# Top 50 Cannabis Angel Investors in May 2026

## Ralph Gygax
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bachenbülach, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics

Ralph Gygax is a Chief Administrative Officer at SWISS Gate AG. He attended KV, SVIT from 1999 to 2007.

## Robert Stavis
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series C, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Rob Stavis is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

## Werner Hoffmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bachenbülach, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics

Professional experience:
Expert for Risk Management and Public Relations
Strategic & operational responsibility Compliance & Safety Management
Decades of leadership experience as colonel & professional military pilot in the Swiss Air Force

## Maria Raga
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Video, Retail, Travel

Maria Raga is the CEO of Depop. Since being promoted to the position in 2016 from VP of Operations, she has presided over every element of the business from finance and engineering to marketing and product. An open and collaborative CEO, Maria is dedicated to her team, which has grown to 150+ employees in 5 offices worldwide in the last threeyears alone. Perhaps most importantly, since she took over as CEO, she has raised close to $100M in funding, which has helped to grow and nurture the community on Depop - now 13 million users. Prior to Depop, Maria held successively roles at Groupon and Privalia. Having graduated from Insead MBA, Maria joined Bain & Company as a consultant. Born in Valencia, Spain, Maria now resides in London with her husband and 2 children. In her spare time, Maria enjoys connecting with Depop’s entrepreneurial Gen-Z constituency and promoting women in the workplace

## Michael Lazerow
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Advertising, Mobile

Michael Lazerow is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Velvet Sea Ventures.

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Bruce Macfarlane
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, Insurance

Bruce Macfarlane is a angel investor.

## Jason Calacanis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO.

## Christian Angermayer
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain

Christian Angermayer - Founder & CEO @ Apeiron Investment Group

## Roger McNamee
- Type: Angel
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Convertible Note, Seed
- Focus: Software, Social Media, Video

Roger McNamee is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of Elevation Partners. Prior to Elevation, Roger was a co-founder of Prior to SilverLake, Roger was a co-founder of [ntegral Capital Partners. Integral is a leading technology investor in late-stage venture and public company investments. Founded in 1991 by Roger, John A. Powell, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Integral pioneered the crossover investment strategy, which seeks maximum capital appreciation by making investments in expansion-stage private companies and growth-stage public companies in the technology and life science industries.Prior to founding Integral, Roger managed the T. Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund and co-managed the T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, which was at that time the largest emerging growth fund in the U.S. Roger serves as a trustee of Bryn Mawr College, an overseer of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, a director of the Rex Foundation, Move, Forbes Media LLC and Palm. Roger holds a B.A. from Yale College and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.

## Paul Buchheit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the originalprototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto in a meeting.

## Clark Valberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Video

Clark Valberg is the CEO and Co-Founder of InVision, the digital product design platform used to make the world’s best customer experiences. InVision is the cornerstone of the product design process for more than 3 million people at tens of thousands of companies, including eighty percent of the Fortune 100 and brands like Airbnb, Amazon, HBO,Netflix, Slack, Starbucks and Uber. He is a former Co-Founder of Epicenter Consulting.

## Kingsley Advani
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Biotechnology

Kingsley Advani is a British investor. He started investing in 2013, funding 50 companies, 4 funds and donating to non-profits including: SENS Foundation, Methuselah Foundation, Stanford University, National University of Singapore. He is particularly interested in regenerative medicine for age-related disease. Investments: Oisin, Turn Bio,Oncosenx, Monzo, Robinhood, Abra, Coinbase, Momentus, Demonpores, 64-x, Nectome. Investment areas: biotechnology, neurotechnology, longevity, space, fintech.

## Karan Wadhera
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, Health Care

Karan Wadhera is a Managing Partner at Casa Verde Capital. He is an experienced finance professional and investor, as well as an advisor for several young companies. Spending over a decade in Asia as a senior executive with Goldman Sachs and Nomura, he has had significant international experience. Karan holds a BA in Finance from Babson College.

## Samara Hernandez
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, CRM, Cannabis

Samara Hernandez

## Jack McCue
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Women's, Cannabis, Wellness

Jack McCue is the Co-Founder of Fabletics.

## Kat Cole
- Type: Angel
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Fashion

Kat Cole is Group President at FOCUS Brands and responsible for building FOCUS Brands revenues and profits through global licensing, manufacturing, and ecommerce. Previously, she was President of Cinnabon, Inc. accountable for leading and growing the multi-channel brand team that drove record comp sales growth, brand expansion and franchiseevolution during her tenure. Prior to her role with FOCUS Brands at Cinnabon, Inc., Ms. Cole was a Vice President at Hooters of America, Inc., a multi-channel brand which operates company and franchise restaurants. She received her MBA from Georgia State University, and sits on the advisory boards of Project Pie, a QSR Pizza Chain and Orpheus Brewing, an Atlanta-based Craft Brewery. Kat is presently the incoming Board Chair of the Women’s Foodservice Forum.Her story is often shared for inspiration as she moved up from working as a hostess at 17 years old to traveling globally to open new franchises. At 19, Kat dropped out of college, advanced to various management and leadership positions, and at the age of 26, became a Vice President at Hooters. She later completed her MBA at Georgia State University.She is widely known for legacy business model innovation, building brands, humanitarian work in the US and Eastern Africa and mentorship and development of emerging leaders.

## Justin Kan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Fractal. He attended Yale University.

## Rick Thompson
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Mobile, Software

Rick Thompson currently works as Co-Founder, Partner, and Managing Director at Signia Ventures. He attended The Wharton School.

## Patrick Carroll
- Type: Angel
- Location: Huntington Beach, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Recreation

30 year investigative experience with 22 years of management experience.

## Prateek Gupta
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Cannabis, Analytics

Director of Developer Content @Pusher, ex-Director @Pluralsight, Class 1 @mit Bootcamp, ex-COO @airpair, Board Member @TheStartupBus, @DEMO Alumni & family guy.

## Yoni Meyer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Pharmaceutical, B2B

Yoni Meyer is a Board Member at LEUNE.

## Michael Heller
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Fashion, E-Commerce

Michael Heller - CEO and Founder @ Talent Resources

## Rhonda Kallman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, Food and Beverage

2012: Founder and CEO of Boston Harbor Distillery2011: Featured in book Inspiring Women of Boston, Received Draft Magazine’s “Innovation Award” and recipient of Beer Industry “Maverick Award”2001-2011: Founder and CEO of New Century Brewing Co.2010: Featured subject in documentary “Beer Wars”2004: Featured as one of INC Magazine’s“25 Entrepreneur’s We Love” 2001: Represented the City of Boston during the 2001 Winter Olympic Games Relay.1999: Completed Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management Program1988: Recipient of “Pioneering Woman in the Beer Industry” by Brewing Institute1984- 2000: Founding Partner and Executive Vice President of Sales and Brand Development of the Boston Beer Company

## Carter Comstock
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Sales, Fitness, Cannabis

Co-Founder of Freshly.com

## Danica Patrick
- Type: Angel
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Pet, Fitness

Danica Patrick is a role model, transitioning from sports star to entrepreneurial powerhouse. Her historic achievements include being the only woman to have led laps at both the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500 races, a feat only 13 other drivers have accomplished. She’s also the only woman to have won an IndyCar race, the only woman to havewon the Pole in NASCAR's Daytona 500, and, this year, the first woman to host the ESPY awards. Danica has been on Time magazine's list of most influential people. She’s appeared in more Super Bowl commercials than any other celebrity, 13, all with tech giant GoDaddy, and was recently featured on the cover of Entrepreneur magazine. Danica is focused on entrepreneurial challenges these days, and she’s defying convention in business, as she did on the track. Danica owns Somnium, her expanding Napa vineyard; her own line of athleisure wear, Warrior by Danica Patrick; and has authored “Pretty Intense,” a health and fitness book. She is a spokesperson for GoDaddy, her longtime sponsor.

## Ken Miyoshi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: FinTech, Video, Enterprise Software

Ken Miyoshi

## David Lee
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Health Care

David was hired at Google in 2000 as one of the first 200 employees, and was the first executive to lead their international BD, sales, and operations. He launched Google’s first international ads and founded their offices in Asia, Europe and Latam. He hired the first intl. mgmt. teams, and established Google’s overseas business. After Google,David co-founded XG Ventures, a Google alumni fund and was Co-founding Partner of SK Telecom Ventures, a $100M corp. VC fund based in Silicon Valley. His personal and VC investments include over 50 companies with 20+ acquisitions such as Tapulous (acq. by Disney), Posterous (acq. by Twitter), Scoopler (acq. by Google), ABitLucky (acq. by Zynga), Chai Labs (acq. by Facebook), Cue (acq. by Apple), Kabam (acq. by Netmarble), Chartboost, Wish, and many others. David is an LP in Y Combinator and SV Angel. In 2015, he partnered with Michael Bay (Transformers, The Rock) at 451 Media, to lead their tech and media investments and partnerships. David later formed Open Source Studios, a Stanford Business School based advisory group with prof. and two time Oscar winner Bill Guttentag, to help founders of tech & media startups such as MasterClass and Illumix. David is also a Partner at B&C Group, a leading talent mgmt. & prod. co., connecting Korea, Hollywood and Silicon Valley. He currently invests in emerging tech & media companies through his venture capital fund SLVC.David is on the advisory boards of ASES (Stanford Entrepreneurship Society), and HPAIR (Harvard Project for Asian & Intl. Relations).BloombergBusinessweek
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## Nasir Jones
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housingin Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life.The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am... (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time.Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010).Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play.

## Mateo Freeman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, Information Technology

Mateo Freeman

## Sophia Bendz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Apps

Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures

## Patrick Spaulding Ryan Ph.D
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, FinTech, Mobile Apps

Patrick Spaulding Ryan PhD (X-Google, X-Bytedance) is an investor and advisor in early-stage businesses. Patrick invests through PSR Crypto, PRMM USA and is on the Investment Committee at Leawood Venture Capital. Patrick is fractional general counsel and investor in Turion Space, and legal advisor and investor at Bttn. Patrick previously workedat Google for 9 years as a Trust, Engineering & Strategy Principal, and for 2 years at Bytedance as lead TPM in security engineering R&D and as co-director of the web3 research program. Patrick received a PhD in law & economics from KU Leuven (Belgium) and is a graduate of University of St.Gallen (Switzerland), the University of Texas School of Law, and the MIddlebury Institute of International Studies.

## Julie McDermott
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, FinTech

Early Stage Tech Investor; LP; Mortgage Backed Securities Trader, Columbia MBA, Portuguese, Spanish and English.

## Tom Chapman
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Fashion, Financial Services

Tom Chapman OBE is an investor in early-stage companies and co-founder of MATCHESFASHION.COM.
Tom has an investment portfolio that spans multiple industries including technology, logistics, beauty, fashion, health, and medical cannabis. He invests in committed founders and experienced management teams to grow disruptive mission-driven businessesthat leverage technology to deliver a better service to consumers and transform the way the world works.
Tom's recent investments include disruptive beauty brand HEYDAY, a one-stop shop for personalised skincare treatments; size-inclusive womenswear brand Universal Standard; Caliva, California's largest fully licensed integrated cannabis dispensary, retailer and distributor; by Humankind, a personal care brand seeking to eliminate single-use plastic; Convoy, which connects truckers with shippers to fill unused trucking capacity, reducing the environmental impact of freight; feminine health brand, OHNE; baby food business, Cerebelly; medical cannabis startup, Plena; and the world’s first stock exchange dedicated to the IPO and trading of commercial real estate assets, IPSX.
Tom's work as an investor builds on his experience founding MATCHESFASHION.COM, operating at the forefront of the changing face of retail for more than 30 years. With his wife Ruth, they grew the company from a single bricks-and-mortar store to a global luxury fashion brand with a reputation for supporting and nurturing new and emerging talent, and are credited with introducing designers such as Versace, Prada and Bottega Veneta to the UK.
Under Tom's leadership, MATCHESFASHION.COM invested heavily in technology across all areas of the business, enabling the company to better understand the lives of its customers and provide them with a fast, convenient and highly personalised service.
MATCHESFASHION.COM was one of the first luxury brands to go online in 2005; one of the first businesses to launch 90-minute delivery in 2016; and one of the first retailers to build a platform to provide a single truly unified view of customer's shopping across both online and physical channels.It was, however, his understanding of how digital could radically transform how companies engaged with their customers and his appetite for challenging traditional practices that led to him being inducted into the Business of Fashion’s Hall of Fame in 2018 and being described as a “retail innovator”.
Tom recognised that MATCHESFASHION.COM could use digital not only to reach a global audience quickly but to build highly personal, intimate customer relationships, engaging shoppers with rich, resonant content and storytelling.
Paired with his challenger mentality, this insight saw Tom transform the company from a 14-store physical retailer into a leading global luxury e-commerce giant. From the launch of their website in 2007, MATCHESFASHION.COM grew at a rate of up to 100 per cent per year, raising £20 million in 2012 for a minority stake in the business.In 2013, Tom's commitment to digital saw him rebrand all Matches' physical stores as MATCHESFASHION.COM. These decisions collectively enabled the business to accelerate from a valuation of £76m in 2012 to an acquisition price in excess of $1 billion just five years later. In 2017-18, the business had 95 per cent of sales online and 85 per cent internationally.
MATCHESFASHION.COM is also credited with pioneering blended retail, seamlessly bringing together physical and digital commerce to connect with customers over multiple touchpoints – whether that be through the company's events, magazine or private shopping experiences.
Before the sale of the business, Tom conceived of 5 Carlos Place, a five-storey townhouse combining luxury private shopping in a home environment with a purpose-built broadcasting hub and events space focused on creating engaging content for MATCHESFASHION.COM's 100 million annual online visitors.
Carlos Place was an extension of the private-shopping concept behind No.23, which reinvented retail service along the lines of private-client banking, delivering a highly personalised, intimate, bespoke shopping experience.
Throughout the growth of MATCHESFASHION.COM, Tom has focused on keeping customers and their lifestyles at the centre of all company decisions, recognising that top-class service is the foundation of all consumer-facing businesses and that technology investment should always enable a business to connect better with the consumer and support them.
Like MATCHESFASHION.COM, many of Tom's investments both challenge the status quo and have strong brands that build deep, personal relationships with customers by connecting with them across both physical and digital touchpoints, and place special importance on social responsibility, inclusiveness and environmental impact.
Having been described as "trailblazers" by The New York Times and "pioneers" by VOGUE, Tom and Ruth Chapman were awarded Draper's Lifetime Achievement Award for their contributions to fashion retail in 2017. In the same year MATCHESFASHION.COM won British Luxury Brand of the Year at the prestigious Walpole British Luxury Awards.
Tom Chapman, along with his wife Ruth Chapman, were awarded OBEs in the 2020 New Year Honours list for services to the international fashion retail industry.
An advocate of arts, sustainability and cultural causes, Tom is a member of the Innovation Circle at the Serpentine Gallery.

## Rich Paul
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Secondary Market, Post-IPO Secondary
- Focus: Art, Toys, Events

Rich Paul

## Kevin Liles
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Music, Retail, Fashion

Kevin Liles, CEO, and Co-Founder at 300 Entertainment. He attended Morgan State University.

## Shiva Rajaraman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Shiva Rajaraman is currently advising companies. He previously held product leadership roles at Spotify, Google, YouTube, and WeWork.

## Harry Rubin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, Food and Beverage

Harry Rubin

## Nadav Ben-Chanoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

## Claire Diaz-Ortiz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an investor and bestselling author who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired, she is the author of nine books that have been translated into 12 languages. She holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanfordand Oxford. Currently she is a Scout for Kleiner Perkins focused on Latin America and an Advisor for Antler Global. Previously she was a partner at a fund in Latin America.

## Ethan Oren Perlstein
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Cannabis, Biopharma

Over the course of the last decade, first as a graduate student at Harvard University in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology with PhD advisor Professor Stuart Schreiber and then as an independent postdoctoral fellow at the Lewis-Sigler Institute at Princeton University, Dr. Ethan Perlstein developed an approach to studying old drugs anddiscovering new drugs in model organisms called evolutionary pharmacology. Ethan is an author on 19 peer-reviewed scholarly publications, including the discovery of a novel mechanism of action for the antidepressant Zoloft based on studies in yeast cells.

## Bikky Khosla
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Cannabis, Handmade

Bikky Khosla is the Founder & CEO at tradeindia.com.

## Augustin Paluel-Marmont
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Cannabis

Augustin Paluel-Marmont is the founder of Michel et Augustin.

## Brett Wilson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Lifestyle, Marketing

W. Brett Wilson was the Co-Founder of FirstEnergy Capital. He currently worked at Canoe Financial as the Chairman.

## Kathia Cambron
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing

Kathia Cambron

## Lorenzo Lamadrid
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, Food and Beverage

Lorenzo Lamadrid

## Tomas Lestrup
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing

Tomas Lestrup

## Robin Knox
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Social Network

Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.

## Dennis Aogo
- Type: Angel
- Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Medical, Cannabis, Software

Dennis Aogo is a German former professional footballer.

## Tobias Lütke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Internet

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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