# Top 10 InsurTech Angel Investors in Canada in May 2026

## Sid Sankaran
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: InsurTech, Insurance

In October 2010, Sid Sankaran joined AIG as Executive Vice President, Chief Risk Officer. Prior to joining the company, Sid was a partner in the Finance and Risk practice at Oliver Wyman Financial Services. He headed the firm’s Toronto office and served as Canadian Market Manager since 2006.Sid has spent his career working with financialservices companies, including a number of insurers, on risk management issues. He has also conducted strategy and risk-focused studies across a range of financial institutions, including insurers, banks, securities firms and specialty finance companies in North America and Europe.Earlier in his career, Sid worked at Mercer Risk, Finance & Insurance Consulting and MMC Enterprise Risk, focusing on insurance company valuation and mergers and acquisitions.Sid holds a Bachelor of Mathematics degree (majoring in actuarial science) and graduated with distinction from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He completed actuarial examinations from the Society of Actuaries.

## Jameson Hsu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Focus: Big Data, Analytics, Mobile

Jameson is a three time entrepreneur and avid world traveler. Most recently Mr. Hsu was CEO and co-founder of Pieceable Software, a company that enabled iOS app virtualization in the cloud so that any app could be consumed in a web browser. Pieceable was acquired by Facebook in 2012.Prior to that Mr. Hsu was CEO and co-founder of Mochi Media,an ad network and distribution platform for Flash games that reached over 180M monthly uniques. In 2010 Mochi Media was acquired by Shanda Games. Jameson’s first company was a design and advertising agency in New York called WDDG. The company started with advertising and eventually forayed into game development and publishing as Fun Tank (which was later acquired by Publishers Clearing House in 2011).

## Michael McDerment
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: CRM, SaaS, Software

Mike McDerment is the co-founder and CEO of FreshBooks, planet earth’s #1 cloud accounting solution designed for small business owners. In 2003, Mike built FreshBooks for his design firm, scratched his own itch, then moved into his parent’s basement for 3.5 years to get FreshBooks off the ground. Since then over 5,000,000 people have usedFreshBooks to save time billing and collect billions of dollars. Mike and his team dedicate themselves to executing extraordinary experiences everyday for small business owners who want to focus on the work they love, instead of on their paperwork.

## Mohsen Moazami
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Analytics, Software, Big Data

Mohsen Moazami is the Founder and Managing Partner at Seif Capital. He attended Stanford University.

## Steve Chen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Machine Learning

Steve Chen was an internet entrepreneur and the co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of YouTube. Born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Raised in Taiwan, Chen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 15.After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen worked at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley andJawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, a website designed to simplify video sharing online.Chen was named one of the "The 50 people who matter now" by Business 2.0 magazine in 2006. That year, he and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock.Chen most recently co-founded AVOS Systems with YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley.

## Louis Beryl
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

3X Founder of Earnest, SolidEnergy, and now working on the next one. Formerly a16z and YC. Active angel investor and board member.

## Joseph Fung
- Type: Angel
- Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, B2B

Joseph Fung is the CEO and Co-founder of Uvaro.

## Mike McDerment
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Computer, Software, InsurTech

Mike McDerment

## Sharon Ludlow
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: InsurTech, Insurance

Sharon Ludlow

## Alon Neches
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: InsurTech, Insurance

Alon Neches

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