Michael Katchen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, FinTech, Internet

Founder & CEO. Entrepreneur, passionate about transforming investment management.

## Josh Stech
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Blockchain

Josh started Sundae to help homeowners get a better outcome when selling off-market. With a career at the intersection of technology and residential real estate, he’s seen first hand the opportunity to create a new type of business that wins by doing the right thing for the seller.Prior to starting Sundae, Josh was Founding Partner and SVP ofSales at LendingHome, an online mortgage bank specializing in short-term residential bridge loans. During his five years at LendingHome, Josh helped the company outperform veteran business in LendingHome’s category as the company scaled to 350 employees and $150M in venture funding.Prior to LendingHome Josh was Co-Founder and CFO of Purpose Built Investments (PBI), a residential real estate private equity firm. Josh launched three investment funds for PBI focused on buying, renovating, and selling houses as well as bridge lending, executing more than 1,200 transactions.Josh graduated with honors from Stanford with a BA in Economics, BA in Spanish, and an MA in Latin American Studies with a focus in Economic Policy. He wrote his honors thesis on the long-term impact of the subprime lending crisis on the Latino community. Josh lives in San Francisco with his wife, two sons, and their two dogs.

## Josh Richards
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Finance, Marketplace

Josh Richards is the Co-Founder and Advisor to VP of Talent at TalentX Entertainment.

## Aleksander Leonard Larsen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Digital Entertainment, Video Games

Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.

## Larry Sukernik
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software

Larry Sukernik is a Co-Founder at Reverie. He attended Rutgers Business School.

## Alex Adelman
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

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.

## Mike Murchison
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Art

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.

## Rabindra Shrestha
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Blockchain, Mobile Apps, Enterprise Software

Rabindra is the Director of NE Group since August 2010.Currently, he is also Director at Unilever Nepal, National Ice Cream Industries Pvt. Ltd, Super Religare Reference Laboratories (Nepal) Pvt. Ltd.Prior to joining N.E. Group, Rabindra was a Financial Analyst at the Investment Banking Division of Citigroup in San Francisco, USA. Has alsoo worked with Bear Stearns Companies, Unilever UK. Pursued B.A. in Economics from Stanford University (USA); A-Levels from Winchester College (U.K.); Other information: He is a member of Alpha Kappa Psi (Professional Business) and Kappa Alpha Order (Social)

## Chris Gonsalves
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Video Games

Cofounder & CEO of Community Gaming

## Rachid Ajaja
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, SaaS, Software

Rachid Ajaja is the CEO and Co-Founder of AllianceBlock.

## Xavier ekkel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Information Technology

Xavier ekkel is a indiviual investor.

## Suhail Suhail
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Information Technology

Suhail is a individual investor.

## See eun ha eun ha
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Information Technology

See eun ha is a individual investor.

## David Dias
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Other, Payments, Software

David Dias is a individual angel investor.

## Kevin O'Leary
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Kevin O'Leary is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and television host.O'Leary started his own software company in his basement along with his 5 year partner Gary Babcock. His mother provided the seed investment of $10,000 which he used to start software publisher SoftKey. His partner Gary left just as numerous mergers andacquisitions allowed the company to become The Learning Company and O’Leary took control as president of the Boston based company. In 1999, the Learning Company was sold to Mattel for $3.7 billion USD.In 2003 he became co-investor and a director in Storage Now, a developer of climate controlled storage facilities. Through a series of development projects and acquisitions, Storage Now became Canada’s third largest owner/operator of storage services with facilities located in eleven cities serving such companies as Merck and Pfizer when it was acquired by the In Storage REIT in March 2007 for $110 million.In March 2007 O'Leary joined the advisory board of Genstar Capital, a private equity firm that focuses on investments in selected segments of life science and healthcare services, industrial technology, business services and software. Genstar Capital appointed O'Leary to its Strategic Advisory Board to seek new investment opportunities for its $1.2 billion fund. Kevin now has an office in West Palm Beach Florida.

## Robert Aron Zawiasa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Robert Aron Zawiasa

## Lance Tracey
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services

Lance Tracey

## Luke Youngblood
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency

Luke Youngblood

## Rudy Kadoch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Other, Payments, Software

Rudy Kadoch is a individual angel investor.

## J. Taylor Crandall
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Legal, FinTech, Finance

J. Taylor Crandall is a Managing Partner of Oak Hill Capital Partners and has been part of the firm since 1986. Mr. Crandall has senior responsibility for originating, structuring and managing investments for the firm's Media and Telecom and Technology industry groups. Prior to joining Oak Hill, Mr. Crandall was a Vice President withthe First National Bank of Boston, where he managed a leveraged buyout group and the bank's Dallas energy office. Mr. Crandall earned a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Bowdoin College, where he has served on the Board of Overseers.

## Khaled Verjee
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Ethereum, Internet

Khaled Verjee

## Owl eth
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Other, Payments, Software

Owl.eth is a individual angel invetsor.

## Emile Dubie Dubie
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Other, Payments, Software

Emile Dubie is a individual angel investor.

## Jason Kim
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Jason Kim

## Robert Halpern
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, E-Commerce

Robert Halpern

## Andrew Chau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Art

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.

## David Zhao
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

David Zhao

## Bill Tai
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps

Bill Tai is a Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder, and Founding Investor of Treasure Data and he was a Chairman of the Board and Co-founder of IP Infusion. He attended Harvard Business School, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Curtin University.

## Sebastien Borget
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.

## Snow K.
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Information Technology

Snow K. is an advisor and board member of multiple DAO, Crypto and Internet projects. He invests in founders and vision first.
Snow is the grandson of a fallen self made billionaire accused of being a dissident in his country. Born as a political refugee in Europe, Snow started life with nothing but the ambition to rebuild his own legacy.

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