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Top 40 Retail Angel Investors in Canada in October 2023

A list of 40 angel investors that invest in Retail startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 40 Retail Angel Investors in Canada in October 2023

Investor Retail Canada investments
Tom Williams 3
Diplo (Thomas Pentz) 3
Russell Cook 2
Roham Gharegozlou 2
Harley Finkelstein 2
Jamie True 1
Simon Whitfield 1
Brenda Irwin 1
Dejana Dua 1
Matt Mullenweg 1
Suraj Gupta 1
Reetu Gupta 1
Mona Patel 1
Manny Bahia 1
Anna Sinclair 1
James Appleyard 1
Caroline Somers 1
Markus Frind 1
Ryan Holmes 1
Ben Narasin 1
Jonathan Ehrlich 1
Mike McCauley 1
Jordan Banks 1
Jon Claydon 1
Greg Kidd 1
Don Tapscott 1
Kevin Liles 1
Arlene Dickinson 1
Aubrey Graham (Drake) 1
Farhan Thawar 1
Arjun Sethi 1
Basem Hanna 1
Kevin Lin 1
Andreas Penna 1
Lev Ekster 1
Chris Rickett 1
Craig Hunter 1
Jason Green 1
Kevin Pan 1
Danny Zhang 1

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Tom Williams
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Tom Williams

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Unito — Connect the tools you're already using with deep 2-way integrations and optimize workflows for Asana, Jira, Trello, Google Sheets and more.
  • Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
  • NorthOne — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.
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Diplo (Thomas Pentz)
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States

Diplo is an investor of Thomas Wesley Pentz, born November 10, 1978, better known by his stage name Diplo, is a Grammy-nominated American DJ, music producer, rapper and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. He founded and manages record company Mad Decent, as well as co-founding the non-profit organization Heaps Decent. Amongother jobs, he has worked as a school teacher in Philadelphia. He is also the co-creator and lead member of the electronic dancehall music project, Major Lazer. His 2013 EP Revolution debuted at number 68 on the US Billboard 200.During his rise to fame, Diplo worked with British musician M.I.A., an artist who is credited with giving him exposure in his early career. Later, he and fellow M.I.A. producer Switch created a Jamaican dancehall project titled Major Lazer. Since then, Diplo has worked on production and mixtape projects with many other notable pop artists, such as Britney Spears, Beyoncé, No Doubt, Justin Bieber, Usher, Snoop Dogg, CL and G-Dragon. His alias, short for Diplodocus, derives from his childhood fascination with dinosaurs. He is the co-producer of several tracks on Madonna's 2015 album Rebel Heart (2015) and he collaborated with Skrillex to create the group Jack Ü.Source:

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Media and Entertainment, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Angel
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
  • CXIP Labs — Welcome to CXIP Labs, makers of Holograph, a multichain digital asset protocol.
  • Stationhead — Stationhead is the place for music fans around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together.
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Russell Cook
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Russell is the Co-Founder & President of FitOn, Founder of AllTrails (sold to Spectrum Equity), former SVP Operations / Angel Investor @ Postmates (sold to Uber) and former CTO of beRecruited (sold to The Raine Group). He studied electrical engineering, computer science and economics while attending Duke University.

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Investment focus

  • Food Delivery, Logistics, Delivery
  • Seed, Series C, Series D
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Pacaso — Pacaso offers second home buyers true property ownership. With our LLC ownership model, buyers co-own real estate. It's the modern way to own a second home.
  • Rain — Rain Instant Pay Earned Wage Access grants you a chance to get an advance on your salary before thepay date right into your bank account. Get your Salary Today!
  • Serve Robotics — Why move a 2-pound burrito in a 2-ton car? Meet Serve, the future of sustainable, self-driving delivery.
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Roham Gharegozlou
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Poland

Portfolio highlights

  • Cymbal — The human readable block explorer. Explore any wallet, NFT or collection to understand their activity, all in real time.
  • Bastion — Bastion blends the best of web2 and web3 technologies to broaden opportunities for organizations and their customers.
  • Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.
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Harley Finkelstein
Angel · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Harley Finkelstein is the Co-Founder of Firebelly Tea and the President of Shopify. He previously worked at C100 as a Board Member. Harley Finkelstein attended the University of Ottawa and Concordia University.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Resq — At ResQ, we're obsessed with simplifying the repairs and maintenance experience so you can focus on doing what you love. Talk to a ResQ Expert today!
  • 1Password — A password manager, digital vault, form filler and secure digital wallet. 1Password remembers all your passwords for you to help keep account information safe.
  • Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
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Jamie True
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

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.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Video, Retail
  • Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Reach7 — Reach7 is a Twitter & Instagram engagement platform used by global brands and agencies. Start targeting your social audience and reach your audience in any market with social translations. The Reach7 Platform enables advanced audience targeting and audience segmentation across any market. Our social campaigns bring the power of big socialdata directly to your fingertips. Our unique Reach7 Ranking let's you know who's most relevant to your campaign and when they should be engaged with. Professional Features: - FREE Social Campaigns: Add keywords, hashtags and competitors accounts to find the most relevant people to start segmenting audiences. - Advanced People Search: Filter your results by location, influencers and search across millions of biographies to quickly find the people most relevant to your campaign. - Full Online Footprint: View full contact details including all their online profiles. This means you can discover someone on Twitter and export their Linkedin, Facebook, Klout score and even work details. - Twitter Leads & Lists: Bringing quality results on a daily basis means you now have a full list of potential customers or followers that are engaged with your brand. By adding them to a list you can filter their content and activity to stay engaged longer and convert leads. - Instagram Content Discovery: Quickly becoming the most popular social network - Instagram support allows you to find the best content by adding keywords. Reach7 Instagram monitoring will find the best content and deliver it to you daily. - Social Translations: Languages is at the core of our platform allowing anyone to connect a localised social account and immediately start building a new audience in a foreign market with no teams on the ground. Founded in London in 2014, Reach7 is quickly growing into the go to platform for marketing professionals. Our unique technology is allowing businesses to expand their social reach into any market.
  • Smartzer — Easily create beautiful, shoppable interactive videos. Boost engagement, sales and collect in-depth analytics easily with Smartzer's software.
  • Salesfloor — Salesfloor clienteling & virtual sales tools for store associates enable personalized customer experiences online with live chat, video chat, e-mail & more.
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Simon Whitfield
Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Simon St. Quentin Whitfield (born 16 May 1975 in Kingston, Ontario) is a retired Olympic triathlon champion from Canada.

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Investment focus

  • Retail, Cycling, Consumer
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Vanhawks — How to make money, enjoy sports, improve personal finance, and enjoy apps
  • Social Nature — With Social Nature, people can try natural products for FREE in exchange for writing a product review on social media, #trynatural.
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Brenda Irwin
Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Brenda Irwin joined the Providence Health Care Board in 2012.Brenda is the founder of Angel Links Capital, managing investments for private investors across a range of sectors, including health and wellness. Previously, she was a venture capitalist for 13 years as a member of BDC Venture Capital’s life sciences team. Before entering the worldof finance, Brenda enjoyed a career as a middle school science teacher.Her other non-profit experience includes tenure as vice-president for the Take A Hike, Youth At Risk Foundation while it went through a decade of program growth and community expansion. She is dedicated to mentorship and finds time to explore British Columbia’s beauty when training for triathlons. Brenda has a BSc from the University of Guelph and an MBA from the University of British Columbia.

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Investment focus

  • Communities, SaaS, Music
  • Seed, Series A
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Vanhawks — How to make money, enjoy sports, improve personal finance, and enjoy apps
  • LUCID — LUCID curates and creates personalized therapeutic music using biometrics, psychometrics, and AI to improve mental health and wellness.
  • Social Nature — With Social Nature, people can try natural products for FREE in exchange for writing a product review on social media, #trynatural.
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Dejana Dua
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Partner

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Investment focus

  • Retail, Fashion, Shopping
  • Angel
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Apricotton — Comfy bras made for tween, pre-teen, and teen girls that are adjustable to a girl's body as she goes through puberty. The best bras, sports bras, bralettes, and scrunchies for girls in middle school and high school. Designed in Canada.
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Matt Mullenweg
Angel · Houston, Texas, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Liquid AI — Building AGI, AI as Service, Generative AI
  • NocoDB — Free & Open Source Airtable alternative. Turns any SQL database into a smart spreadsheet. Supports MySQL, Postgres, SQL server, MariaDB & SQLite.
  • Mindset Health — Mindset Health is a digital therapeutics company that helps people manage chronic health issues like irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety with app-based hypnotherapy.
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Suraj Gupta
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Suraj K. Gupta is the Co-Founder, President & CEO at Rogue Insight Capital Ltd. Suraj attended Columbia Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Retail, Fashion, Marketplace
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • THE LNK — Our mission: to empower independent brands to chase their dreams. By simplifying the buying process and bringing together fashion shoppers & artisans.
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Reetu Gupta
Angel · Markham, Ontario, Canada · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Reetu Gupta is the Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Rogue Insight Capital Ltd. Reetu attended the Schulich School of Business.

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Investment focus

  • Retail, Fashion, Marketplace
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • THE LNK — Our mission: to empower independent brands to chase their dreams. By simplifying the buying process and bringing together fashion shoppers & artisans.
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Mona Patel
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Mona Patel, Founder, Vasant Cosmetics.

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Investment focus

  • Retail, Fashion, Marketplace
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • THE LNK — Our mission: to empower independent brands to chase their dreams. By simplifying the buying process and bringing together fashion shoppers & artisans.
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Manny Bahia
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Manny Bahia - CRO @ Daily Hive

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Investment focus

  • Retail, Fashion, Marketplace
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • THE LNK — Our mission: to empower independent brands to chase their dreams. By simplifying the buying process and bringing together fashion shoppers & artisans.
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Anna Sinclair
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Anna Sinclair is an award-winning entrepreneur, early-stage investor and CEO of Total Mom Inc. She produced Canada’s largest holistic festival for moms called “The Total Mom Show” in partnership with some of North America’s largest brands. Recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Powerful Women In Canada, top 50 influential women leaders, and Womenof Influence, Anna has been featured in Forbes as a contributor and Business Council member.She grew a massive community network of moms juggling motherhood and business. This online e-learning education community platform helps women grow, start, and grow their businesses with a focus on growing social and financial capital through a profitable and sustainable business model.Today, Total Mom has an annual reach of 24M + in Canada & US. She supports ambitious founders through a community of 20k+ moms, making it known as one of the fastest-growing online professional networks of mom entrepreneurs. Her experience working with over 350+ brands gives her the knowledge and experience to touch any aspect of a project from top to bottom. She secured over 3 million in sponsorship dollars to date through her firm Sinclair Creative Agency Inc., where she advises both individuals and consumer lifestyle brands on branding and business strategy, content marketing, and asset development.

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Investment focus

  • Retail, Fashion, Shopping
  • Angel
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Apricotton — Comfy bras made for tween, pre-teen, and teen girls that are adjustable to a girl's body as she goes through puberty. The best bras, sports bras, bralettes, and scrunchies for girls in middle school and high school. Designed in Canada.
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James Appleyard
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

James Appleyard is an experienced technology investor and operator, with a desire to combine strong investment outcomes with human progress. Having spent the past decade helping build the fundraising technology company Artez Interactive into an international success, with presence in Canada, the U.S., Australia, and the U.K, the company'ssale in 2013 has enabled him to focus on supporting other entrepreneurs. A graduate of The London School of Economics and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, James has contributed to building a number of innovative companies and other organizations.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Machine Learning, B2B
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Hubba — Hubba is a software company that uses a combination of machine learning and personal curation to match brands with buyers. It also serves as a commerce network designed to empower independent companies to connect on business opportunities to grow their business.Hubba allows buyers to discover new products to meet their customer demands. Throughthis, brands get increased distribution for their products. Currently, Hubba powers over 75,000 small-medium businesses.It was founded in January 2011 and is based in Toronto, ON.
  • WatrHub — Citylitics is the marketplace data & intelligence platform for Infrastructure Industries such as water, transportation, and energy.
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Caroline Somers
Angel

Caroline Somers - Chair @ Capital Angel Network

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Investment focus

  • Retail, Fashion, Shopping
  • Seed, Angel
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Granite Networks — Granite Networks is committed to respecting the privacy of individuals and recognizes the need of people with whom we do business, clients, customers, and employees for the appropriate management and protection of any Personal Information that you agree to provide to us.
  • Rent frock Repeat — Get $25 off your subscription clothing box by using my unique discount code: refebcf51bbb1db3
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Markus Frind
Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Markus Frind

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Investment focus

  • Retail, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Cymax Group Technologies Ltd. — The Cymax Group of brands offers unparalleled knowledge of the complete eCommerce experience gained through years of building a platform that serves manufacturers, retailers and end-consumers. We're transforming eCommerce with a complete and scalable online platform that provides seamless customer acquisition, merchandising and logisticscapabilities.With technology solutions built to make eCommerce simple, we function as a powerful supply chain management solution for organizations of all sizes. Our suite of products provides the most mature solution available to support the entire end-to-end eCommerce cycle.
  • Symend — Symend’s digital engagement platform uses behavioral science and data-driven insights to empower customers to resolve past due bills. Leveraging advanced analytics, Symend helps enterprises better engage millions of customers by providing deep insight into consumer behavior. Symend continuously optimizes these insights and empathetically nudgescustomers towards a desired action with personalized communications, self-serve tools and flexible repayment options. Symend’s relationship-based approach keeps enterprises attuned to the changing needs of their customers and empowers them to take action. This increases customer satisfaction, lowers operating costs, and helps resolve past due bills before reaching collections. Founded in 2016, Symend’s platform is purpose built to serve complex global enterprises in telecommunications, financial services, utilities and media. Symend is headquartered in Calgary and privately held, with global operations across Canada, the United States and Latin America. For more information, please visit https://symend.com/ and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
  • Tastry, Inc. — Tastry wine AI provides unparalleled visibility for winemakers and retailers into your wine's chemistry and how consumers will perceive it. Learn more here.
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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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Ben Narasin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Ben Narasin is the Founder and General Partner at Tenacity Venture Capital. He attended International Christian University, Babson College, and Harvard University.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Software, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

  • SoleSavy — Get tools and resources to grow your sneaker collection without paying resell, and join a tight-knit sneaker community you can trust.
  • Vendelux — AI-Powered Event Intelligence Platform with speaker, sponsor and attendee data covering over 50,000 trade shows and conferences
  • ProductWind — ProductWind is the only retail influencer marketing platform that helps enterprise brands drive social content, SEO and reviews to ramp online retail sales faster.
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Jonathan Ehrlich
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Jonathan is a Venture Partner at Foundation Capital.Jonathan joined Foundation Capital as an EIR in January, 2013. Prior to Foundation, Jonathan co-founded Utah Street Labs, a Foundation portfolio company. Mr. Ehrlich was previously the Director of Marketing at Facebook. From November 2003 until 2007 he was the Executive Vice-President, Onlineat Indigo Books & Music Inc. (TSE: IDG), Canada's largest book retailer, where he was responsible for that company's Online business. Prior to joining Indigo, Mr. Ehrlich was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mosaic Venture Partners and before that was a Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing for MobShop Inc, a pioneer in Online eCommerce. MobShop was funded by GE Capital, Visa International, Mayfield Fund and Marc Andreessen. His previous business experience also includes several years at CYBERplex interactive media and MacLaren McCann advertising.He holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business and a BA in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Klue — Klue is a competitive intelligence platform that enables product marketers to collect, curate, and deliver competitive intelligence across every department of every business.
  • Properly — Properly is your hassle-free partner to buy and sell homes in Canada.
  • Luxury Presence — Luxury Presence helps realtors thrive online with beautiful, award winning real estate agent websites and marketing. Trusted by 20+ of the WSJ Top 100 agents.
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Mike McCauley
Angel

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.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Consumer Goods, Apps
  • Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Reebee — Reebee is the simplest way to browse your flyers.FEATURES INCLUDE:- Current Flyers - An up to date section illustrating deals you can access in store TODAY!- Upcoming Flyers - A sneak preview of deals soon to come.- Location Services - Only relevant flyers from your area are displayed.- Message Us - This app was built for you, we wouldlove to hear what you think!
  • CareGuide — We believe good people deserve the best care. Connect with housekeepers, nannies, pet sitters, and elder \ care providers with ease. Trusted and secure.
  • Tulip Retail — Set a new standard for omnichannel retail with a suite of cloud-based solutions built to help create outstanding customer experiences.
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Jordan Banks
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jordan Banks is the Co-Founder at Thunder Road Capital. Jordan Banks attended York University - Osgoode Hall Law School.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • More Labs — smart supplements for people who want more out of life
  • Integrate.ai — Integrate.ai enables your federated machine learning and analytics roadmap. Valuable data is becoming harder to access. Grow your business by building new product features that harness the collective intelligence of your customers' data.
  • 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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Jon Claydon
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Jon Claydon

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, App Marketing
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Zumo — Digital assets platform engineered with a focus on compliance and sustainability. Get in touch to learn more.
  • Be Nosy — Nosy is wearable tech with data play that helps you breathe purified air anywhere at any time. Our state of the art patented technology developed by former Dyson engineers is more effective at protecting you from pollution, viruses and allergens than any other solution in the market. While our particles and breathing sensor technology will help youknow exactly what is going into your body.
  • Togather — Create your event on Togather, the UK's most trusted events booking platform, choose from our roster of over 1,500 of the best and most passionate creators...
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Greg Kidd
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Believer that ones identity credentials should be truly portable and owned by individuals themselves rather than corporations or governments. The trade-off between security and privacy can meet the needs of both traditional institutions worried about compliance and risk, but also consumer protection advocates who care about the underserved andunderbanked.Adviser/Investor via hardyaka.com for numerous startups in the exchange space including Shift, Ripple and 3taps, and previously Square and Twitter. Previously a director at Promontory Financial and a senior analyst for payments at The Board of Governor of the Federal Reserve. Senior Associate at Booz Allen. Founded and took Dispatch Management Services Corp public on the NASDAQ. Have worked as an instructor/leader for Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership School.Specialties: Portable identity, digital currencies and exchange markets for goods, services, and information with functional emphasis on messaging, payments, and reputation/trust/risk. Well versed in visualizations for risk reporting and controls.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Mobile, Payments
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

  • Aeldra — Exclusive U.S. Banking for Indians. Open a U.S. bank account in 10 minutes from India if you have an Indian Passport. Visa, Social Security Number or U.S. Address not required. Get a Mastercard Global Debit Card and a cutting-edge Mobile Banking App. Aeldra is the first neo-bank offering cross-border banking to Indians. Indians can now apply for a U.S. Bank Account with a Mastercard Debit Card from India using their Indian Passport. Using revolutionary technology based on Machine Learning Aeldra has proprietary KYC, Risk Management and Info Security capabilities to be in compliance with U.S. & Indian regulations as well as meeting the highest standards of safety and security. Aeldra's mission is to democratize global banking by providing seamless access to all. Indian citizens can open a U.S. bank account from home, and manage the account through an intuitive App.
  • Zolve — Best neo bank in India offering international banking & financial services online. Apply for a US bank account, credit card & student education loan with Zolve!
  • Tribe — Tribe is a global blockchain ecosystem builder that connects startups and tech talents with leading opportunities. By working closely with organizations including blockchain protocols, corporates, governments, startups, and developer communities, it strives to power the next wave of talents and companies' leap from Web2 to Web3. Some ofTribe's official partners include Enterprise Singapore, Pfizer, HSBC, Infineon Technologies, IMDA, BMW Group Asia, ConsenSys, IBM, Intel, Nielsen, PwC, R3, and Temasek amongst others. For more information, please visit https://tribex.co/
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Don Tapscott
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Don Tapscott, CEO of The Tapscott Group, is one of the world’s leading authorities on the impact of technology on business and society. He has authored 16 books including Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything which has been translated into over 25 languages.Don has been advancing ground-breaking concepts for over 3 decades. His1992 bestseller Paradigm Shift helped coin the seminal management concept, and in 1995 his book The Digital Economy changed business thinking about the transformational nature of the Internet. Two years later he helped popularize the terms “Net Generation” and “the Digital Divide” in Growing Up Digital.Don’s most recent and perhaps most ambitious book is co-authored with his son, startup CEO and bitcoin governance expert Alex Tapscott. Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology behind bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World has been a bestseller in Canada since its release in May 2016, and has been featured in nearly every major publication in North America since then. Blockchain Revolution is also in the process of being translated into 12 languages. In 2015, Don became a member of the Order of Canada, and was ranked the 4th most influential management thinker in the world by Thinkers50. He is Adjunct Professor at the Rotman School of Management, an Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and Chancellor of Trent University in Ontario.It is hard to imagine anyone who has been more prolific, profound, and influential in explaining today’s technological revolutions and their impact on the world.

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Investment focus

  • Retail, Shopping, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A
  • Canada, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • SHOP.CA — SHOP.CA is the first multi-merchant marketplace built for Canadians, and managed by Canadians.In June of 2012 the site launched and now has millions of products, across 28 categories, and includes over 5000 brands.SHOP.CA provides Canadians with the brands, products and services they need and want from trusted retailers, manufacturers andservice providers, all through one universal shopping cart and one account. Through a cloud based Marketplace-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform, SHOP.CA makes it easy for approved partners to list, price and sell their products and services they have online and/or offline to Canadians, through a single destination.By integrating social elements into the eCommerce platform and user experience, SHOP.CA engages and rewards Canadians for every purchase and for social activities that lead to purchases.
  • Forkast.News — Covering stories of blockchain and emerging technology at the intersection of business, economy, and politics. From Asia, to the world.
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Kevin Liles
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Kevin Liles, CEO, and Co-Founder at 300 Entertainment. He attended Morgan State University.

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Investment focus

  • Music, Retail, Fashion
  • Series A, Seed
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Burb — Burb is a cannabis culture brand with retail stores serving the Greater Vancouver Area. Shop Burb's latest ready-to-wear and accessories online. Secure & Easy Checkout with fast worldwide shipping.
  • Stationhead — Stationhead is the place for music fans around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together.
  • Creative Intell — Real education for the real music business
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Arlene Dickinson
Angel · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Dickinson, owner and CEO of Venture Communications, a company she grew from a small, local firm to one of the largest independent agencies in Canada, is also the CEO of District Ventures and Youinc.com. Companies all aimed at helping market, fund and grow entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial companies. She is a two times best-selling author,accomplished speaker and is best known to Canadians as one of the venture capitalists on the award-winning CBC series’ Dragons’ Den.

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, Health Care, Wellness
  • Angel, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Aku Spike — Aku delivers a high-end self acupressure experience anywhere, anytime. Stress relief, relaxation, and treatment for sore back, neck aches, joint pain and more.
  • Vertiball — The precision massager that makes your back accessible in a way like never before. Our patent pending suction mounting system to mount onto walls and other flat surfaces. The technology allows you to place the device at specific heights giving you complete control over your sore, tense muscles.
  • PilotsFriend West — Precision crafted by bio-scientists and nutritionists, originally made for active duty jet pilots, PilotsFriend is a vitalizing energy tonic that promotes optimal concentration, performance, and health.
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Aubrey Graham (Drake)
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Aubrey Graham (Drake) is the Founder of OVO Sound.

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Investment focus

  • eSports, Shopping, Gaming
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
  • Bullrider — There's cannabis then there's Bullrider. Legacy in the making since 2004. Cannabis dispensary selling and delivering legal weed in Brampton, Canada from 67 Shelby Road.
  • StatusPro — StatusPro is a sports technology company that combines data with augmented and virtual reality to provide a suite of training and gaming products.
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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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Arjun Sethi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Arjun Sethi is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and executive, as well as a Co-Founder of Tribe Capital.Tribe Capital is a top-quartile venture capital firm focused on capturing a perpetual edge in venture and crypto using artificial intelligence and data science. Some of its noteworthy investments include Apollo.io, Carta, Docker, Kraken,Relativity Space, and Shiprocket.Arjun was previously a Partner at Social Capital where he led the Venture Team consisting of six full time GPs with a broad focus on early stage investing in the consumer and enterprise sector. Arjun has a long history of sourcing, winning and leading early stage deals. Arjun’s investments at Social Capital include notable companies such as Front, Carta, Swarm (Sold to SpaceX), Slack, Cloud Kitchens and Relativity Space. Arjun's track record includes being recognized as one of the top 100 angels in Silicon Valley through advisory, direct, and secondary investments across various stages. He has invested in high-profile names such as Frax, Snapchat, Lyft, OpenDoor, and Gusto. Prior to his work in venture, Arjun co-founded and sold two successful companies. After his second company, MessageMe, was acquired by Yahoo, he joined the executive team, where he was instrumental in driving mobile product usage from 100M to 1B monthly uniques and was a Board Observer on Alibaba. Before that, Arjun was the Founder and CEO of LOLapps, a mobile gaming company that grew to 100M monthly users and sold for $240M.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • DAOLens — Tasks, Proposals, Bounties, and Payouts in one place
  • Questbook — Discover Opportunities in Web 3.0 and Earn in Crypto
  • Sleek — Sleek is a FREE browser extension that offers seamless checkout from every store on the internet AND gives you up to 25% cash back when shopping online.
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Basem Hanna
Angel · Mississauga, Ontario, Canada · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Basem Hanna is the Founder, Chairman, President & CEO. He previously worked at Ledn Inc. as an Advisor. Basem Hanna attended Ivey Business School at Western University.

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Investment focus

  • Retail, Fashion, Marketplace
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • THE LNK — Our mission: to empower independent brands to chase their dreams. By simplifying the buying process and bringing together fashion shoppers & artisans.
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Kevin Lin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months

Lin is the COO of Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. He was instrumental in the 2011 launch of the platform when he joined Justin.tv in 2008. His role included attracting the site’s largest broadcasters and building out the partnership team among other activities which have helped grow the Twitch brand.Currently more than 100 million gamers gather every month on Twitch to broadcast live video, watch and chat about gaming, making the platform an industry leader.

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
  • Blacktop Hoops — Blacktop Hoops is a streetball-inspired multiplayer VR basketball game. Chain together flashy dribble tricks, shots, and high-flying dunks to finish off AI opponents or players across the globe in epic streetball matches.
  • Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.
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Andreas Penna
Angel · Miami Beach, Florida, United States

Andreas Penna - Co-Founder & General Partner @ West Quad Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Mobile Apps, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Bonsai — Bridging content and commerce. Bonsai brings together products people love and the content they can't get enough of.
  • Rain — Rain Instant Pay Earned Wage Access grants you a chance to get an advance on your salary before thepay date right into your bank account. Get your Salary Today!
  • Public — Invest in stocks. Learn from others. Public lets you invest in stocks with any amount of money and see what others invest in.
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Lev Ekster
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Lev Ekster is the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Bowlero Corporation . Lev Ekster attended New York Law School.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Lifestyle
  • Seed, Series A, Series D
  • United States, Canada, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

  • Tributi — Tributi is a Colombian fintech start-up backed by Y Combinator. It is drastically reducing tax compliance friction for individuals in Latin America by automating tax filing preparation.
  • Elroy Air — Expanding the reach of express logistics via aerial cargo systems - safely, efficiently and autonomously.
  • cadence — The next generation of refillable travel containers for your personal care and toiletries. Patent-pending, leakproof and highly durable capsules made from recycled ocean-bound plastic. Sustainable and easy to use.
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Chris Rickett
Angel

Chris Rickett, co-founder of Digital Main Street.

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Investment focus

  • Retail
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • GoodGood — GoodGood is creating a better kind of local commerce, helping neighborhoods discover specialty treats, niche beverages, and your next oh-my-god-I'm-obsessed favorite craft items.
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Craig Hunter
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

CEO at Dwelling.co, angel investor in 60+ companies. Previously was early Uber (first 50), first GM at Ritual ($160m+ raised), CEO at Bitmaker (acquired by General Assembly), and VP Growth @ ChefHero ($12m+ raised).

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Investment focus

  • Retail, Lifestyle, Home Decor
  • Seed, Series A
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Aside — Aside is the company that builds cloud-based platforms. Daffy Charitable is its first not-for-profit community platform.
  • Fable — Fable Home dinnerware brings people together for love, laughter, and storytelling by delivering gorgeous cutlery, tableware, and glassware at affordable prices.
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Jason Green
Angel · San Mateo, California, United States

Jason Green is a Founder and General Partner at Emergence Capital. He was a Member of Board of Directors at Yammer. He attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
  • Series B, Series C, Series A
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Zippedi — zippedi is a artificial intelligence for retail industry.
  • G2 — G2 is a platform to share business software reviews in real-time. It leverages more than 1.3 million user reviews to drive better purchasing decisions. G2 is used by business professionals, buyers, investors, and analysts to select the best software and services based on peer reviews and synthesized social data.The company was founded in 2012 andis based out of Chicago, Illinois.
  • Oyster — Hire, pay, manage, and take care of your globally distributed team with confidence. Try Oyster for free today!
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Kevin Pan
Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China

"Kevin Pan is an Associate of Sequoia Capital China. Prior to joining Sequoia in 2006, Kevin was a Vice President with China International Capital Corporation Ltd. (CICC), the leading investment bank in China. Kevin was involved in global and domestic equity offerings, M&A and financial advisory services. Prior to his investment bankingcareer, Kevin worked with the Private Equity Group of CICC. Kevin holds an MA and two BA degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University." (Source:

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Investment focus

  • Retail, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods
  • Series A
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • ShopperPlus — ShopperPlus is an e-commerce platform selling office supplies, electronics, lifestyle, kitchen utensils, and various other categories. The platform tailors targeted product recommendations based on individual purchase patterns and seasonality, with more than 30 percent of goods produced in Canada. Besides providing 24-hour customer support, thecompany also ensures that all orders filed before 2 p.m. are shipped on the same day, guaranteeing next-day delivery for at least half of its customers.
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Danny Zhang
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

believer and executor of data-centric, metrics-driven engineering developmentmath/science ==> profitable productdeliver; deliver; deliver.Specialties: 1) c++ / java / perl / python2) search / search advertising platform (E2E) / hadoop / data pipeline / linear optimization / solr /lucene3) no life, when I am at work;4) no work, when I am enjoying my life.

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Investment focus

  • Retail, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Lifo — We empower creators
  • ShopperPlus — ShopperPlus is an e-commerce platform selling office supplies, electronics, lifestyle, kitchen utensils, and various other categories. The platform tailors targeted product recommendations based on individual purchase patterns and seasonality, with more than 30 percent of goods produced in Canada. Besides providing 24-hour customer support, thecompany also ensures that all orders filed before 2 p.m. are shipped on the same day, guaranteeing next-day delivery for at least half of its customers.
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