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Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in Canada in October 2023

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Edtech startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Edtech companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in Canada in October 2023

Investor EdTech Canada investments
Roger Martin 3
Neal Dempsey 2
Osman Rashid 2
Andrew Levy 2
Ali Moiz 2
Alex Khein 2
Jacky Chen 2
Jamie O'Hara 1
Rich Osborn 1
Matthew Cowan 1
Jean Hammond 1
Michele Romanow 1
John Abele 1
Eileen Rudden 1
Kirk Simpson 1
Melissa Prescott 1
Farzad (Zod) Nazem 1
Zaeem Shaukat Mirza 1
T. Chen Fong 1
Todd Finch 1
Ivan Yuen 1
Rob Goldman 1
Drew Green 1
Steven Albiani 1
Joshua Landy 1
Michael Kives 1
Matt Wyndowe 1
Greg Zeschuk 1
Harry Patz 1
Jennifer Lum 1
Shahin Hedayat 1
Brandon Chu 1
Anil Dharni 1
Eric Hippeau 1
John Baker 1
Pierre Andurand 1
Farhan Thawar 1
Patrick Spaulding Ryan Ph.D 1
Marc Morin 1
Melissa Prescott 1
Satish Kanwar 1
Ryan Holmes 1
Philip A. Cutler 1
Jason Maguire 1
Robert Chaplinsky 1
Jiawei Zhu 1
Rasool Rayani 1
Jesse Ma 1
Anthony Lacavera 1
Saar Pikar 1

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Roger Martin
Angel

Roger Martin is Premier’s Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness and Academic Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management. From 1998 to 2013, he served as Dean. Previously, he spent 13 years as a Director of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where heserved as co-head of the firm for two years.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series A
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Borrowell — Get your credit report and credit score for free. No credit card, SIN number or bank account required. It will take less than 3 minutes to check your credit and free monthly tracking forever.
  • Taplytics — Taplytics provides zero bloat, cross-platform AB Testing solutions that power the experiences within today's leading apps and websites. Learn more.
  • Kira Talent — Make your admissions process more human. Kira transforms your admissions process with on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments. Kira works with more than 300 programs worldwide to build applicant-first assessments that identify and select their best-fit students.
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Neal Dempsey
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Neal Dempsey is the Managing Partner of Bay Partners.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Trevor.io — Trevor.io replaces data requests inside your company, empowering your whole team to get answers from your database data in just a few clicks. Get started today, free.
  • Alpha Paw — Welcome to your Dog's happy place, where wagging tails are just a click away. Alpha Paw features unique pet products not sold in stores.
  • Cognota — Synapse helps companies around the world improve the productivity of their corporate learning and development teams. Our award-winning software streamlines training intake, project and capacity planning, and content design processes to make training teams more digital, agile, and efficient.This first-of-its-kind software allows our customers toget better visibility into the training needs of their businesses and consolidate the disparate tools they are using so they can access capacity data for better decision making and author course content with unprecedented speed.Collaboration with subject matter experts takes place directly within the platform ensuring knowledge is effectively captured and easy to update as required.The Synapse mission is to enable more people to learn and grow. Founded in 2015, Synapse has clients in multiple sectors and is based out of Toronto Canada with offices in San Diego and Merida, Mexico. For more information about Synapse software, visit www.getsynapse.com.
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Osman Rashid
Angel · Los Altos, California, United States

Osman is a seasoned entrepreneur in the field of educational technology. He is currently the CEO of Convo Corp. and Founder & CEO of **Galxyz** , an intergalactic science adventure on a mission to ignite the fascination of science and unlock the true potential in every student. Previously he was the co-founder and CEO of online textbook rentalleader **Chegg** (NYSE:CHGG) until early 2010, and also co-founder and CEO of **Kno, Inc.** (acquired by Intel in 2013), a digital education platform company. He is also on the Board of Trustees at a health focused non-profit, ChildLife Foundation, which provides urgent care to the poorest in Karachi, Pakistan. CLF runs Karachi's largest children emergency rooms and is deploying satellite urgent care centers to provide critical care and prevention education. Osman has received several honors, including Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of The Year Award (CA) in 2009, which is the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs, as well as Forbes Impact 15 for 2012 and Inc.’s Immigrant Edge: 9 Wildly Successful Entrepreneurs.To find out more about Osman, check out his LinkedIn profile. You can also follow him on Twitter @osmanrashid.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, SaaS, Events
  • Series A, Seed
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Kno — For more information, please fill out the form below. To see other domains for sale, click here.
  • Convo — Convo is an all-in-one team collaboration and communication tool. It's simple & offers all you need for a collaborative fast paced team throughput.
  • READY Education — Trusted by 525+ institutions to build community and drive retention, we are the leading mobile student engagement platform improving student success
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Andrew Levy
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Andrew has been co-founder and CEO of Crittercism since 2011.Prior to starting Crittercism, Andrew Levy was the co-founder of AdThrow, a Y Combinator company that built a data processing pipeline for real-time ad targeting. Before YC,Andrew worked at HP Software where he led teams specializing in agile programming methodologies andadvocating rapid product iterations. Andrew also worked for several companies in defense and intelligence, such as Silicon Graphics Federal, Northrop Grumman, and Computer Sciences Corp.He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Mobile, Software
  • Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Troops — Never miss a revenue signal with Troops. Easily update Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, and Jira right from Slack and Microsoft Teams. Get started for free.
  • READY Education — Trusted by 525+ institutions to build community and drive retention, we are the leading mobile student engagement platform improving student success
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Ali Moiz
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Ali Moiz is a Founder at Stonks. He attended Williams College.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Education, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Jar — Jar is a daily gold savings app that lets you save money. It invests spare change from your online transactions into digital gold, automatically. Jar is the 1st Made in India app to come up with an innovative solution to save money daily & invest in digital gold.
  • Justpoint — Justpoint is a venture-backed AI-first company redesigning the medical malpractice industry. Our first product allows for a faster and better understanding of the legal merits of a claim as well as an instant understanding of its likely settlement amount.We have previously created companies that effectively changed their industries, fromhealthcare insurance to clinical trial recruitment. To advance the medical malpractice industry, we have put together a team with extensive achievements in healthcare technology, medical malpractice litigation, and artificial intelligence.
  • Pipeline — Get step-by-step guidance and develop the skills you need to grow as a streamer, YouTuber, and more. Join the leading education and mentorship platform for aspiring creators. Built by StoneMountain64 and Snoopeh.
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Alex Khein
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Alex Khein is a Chief Executive Officer at BlueBay Asset Management.

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Investment focus

  • CRM, SaaS, Video
  • Angel, Seed
  • Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • MediaCore — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
  • Believe.in — Believe.in provides a white label technology that improves online fundraising, donation processing, and event performance of non-profit organizations.Available in multiple markets, languages, and currencies, Believe.in supports 2.8 million non-profit organizations globally and is easily customized and integrated into any non-profitorganization’s website and existing back-office toolkit.Believe.in was founded in May 2011 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
  • Mile High Organics
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Jacky Chen
Angel

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.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

  • Workwolf — Workwolf is a Toronto-based start-up with a management team who has led 7 start-ups, had 2 successful exits, and has taken a company public with a $1.8B IPO. Workwolf CEO Erik Simins is an SME in HR who previously founded MAGNUS HRS, a staffing company now servicing over 150 enterprise customers. The technology at Workwolf solves two of the biggestpain points in employment: applicant filtration and verification, and does so by empowering users to identify better candidates faster. Winner of global awards in both 2020 and 2021 for innovation and market potential, Workwolf is ramping up for its multi-national roll-out with ManpowerGroup in September that will coincide with a $4.5M Seed financing round.
  • Agile Devices — Agile Devices offer catheter-based interventional procedures helping patients during a stroke. It helps medical practitioners reduce the procedure time to respond to time bound emergencies.
  • Traction Technology Partners — Traction is a powerful SaaS collaboration platform for evaluating, adopting and managing new technologies across the enterprise. The platform includes Project Management and CRM tools designed specifically for enterprise teams tasked with discovering and evaluating new technologies. Traction is used by IT, Innovation and Corp Dev teams toaccelerate their digital transformation projects, and to speed up the way they find, manage, and adopt new technologies. Traction also offers On-Demand Research services delivered through its platform.
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Jamie O'Hara
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Founder and Managing Partner of Grise Global Ventures.Expertise: Venture CapitalJamie is an experienced investor, advisor, and mentor to start-up organizations. His firm has invested across numerous sectors, including education, travel, gaming, data, and, most recently, at the intersection of social media and music.He is currently anInvestor Judge in the International Start-Up Festival’s Elevator World Tour, where he is committing seed capital to early-stage companies in Tel-Aviv, Santiago, Montreal, Dubai, New York, Berlin, Barcelona, Rio, and Paris.Jamie’s experience includes portfolio management, deal structuring, and workouts. He has also worked on domestic and international oil and gas investments. He began his career on Wall Street with Cantor Fitzgerald and did stints at Disney’s ABC and in the hedge fund world before founding Grise.Jamie holds a BA in economics from the College of the Holy Cross and an MBA from Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management.He somehow managed to complete three New York City marathons and can often be found on the ice playing hockey.

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Investment focus

  • Education, Universities
  • Pre-Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • OneClass — Access millions of class notes and study guides from top students, along with textbook notes for all of your courses.
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Rich Osborn
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Rich Osborn is the Managing Partner at RecapHealth Ventures. he attended Queen's University.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Canada, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Impro — Impro.AI, a daily micro-coaching platform that accelerates the growth of your company and people with expert coaches and artificial intelligence.
  • PocketPills — Pocketpills is Canada's best online pharmacy that allows you to conveniently order online, refill, or consult with an online pharmacist and offers free shipping and low prices.
  • Rise Gardens — With 4 different indoor garden options, you can grow your own produce year round with Rise Gardens. Shop now!
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Matthew Cowan
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Matthew Cowan is The Corporate Director At BitGo.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series B, Series D
  • United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
  • Hoodline — Get breaking news from Hoodline's local reporters with stories to inform you about politics, weather, real estate, business, dining, crime, & more.
  • LUUM — LUUM is introducing automation to the beauty-services market, initially focusing on eyelash extensions, a widely popular treatment ($20B global market opportunity). Pioneering a patented combination of robotics, AI, and machine vision, LUUM applies a full set of eyelash extensions in 20 minutes (instead of 2 hours), while eliminating the costsand safety risks associated with human application.
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Jean Hammond
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Jean Hammond is an angel investor and the founder of LearnLaunch.Jean Hammond is an active angel investor usually focusing on early stage high tech start-ups. She was a founder of the Boston branch of Golden Seeds (focused on investing in women-managed businesses) and a member of Launchpad and Hub Angels. In addition to TenMarks, Jeanserves on the boards of The Technology Capital Network, Thompson Island Outward Bound and of Boston Rising. She plays or played an active board level role with a number of her Boston area investments including: Crimson Hexagon, Hire Reach, Home Portfolio, iTeam, and ZipCar. Jean is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in the high-tech industry. Her entrepreneurial activities include co-founding and managing Quarry Technologies and AXON Networks and following 3Com's acquisition of AXON, focusing 3Com's WAN strategy. She earned a B.S. from Boston University and an M.S. from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she is currently a part time Entrepreneur in Residence.

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Investment focus

  • Education, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Zulama — Zulama Modern Learning is the first platform to combine game design technologies and project-based strategies. Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center helped us develop a way to bring game design, programming, art, and screenwriting to middle and high schoolers.Zulama provides extensive mentor-based professionaldevelopment so teachers learn to become “Creative Directors” and facilitate our rigorous new curriculum in their own classrooms. We help teachers see how both building and playing games satisfies state and national curriculum standards, develops 21st Century Skills, and promotes higher-order Blooms.We combine STEM with the Arts (STEAM) to give students not only the skills but also the creativity they need to thrive in the global digital workplace. Zulama is leading a movement away from the current industrial-era educational model towards interest-driven deeper learning that prepares students for success in the 21st Century.The payoff we are seeing with current schools includes improvement in statewide school rankings, fewer dropouts and behavioral problems, and improved student math and reading proficiency levels.With Zulama, students are building games. They are building enthusiasm. They are building skills that lead to high-tech careers … and that’s how, together, the Zulama community is building tomorrow’s workforce.
  • Skookii — School payments solution for public and charter schools. Sign up and collect aftercare payments, lunch money, or booster club fees in less than an hour.
  • Choosito — Choosito - Search and learn
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Michele Romanow
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Michele Romanow is an engineer and a serial entrepreneur who started five companies before her 33rd birthday. A “Dragon” on CBC’s hit show Dragons’ Den (Canada’s Shark Tank), Michele is the co-founder of Clearbanc: the alternative funding company that gives fast-growing e-commerce brands non-dilutive marketing capital. She previously co-foundedSnapSaves, which was acquired by the American tech giant, Groupon. Michele was also the co-Founder of Buytopia.ca, which acquired ten competitors including Shop.ca and WagJag and was ranked #3 on the Profit Hot 50 list of fastest-growing companies. She’s ranked in WXN’s “100 Most Powerful in Canada” and listed as the only Canadian on Forbes magazine’s “Millennial on a Mission” list. Michele is a prolific angel investor and the winner of Angel Investor of the Year award. She co-founded the Canadian Entrepreneurship Initiative with Richard Branson to encourage more women entrepreneurs. Michele has worked driving new digital solutions to many of the world’s leading brands, including P&G, Netflix, Starbucks, and Cirque du Soleil. In addition, she’s advised Fortune 100s and governments on innovation, AI, blockchain and the new economy.Michele is a director for Vail Resorts (NYSE: MTN), Freshii (TSX: FRII), League of Innovators, Queen’s Business School and Shad, a transformational program that develops the entrepreneurial potential of exceptional Canadian youth.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, Wellness
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • RVezy — RVezy is the largest and safest RV rental marketplace in North America. Find RVs, motorhomes and travel trailers from coast to coast with $2M insurance, 24/7 roadside assistance, secure payments, and personal bilingual support.
  • Willful — The smartest and easiest way to create your legal will and power of attorney online in Canada. Safe and secure. No lawyer required and free lifetime updates!
  • Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
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John Abele
Angel · Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States

John Abele is the Board MemberBoard at Rocky Mountain Institute. Attended Amherst College.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Series B, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Biocogniv — Biocogniv helps hospitals avert preventable deaths and reduce costs by detecting critical conditions earlier than the standard of care.
  • InSpace — Built for educators by educators, InSpace Proximity, Inc. is a socially intuitive video learning platform that allows you to teach online the way you would in a classroom. The company's technology replicates the personal interaction students and faculty crave that was lost when colleges, universities and K-12 classrooms introduced virtualeducation. In addition to being lifelong friends, co-founders Dr. Narine Hall and Haykanush Lputyan are experts in machine learning, data science, and online video education technologies.
  • Groundwork BioAg — Groundwork develops, manufactures and commercializes mycorrhizal inoculants for mainstream agriculture. Their customers achieve significantly higher crop yields, while reducing their environmental impact and saving money on agricultural inputs.
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Eileen Rudden
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Eileen Rudden is the founder of Sankaty Growth Partners, and co-founder of LearnLaunch. Most recently, she served as the Chief Officer of College and Career Preparation for the Chicago Public Schools, where she led the efforts of the third largest public school system in the U.S. to ensure that its 400,000 students are college and career ready. Shewas a 2009 Broad Fellow and graduate of the Broad Superintendent’s Academy. Rudden is the Board Chair of SoundBite Communications (NASDAQ: SDBT), and former VP and GM of the Unified Communications Division at Avaya, a Fortune 500 business communications provider. At IBM’s Lotus Software unit, Rudden was senior vice president and general manager responsible for Lotus Notes and Same Time, the leading email and collaboration software. She also served as CEO of FairMarket (NASDAQ:FAIM).She is currently Chair of the Advisory Committee on Computing and Information Technology at Brown. She also serves as a board member at The Achievement Network, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, Maria Mitchell Association, and Pew Center on the Internet and American Life. Rudden received her MBA from Harvard Business School and her BA from Brown University.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Education, Skill Assessment
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Testive — Testive combines technology with human coaches to keep your college-bound kid on track and ready to conquer the ACT or SAT.
  • Socrative — Review student understanding at the class, individual student, or question-level.
  • Ellevation — Ellevation empowers educators and ELs with the only program to go beyond compliance and impact instruction. Partner to 1,100 U.S. school districts.
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Kirk Simpson
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kirk Simpson is the co-founder and CEO of Wave, a provider of cloud-based, integrated software and tools for small businesses. He has spent his career working in digital media with some of Canada’s largest media companies. Prior to Wave, Kirk started two other companies and through this, realized the pain of handling back-office tasks first-hand,which led him to create Wave. Since founding Wave, Kirk has helped the company grow to over 2 million total users, with over $25 million raised in capital.

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Investment focus

  • Finance, Sales, Banking
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Every — Manage your small business money with ease. Wave Money is a free business bank account with built-in bookkeeping.
  • Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
  • Float — Spend, track, approve, and reconcile all your CAD and USD expenses in one platform. Corporate cards tied with intelligent spend management software.
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Melissa Prescott
Angel

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Content, E-Learning
  • Pre-Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Tech Spark Canada — Tech Spark is Canada's first edtech company committed to culturally relevant and equitable tech education for Black and students of colour, girls, and teachers.
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Farzad (Zod) Nazem
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States

Farzad (Zod) Nazem has been a prolific angel investor and advisor to tech startup companies since his retirement from Yahoo! in 2007. He has invested in more than 60 early stage companies, and sits on the boards of Hand Foundation, and The Nueva School. His area of investment is about two thirds Big Data and Cloud platforms, and one third Healthand Medical. He was the Executive Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer of Yahoo from 1996 to mid 2007. He helped acquire and integrate over 50 companies and managed over six thousand engineers representing half of the company's employees. Between 1985 and 1996, Mr. Nazem held various software development and management positions at Oracle Corporation culminating in his role as Vice President of Media and Web Server Division. His tenure at Oracle also included membership in the company's Product Division Management Committee, which set overall strategy for Oracle products. Previously, Mr. Nazem was recruited from California Polytechnic State University by Rolm Corporation to be a software engineer in the VLCBX division. At age 19, he earned a B.S. degree in Computer Science with highest honors.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Analytics, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Emailage — Emailage is a developer of fraud prevention and identity verification technology used to make transactions easier and secure. The company provides multi-faceted predictive solutions with email at the core through key partnerships, proprietary data, and advanced machine-learning technology. It proprietary algorithms in order to provide real-timealerts of risky transactions and delivers a risk score and enable companies to realize significant savings from identifying and stopping fraudulent transactions and improve customer experience.
  • Ceevra, Inc. — Ceevra is an advanced 3D visualization technology for surgeons. Using AI and other innovative computing techniques, Ceevra generates brilliant 3D digital models from standard CT scans and MRIs. Surgeons use the Ceevra 3D models to help educate and counsel patients, to decide on the best surgical approach, and to gain important insights whileoperating.
  • TigerGraph — TigerGraph is the fastest and only scalable graph database for the enterprise. Unleash the power and speed of our graph analytics platform today.
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Zaeem Shaukat Mirza
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Zaeem is an accomplished Global Business Strategist and an avid Marketing Technologist. Having worked with category-leading companies including iProspect, AmoebaCom, Qatar Airways, and Google, Zaeem brings scale and efficiency to global business and marketing operations. Under his leadership, he has managed multiple teams and portfolios across 20+languages, 80+ countries, and 150+ cities. He has managed marketing budgets exceeding $100m and driven multibillion-dollar revenue year on year. On the social front, Zaeem consults multiple organizations towards management, fund-raising, and cause- and non-profit marketing.He is a Marketing Academy graduate from INSEAD, Singapore and aspires to accomplish a PhD in Marketing Technology. He is a Mumbai University ranker, a graduate in mass communication from the St. Xavier’s College (Mumbai, IN), and secured his post-graduation in advertising management from MICA (IN). Armed with his credentials and experience, he independently mentors, invests, and harbours a desire to create entrepreneurs out of passionate professionals who have great technology, product, or social impact ideas.His passion to continually learn allows him to facilitate media and business school programs, conduct corporate workshops, and speak at notable industry conferences on topics ranging from e-commerce strategy, online brand management, non-profit marketing, to digital transformation, and marketing at scale.An ardent digital consumer and marketer, when not fighting a deadline, Zaeem likes slow travelling, unwinding with a book, painting, discussing new business opportunities, or simply spending time with family and friends.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Equity Crowdfunding, Secondary Market, Seed
  • United States, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

  • Caary — CAARY is a digital credit, lending and payments platform, offering a corporate credit card for SMEs, including start-ups. It enables these businesses to better access credit and manage their spending, through provision of virtual and physical credit or payment cards to employees, utilizing a digital dashboard for receipt management, cardmanagement, and integration to the accounting system, eliminating time-consuming reconciliation. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
  • UMMAH1.com — UMMAH1.com is a journey with the goal of connecting the community for collective progress! Among the many planned initiatives, we are starting with a digital-first marketing and technology solutions initiative for growth-focused social impact organizations.
  • UMMAH1.org — UMMAH1.org is a journey with the goal of connecting the community for collective progress! Among the many planned initiatives, we are starting with a digital-first marketing and technology solutions initiative for growth-focused social impact organizations.
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T. Chen Fong
Angel · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Dr. Fong is a Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary. He was formerly the Head of the Department of Radiology at the University of Calgary and the Calgary Health Region. Dr. Fong is active in funding and nurturing start-up companies. Over the past two decades, he funded over 50 companies in diverse technology sectors,with an emphasis in medical devices. Dr. Fong is the co-founder and board member of Calgary Scientific Inc. and is also on the board of Clarius Mobile Health, Cohesic Inc. and Innovere Medical. In addition to seed investing, Dr. Fong is active in the Calgary community sitting on six charitable boards and foundations.In 2015, Dr. Fong joined the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) at the University of Toronto business school as a mentor. CDL helps young entrepreneurs to shape or pivot their nascent ideas. He is widely credited with launching CDL at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary, bringing together seasoned business leaders from Alberta, Canada and the US to grow budding companies. Dr. Fong is on the Strategic Advisory Board of CDL and a Fellow of CDL in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver. In 2017, Dr. Fong was named to the Order of Canada for his contribution to medical technology innovation and philanthropy.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Canada, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Oncoustics AI — Oncoustics is creating and deploying advanced AI solutions for low cost, non-invasive surveillance, diagnostics, and treatment monitoring of diseases with high unmet clinical need. Unlike other players in the space, Oncoustics does not do image recognition. Instead, Oncoustics applies AI to raw ultrasound signals from readily available handheldultrasound devices to rapidly differentiate healthy versus diseased tissues. There's a wealth of information in these raw signals and this approach reveals novel biomarkers that can be aligned with existing standards and categorization systems. Initially targeting liver disease, a $30B global diagnostic market, Oncoustics has filed a Breakthrough Device Designation Request with the FDA for the OnX that detects liver fibrosis and the 510K is underway. Several follow-on liver products are in development. Oncoustics also has clinical data on other organ indications including prostate, kidney, breast and thyroid diseases and cancers.
  • SunGreenH2 — SunGreenH2 creates the world's highest performance advanced materials for electrolysis i.e. green hydrogen production. Achieve high efficiency, low cost green H2 production on site for your application in the Power-to-X, Hydrogen refuelling, Energy Storage and Buildings sectors. Revolutionising zero emissions and improving profitability.
  • Cadence — Cadence's Executor Assistant helps surviving family members to complete benefits claims, notifications, account subscriptions, and other tasks after a death.
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Todd Finch
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Todd Finch - President & CEO @ Vizible

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Software, iOS
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Pressly — Pressly is a smart online platform that helps you aggregate the right content for your audience and establish your brand as a thought leader in your industry.Content is exactly like your audience: It’s all over the web, pinging from social networks to blogs via corporate websites and emails. Pressly allows all of this to happen in a singleplace: your hub.
  • Triggerfox Corporation — Domain for Sale. TriggerFox.com. Request Price. What Are the Advantages of a Super Premium .Com Domain? Increased Traffic. Search Engine Ranking. Brand Recognition. Immediate Presence. Higher Profits. Great Investment. #1 in Premium Domains. 300,000 of the World's Best .Com Domains.
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Ivan Yuen
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

As Chief Product Officer and Co-founder of Wattpad, Ivan Yuen ensures the company’s product strategy aligns with business objectives. Prior to Wattpad, Ivan co-founded FeedM8 and served as the company’s CTO. Before that he was one of the first employees of Tira Wireless, where he helped grow the technical team and developed new and emergingwireless technologies. Ivan graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Computer Engineering and also earned an MBA from the Rotman School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Training
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Kruzee — Kruzee is an online driving school, at customers' doorstep.
  • Shakudo — Shakudo unites all of the data tools and services you need into a single comprehensive data platform, allowing your team to develop and deploy analytics-based solutions with ease.
  • Agora — Simplify your compensation practices and effectively communicate total rewards to your people.
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Rob Goldman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Rob Goldman is the Board Member of Indiegogo. He was a VP Ads at Facebook. He attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • News, Software, Education
  • Seed
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
  • Glossi, Inc — Glossi is a publishing platform that enables anyone to create and share their own digital magazines across devices. Through a proprietary content management system and HTML-5 viewer, Glossi puts the power of magazine-style publishing and multi-screen distribution into the hands of any content creator. No design or technical skills are required toget a beautiful result. All that's needed is an idea.A Glossi can contain video, audio, animations, images and text. Pages and content can be customized with simple tools in an intuitive interface. Finished Glossies can be shared throughout the social web, viewed in the same format on every device, and each Glossi - or a collection of Glossies - can be embedded on a creator's blog or website, as well as on third party websites.
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Drew Green
Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Drew Green - Chief Executive Officer & President @ INDOCHINO

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, Software, Education
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • YOURIKA — AI-assisted education technology and student support
  • Between — Between is a Techstars-backed hybrid spatial audio platform that merges real-time discussions between remote and in-person in the same space. We all know the future of work is hybrid, so we help companies that put their people first, build an inclusive and flexible culture.
  • Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.
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Steven Albiani
Angel

Steven Albiani

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Investment focus

  • PaaS, Education, E-Learning
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • YOURIKA — AI-assisted education technology and student support
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Joshua Landy
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Joshua Landy - Founder & Chief Medical Officer @ Figure 1

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Investment focus

  • Medical, Software, Wellness
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Flipd — Flipd is the all-in-one productivity app makes you feel good about your progress. Keep track of your productivity, stay motivated, connect with others, and achieve your goals with Flipd.
  • Pathway Medical — Pathway is an accurate and efficient point-of-care reference tool that gives you rapid access to evidence-based guideline summaries, interactive algorithms, key findings from landmark trials, clinical calculators, and more. Available anytime, anywhere.
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Michael Kives
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States

Michael Kives is a Founder of K5 Global.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Blockchain, Productivity Tools
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Audius — Audius is a music streaming and sharing platform that puts power back into the hands of content creators.
  • Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
  • Haus — An alcohol brand designed for the way we drink today. Born and bottled in California, Haus is made with things you can pronounce - think chardonnay grapes. elderflower and lemon. With less alcohol than hard liquors, Haus is shipped directly to your door, so you can gather and connect on your time.
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Matt Wyndowe
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Matt Wyndowe is Head of Product Partnerships at Uber. Before that he was Product Manager for Facebook NYC where he oversaw 4 groups, including profile growth, identity accuracy and 2 to-be-announced (and pretty darn cool) product launches coming soon.Before that he was back in Menlo Park where he was the Product Manager for Facebook Apps& Games, where he oversaw product for the Facebook Platform games ecosystem. Prior to this role, Matt worked as a Manager and then Director of Business Development for 4 years, focusing on product launches (e.g. Connect) and major company partnerships (e.g. Zynga and Microsoft). Before Facebook, he founded KoboCafe, a reasonably unsuccessful app company, and worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Co. Matt has a BA in economics with a minor in computer science from McGill University, and attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford D.School. Matt lives in between SF and NYC depending where he is in his career, but is moving back to SF soon.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • StratiFi — StratiFi offers a client-profiling, risk analysis, and compliance software that makes monitoring, measuring, and communicating risk simple. The company believes in evaluating risks before chasing returns as a sound way to make strategic decisions with long-term finances in an uncertain world. StratiFi is building the technology that will become the"default" standard in the industry to evaluate and quantify hidden risks in portfolios and make investing safer, more reliable, and less volatile. The company was founded in 2008 and based in San Francisco, California.
  • Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
  • Walnut — Create an interactive product demo easily with Walnut demo creation software! Customize your product demonstrations without coding, collect powerful insights, save time and resources, and master your sales experience. Discover our platform today.
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Greg Zeschuk
Angel · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Gregory P. Zeschuk co-founded Bioware Corp. in 1995 and went on to produce a series of genre-defining video game titles that include Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the Mass Effect series. Following Bioware’s acquisition by Electronic Arts, Greg became a VP at EA and General Manager of BioWare’s Austinstudio. In 2013, as a means of commemorating his contributions to the video game industry as a whole, Greg received the Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the Game Developers Choice Awards.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Mobile, Sports
  • Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Empire Kred — See what you're worth on the Social Media Stockmarket! Run and complete Missions to grow your audience and discover new content and people. Build your Influence with Empire.Kred
  • Biba Ventures — Active outdoor play is essential to the development of healthy children. Getting enough active outdoor play is a concern that most modern parents are familiar with.For those parents concerned that their children are spending too much time sitting in front of a screen, Biba is a game-changer. It allows kids to have the fun, and sought after,digital rewards that they are so accustomed to, while also encouraging active play.
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Harry Patz
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Harry Patz is the

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Investment focus

  • Education, Universities
  • Pre-Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • OneClass — Access millions of class notes and study guides from top students, along with textbook notes for all of your courses.
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Jennifer Lum
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Jennifer Lum is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Biospring Partners, a growth equity firm that invests in Life Sciences Technology. She is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor. She has cofounded several companies and has worked with many others on formation, fundraising, growth and M&A.Jennifer is a Venture Capital Advisor at HarvardBusiness School and an Advisor at MIT’s Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship. She is also an Advisory Board member at The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.Jennifer co-founded Forge.AI (acquired by FiscalNote) and Adelphic (acquired by Time). She was an early team member at Quattro Wireless (acquired by Apple), m-Qube (acquired by VeriSign) and WebHosting.com (acquired by AT&T).She has also held various roles as a management consultant with financial services and technology companies.Twitter: @lum

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Kiite — Remix your favorite resources and hacks with your best company content in a personalized hub that moves as fast as your team does
  • Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
  • Patented.ai — The most powerful AI engine for intellectual property.
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Shahin Hedayat
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Shahin Hedayat has a passion for high tech entrepreneurship addressing complex problems through collective human ingenuity. Shahin has been an entrepreneur since 1997 starting companies with the aim of creating social impact and economic benefits for all stakeholders. Shahin spends most of his time now on angel investment through Candou Ventureswhich he co-founded in 2015.Prior to Candou Ventures, Shahin co-founded 5 companies and served various roles as President, CEO, Chairman and Board Member. Those companies are Centillium Communication (IPO), Beceem Communication (Acquired by Broadcom), Enverv (Acquired by Semtech), Apixio (in operation) and Polyup (in operation). Centillium, Beceem and Enverv exits generated over $4B of shareholder value. Apixio and Polyup are currently operating and growing. Prior to 1997, Shahin held technical and managerial roles at Cirrus Logic for 11 years where he became VP of Engineering of a product line with $90M revenue.Shahin holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Michigan (1981,1983) and is named on 9 U.S. patents.

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Investment focus

  • PaaS, EdTech, Internet
  • Series A
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • ApplyBoard — ApplyBoard simplifies the study abroad process by connecting students, recruitment partners, and partner schools on a single platform.
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Brandon Chu
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Brandon Chu is the VP Product Acceleration at Shopify. He attended the University of Toronto.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Finance, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Pipe — Get up to the full annual value of your booked monthly and quarterly contracts. Scale your business without dilution or debt.
  • Doormat — Doormat is a real estate lawyer that combines legaltech and proptech by enhancing the property legal process with advanced technology solutions online to ease the real estate buying and selling process.
  • Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
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Anil Dharni
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Anil Dharni is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sense. Attended at MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Apps, iOS
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
  • Nuzzel — Nuzzel is a professional news discovery service used by many of the top influencers in media, technology, and finance.Nuzzel was named one of the best apps of the year by Google Play, the New York Times, Fast Company, and Time Magazine.Nuzzel is backed by top Silicon Valley investors including Andreessen Horowitz, CRV, Homebrew, LowercaseCapital, Uncork Capital, Marc Benniof, and Max Levchin.
  • Rover — Rover Rover is an advanced personalization and recommendation technology app. Its Recommendation Engine is also used to power discovery on numerous third party news and media sites. Rover helps people discover content they love, that they never knew existed from a wide variety of over 15,000 topics. The recommendation engine uses machine learningto learn a user's fine-grained interests through content a user engages with while being respectful of a user's need for privacy. Rover also connects to other people who are influential in topics that care about and help discover other people with similar interests. Rover uses Machine Learning to help people discover content they love that they never knew existed.It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
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Eric Hippeau
Angel

Eric Hippeau is a Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures, New York’s most active early-stage technology fund. Hippeau is also Chairman of RebelMouse and co-founder of NowThis News. Hippeau is the former Chief Executive Officer of The Huffington Post and a Special Partner at Softbank Capital, where he served as Managing Partner for many years.Prior to Softbank Capital, Hippeau was Chairman and CEO of Ziff-Davis, which was the largest media company serving the technology sector. Hippeau serves on the Board of various private and public companies, including Starwood Hotels and Resorts. Eric previously worked at HuffPost as a Chief Executive Officer. He attended the Université Paris-Sorbonne.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Social Media, Mobile
  • Seed, Series B, Series C
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Halp — Get more acceptances and scholarships with 1-on-1 online admissions coaching, hands-on mentorship, and university support
  • WorkJam — The most complete and modular suite of productivity tools for frontline employees. Trusted by global brands and loved by their employees.
  • Goldenset Collective — Investing in the next generation of creators
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John Baker
Angel

John C. Baker founded Baker Capital in 1995. Mr. Baker has more than 30 years of experience in the private equity industry, leading investments in the technology, telecom and financial service industries. Mr. Baker is a member of the Supervisory Board of Interxion NV (Chairman) and the Board of Wine.com. Additionally, Mr. Baker is a member of theUniversity of Cincinnati Investment Committee. Mr. Baker is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Big Data, Analytics, Education
  • Pre-Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Chalk — Chalk is a planning and analytics platform that enables K-12 schools and districts to develop a cohesive, standards-aligned map for curriculum and instruction. From small, independent schools to large, national school networks, Chalk is behind the academic strategies influencing millions of students.
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Pierre Andurand
Angel

Pierre Andurand - CIO @ Andurand Capital

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Investment focus

  • Video, Mobile, Content
  • Angel
  • Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

  • MediaCore — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
  • Novaquark — Dual Universe is a single-shard sandbox MMO focusing on emergent gameplay, and developed by Novaquark for PC.You believe in a future where games will become more than games, but rather places where meaningful adventures and learning will take place. They believe that these collective online experiences will fill more and more of their free time,becoming more and more real. They believe that fun is the future of work.
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Farhan Thawar
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Aide — Understand what's going on in your inbox and augment your agents with AI for efficient operations and higher customer satisfaction. Using our hands-free Machine Learning technology and intelligent suggestions, Aide gives your team a high-level view of customer issues and provides tooling to Assist Agents respond to customers faster.
  • Vestaboard — Vestaboard has totally re-imagined the design of a split-flap display you might see at a train station in Europe.
  • Redefine — Redefine is the first AI based CI optimization platform that seamlessly integrates with your existing CI environment, allowing you to accelerate your software development cycle and reduce cloud-costs. By combining code-analysis and ML, redefine optimizes your build and reduces feedback time by over 90% for developers.
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Patrick Spaulding Ryan Ph.D
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, FinTech, Mobile Apps
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • United States, Mexico, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • CurveCatch — CurveCatch brengt de voordelen van een kleine lingerie speciaalzaak en online shoppen samen. Enerzijds nemen we je bij de hand en nemen we alle complexiteit rond maten en pasvormen weg door deze voor jou uit te kiezen o.b.v. 15 jaar ervaring. Anderzijds ben je op 5min klaar met bestellen en kan je thuis lingerie passen alvorens deze te betalen. Je betaalt achteraf alleen wat je houdt. Bestel nu jouw box en ervaar deze nieuwe manier van shoppen!
  • Arrenda — Arrenda is a fintech startup that provides market-specific insurance and financial products to the real estate markets of Latin America. It also offers advance payments to landlords upfront to lower barriers to renting in the country. Arrenda was founded in 2021 and is based in Mexico City.
  • My Little Mascara Club — Meet the little mascara everyone is subscribing to, exclusively at My Little Mascara Club. Seriously smudge proof, packed with clean ingredients, and just the right size for you to always have a fresh, clump-free mascara. Delivered!
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Marc Morin
Angel · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Marc, our Chief Executive Officer, co-founded Sandvine (TSX:SVC) and served as its Chief Technology Officer, developing the company's vision and technology strategy. Prior to Sandvine, he was co-founder at PixStream which was acquired by Cisco Systems.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
  • Dejero — Dejero delivers resilient, uninterrupted internet connectivity for data-intensive applications by intelligently combining multiple networks into a single managed service.
  • Sortable — Sortable is an agnostic, low-cost, broad spectrum platform that helps publishers unify demand partners, data, and tools. We’ve developed a best-in-class UI that contextualizes this data, allowing publishers to more deeply understand the correlation between content, marketing, and monetization.Their ultimate goal is to simplify the complexities ofpublishing operations while generating more revenue for their publisher partners.Sortable began as an online publisher, building 20 websites and apps to help consumers compare competing products in a number of categories, generating over 500 million product comparisons since their creation. In 2014, after realizing that the experience gained from building websites was better used to help fellow publishers, Sortable launched the machine learning ad optimization focused technology company that you see today.
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Melissa Prescott
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Melissa Prescott

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Content, E-Learning
  • Pre-Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Tech Spark Canada — Tech Spark is Canada's first edtech company committed to culturally relevant and equitable tech education for Black and students of colour, girls, and teachers.
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Satish Kanwar
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Satish Kanwar is a VP of Product at Shopify, where he oversees strategic product initiatives for over 1 million merchants globally. Satish led Shopify’s formative expansion from online stores to multi-channel commerce, accelerating merchants' sales across eCommerce, brick-and-mortar, and new sales channels. Satish previously co-founded userexperience studio Jet Cooper, which was acquired by Shopify in order to establish its product development footprint in Toronto. Satish is an active angel investor, public speaker, and advisor.He attended the University of Toronto Scarborough.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile Apps, FinTech, Art
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
  • Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
  • Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.
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Ryan Holmes
Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ryan Holmes is the CEO and Founder of HootSuite. Thought leader, dog lover and serial entrepreneur, he has redefined the face of social media - bringing Twitter, Facebook and other social networks out of the dorm room and into the boardroom.Holmes has grown HootSuite from a lean startup to a global leader in social media with 8 million users,including 79 of the Fortune 100 companies. A college drop-out, he started a paintball company and pizza restaurant before founding Invoke Media, the company that developed HootSuite in 2009.Today, Holmes is an authority on the social business revolution, quoted in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and called upon to speak at TEDx and SXSW Interactive Conferences. An angel investor and advisor, he mentors startups in Canada and around the world. Through HootSuite University, Holmes partners with major universities to deliver social media coursework to the next generation of business leaders.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • MazumaGo — Send and receive business payments online with no limits, no percentage fees and no bullsh*t. Bring your business payments into the 21st century.
  • Surf — Surf for Brands allows you to generate the highest quality first party data, with consumer opt-in options. Generate ethical, high quality data now - Learn more
  • Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.
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Philip A. Cutler
Angel · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Philip Cutler is the founder and CEO of PAPER (f. 2014). PAPER is the leading Educational Support System (ESS) implemented by school districts to improve student achievement and teacher effectiveness. Cutler is a teacher turned entrepreneur with a passion for educational equity, and education.Prior to PAPER, Cutler had founded several successfulbusinesses including national in-home tutoring service Laurus Educational Services (f. 2009) and Montreal's first lifestyle summer camp, Laurus Summer Camp (f. 2012), where he is remains Chairman. In 2013, at 25 years of age, he became the youngest ever elected City Councillor in Westmount, Quebec. He continues to sit on Westmount's council and is the city's Commissioner of Infrastructure and Innovation.Cutler holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education from McGill University in Montreal where he played linebacker for the McGill Redmen Football team & represented the Faculty of Education on McGill University's Senate. He has also been very active philanthropic initiatives related to Alzheimer's Disease as well as the McGill University Health Center and the Jewish General Hospital.

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Investment focus

  • Education, Sports, eSports
  • Series A, Seed
  • United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Zoomph — Zoomph's platform enables tracking of brand partnership performance across social media and broadcast, providing high-quality data to inform sponsorship decisions.
  • Hypatos — Manual document processing is a major cost driver. Hypatos' deep learning tech automates complex document processing tasks. Make back office more efficient!
  • Stellic — Stellic provides next generation degree management tools for your entire campus - students, advisors, administrators and leaders - with one goal in mind. A better path to academic success.
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Jason Maguire
Angel

Jason Maguire

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Investment focus

  • PaaS, Education, E-Learning
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • YOURIKA — AI-assisted education technology and student support
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Robert Chaplinsky
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States

Rob Chaplinsky is the Co-Founder and Managing Director Link Ventures. Rob previously worked at Bridgescale Partners as the Managing Director. He Harvard Business School and the University of Waterloo.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
  • Caribou — Refinance your car loan. See if you can save money. Get pre-qualified offers in seconds with no Social Security number required and no impact on your credit.
  • Trust & Will — Estate planning with Trust & Will is the easiest way to create, edit, store, and share your Trust or Will legal documents. Create an estate plan today!
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Jiawei Zhu
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Mr. Zhu Jiawei, COO of Huobi, a Chinese well-known blockchain asset trading platform, has extensive experience and intensive research in blockchain industry. Mr. Zhu has carried out blockchain training for over 40 companies and universities such as PBoC, CITIC Securities, Financial Times, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Central Universityof Finance and Economics and Tongji University, etc.,covering blockchain technology principle, status quo of industry development, blockchain asset investment, research of emerging blockchain digital currencies, blockchain security, blockchain financial crime and control and so on. He has a unique insight in blockchain security and big data applications. His views of the blockchain industry has been cited by domestic media for many times. The blockchain research center led by Zhu Jiawei launched "Digital asset research" project with PBC School of Finance , and published the industry's first book, 'Blockchain: define the future of finance and economics'.

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Investment focus

  • EdTech
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Deschool Online — An online marketplace community that connects learners with qualified and verified teaching professionals
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Rasool Rayani
Angel · Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Rasool is a serial entrepreneur with experience in the software, healthcare, and CPG industries. He continues to maintain his passion for technology as an active angel investor with a focus on b2b, consumer saas and health tech. Rasool maintains an active role with CEO’s as a board member, mentor and advisor. He currently serves on the boards ofthe Victoria Foundation, VIATEC, and Checkfront Software.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Content, Cloud Computing
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Outway — Inspiring personal bests.
  • Defined — Crypto DeFi data & infrastructure for pricing, charts, indexing, & custom APIs.
  • Cognito Health — Canada's only integrated online mental health solution. Accessible and affordable treatment for your mental health. Book a free initial assessment today.
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Jesse Ma

Adjunct Professor of Law @ Fordham University School of Law

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Investment focus

  • Video, Mobile, Education
  • Seed

Anthony Lacavera
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Anthony Lacavera founded Globalive in 1998 and serves as Chairman. Anthony also founded and was CEO of WIND Mobile, which he sold for USD$1.3 billion after it grew to become Canada’s fourth largest wireless carrier. A serial entrepreneur, he started his first business out of university with a small business loan from the Royal Bank of Canada.Anthony is also the founder of Globalive Technology, a software company focused on commercializing blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies where he serves as Chairman and CEO.As a venture capitalist, Anthony has a significant stake in dozens of startups in Canada as well as the United States. As a mentor and investor, he is heavily involved in accelerators and incubators, including MaRS, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), NEXT Canada and the DMZ at Ryerson University. Anthony has done business in more than thirty countries, ranging from producing plays on Broadway to raising almost CAD$2 billion in private capital. He is a regular television commentator and speaker on artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship and the telecommunications industry. He was educated at the University of Toronto.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, SaaS, Computer Vision
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • SeamlessMD — The #1 patient engagement platform used by health systems to elevate the patient experience, improve outcomes and lower costs. Patients access digital care plans on their devices and are guided through their health conditions or treatments via reminders, education and progress-tracking.
  • Kira Talent — Make your admissions process more human. Kira transforms your admissions process with on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments. Kira works with more than 300 programs worldwide to build applicant-first assessments that identify and select their best-fit students.
  • Peloton Innovations — Peloton Innovations is the world’s first startup studio aimed at disrupting the $50 billion security industry. Based in Toronto, Peloton creates impactful B2B and B2C products and services for use in the rapidly evolving protection sector.
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Saar Pikar
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Saar Pikar serves as the Managing Director of OMERS Growth Equity.

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Investment focus

  • Education, EdTech, Software
  • Series D, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Ladder — We make life insurance simple. Insure the ones you love with Ladder.
  • ExecOnline — ExecOnline delivers transformational learning experiences to corporate leaders.Through partnerships with business schools such as Berkeley Haas, Chicago Booth, Columbia, Tuck at Dartmouth, Duke CE, IMD, Ivey, MIT-Sloan, Stanford GSB, Wharton, and Yale, the e-learning company provides leadership courses. As a Forbes “Technology Company to Watch,”its proprietary online ecosystem combines the engagement of on-campus study with the convenience of online education, through dynamic, high-impact experiences tailored to the unique strategic, innovation, and operation concerns of corporate executives.In 2012, Stephen Bailey, Mark Ozer, Barry Goldberg, and Julia Alexander co-founded the company in New York, New York.
  • Parlay Ideas — Parlay is a discussion-based learning tool that allows teachers to facilitate meaningful and inclusive class discussions, that provide teachers with measurable data on student engagement and learning. We want to help students improve their critical thinking, develop their communication skills and foster a willingness to listen to others so they cantake these abilities with them into the world.
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