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ID 30964

Andy Yang

Investor

COO @500px | Formerly at @extremestartups @relay-ventures @chegg. @netflix. @thomas-weisel-partners. @goldman-sachs. @accenture. | @ChicagoBooth @university-of-california-berkeley.

ID 70148

Jesse Rasch

Investor

Entrepreneur, Investor, Venture Philanthropist.
http://www.hedgewood.com/archived_essays.html

ID 11694

Sundeep Madra

Investor

Investor in @chango, @fixmo, @kontagent, @rypple, @bumptop, @xtreme-labs, Local Response, @guardly, @influitive, @locationary, @top-prospect, Uken Games and @well-ca

ID 101718

Daniel Craig Stuart

Investor

Founder @gonabit • Worked at @livingsocial, @adgear • Investor @dash, @flashprops • Studied at @university-of-toronto, @wilfrid-laurier-university
http://www.danstuart.me

ID 1204

JS Cournoyer

Investor

Partner at @real-ventures Entrepreneur angel investor husband father of 5 hockey player http://jscournoyer.com
http://www.jscournoyer.com

ID 3074

Jennifer Lum

Investor

Cofounder @adelphic, Investor, Mentor.

ID 66809

Andrew D'Souza

Investor

President @bionym • Former COO @top-hat • Worked at @mckinsey-company, @top-prospect • Investor @tulip-retail • Studied at @university-of-waterloo

ID 2934

Mark Organ

Investor

Marketing technology entrepreneur, CEO of @influitive, co-founder of @eloqua.

ID 29163

Daniel Debow

Investor

co-founder @rypple, sold to Salesforce. co-founder Workbrain, sold to Infor. co-founder Creative Destruction Lab. SVP @salesforce.

ID 41872

Ryan Craver

Investor

Hudson's Bay/Lord & Taylor executive fascinated by the intersection of retail and technology. Snapchat: ryanmcraver

ID 180363

Austin Hill

Investor

Entrepreneur, VC, Angel Investor, Mentor, World Changer, WEF Tech Pioneer, TED Speaker

ID 78013

Dave Johnson

Investor

Co-founder/CTO @nitobi-software (acq'd by @adobe). Worked on @phonegap-1 and @robotreplay (acq'd by @foresee-results). PhD, investor, father, and lover of beer.

ID 215920

Marat Mukhamedyarov

Investor

Angel Investor @YAI, @GTAN; Managing partner @MogulCapital

ID 43744

Albert Lai

Investor

Serial Entrepreneur. Recently: Big Viking Games/co-founder/ceo, Kontagent/co-founder (Analytics). Sold: @bubbleshare (Disney), MyDesktop (WebMediaBrands).
http://simplyalbert.blogspot.com

ID 113792

Dean McCall

Investor

Venture Advisor, CEO, tech catalyst, innovator, foodie, music aficionado, and passionate startup guy who thrives on meeting people and helping startups kick ass

ID 89014

Tanveer Ali

Investor

Founded Opening Bell Investments ('04), Advisor for Avarice Investments (since '06), BA PoliSci '09 Waterloo, 10+ yrs VC/Angel exp

ID 46092

Victor Belfor

Investor

B2B SaaS GTM Strategy (marketing, BD, sales). Former head of BD @ringcentral. Investor and head of BD @influitive Mentor @500startups Studied at Wharton http://about.me/vbelfor
http://vbelfor.weebly.com

ID 19260

Nabil Kassam

Investor

Managing Director at Zynik Capital Corp. • Founder & Executive Chairman at @noble-iron & Texada Software Inc. • Studied at @harvard-university University & @stanford-graduate-school-of-business

ID 84378

Jaiveer Singh

Investor

Director, @mint-pharmaceuticals-inc General Partner, @medina-singh-partners, LLC Studied @carnegie-mellon-university, Columbia MBA

ID 76902

Jonathan Ehrlich

Investor

Partner at Foundation Capital.

ID 1814

Chris Maeda

Investor

CEO Brick Street Software. EVP/CTO KANA Software. co-Founder / CTO Rubric Software (sold to KANA). @carnegie-mellon-university CS PhD. MIT VI-3. Former lispm hacker.
http://blog.cmaeda.com/

ID 72625

Jennifer E. Byrne

Investor

President, Quesnay. Former VP @american-express mcommerce; Exec @verizon led innovation, BD, & applications ecosystem. Investor: @vouchr, @lettuce, & CareatHand

ID 128404

Alkarim Nasser

Managing Partner at BNOTIONS. Investor, Product Design, Business Development, Digital Strategy. Focused on the emerging tech space.

ID 19554

Jimmy Dinh

Investor

Strategy/CorpDev, BD & Product Leader. Mobile Payments & Digital Commerce Exec. Capital Markets Innovation at CIBC World Markets. Ex- Head of Emerging Payments and Digital Commerce at Loblaws. Ex-MasterCard, ex-AOL, ex-eBay, ex-Nokia. Active Angel.

ID 190786

Craig Morantz

Investor

Founder @aware-marketing-group • Worked at @shifthub, @polyconcept-north-america • Investor @shifthub, @mavensay
http://www.gotomarketguy.com

ID 204758

Nilesh Bansal

Investor

Founder @sysomos • Studied at @University of Toronto

ID 186553

Darrell MacMullin

Investor

@DMACMullin Modern Gentleman, Investor, Troublemaker, & thrives on continuous innovation. http://www.darrellmacmullin.com
http://darrellmacmullin.tumblr.com

ID 105399

David Arnsdorf

Investor

Co-Founder, @neverblue-media., bootstrapped to mid 8 figures rev in 4 years then exited. Angel Investor.

ID 57601

John-Paul Gallo

Investor

Entrepreneur, Investor

ID 61485

Nicholas Eisenberger

Founder, @pure-energy-partners, a cleantech special forces outfit. 20yr+ cleantech investor & entrepreneur. Fmr advisor to Immelt on ecomagination. Harvard Law

ID 139645

Keir Reynolds

Investor

Exec. Chairman and Co-founder of LX Ventures. We build businesses by launching, integrating and acquiring early-stage, high-growth technology companies.

ID 1929

Jonas Brandon

Investor

Cofounder of StartupNorth (@startupnorth), Captual (acq by @desire2learn). Seed investor in GoInstant (acq by @salesforce) and more!
http://www.startupnorth.ca

ID 55818

Farhan Thawar

Investor

Investor in @xtreme-labs.

ID 28809

Motek Sherman

Investor

A lawyer by training + an early adopter by nature = a savvy, engaged angel

ID 11456

Joseph Fung

Investor

CEO of @tribehr (Sold to NetSuite 2013), CEO of @lewis-media (Sold 2009), CEO @onmyblock-ca, and Co-Founder @simple-machines-forum. UWaterloo Computer Engineer.
http://www.josephfung.ca

ID 20349

Jesse Rodgers

Investor

Director, Creative Destruction Lab @ Rotman; Founded, @tribehr; big fan of the Waterloo/Toronto community; built VeloCity; like early stage startups + Canada.
http://whoyoucallingajesse.com

ID 38136

Mike McDerment

Investor

Founder & CEO Freshbooks. Founder mesh conference.

ID 231570

Afif S. Khan

Investor

Entrepreneur. Partner/owner in several businesses, looking to invest in start ups.

ID 44900

Nick Koudas

Investor

Professor at @university-of-toronto; co-founder os Sysomos, worked at AT&T Research, Columbia University

ID 100232

Mark Bridges

Investor

Partner at @greenowl-mobile. Investor in mobile startups. Extensive corporate M&A and international experience.

ID 12725

Glenn Graff

Investor

K2 & Associates Investment Management Inc. & Angel Investor

ID 42402

Ryan Milnes

Investor

Founder @close-com, @cosmic-development • Investor @skycatch, @rumble-com @layer @geeklist

ID 32868

Dominic Bortolussi

Investor

Founder: @the-working-group @postageapp-2, Investor: @Greengage Mobile @omx @OrganicsLive @BigTerminal @rayku @rocketr @shoplocket

ID 95470

George Babu

Investor

Tech Startup Exec, Advisor, Investor

ID 10844

Derek Szeto

Investor

Founder @redflagdeals • Worked at @yellow-pages-group • Investor @year-one-labs, @sky-motion-research • Studied at @queen-s-university

ID 16860

Craig Follett

Investor

CEO & Co-founder @uniiverse, the social marketplace for events. Top ranked analyst at @bcg and @credit-suisse's tech practices. Rock climbing enthusiast.

ID 78146

Peter Evans

Investor

CEO, Co-Founder at ExpertFile

ID 10951

Mike Silagadze

Investor

CEO of @top-hat.

ID 167770

Andrew Wright

Investor

Worked at @apple, @microsoft • Investor @leanplum, @pinnatta • Studied at @queen-s-university

ID 68798

Richard Reiner

Investor

Entrepreneur, Executive, & Investor focused on Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, IT Security, and IT Infrastructure.

ID 49550

Peter Carrescia

Investor

Advisor to early stage technology companies. Experienced VC with prior operational roles at IBM and @microsoft

ID 45125

Randall Howard

General Partner at VERDEXUS, a Venture 2.0 boutique providing hands on investments by serial executives.
http://RandallJHoward.com

ID 220701

Tony Cohen

Investor


ID 171664

Cory York

Investor

Founded two startups: GCI Network out of Mumbai that operates in the giftcard space, and PowerStores a SAAS do it yourself digital commerce platform for SMB's.

ID 198263

Ameet Shah

Investor

Co-Founder of Five Mobile (acquired by Zynga), Director of Zynga Toronto. Startup mentor, advisor and investor.

ID 401800

Jon Lax

Investor

It's a daily operation

ID 22633

Brice Scheschuk

Investor

Investor in @braveinvestment, @globalive, @windmobile, @keek, @pragmatic, @locationary, @varicent, @sambadays, @brockview, @surfeasy, @millstreet, @whir, @pitchpoint

ID 4854

Joel Auge

Investor

CEO of @fan-si, CEO of @hitgrab Inc., CEO of @social-stork Inc. High-school drop-out. Toured in a rock band for 4 years... straight.
http://joelauge.tumblr.com

ID 34987

Jeff Robinson

Investor - Advisor - Mentor - Author - http://about.me/jeffreyrobinson
http://contrariansmind.wordpress.com/

ID 60133

Rubsun Ho

Investor

Partner, Cognition LLP

ID 89956

Benjamin Sigler

Investor

Director of Business development at @goldseal-management

ID 509035

Sean Wise

Investor

15 years as a VC, 30 as a founder, 5 on Dragons' Den.

ID 28603

Daren Trousdell

Investor

I recently left my life in advertising to get closer to the consumer by building cool stuff. Now I’m the CEO of @oneup-games-1.

ID 263548

JP Rosevear

Investor

VP Engineering Polar Mobile. Past Waterloo, Ximian #13, Novell/SuSE, Mozilla. Experienced engineering leader. Grows teams, scales process and ships software.

ID 199154

Chris Carder

Investor

Founder @kinetic-cafe

ID 261426

Sean Shapcott

Investor

After selling my company in 2011 I took some time off and spent it with family. Now I'm recharged with a new big idea and going all in again.

ID 217037

John Huang

Investor


ID 34552

Brian Sharwood

Investor

Formerly, President, @homestars SeaBoard Group, Think Forward, Babson Entrepreneurship Alum

ID 28426

Jason Zan

Investor

Senior Director, Rogers Ventures. Board Member, @scribble-technologies & @gridcentric

ID 42318

Satish Kanwar

Investor

Director at @shopify. Previously Co-Founder at @jet-cooper (Acquired in August 2013).
http://www.sati.sh

ID 674452

David Sax

Investor

Journalist and author (Businessweek, NYTimes, Saveur), investor in early stage startups with Julmi, a family investment company based in Toronto.

ID 71332

Gerard Buckley

Founder @jaguar-capital-inc • Worked at @scotiabank, @scotia-capital • Investor @shiny-ads, @medrunner-health-solutions-inc • Studied at @university-of-toronto, @university-of-western-ontario
http://www.itbusiness.ca/author/gbuckley

ID 23331

Christian Lassonde

Investor

Founder @millions-of-us, @virtual-greats • Worked at @the-next-36, @lucasarts • Investor @kira-talent-1 • Studied at @university-of-western-ontario, @university-of-san-francisco

ID 7989

Laurent Feral-Pierssens

Investor

Founder and CEO of @silentale. Computer Science and Mathematics at @mcgill-university

ID 12299

Ben Zlotnick

Investor

Founder & CEO of INcubes Accelerator in Toronto, I help build proper infrastructures that create sustainable businesses. Startup Investor.
http://benzlotnick

ID 39559

Rod Fitzsimmons Frey

Investor

BA MA BSc(CompEng); Dir of Engineering Jotter (sold to @saflink); Dir of Engineering (@saflink); CTO @careerid (taken private); CEO @attassa (sold to @hightail-2)

ID 221207

Hussein Fazal

Investor

Co-founded AdParlor. Grew to $100M run rate boot-strapped. Sold to AdKnowledge in 2011. Still CEO. Having Fun.

ID 171263

Jonathan Straus

Investor


ID 60982

David Kassie

Group Chairman CanaccordGenuity; Founder Genuity Capital Markets; Ex Chairman/CEO CIBC World Markets, Vice Chair CIBC. Board of Ivey School of Business.

ID 112426

Muneeb Mushtaq

Investor

Co-Founder & CEO @askfortask • Graduate @university-of-toronto. Serial Entrepreneur. Love innovation and collaborative consumption.

ID 338226

Kosmayer Investments Inc.

Investor

Founded first dot com company in 1998. Have created a successful company with 55 employees and $80 million in total revenue. Sold company and now onto new ventures as well as angel and seed investing in interesting ideas.

ID 42581

Chris Pavlovski

Investor

CEO & Founder of @rumble-com / Founder of @cosmic-development / Worked at @microsoft

ID 253493

David Albert

Investor

Toronto GM @handy-1. Previously: Co-Founder @wagjag-com - Canada's largest daily deal site, Co-Founder @homehub , GM at Postmedia

ID 175410

Mark Vange

Investor


ID 127052

Mike Betts

Investor

President at Castlegar Management LTD.

ID 105248

Alan Bekerman

Investor

Founder/CEO of iQ Food Co. moonlighting as a tech investor.

ID 31131

Leon Kuperman

Investor

Founder @modnique, HostedPCI • Worked at @ibm, @bidz-com • Investor @hostedpci • Studied at @york-university-1

ID 508375

Lee Berger

Investor

VP, Investments at Langara Group. Entrepreneur and advisor.

ID 84392

Michael Kosic

Investor

Tech Executive, Angel, and Entrepreneur

ID 42235

Deepak Chopra

Investor

Founder/CEO Clearbridge Mobile. Ex Senior Equity Technology Research Analyst at Canaccord Genuity, Canada's largest independent brokerage.

ID 81195

Rob Laidlaw

Investor

President at @verticalscope Inc.

ID 433516

Eric Monteiro

Investor

Successful executive and consultant, have invested in angel rounds and advised startups

ID 196902

Meir Sheldon Dick

Investor

BizDev at Sciencescape, Partner at RRG. Developed validation platform for investors, and BizDev mentor for early stage startups

ID 45466

Chancellor Crawford

Investor

CEO QoC Health Inc. Life long entrepreneur. Unique ability to combine the unlimited potential of technology with business insight, passion and creativity.

ID 60310

Jim Osler

Investor

Principal and co-Founder, @origin-merchant-partners, former Head of M&A Genuity Capital Markets, ex MD CIBC

ID 490215

Nav Sangha

Investor

Founder Turnstyle. Accomplished entrepreneur in hospitality and entertainment industry. Studied at University of Toronto.

ID 19761

Ken Nickerson

Investor

Entrepreneur, Angel, Inventor, BODs, @flixel-photos-inc, dTaz, Atomic Reach, ex-Kobo, ex-OpenCola, ex-Microsoft, ex-Rogers, ex-Banks - http://ibinary.com/libas
http://ibinary.com/libas

ID 599088

Paul Crowe

Investor

Beyond investing time, energy, and money into making my own dreams come true, I believe in helping others reach theirs.

ID 11837

elliot noss

Investor

Elliot Noss is CEO of TUCOWS and the OpenSRS network.

ID 113890

Robert Hurst

Investor

Founder @audio-network • Worked at @pwc-1, @pearson • Studied at @insead-1, @university-of-bath

ID 24985

André LeBlanc

Investor

Founder and CTO of Sky Motion Research. Founding Member Discreet Logic (IPO, subsequently acquired by Autodesk). Director of Technology at Ubisoft.

ID 48244

Ron Dembo

Founder and CEO of Zerofootprint. Founder and former CEO of Algorithmics Incorporated. Former Yale Professor in CS and Management. Fields Institute Fellow.

ID 459700

Joshua Kauffman

Investor

Designer, Consultant, Angel Investor and Advisor to Multiple Ventures.

ID 4836

Paul Sullivan

Investor

Seasoned tech founder with multiple successful exits - Guest-Tek, Noteable!. Advisor to a number of startups in US and Canada.

ID 406605

Raza Shaikh

Investor

Patner at NorthBay. Multiple start-ups. Worked at MIT (Broad Institute). Strong technology background. Angel investor.

ID 151863

Qasim Virjee

Investor

Founding Director of @getfilmi and Principal at @design-guru. Constantly exploring the world's music through editing globetronica.org and indianelectronica.com
http://designguru.org/blog

ID 379051

Joey Lomanto

Designer + Developer.

ID 16113

Raif Barbaros

Investor

Head of eCommerce Tech at Loblaw - Canada's largest retailer. Prior, founder/CTO at various start-ups: 3 acquired & 2 hit 1MM+ users. eBay, OATV, Deloitte & UC-Berkeley alum.

ID 2532

Raja Bhatia

Investor


ID 174323

Chris Howard

Investor

Change Agent, Father, Husband spent my work life in the technology services biz - passion for business improvement building great teams

ID 222854

Bruce MacLellan

Investor


ID 158365

Andrew Moffat [amoffat at Keshetinc.com]

Investor

Founder @formverse-1 • Studied at @university-of-regina

ID 765333

Kevin Bartus

Investor

Founded Blue Spark (sold to OnX), now Ideon Media (PROFIT HOT50 twice). Ex VP Rogers Digital Media, ex BCG, Harvard and MIT degrees. Maple Leaf Angels board.

ID 19557

Anton Polski

Investor

3x Entrepreneur. Obsessed with mobile products. Founded @dateonfire, @pokerspace-com • @semacode-com Studied at @university-of-waterloo

ID 124561

Ken Paige

Investor


ID 200806

Adam Gravitis

Investor

CEO of Well-Ordered Labs • ex-CTO of @500px • Co-Founded @algo-anywhere • Studied at @university-of-toronto, @university-of-sydney, @university-of-buckingham

ID 583917

Suresh Madan

Investor

Suresh is an entrepreneur and corporate executive in healthcare industry as well as a Fund Manager and Investor in small cap equities.

ID 271116

Shahzad Malik

Investor

Co-founded CognoVision Inc. (acquired by Intel). PhD in Computer Science from University of Toronto.

ID 122066

Jordan Klein

Dynamic global business development and marketing executive with strong interpersonal and communication skills focused on building revenue

ID 227644

Elaine Huang Crawford

CEO of 3 REITs. Computer Science from CMU, Harvard MBA. Solid business background with BCG, JPMorgan and Lazard

ID 33156

Steven Dengler

Investor

Founder, @dracogen-strategic-investments. Co-Founder and CEO, @xe-com-inc Co-Founder, Director, and Investor, Wifarer. Director and Investor, @bet-smart-media.

ID 242920

Ivan Lenev

Investor

Investor, Advisor & Entrepreneur

ID 125785

Steve Gilpin

Investor

Director at @viafoura

ID 46576

Christopher Oldcorn

Owner, Oldcorn Sports & Entertainment

ID 196784

David Ma

Investor

technology lawyer

ID 74527

Terry Taouss

Investor

Managing Director @sitescout, the world's leading self-serve demand side platform. Formerly, a corporate lawyer advising entrepreneurs.

ID 32968

Chi Chen

Investor

Chi is a startup entrepreneur. He is currently the Director of Business Development at Tunezy

ID 72982

Ari Shomair

Investor

Entrepreneur & angel investor. Founder of @thepaw-com (sold in 2011). Internet Marketing professor for fun.

ID 296

John Warrillow


http://builttosell.com/blog/

ID 272832

Jeff Marsden

Investor

Co-founder PriceMetrix Inc. Former President Accretive Advisor. Strategic manager. Fundraising experienced. Financial Services Expert. Ideas, pragmatism & focus

ID 170588

John Culligan

Investor

Studied at @university-of-manitoba

ID 286220

Garry Chan

Investor

Tech entrepreneur with successful track record of building companies from the ground-up; CMU M.Sc. (expected in Aug 2013); MBA from Rotman School.

ID 133202

Itzik Lerner

Investor

Founder and CEO at ProgForce.com

ID 102817

Brad Ross

Investor

New venture consulting and angel investor

ID 43322

Fahd Ananta

Investor

co-founder, chime (acq. hubspot). worked at mckinsey & microsoft.

ID 117807

Ayman Shalaby

Investor

at Computer Science Dept. of University of Waterloo

ID 737351

Richard Cooper

Investor

Founded Total Debt Freedom in 2003, still on as chairman, looking for investment opportunities in real estate, and start ups.

ID 249020

Jamil Velji

Investor

Marketing Expert, Growth Hacker and Full Stack Developer

ID 160893

Leonard Drimmer

Investor

Founder Property Vista • CEO at @Property Vista, CEO @transglobe-property-management
http://propertyvista.com/blog/

ID 218654

Tristan Roffey

Investor


ID 279168

Anton van Rhyn

Investor

Looking to invest in IoT, b2b SaaS and other interesting businesses.

ID 47068

Ralph Baddour

Investor

Co-founder of @polltogo. Engineer, former biomedical researcher.

ID 53852

Jerin Anwar

Investor

Have started a microcredit foundation 3 years ago, recently started 2 orphanages and 3 schools in rural Bangladesh.

ID 271178

Lally Rementilla

Investor


ID 21254

Paul Filsinger

Investor

Coder+Biz. PPC/Ad expert ($100M's).

ID 499144

Amir Farmanesh

Investor

Founded 5 for-profit & 6 not-for-profit ventures, interested in innovative new ideas based on scientific advancements. I am a university faculty & a researcher.

ID 675544

Robert Walter-Joseph

Founder @stone-and-paper-press

ID 439579

Rick Norland

Investor

P.Eng. + MBA > investment banking (60 deals: equity, IPOs, M&A) > serial entrepreneur in high tech and life sciences (6 x founder) > now franchising home care

ID 339030

Michael Serbinis

Investor

Founded and sold Kobo, founded and sold DocSpace, rebuilt Critical Path, worked at Zip2, sold to Altavista. Worked at Microsoft, built propulsion systems 4 NASA

ID 177524

Ron Goldstein

Investor

Ivey MBA / CFA. Successfully marketed financial products and services to affluent consumers and institutional clients. Also developed strategic plans and financial / management reporting packages.

ID 270983

Bruce Inwood

Investor

Worked at @hewlett-packard, @research-in-motion • Studied at @mcmaster-university, @university-of-guelph

ID 20654

Bahram Alipour

Investor

Founder @doradus-technologies • Studied at @university-of-waterloo

ID 72174

Ratko Vidakovic

Investor

Entrepreneur. Angel Investor. VP Product & Marketing @sitescout (acquired '13). Co-founder @toyotanation (acquired '06).

ID 175877

Leonard Simak

Investor


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