Top 50 Web3 Angel Investors in Canada in October 2023
Top 50 Web3 Angel Investors in Canada in October 2023
| Investor | Web3 Canada investments |
|---|---|
| Meltem Demirors | 5 |
| William Mougayar | 3 |
| Balaji Srinivasan | 3 |
| Bryan Rosenblatt | 3 |
| Rasool Rayani | 2 |
| Mike Murchison | 2 |
| Mai Fujimoto | 2 |
| Matt Bellamy | 2 |
| Avichal Garg | 2 |
| Mark Pincus | 2 |
| Josh Nussbaum | 2 |
| Tinie Tempah | 2 |
| Steve Huffman | 2 |
| Anthony Sassano | 2 |
| Michael Dunworth | 2 |
| Kain Warwick | 2 |
| Jeff Morris Jr. | 2 |
| Lisa Shields | 1 |
| Robert Aron Zawiasa | 1 |
| Snow K. | 1 |
| David Zhao | 1 |
| Chris Gonsalves | 1 |
| David Zhang | 1 |
| Fred Ehrsam | 1 |
| Jason Kim | 1 |
| Lance Tracey | 1 |
| Jody Mulkey | 1 |
| Emile Dubie Dubie | 1 |
| Tobias Lütke | 1 |
| Aleksander Leonard Larsen | 1 |
| Bill Tai | 1 |
| Andrew Chau | 1 |
| Ian Logan | 1 |
| David Hariri | 1 |
| Satish Kanwar | 1 |
| Michael Katchen | 1 |
| Bill Crowley | 1 |
| Andrew Izyumov | 1 |
| Guillaume Laliberte | 1 |
| Deepak Jain | 1 |
| Khaled Verjee | 1 |
| Ben Davenport | 1 |
| Rachid Ajaja | 1 |
| David Dias | 1 |
| Aaron Henshaw | 1 |
| Luke Youngblood | 1 |
| Sebastien Borget | 1 |
| Owl eth | 1 |
| Sameer Mehta | 1 |
| Tarun Katial | 1 |
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Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, an investment firm that manages $750M in assets, and is a trusted partner to investors and entrepreneurs navigating the digital asset ecosystem. Meltem oversees the firm’s managed strategies group and its New York office, and leads corporate development as a board director. Previously, shewas part of the founding team of Digital Currency Group. She teaches at MIT and Oxford, and serves on the WEF Blockchain Council. Meltem leads CoinShares' venture strategy and is an active angel investor, having invested in over 150 companies in the digital currency ecosystem since 2015.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
- Freatic — We bridge the gap between individuals with untapped knowledge and actors who can take advantage of these opportunities.
- Ethos — Your home base for web3 on Sui. Easy to integrate in-dapp Sui wallet. Best way to onboard new crypto-curious users.
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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- Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Decrypt — The next-generation media outlet navigating the intersection of culture and technology.
- Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
- CryptoKitties — CryptoKitties is a mobile game that enables users to collect and breed virtual cats on the blockchain. The collectible, breedable, and adorable CryptoKitties aim to make blockchain technology accessible to everyday consumers by putting a furry face on the concept of digital collectibles.With each CryptoKitties unique 256-bit genome empower nearly4-billion potential genetic combinations.
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.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Induced AI — Induced AI works to automate browser tasks. It runs a cloud to complete manual tasks on a browser with human-like reasoning capabilities.
- Parallax — Receive money as if you were abroad. Save big with best rates and lowest fees. Withdraw instantly.
- Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
Bryan Rosenblatt (born July 4, 1989 in New York, New York, United States) is an American Venture Capitalist and entrepreneur. He is a Partner at Craft Ventures, a venture firm with over $2 billion AUM started by David Sacks. He is also a founder of Riverside Ventures, which he started in 2017, and a former executive at Reddit and Twitter. Hepreviously worked at Reddit as the Head of Sales. Bryan Rosenblatt attended the University of Connecticut School of Business and Charles University.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Retail
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
- Jomboy Media — We cover the topics we love, including sports, movies, songs, and history. If we can talk about it with enthusiasm, we've got a show for it.
- Underdog Fantasy — Fantasy sports for real money
Rasool is a serial entrepreneur with experience in the software, healthcare, and CPG industries. He continues to maintain his passion for technology as an active angel investor with a focus on b2b, consumer saas and health tech. Rasool maintains an active role with CEO’s as a board member, mentor and advisor. He currently serves on the boards ofthe Victoria Foundation, VIATEC, and Checkfront Software.
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- SaaS, Content, Cloud Computing
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Outway — Inspiring personal bests.
- Defined — Crypto DeFi data & infrastructure for pricing, charts, indexing, & custom APIs.
- Cognito Health — Canada's only integrated online mental health solution. Accessible and affordable treatment for your mental health. Book a free initial assessment today.
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.
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- Software, FinTech, Art
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Lancey — Lancey is an interactive demo builder designed for sales and marketing teams to grow pipeline and close deals.
- Shakepay — Shakepay allows Canadians to buy/sell bitcoin and pay their friends. We're on a mission to create open access to building wealth.
- Accord — Build your repeatable sales & onboarding process to hit growth targets. Collaborative. Transparent. Engaging. What customers love.
Mai Fujimoto is known domestically and internationally as Miss Bitcoin. She has been promoting the spread of Bitcoin around the world since 2011.
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- Blockchain, Marketplace, Art
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Canada, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- RSS3 — RSS3 structures open information for the next Twitter, Google, and OpenAI.
- DeHorizon — With the rapid growth of crypto space, recent developments have greatly facilitated GameFi in going mainstream. "Play to earn" is no longer a mere slogan, but has fully come into reality. Regardless of exponential growth, a common defect in GameFi marketplace is lack of a Metaverse Game Ecosystem to develop, connect and support more andmore blockchain-based games even built on different chains. We are still in the early stages of the evolution of GameFi. For the next stage, a Metaverse Game Ecosystem is essential to make GameFi go further. That is why DeHorizon comes.
- Brand New Vision — Brand New Vision is the digital fashion ecosystem that offers 3D Creation with styling for Fashion Brands and Designers to enter the Metaverse, Play, and Earn.
Matthew James "Matt" Bellamy (born 9 June 1978) is an English musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, pianist, and principal songwriter of rock band Muse. He is often recognized for his eccentric stage persona, wide tenor vocal range, and piano and guitar abilities.
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- Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MindPortal — The future of personal computing.
- Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
- Nobell Foods — Farm fresh animal-free cheese that melts, stretches, tastes, goozes, oozes, bubbles, pops, tingles, and everything else to make your brain explode.
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.
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- Software, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Pulley — Pulley has helped thousands of companies manage their cap table and equity. Onboard with us today.
- Soul Wallet — Soul Wallet is a smart contract wallet.
- Magrathea — Magrathea Metals is a mining company that unlocks centuries of growth in human civilization by reducing the socioenvironmental impacts.
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.
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- Internet, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Tract — Tract is the first for kids, by kids online community for student-directed learning. We are reimagining education by giving kids full control and making learning fun. We offer members (kids age 8+) unlimited on-demand courses (learning paths) and vibrant weekly live events, taught by our inspiring community of accomplished creators. Together, theyenable kids to develop passions through meaningful, real-world lessons giving them the skills and mindset to address 21st-century challenges and opportunities.Tract is based on TRICK, the philosophy pioneered by our co-founder Esther Wojcicki. Esther has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children from her award-winning student-run journalism program and is a mother of three successful women (CEO of YouTube, CEO, and founder of 23andMe, and top UCSF medical researcher) all by applying TRICK.TRICK stands for Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. These five pillars are at the core of Tract and our mission to empower all kids to become tomorrow's innovators, leaders, and global citizens.Our team is unified by Esther’s lifelong work to evolve education for the 21st century and comes from top Consumer and Education Technology companies (Uber, Microsoft, and Instracture).What We Believe:- The secret to getting kids interested in learning is giving them control - Kids are much smarter and capable than most people think - Successful people believe in themselves and aren’t afraid to take risks - Creative people with great passions don’t follow the rules - Current rates of depression and lack of career-readiness is a global epidemic - Our education system of standardization and obedience limits creativity and a growth mindset - Education is not equitable and the achievement gap is widening - We need a generation of community-minded global citizens to make the world a better place - Education that works for kids, not against them is the silver bullet for the world’s problems
- Spring Free EV — Fleet managers, high mileage, and gig drivers. No Personal Credit Required. Learn More About Spring Free EV Today! A Stress-Free, Quick, and Unbiased Process to Get You Into an Electric Vehicle. Pay As You Go.
- Bravado — An exclusive Sales Community for the Best Sales Professionals
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.
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- Blockchain, Internet, Software
- Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
- CryptoKitties — CryptoKitties is a mobile game that enables users to collect and breed virtual cats on the blockchain. The collectible, breedable, and adorable CryptoKitties aim to make blockchain technology accessible to everyday consumers by putting a furry face on the concept of digital collectibles.With each CryptoKitties unique 256-bit genome empower nearly4-billion potential genetic combinations.
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.
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- FinTech, Art, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.
Steve Huffman is the CEO of Reddit. He is a former co-founder and CTO at Hipmunk. Prior to founding Hipmunk, Steve founded the social news site Reddit in 2005 with his college roommate, Alexis Ohanian. Reddit has since grown into the largest social news site and one of the largest communities on the Internet. In 2010, Adam pulled Steve out ofretirement to start Hipmunk.
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- Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Agora — Simplify your compensation practices and effectively communicate total rewards to your people.
- Fathom — Records, transcribes & highlights the top moments from your calls. Sends automatically generated call notes to your CRM.
- JustPaid — Stay in control of your business with payments, AI-powered automation, benchmarking, contract tracking, opportunity alerts, and more, all in one platform.
Anthony Sassano is a Product Marketing Manager at Set Labs. He attended La Trobe University.
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- 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.
Michael Dunworth Formerly CRM Manager and Analyst at Midwinter Financial. Co-Founded FullSociety.com in 2011 and merged with TimeOut.com in 2012.
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- FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Wyre — Wyre is a developer of a blockchain-based payment platform designed to change the future of how international payments are done. The company's platform provides real-time payouts, same-day transfers, and direct-to-bank transfers, enabling businesses to move money across borders from country-to-country at a competitive foreign exchange rate.Wyre's business owners can easily create an account and send money to any person or business without worrying about high foreign exchange rates, hidden fees, complicated payout timing, and high payment fees. It also provides onramps and off-ramps, foreign exchange, and crypto liquidity to users of various crypto projects including decentralized exchanges.Wyre was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
- XMTP — Own and control your communication.
- Zapper — Your home to web3. Explore wallets, NFTs, DeFi, Daos and more...
Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft
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- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
- Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
- Polynomial — Trade DeFi options with highly efficient liquidity.
Jeff Morris Jr. is the Founder & Managing Partner at Chapter One.
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- Software, Productivity Tools, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Cord — Cord is everything you need to build amazing chat, commenting, and collaboration experiences.
- Bubbles — Bubbles is a collaboration tool that lets you tag anything on your screen and invite your teammates to discuss in-context. Get excited by organic growth and viral loops, and less so by paid advertising. Are active on one or more social platforms like Medium, Twitter, Product Hunt, etc.
- Syndicate — Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network.
Lisa Shields is FI.SPAN’s founder and CEO. FI.SPAN is Lisa’s second financial technology startup - she also founded and led Hyperwallet Systems Inc for 15 years; today it is recognized as a leading global payments processor for business to consumer mass payouts. She is a member of the Canadian FinPay Committee, was named the EY RegionalEntrepreneur Of The Year in 2015 and received a Women in Payments Innovation Award in 2016.A firm believer in inclusive commerce, Lisa is always looking for new ways to unite ecosystem participants for the benefit of end users. She also has a personal interest in the underbanked and speaks frequently and passionately on the importance of low-cost, compliant payments.
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- Software, Information Technology, Energy
- Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- MergeBase — MergeBase develops cyber defenses for vulnerable 3rd-party and open source components and libraries. MergeBase focuses on providing clients with robust security against the number one source of data breaches today: vulnerabilities in software components. Feel free to compete digitally by utilizing open source and commercial libraries. MergeBaseallows you to build securely on external software components.
- Neutronpay — Lightning Network Infrastructure API for Global Remittances, Payments, Spending, Payouts and Banking.
- Validere — Measure and capitalize on emission reductions while improving operations with all-in-one commodity & carbon management platform for oil and gas.
Robert Aron Zawiasa
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- Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Party.Space — Host stunning virtual parties, custom corportate celebrations & virtual events in metaverse for your team. Any scale 3D space for any kind of event!
- Mainstream Labs — Modular, end-to-end governance platform.
Snow K. is an advisor and board member of multiple DAO, Crypto and Internet projects. He invests in founders and vision first. Snow is the grandson of a fallen self made billionaire accused of being a dissident in his country. Born as a political refugee in Europe, Snow started life with nothing but the ambition to rebuild his own legacy.
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- Blockchain, FinTech, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- Everyrealm — Everyrealm is an immersive media company, specializing in technology and infrastructure that drives social, community-driven gaming experiences and platforms.
- Royal — Own music and earn royalties alongside artists, on Royal
- Mythical Games — We are Mythical Games, a Venture-backed next-generation game technology company at the intersection of video games and economics led by industry veterans.
David Zhao
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- Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Mainstream Labs — Modular, end-to-end governance platform.
Cofounder & CEO of Community Gaming
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- 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.
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
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- FinTech, Art, Social Media
- Pre-Seed, Series B, Series D
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Brex — Brex is all-in-one finance for growing businesses. It helps companies spend, save, and earn smarter—and take every dollar further—by doing more than a bank, bookkeeping, or reward program could ever do alone. After completing the Y Combinator accelerator program in 2017, Brex has grown to over 600 employees and raised over US$940 million in venturecapital.
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Koji — Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize.
Fred Ehrsam is co-founder of Coinbase. He's been named to both Forbes 30 Under 30 and TIME Magazine's 30 Under 30 Who Are Changing the World.Previously, he was a foreign exchange trader at Goldman Sachs in New York where he traded and managed Goldman’s electronic market making platform. Fred has also analyzed portfolios at BlackRock,the largest asset manager in the world and worked in nanostructures research. He holds a BS in Computer Science and Economics with honors and distinction from Duke University.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
- Wispr — Wispr AI is a developer of the next-generation of neural interfaces to provide seamless interface with immersive technology. The company is working with the leading neuroscientist, hardware engineers, machine learning researchers, and product engineers to bring frontier technology to the mass consumer market.
- Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript and Python dependencies.
Jason Kim
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- Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Mainstream Labs — Modular, end-to-end governance platform.
Lance Tracey
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- FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Finhaven — Finhaven, a company at the forefront of market innovation, is building new capital markets infrastructure for the issuance, investment, and trading of digital securities. Finhaven uses a powerful agent-based cryptographic ledger to mirror and improve upon the operational intricacies of securities exchanges, focusing on liquidity and security. Byusing a cryptographic ledger and the solutions-based features of blockchain, this hybrid-technology provides solutions for traditional market limitations to revolutionize capital market functions, for both global issuers and investors. By reducing operational transaction costs, converging intermediaries, providing custodianship, increasing efficiency, and providing real-time clearance and settlement solutions, Finhaven’s technology provides efficient, transparent transactions for raising capital and trading.Finhaven aims to see efficient, fair, and transparent market integration through new technologies and drive innovation in global capital markets.
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.
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- FinTech, Art, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Aspiration — Aspiration is an online financial firm that offers retail banking and investing services built for everyone. Aspiration delivers the financial products that people need in a consumer-focused model that empowers people to choose their fee and aligns the interests of Aspiration and its customers. The company donates a dime of every dollar it earns tohelp Americans that work to climb the ladder of opportunity while making it possible for its customers to choose to give a portion of their profits to a charitable cause of their choice.
- Stasis Labs — Stasis Labs has converted medical hardware into a big data, SaaS product with a cloud-connected vital signs monitoring platform. On average 80% of patients in emerging markets, and 60% of patients in developed countries have their vitals checked manually every 4-8 hours because existing monitoring systems are overly complex and cost prohibitive.Stasis was apart of the first cohort of 11 companies in Techstars Healthcare Accelerator, in Partnership with Cedars-Sinai. Stasis was recently awarded grant funding by the International Finance Corporation, a World Bank Group to help improve the medical technology of India. Currently, Stasis is live in Indian hospitals and continues to roll out their pilot program
Emile Dubie is a individual angel investor.
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- Other, Payments, Software
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Portals — Portals is a #DeFi yield and protocol aggregator for transaction bundling, any-to-any swaps, and real-time data
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.
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- 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.
Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.
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- 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.
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MicroTau — Solving human problems with nature’s surfaces.
- Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
- Fathom — Records, transcribes & highlights the top moments from your calls. Sends automatically generated call notes to your CRM.
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.
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- Apps, Software, Art
- Seed, Angel, 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!
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Sanzo — The 1st Asian-inspired sparkling water, Sanzo uses real fruit + no added sugars to deliver refreshing taste. Whether these flavors are a taste of home or a source of discovery, we're excited to bring you authentic flavors in the most delicious way we know how.
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.
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- Art, Apps, Mobile
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
David Hariri - Co-Founder @ Ada
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- Art, Apps, Mobile
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
Satish Kanwar is a VP of Product at Shopify, where he oversees strategic product initiatives for over 1 million merchants globally. Satish led Shopify’s formative expansion from online stores to multi-channel commerce, accelerating merchants' sales across eCommerce, brick-and-mortar, and new sales channels. Satish previously co-founded userexperience studio Jet Cooper, which was acquired by Shopify in order to establish its product development footprint in Toronto. Satish is an active angel investor, public speaker, and advisor.He attended the University of Toronto Scarborough.
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- Mobile Apps, FinTech, Art
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
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- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
- Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.
Founder & CEO. Entrepreneur, passionate about transforming investment management.
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- Health Care, FinTech, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
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!
- KEEP Labs — The Modern medicine Cabinet and Data Platform. We partner with healthcare organizations to improve patient adherence by integrating and augmenting their programs, not displacing them.
- Float — Spend, track, approve, and reconcile all your CAD and USD expenses in one platform. Corporate cards tied with intelligent spend management software.
Bill Crowley is the Senior Director of Product, Commerce Services and Payouts at Paypal.Bill Crowley attended Dalhousie University.
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- Bitcoin, Payments, Information Technology
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Neutronpay — Lightning Network Infrastructure API for Global Remittances, Payments, Spending, Payouts and Banking.
Andrey Izyumov
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- Software, SaaS, Transportation
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil, Canada, United States
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- Vezgo — Vezgo is the easiest way for people to connect their crypto accounts to your app.
- Approveit — Manage spend with ease and save hundreds of collective hours on editing payment data, sending approval emails, and looking for the right person to ask.
- Freedom Biosciences — Freedom Biosciences is a biotechnology platform developing next-generation psychedelic therapeutics.
Guillaume Laliberte - Founder & CEO @ Setter
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- Art, Apps, Mobile
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
Value Creator - People Oriented - Turnaround Champion - Cultural Integration Expert
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- Art, Gaming, eSports
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Khaled Verjee
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- 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.
Ben Davenport is The Venture Partner at Blockchain Capital.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Strattic — Headless and static WordPress has never been easier: host WordPress on Strattic and get a fast, secure and scalable headless and static site, in one click.
- Magic — Onboard users to your dApp with just an email, phone number, or social login. Multi-chain, highly scalable, and battle-tested.
- Culture Biosciences — Culture Biosciences develops automated bio-reactor that helps biotech companies optimize their manufacturing processes and brings products to market faster. The company also builds automated tools for fermentation. It has a digital bio-manufacturing platform to enable scientists to run, monitor, and analyze bio-reactors faster than traditionalapproaches by robotic sample handling and cloud data monitoring and analysis.Culture Biosciences was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Rachid Ajaja is the CEO and Co-Founder of AllianceBlock.
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- Information Technology, SaaS, Software
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada
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- Vezgo — Vezgo is the easiest way for people to connect their crypto accounts to your app.
- Genesis Shards — New marketplace for pre-IDO tokens on NFTs
David Dias is a individual angel investor.
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- Other, Payments, Software
- Seed
- Canada
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- Portals — Portals is a #DeFi yield and protocol aggregator for transaction bundling, any-to-any swaps, and real-time data
Aaron Henshaw is the Head of Engineering at Grand St.
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- Cryptocurrency, Infrastructure, Venture Capital
- Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Atomic Loans — Atomic Loans is a protocol for bitcoin and crypto-backed loans on your terms, without middlemen. By extending atomic swap technology, Atomic Loans enables users to interact with trustless, cross-chain debt agreements. We use the functionality of the native Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains to enable lending without requiring customers to delegatetrust to centralized custodians, ensuring their funds will never be stolen or seized.
- Credibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.
- Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.
Luke Youngblood
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- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Euler — Euler Labs is a software development and risk management company.
- Mainstream Labs — Modular, end-to-end governance platform.
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.
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- 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.
Owl.eth is a individual angel invetsor.
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- Other, Payments, Software
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Portals — Portals is a #DeFi yield and protocol aggregator for transaction bundling, any-to-any swaps, and real-time data
Sameer Mehta - Co-Founder & Chief product officer @ boAt
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- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India
Portfolio highlights
- Cultos — Cultos is an online platform that enables brands and creators to supercharge their rewards, loyalty, and influencer marketing with Web3.
- Floryo — Floryo asserts that it offers daily household essentials that are freshly made. The company currently offers more than 40 different types of freshly processed flour that have been tailored to fulfil functional nutrition standards.
- Wyld — India's first social currency payment card that let's every digital content creator monetize their social network. Use your WYLD card to purchase your favorite brands, post about it on Instagram and earn massive cashbacks in exchange. Got Instagram? Get WYLD!
With 20 years of experience in Indian media industry, Tarun is currently spearheading the task of establishing ZEE5 as the Numero Uno OTT brand in the country. He is credited with setting up the team and the business at ZEE5 and has worked across content, business, product, technology and data analytics monetisation to build the OTT brand into acohesive platform. He has also made investments in AI & ML and is the frontrunner for introduction of innovative features that attract and enhance user experiences, making ZEE5 a Single Entertainment Hub. During his career, Tarun worked with advertising agencies like Saatchi & Saatchi, Enterprise Nexus and Ogilvy & Mather, with television network companies like Star Network and Sony Entertainment Television as well as radio network 92.7 BIG FM.
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- Mobile, Retail, E-Commerce
- Seed
- India
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- Cultos — Cultos is an online platform that enables brands and creators to supercharge their rewards, loyalty, and influencer marketing with Web3.
- Macmerise — Buy funky & licensed superhero, cartoon, movie themed mobile back covers & cases, MacBook skins, headphones, phone chargers, car mounts online at Macmerise.
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