# Top 40 Cryptocurrency Angel Investors in Canada in May 2026

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

Rudy Kadoch is a individual angel investor.

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

Robert Aron Zawiasa

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

Luke Youngblood

## Regan Bozman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, E-Commerce

Regan Bozman is a Director Of Business Operations at CoinList.

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

David Zhao

## 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.

## 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.

## Fred Ehrsam
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Fred Ehrsam is the Co-Founder of Paradigm.

## Joseph Lallouz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Messaging

Entrepreneur & Angel || Interested in economics, psychology, web3, investing, game theory || prev Co-founder of @BisonTrails acquired by @coinbase

## Jez San
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: eSports, Ethereum, Blockchain

Jez San - CEO & founder @ FunFair Technologies

## Tarun Katial
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Retail, E-Commerce

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.

## Sameer Mehta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care

Sameer Mehta - Co-Founder & Chief product officer @ boAt

## Mark Pincus
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Josh Nussbaum
- Type: Angel
- Location: Manhattan, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Bryan Rosenblatt
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Jevon MacDonald
- Type: Angel
- Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Predictive Analytics, Enterprise Software

Jevon MacDonald is the Co-Founder at StartupNorth.

## Meltem Demirors
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Tyler Gaffney
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, Blockchain

Tyler is VP Sales. He was an Account Manager in GE's Healthcare Division selling high-end medical equipment. He is also our resident EMT.

## 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)

## Tom Williams
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Financial Services

Tom Williams

## William Mougayar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## 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).

## SAAD ALSOGAIR
- Type: Angel
- Location: Al Khobar, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Bitcoin, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency

Saad AlSogair is a Dermatologist and Angel Investor from Saudi Arabia with over 200 investments in Silicon Valley.

## 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.

## Jeff Morris Jr.
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Productivity Tools, Blockchain

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

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

David Dias is a individual angel investor.

## Charles Machalani
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Bitcoin, FinTech, Payments

Charles Machalani

## Vijay Ratnaparke
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Automotive, Cryptocurrency

Vijay Ratnaparke is a CIO at Robert Bosch GmbH.

## 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.

## 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.

## Andrew Izyumov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Transportation

Andrey Izyumov

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

Robert Halpern

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

Jason Kim

## Reid Hoffman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Social Media, Internet

Reid Hoffman is a Partner at Greylock and a Co-founder and Board Member at Inflection.AI. He was a Chairman and CEO at Linkedin. Reid attended the University of Oxford and Stanford University.

## 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.

## Avichal Garg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stanford, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Farhan Thawar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Farhan Thawar is the VP Engineering at Shopify. Attended University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management.

## Daniel Debow
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software

Daniel is the Vice President of Product (Demand) at Shopify. He previously worked as an SVP at Salesforce.com, where he drives marketing for Salesforce Work.com, a sales performance management solution that helps Facebook, LinkedIn, Spotify, and other innovative companies align, motivate, and drive the performance of their sales teams. Prior tojoining Salesforce, Daniel was co-founder and co-CEO of Rypple, a social performance management platform acquired by Salesforce in 2012. Prior to Rypple, Daniel was on the founding team of Workbrain, which provided workforce management solutions to Wal-Mart, Citibank, and other large enterprises. Workbrain grew to $100 million in annual revenues before being acquired by Infor in 2007.A sought after speaker on how social media is changing the workplace, Daniel is a contributor to Fortune.com and the Huffington Post. He’s been widely quoted in Wired, the Financial Times, the Economist and Bloomberg Businessweek. Daniel holds a JD/MBA from the University of Toronto and an LLM in Law, Science and Technology from Stanford University.

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