Top 10 Infrastructure Angel Investors in Canada in October 2023

Som Seif

Investment focus

Finance, Internet, Infrastructure
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Citizen Hex — Citizen Hex is an Ethereum Liquidity Company that was built for a corporation centred around acquiring, securing, and trading ERC-20 tokens. The main beneficiaries of Ethereum adoption will be the crypto-commodities that power it. Founded by Benjamin Roberts and Brett Bergmann in late 2016, Citizen Hex Inc. emerged as one of the top companies.
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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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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Humaans — The fastest way to onboard and manage your staff. Mobile first, perfect for remote and distributed teams, and takes 1 minute to get up and running.
Mason — Mason was an AI-powered SQL editor for teams.
Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.

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Investor, advisor / board director and startup executive with 20 years of operating experience (sales, marketing, business development, operations and general management). Specific focus on enterprise software, SaaS, developer tool and devops as well as collaboration / future of work. Helped build 3 successful startups as an operator;stayed on after one acquisition to manage operations for a $380M, 220 salesperson business as part of a public company. Joined Xamarin as first non-engineering hire and built sales and customer success organization from zero to almost $50M in run rate sales in less than 4 years - built team from zero to 100 sales and customer success people; started out with high-velocity SMB focused inside sales sales model, and over time added midmarket, hybrid and later on traditional enterprise field team as well as partner sales team. Joined Microsoft in General Manager role responsible for the global strategy and go-to-market for Mobile Application Development after Xamarin acquisition in March of 2016.Lived and worked in several countries (France, Italy, Spain, Germany, USA and Paraguay), fluent in five languages (English, Spanish, French, Italian, German), MBA in International Business.Took 12 month to travel the world between two startups; passionate about photography, horses, animal welfare and dance (travel blog: shetravels.org).Interested in early stage startups.

Investment focus

Software, CMS, Infrastructure
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Komodor — The Only Unified, Dev-First Kubernetes Platform. Effortlessly Operate, Troubleshoot, Control & Optimize K8s Applications
Vantage — Vantage is a service that helps businesses analyze and reduce their AWS costs. Vantage's mission is to build a suite of tools that make it easy for engineering, leadership, and finance to analyze, collaborate on and optimize their cloud infrastructure costs.
Transform — Transform is the first centralized ‘metrics store’ that empowers data analysts to deliver accurate, timely, confident, and fast insights. The metrics store we’ve built is a centralized repository that enables metrics definitions in code, supports life-cycle management, and makes data accessible to every other tool in the modern data stack. We notonly make data trustworthy, but we also uncover relevant insights and context so that all teams can stay on the same page and make the best decisions possible.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GitPOAP — GitPOAP is a decentralized reputation platform that represents off-chain accomplishments and contributions on chain as POAPs.
Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.
Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

GET Protocol — Supercharge your tickets with NFTs and the Blockchain. Easily implement the latest technology and unlock the benefits of truly digital tickets with GET Protocol.
Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
Bring It On — Bring It On is a mission to redefine the skill games category, merging strong technological infra.

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Mike Serbinis working as Fellow at Creative Destruction Labs.

Investment focus

Finance, Infrastructure, Trading Platform
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Citizen Hex — Citizen Hex is an Ethereum Liquidity Company that was built for a corporation centred around acquiring, securing, and trading ERC-20 tokens. The main beneficiaries of Ethereum adoption will be the crypto-commodities that power it. Founded by Benjamin Roberts and Brett Bergmann in late 2016, Citizen Hex Inc. emerged as one of the top companies.

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

Investment focus

Gaming, Digital Entertainment, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Norway, Singapore, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Presail — The platform behind Web 3.0's best investment groups. Manage everything in one place: fundraising, investor management, and token vesting.
Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.

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Cofounder & CEO of Community Gaming

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Video Games
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

AAG Ventures — AAG Ventures is the IT business behind AAG, one of the fastest-growing Play-To-Earn guilds in the industry.
Community Gaming — CommunityGaming.io combines social gaming, match automation, and blockchain payment technology to make it easy to organize and compete in esports tournaments. Their solution uses automated software and blockchain payment tech to produce fair, transparent, automated results without the complexity normally associated with blockchain solutions. Ourevent platform is a network of thousands of gamers, dozens of venues, and brands who we've proudly brought together across over 200 live and online esports competitions.
Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.

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Khaled Verjee

Investment focus

Blockchain, Ethereum, Internet
Seed, Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

ChainSafe Systems — ChainSafe Systems is a global leader in blockchain protocol and infrastructure development located in Toronto.
Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.

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