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ID 186553

Darrell MacMullin

Investor

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

ID 12277

Prof. Sean Wise


ID 105399

David Arnsdorf

Investor

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

ID 76249

Michael Mahon

Investor

Director, Strategic Investments & Initiatives @ BDC Venture Capital. Intrapreneur. Entrepreneurial VC. Venture catalyst. Startup champion.

ID 96754

Michelle McBane

Investor

Director at Investment Accelerator Fund @ MaRS Discovery District

ID 55818

Farhan Thawar

Investor

Investor in @xtreme-labs.

ID 210789

Andrew Black

Investor

Founded BrandProject to help talented founders build disruptive consumer brands. (Founder CEO Virgin Mobile, President LEGO, GM Nike, Dr Pepper 7UP, Colgate)
http://www.brandproject.com/blog

ID 49200

Marco Janeczek

Investor

Venture Partner Infinite Ventures

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 41044

Chris Arsenault

Investor

Founder @inovia-capital, @sit-europe • Worked at @telesystems-ltd, @msbi-inc • Studied at @university-of-laval
http://chrisarsenault.wordpress.com

ID 487122

Andrew Bridge

Investor

Founder @brandproject • Worked at @cadbury-schweppes, @diageo • Investor @brika-1, @surfeasy • Studied at @queen-s-university, @southern-methodist-university

ID 1016

Kevin Swan

Investor

Been in a startup, ran a seed fund and now a VC, but an entrepreneur at heart. A Canadian who lived in the Silicon Valley and took it back home with him.
http://onceabeekeeper.com

ID 104060

Jared Gordon

Investor

Investment Manager at the Investment Accelerator Fund

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 88652

John Albright

Investor

Managing Partner at Relay Ventures. Early stage VC focused on All Things Mobile.

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 9934

John Stokes

Investor

Co-Founder of early stage VC, @real-ventures (Montreal, Canada) and an investor in the FounderFuel Accelerator.

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 88857

Matt Golden

Investor

MD@Golden Venture Partners -mobile focused seed and early A VC fund. Investor in @wattpad, @yesware, @guardly, @tempo-ai @influitive @top-hat @mparticle

ID 488778

James Appleyard

Investor

President of Freycinet Investments Ltd; Previously CEO & controlling shareholder of Artez Interactive - sold to FrontStream Payments & Arsenal Capital Aug 2013.

ID 139812

Matthew Saunders

Investor

Managing Director at Ryerson Futures, Executive Director, DMZ Investments Inc.

ID 31105

Jason Martin

Investor in @vizibility, @iotum.

ID 175410

Mark Vange

Investor


ID 379051

Joey Lomanto

Designer + Developer.

ID 693766

Ted Graham

Investor

Founded niche sports publishing company (sold to Madawaska); created influencer network analysis; ex-McKinsey consultant, MBA; Innovation leader at PWC Canada

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 459700

Joshua Kauffman

Investor

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

ID 171263

Jonathan Straus

Investor


ID 178417

Vince Saroli

Investor

3 x Exited Entrepreneur and Active Angel Investor.

ID 112426

Muneeb Mushtaq

Investor

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

ID 41319

Scott Howard

Business Development at @coral-cea. Co-Founder @investment-ready-partners. Selected 70+ startups for $2.1m+ in funding in the last 24mths.
http://www.coralcea.ca

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 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 196902

Meir Sheldon Dick

Investor

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

ID 93095

Robin Axon

Investor

General Partner - Mantella Venture Partners
http://mantellavp.com/blog/

ID 251618

Gunther Eysenbach

Investor

Founder, CEO and President, @jmir-publications Co-Founder and CSO @trendmd • Studied at @harvard-university MPH. Professor in Health Policy, Medical Informatics

ID 32968

Chi Chen

Investor

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

ID 208864

Kurtis Scissons

Investor

Co-Director of University of Toronto Early Stage Technology Program - Investing in UofT entrepreneurs

ID 71230

Trillium Energy

Founded the first local benefit community power generation co-operative. Assembled a team of commmunity power professionals.

ID 122066

Jordan Klein

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

ID 675544

Robert Walter-Joseph

Founder @stone-and-paper-press

ID 117807

Ayman Shalaby

Investor

at Computer Science Dept. of University of Waterloo

ID 279168

Anton van Rhyn

Investor

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

ID 249020

Jamil Velji

Investor

Marketing Expert, Growth Hacker and Full Stack Developer

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 72174

Ratko Vidakovic

Investor

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

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 170588

John Culligan

Investor

Studied at @university-of-manitoba

ID 508304

Chris Gray

Investor

Associate at Ryerson Futures Inc out of the Digital Media Zone Incubator in Toronto.

ID 272832

Jeff Marsden

Investor

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

ID 270983

Bruce Inwood

Investor

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

ID 207811

Roman Sivers

Investor

Associate at investment banking and growth capital firms in Toronto. MBA from University of Toronto. Worked at IBM. Passionate about shareholder value creation.

ID 21221

Romy Kraus

Founding editor and host of culture/tech magazine D! -- Previously media+marketing exec at Bertelsmann and @sony.

ID 477482

Brian Deck

Investor

Entrepreneur, Investor & Techie passionate about innovation and good design. Internet, mobile, payments and customer loyalty.

ID 227644

Elaine Huang Crawford

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

ID 242920

Ivan Lenev

Investor

Investor, Advisor & Entrepreneur

ID 35138

RyanTylerThomas

A managing Partner at Playground, a web agnostic design and development company in Toronto. Working to build strong startups.
http://ryantylerthomas.tumblr.com/

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