We get most deals done in less than 60 days. Investment decisions are made by the people you speak to and nobody else.
We use standardized legal agreements whenever possible. Our members are grouped in a single SPV to keep things manageable for founders.
We offer mentorship and we open our networks to founders. But only when our help is needed and wanted.
We get most deals done in less than 60 days. Investment decisions are made by the people you speak to and nobody else.
We use standardized legal agreements whenever possible. Our members are grouped in a single SPV to keep things manageable for founders.
We offer mentorship and we open our networks to founders. But only when our help is needed and wanted.
We get most deals done in less than 60 days. Investment decisions are made by the people you speak to and nobody else.
We use standardized legal agreements whenever possible. Our members are grouped in a single SPV to keep things manageable for founders.
We offer mentorship and we open our networks to founders. But only when our help is needed and wanted.
Minimal existing activities that show great promise.
Founders uniquely qualified in their field and playing the long game.
We look for tech-driven companies that create new offerings or challenge traditional players.
François Arbour started coding at the age of 6 and launched his first business when he was 19 years old. With over 10 years of experience in advertising, he collaborated with brands like Cirque Du Soleil, Adidas and Red Bull to name a few.
He is the founder of Premiumbeat, a company he ran for over 10 years before it was sold to Shutterstock in 2015 and for whom he worked as a VP Products for two years.
He is now an investor for 60+ companies and multiple VC funds. François is also an active advisor to multiple founders. More recently, he co-founded Nolk (e-commerce/DTC aggregator) and he is the founder/CEO of DesignStripe (Design Assets & Tools).
Co-founder of the award-winning creative agency Sid Lee, Jean-François led the company for more than 20 years. An entrepreneur at heart, Jean-François oversaw the global growth of the company to close to 1000 professionals based in Montréal, Paris, New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Toronto.
He is also the founder of C2 Montréal, a global event he imagined with his colleagues and launched in 2012 in close collaboration with Cirque du Soleil. Since 2017, he is the Executive Chairman of Beside, a successful media and real estate company. He is an investor in many startups and VC funds. He was recently selected as one of the “Most Influential People in Quebec, Canada”.
Jean-François is also a visual artist whose work has been exhibited in Montreal, New York, Paris, Toronto and Miami. He has been featured in the Washington Post, Artnet, Wired and Stern Magazine among others.
Marin Savignac studied in finance in Montreal and Singapore before joining PNR, a management consulting firm focused on strategy design and M&A, where he lead projects in multiple industries.
He then joined Coveo, a Montreal-based search company and unicorn, to support top line growth with an ROI-first approach.
After consulting in the SMB market and on the entreprise side with Deloitte’s M&A practice, Marin now supports Angels of Many’s club members and founders, as well as other organizations and startups as an advisor and board member.
François founded PremiumBeat to reinvent the music licensing industry. He made PremiumBeat the leading service provider in its category before selling the company to ShutterStock (NYSE:SSTK) in 2015.
Symend generates deep customer insights and data to empower customer engagement. The company has enjoyed hyper-growth and raised a total of $100M in funding.
Browse AI provides no-code bot training to extract data from any website. The company has reached profitability and is growing rapidly in the data processing space.