Backbone Angels

Backbone Angels is an angel investment collective based in Toronto, Canada, founded in 2021. The organization is dedicated to supporting companies founded by women and non-binary entrepreneurs, with a particular emphasis on investing in businesses led by Black, Indigenous, and women of color. By focusing on these underrepresented groups, Backbone Angels aims to foster diversity and inclusion in the entrepreneurial landscape, promoting equitable access to funding and resources for a broader range of founders.

Atlee Clark

Founding Partner

Brittany Forsyth

Founding Partner

2 past transactions

Wavy

Seed Round in 2022
People are tired of opening 25 tabs, scrolling through endless lists, and dodging ads to find activities they’ll love. That’s why we’re building Wavy - a weekly texting service that gives smart recommendations on things to do, based on user preferences and sourced from experts.

Haloo

Seed Round in 2021
Navigating the trademark search and registration process can be daunting and onerous for business owners and entrepreneurs. Heirlume is the first self-serve online trademark search and registration platform that integrates sophisticated legal thinking with technology. We make the complex trademark search and registration process fast, accurate, trusted and affordable for entrepreneurs and enterprise/e-com partners. Our search tool instantly runs the country-specific legal tests (i.e., “likelihood of confusion”) and performs lawyer analysis. Intelligent search algorithms provide an at-a-glance opinion of registerability (conflicts, descriptiveness, obscenity), displayed in simple visuals. Distilling the multiple data sets involved with drafting a trademark application requires time-consuming legal analysis. Our machine learning auto-suggest trademark application builder performs the lawyer work and removes room for error. While our first go to market strategy will target SME individual users, we see huge potential in expanding our market reach through key B2B partnerships as an upsell/add-on to a domain purchase (GoDaddy), or store set-up (Shopify or Amazon). Ultimately, we believe we can make trademark registration quick, easy and affordable, similar to the experience of registering a domain.
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