# Top 50 Mobile Apps Angel Investors in Canada in May 2026

## Mo Larbi Bennis
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Consumer, Nightlife, Enterprise

Mo Larbi Bennis

## Satish Kanwar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile Apps, FinTech, Art

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.

## Tinie Tempah
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Art, Apps

Tinie shot to prominence with his chart-topping album 'Disc-Overy' which featured the #1s 'Pass Out' & 'Written In the Stars'. 2 x BRITs, a MOBO and an Ivor Novello followed. His 2nd album 'Demonstration' featured collaborators such as Dizzee Rascal, Emeli Sandé & Laura Mvula. In 2015, Tinie returnedwith 'Not Letting Go' and a feature on KDA's 'Turn The Music Louder'. Both topped the charts to give him 7 UK #1s - the most by any artist this decade.

## Rabindra Shrestha
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Financial Services

Tom Williams

## 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.

## Jay Baer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bloomington, Indiana, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Social Media, SaaS

Jay Baer is the Founder, of the content marketing strategy, social media strategy, word of mouth strategy, and CX strategy of Convince & Convert. Jay Bae attended the University of Arizona.

## Jeff Chang
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Developer Tools, Sports

Jeff Chang was the Head of Growth Engineering at Whatnot. Jeff previously worked at Pastel Labs as a Founder. Attended University of California, Berkeley.

## 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.

## Matt Mullenweg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Houston, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Apps

Matt Mullenweg is the CEO at Automattic Inc. Matt Mullenweg attended the University of Houston.

## 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.

## 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.

## John Stokes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Internet, Software

John is a Founding Partner at Real Ventures and is also the co-founder and Managing Partner of Montreal Start Up, two early stage VC funds.He co-founded or established regional operations for a number of software, internet and media companies in New Zealand (Bulletin.net) , South Africa (Brightpoint SA / MTN PAYG), Malaysia (Aethos AsiaPacific) and Japan (Livedoor & Vogue Planet). John also founded Piermont Ventures, a Hong Kong based boutique investment and advisory business which advised entrepreneurs and invested in their startups.John is a citizen of the UK, New Zealand and Canada and lives in Montreal, Canada.

## Brice Scheschuk
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, GovTech

Brice Scheschuk is a Co-founder, Director and the Chief Financial Officer of Globalive Communications / Wind Mobile. He has been with Globalive / Wind for eight years in a senior finance capacity and is responsible for all aspects of finance, facilities and business planning including direct responsibility for raising in excess of $1.2billion in capital. Brice is the Co-President of Brave Investment, an investment holding company focused on private and public company and fund investing and manages over $10 million in assets across a number of investment classes including alternative funds, private and public equity, venture capital, angel, real estate, CPC’s, SPAC’s and RTO’s. He is the Chairman and Director of Samba Days, a gift experiences company, and a past director of a number of public and private companies including Web Host Industry Review, iLookabout, Hy-Drive Technologies and Varicent Software. Brice is a Canadian Chartered Accountant and earned his designation at Coopers & Lybrand in 1997. A passionate entrepreneur and investor, Brice has been involved in some of the most exciting start-ups in Canada over the past 15 years.

## Tim Draper
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Mobile

Tim Draper is the Founder of Draper Associates. He was a Member of the Advisory Board at Mode Media. He attended Harvard Business School.

## T. Chen Fong
- Type: Angel
- Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology

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.

## Rahul Kulkarni
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, Productivity Tools

Rahul Kulkarni, Head of Product at Wecasa.

## Adam Flynn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, Productivity Tools

Adam Flynn

## Luke Vigent
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Consumer, Software, Mobile Apps

Luke Vigeant is the chief product officer and co-founder of tilr.

## Michael Katchen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, FinTech, Internet

Founder & CEO. Entrepreneur, passionate about transforming investment management.

## 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.

## Ian Logan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Art, Apps, Mobile

Ian Logan is the VP Engineering at Rose Rocket, a SaaS-based Transportation Management System (TMS) specializing in workflow automation for Enterprise and SMB transport companies.He was the former VP Engineering at Drop, an intelligent app that surfaces offers & rewards based on what members are spending, creating a personalized, seamlessexperience.He was also a former Director of Engineering for Payments at Airbnb, a community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique spaces around the world. Ian has led engineering teams over many years, overseeing architecture and implementation of the website and helped Airbnb grow the payments platform internationally to process dozens of different currencies and payment methods. Ian joined Airbnb as an early engineer and built out other teams related to growth and site performance engineering. In a previous life, Ian built core trading algorithms and applications for world-class investment banks.

## Andrew Chau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Art

Andrew Chau is the co-founder of Neo Financial
He used to be the co-founder of SkipTheDishes. He handles business development and strategy for this company.

## Greg Zeschuk
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Sports

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.

## Jamie True
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Video, Retail

Jamie is the CEO and driving force behind LifeWorks. Combining energy and positivity, he is deeply passionate about technology and how it can be used to create positive change in our world today.With a proven track record of growing technology companies from the ground up, Jamie set up his first business at the age of 17 which merged with itslargest competitor in June 1997. He co-founded and invented Interclubnet PLC, creating an online trading platform that most major football clubs worldwide used to buy and sell players akin to a Bloomberg terminal "X-tranet". In August 2000 the company floated on AIM with a market capitalisation of £30 million. Turnover in Year 1 totaled £8.1Million.In January 2004, Jamie launched a 9 patented service called ONSPEED which became the largest Internet accelerator in Europe. The group subsequently floated under a holding company called Z Group PLC in June 2005 for £25 million on AIM.In Jan 2010, Jamie started Grapple mobile, a patented mobile application platform. Grapple won the most Innovative Mobile Agency of 2012 and 2013 and was successfully acquired by Monitse PLC (MONI) AIM for up to £39million in Sep 2013.Jamie founded WorkAngel in 2013, the powerbrand that drives employee engagement, retention and satisfaction for some of the largest companies in the World. WorkAngel merged with Ceridian LifeWorks in 2016 with Jamie serving as the CEO of LifeWorks.

## Roger Ehrenberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Advertising, FinTech, Software

Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a firm that invests in companies creating competitive advantage through data.

## Roham Gharegozlou
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency

Roham is founder and CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio that specializes in emerging technology. Axiom Zen’s first public blockchain project, CryptoKitties, is the world’s most successful blockchain game and the first decentralized application to effectively engage a consumer audience. CryptoKitties has been covered by Fortune,Bloomberg, and the BBC, accounting for roughly a quarter of the Ethereum network’s traffic within a week of launch and introducing hundreds of thousands of new users to blockchain technology. Axiom Zen was named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business. Their products have touched 200+ million consumers and are used by the world’s leading companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA, as well as by eminent academic institutions and government organizations. They pride themselves in diversity of talent: a team of ~80+ creatives includes published authors, over a dozen former founders, diversity from 20+ national origins, and decades of collective experience at startups and Fortune 500s alike. Axiom Zen has been working with Bitcoin and various forms of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies since 2014. Axiom Zen is also the team behind ZenHub, the world’s leading collaboration solution for technical teams using GitHub; and the developer of Timeline, named Apple’s Best App of January, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, and Best New App in 88 countries. Axiom Zen is the creator of Toby, recognized as Top Chrome Extension of the year by both Google and Product Hunt, and the parent company of Hammer & Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR). Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, and Fast Company. History Prior to founding Axiom Zen, Roham served with the Rising Tide Fund bas

## Daniel Curran
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile

Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.

## 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.

## Lisa Gansky
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Debt Financing
- Focus: Transportation, B2B, Food and Beverage

Lisa is the author of the bestseller, The Mesh. Why the Future of Business is Sharing. She is also the chief instigator of mesh labs. For more than 16 years, she's been an impact junky and entrepreneur with a strong interest in building teams and breaking the edges of formerly happy business models. Most recently, she was CEO & co-founderof Ofoto (now the Kodak Gallery). Lisa is an advisor &/or investor in Squidoo, RelayRides, Taskrabbit, Honest Buildings, Loosecubes, Scoot Networks, Munchery, pi.pe & Vayable. In the nineties Lisa was co-founder & CEO of Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial web site and portal. When GNN was acquired by America Online in 1995, she continued on as VP of Internet properties and services, overseeing Webcrawler, GNN, AOL online advertising and e-commerce.

## Loic Le Meur
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Mobile, Mobile Apps

Loic Le Meur - Founder & CEO @ Leade.rs

## Alexandra Nestertchouk
- Type: Angel
- Location: Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, B2C, Family

Alexandra is the Founder and CEO of HopKidz.com, Mompreneur, Public Speaker, Author, Community Leader, Supporter of Women Empowerment movement, Parent's advocate, Women of Influence 2018' Nominee. 
Alexandra has a Business Management Degree and background in Computer Science, she is has 10+ years of hands-on experience in Business withthe focus on Business Development, Operations Management, Project Management, and Business Analysis. Alexandra is a Serial Entrepreneur, she thrives in high-paced environment and enjoys the buzz of Technology Startups.

## 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.

## Niels Gron
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Convertible Note, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Niels Gron

## 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.

## John Maier
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, Productivity Tools

John Maier, Director, Data Science at Shopify.

## Jody Mulkey
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Art, Mobile Apps

Jody Mulkey has worked at Shopzilla since January 1999. After wearing many hats along the way Jody is currently the Chief Information Officer responsible for the overall technology development and operations of the company. Before joining Shopzilla, Mulkey was in charge of the Web presence at Isocor. Before that he worked at WilliamO'Neil + Co., an institutional investment services company. He was part of the team that brought both the flagship WONDA product to the Internet and created an online consumer version of Daily Graphs.Mulkey holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration from the University of Southern California, with concentrations in information systems, and is a graduate of the Entrepreneur Program. He originally hails from the great state of Texas, but is happy to have called California home for the past 18 years. Mulkey is an avid snowboarder and can be found most winter weekends on the slopes of Mammoth Mountain.

## Mike Walsh
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Internet, Communities

Mike Walsh serves as a Managing Partner at Structure Capital. Mike Walsh launched Structure Capital. He serves as an Advisor of S4 Style, Inc. He Co-Founded Leverage Software, Inc. and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Co-founding Leverage Software, Mike Walsh co-founded and served as Vice President of Sales at mvion and VicePresident of Sales and Business Development for Project Arena. After a decade of software sales and sales management, he Founded and sold an enterprise social networking company. Mike Walsh also focused his efforts on investing and was a first round investor in Uber. He is a pioneer in Active Relationship Networks and is instrumental in developing revolutionary business applications for social networking including sales lead generation, employee recruitment and marketing. He designed missile defense systems, designed and sold air and water pollution control systems and was Early Angel Investor in Salesforce.com. Mike Walsh holds M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business, and Columbia University and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

## Benjamin Yoskovitz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Founding Partner at Highline BETA, a startup co-creation and venture development company. Ben is an entrepreneur, product lead, angel investor. He co-authored Lean Analytics.

## David Hariri
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Art, Apps, Mobile

David Hariri - Co-Founder @ Ada

## Zachary Aarons
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Real Estate, Software, Property Management

Zach Aarons currently works as the Co-Founder and General Partner for MetaProp.VC. He previously worked at Millennium Partners as the Project Manager.

## Guillaume Laliberte
- Type: Angel
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Art, Apps, Mobile

Guillaume Laliberte - Founder & CEO @ Setter

## 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.

## Dave McClure
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Dave McClure is the founder of Practical Venture Capital and has been an investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over twenty-five years. Previously he was the founding partner of 500 Startups, a global VC firm and startup accelerator with over $500M in assets under management. Dave has invested in hundreds of companies around the world,including more than 15 unicorns and 5 IPOs. He was named by Forbes as one of the top VCs in the world in 2016 and 2017 (Forbes Midas List). Before 500 Startups, Dave worked at Founders Fund and PayPal, and he graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in engineering and applied mathematics.

## Mike McCauley
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Consumer Goods, Apps

Mike McCauley was co-founder of BufferBox (acquired by Google), a network of automated package delivery lockers. One year after its founding, BufferBox was awarded the 2012 Velocity Venture Fund, and went through the Y Combinator program in Silicon Valley. Mike is now Product Manager of early stage Google X projects and is based in Silicon Valley.Most recently he co-founded a start-up fund to help early-stage tech firms in the Waterloo Region in 2014. Mike completed a BASc, Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2011 and is passionate about sharing his expertise as a founder with others.

## John Laban
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, Productivity Tools

John Laban is a software engineer, entrepreneur, startup advisor, and angel investor. He is a co-founder and the current CEO of OpsLevel.Previously, John was the first employee of PagerDuty, an incident management and operations SaaS company. Over 7.5 years and many different roles, he helped grow and scale PagerDuty from four to 400 people andfrom $0 to $100MM in ARR. At PagerDuty, John’s focus was on leadership in engineering and product development.In a past life, John built an engineering services company to 50+ talented employees and saw it through an acquisition. He also worked at Amazon, helping bring new ML techniques to the risk management space.John was born and raised in Sudbury, went to school in Waterloo, lived in San Francisco, Vancouver, and Seattle, and currently calls Toronto home.

## Haroon F. Mirza
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Events, Software

Haroon F. Mirza is an Entrepreneur in Residence at OMERS Ventures, where he is responsible for contributing to the identification and execution of investment opportunities in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sectors.Prior to joining OMERS Ventures, Haroon was Director of Business Development - Anonymous Viewer Analytics atIntel Corp. Before that he was the co-founder and CEO of CognoVision, an award-winning retail analytics provider. CognoVision was named Canada's Most Innovative Company in 2009, and was acquired by Intel in September 2010.Haroon has also worked in the consumer packaged goods industry, and as a consultant for the Carleton University Foundry Program, evaluating technology startups and obtaining pre-seed capital to commercialize on-campus technologies.He graduated from Carleton University's Sprott School of Business with a Bachelor of Commerce, and Harvard Business School's Program for Leadership Development (PLD).

## Alexandro Sances
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Transportation, Manufacturing, Automotive

A highly driven Senior Director and Executive with +25 Y in Management and Consulting experience, within the Telecommunication, Insurtech, Mobility, Telematics, and Space sectors and in Digitalization, IT, IoT, and Big Data areas.Always interested in the scouting of new technologies (ie: blockchain, AI, VR/AR/MR, ...) Active Mentor ofTechItalia:LAb Acceleration Program

## David Zhang
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series B, Series D
- Focus: FinTech, Art, Social Media

David Zhang joined Silver Lake in 2013 as a Director. Previously, he worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Credit Suisse in San Francisco. Mr. Zhang graduated with distinction from the University of Western Ontario with a B.A. in Honors Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business

## 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.

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