Daniel Debow is VP of Product (Demand) at Shopify and a prolific angel investor who was named Canada’s “Angel. See portfolio, sector focus and contact routes.
Daniel Debow is VP of Product (Demand) at Shopify and a prolific angel investor who was named Canada’s “Angel Investor of the Year” in 2015 after founding and selling three tech companies—Workbrain, Rypple, and Helpful—to Infor, Salesforce, and Shopify respectively. He invests personally in early-stage technology companies, primarily in Canada, with a focus on sectors like fintech, legaltech, AI, and consumer software. While his typical check size and lead/follow behavior are not publicly specified, he has made 35 to 90+ angel investments using his own capital. His notable portfolio includes Wealthsimple, Clio, Ada, Clearco, Ritual, SkipTheDishes, Borrowell, and Sheertex. Debow is a founding partner of the Creative Destruction Lab and an adjunct law professor at the University of Toronto, where he advocates for entrepreneurs to shape national policy through his non-partisan forum Build Canada. He has publicly argued that Canada should accelerate wealth creation by empowering “builders” to turn visionary policy ideas into actionable memos.
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