Happy International Women's Day from our team! As we celebrate our 3rd anniversary, we are proud to stand with and support the incredible women founders in our portfolio who inspire us every day. Let's continue to fund and empower women to achieve their full potential. #IWD2023

Announcing the release of our annual report on angel investing in Canada. This 232 page report analyzes Canadian angel investment totaling $262.1 million and features 27 women trailblazers at the forefront #BuiltbyAngels #WomenEntrepreneurs
🇨🇦 digital.builtbyangels.com/link/42663/

And of course finally meeting Backbone Angels founders IRL was a highlight!

Fireside chat with Rachel Renock about her journey from designer to founder and the impact of Wethos. You’ll want to watch her and the team eat the market #designconf

.1Password has hired its first chief legal officer, adding former Shopify VP and Assistant General Counsel Erin Zipes (@erinjz) to the password management firm's leadership ranks. #CDNtech betakit.com/1password-adds…

catch me in NYC next week with Konval Matin, an absolute mastermind from Shopify / Backbone Angels and a Wethos angel investor! by the time we're done with ya you'll be convinced that designers are the next generation of startup founders designconf22.joinlearners.com

Congrats to Preql team on their raise to help businesses get real value from their own data! Gabi Steele & Leah Weiss are such a focused & experienced team for tackling this!Honoured to see it first hand as an angel along with Amit Karp Bessemer & rest of their investors.

Congratulations, team Wavy !

One year after launching Backbone Angels the group of current and former Shopify leaders are proving there is a market for investing in founders who are often overlooked. betakit.com/a-year-after-l…

Sharing this platform with our portfolio companies. A happy #iwd indeed.

Though we hear through the grapevine we may be seen on televisions across the country this evening. Wish us luck! 🙏🤞🇨🇦

Arati Sharma Bunny Ghatrora Swati Matta 👏

“I will always have a special appreciation for BC tech. It brings me great joy to see us investing here. There’s some strong momentum coming out of the pandemic and as a part of Backbone I plan to play a part in its future success.” Lynsey Thornton 🇨🇦

“It really is incredible how many ideas (there are) and people who want to put it all on the line,” Clark said. “It took us weeks to dig out of the first wave of responses and then we got into our groove.” Atlee Clark

P.S. we’re hiring!

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“It drives me mad when people say, ‘that’s such a nice initiative.’ It's not a nice initiative, there isn’t anything nice about it. We see value there that we think other people haven't seen; if other people want to overlook that value then their loss is our gain” Lynsey Thornton

Thank you Meagan Simpson BetaKit! 🇨🇦🙏

“The goal, members of the group told Insider, is to bring opportunity
to those who typically get left out due to implicit biases and lack of
opportunity.”

Thank you for sharing our story, Madeline Stone Business Insider!

When being an avid user and referrer isn’t enough… you join in the 1Password Series C with Backbone Angels.

Congrats to the 1Password team, stoked to be a part of this journey 🚀