Jonathan Lister

Executive, investor & board member | B2B SaaS & Media | Builder of $1B teams and companies

📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Angel investor🌍 Canada
5
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1
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1
Mid stage
1
Late stage
12y
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Portfolio

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Board Member and Investor
2019
Retail is at a turning point. The wholesale industry is a trillion-dollar market split between 1.2MM retailers. In the past, the market had been dominated by big-box stores, largely selling the same products from the same national brands – but the consumer has changed. Today, consumers are purchasing smaller, independent brands that are healthier, more environmentally friendly, more ethical. Consumers have moved their spending to independent retailers (both online and offline) who they share values with, and who provide the best curated selections of craft brands. This is where Hubba comes in. We’re a marketplace that allows independent retailers to purchase products directly from the planet’s hottest craft brands to carry on their store shelves. We use a combination of machine learning and personal curation to match these retailers with their next best seller.
Board Member
Jan 2016
Atomic AI is the world’s leading AI-powered platform for optimizing marketing and eCommerce content. Atomic AI boosts traffic, customer engagement and conversions by matching content's readability and emotional tone to its audience’s preferences, delivering personalization at scale. With the power of machine learning, the platform optimizes content for each customer segment or persona with just the click of a button. Companies such as: ● Accenture ● Golf Town ● UBS ● Umbra ● Grant Thornton ● Constellation Software ● University of Washington And 150+ others are using Atomic AI to grow their revenue and build their brand.
mid stageInternet
Board Member
Jan 2014
At FlashStock, we’re revolutionizing the global exchange of creativity for hundreds of F500 brands. Powered by our technology, we connect you with creatives to drive faster, more efficient content creation. Creating visual content is a complex and time-consuming task. But, great content is at the core of your brand, so it’s important you get it right! It brings your stories to life in ways nothing else can. The traditional ways of creating content are slow and cumbersome, and they’re not scalable: vetting, negotiating, securing rights, processing payments, ensuring quality – the list goes on... So how do you make it easy to create great content for your brand? How do you scale content creation? Unlike any other solution, FlashStock creates customized content, with real people using your products, in over 200 markets around the world. Learn more at: http://www.flashstock.com/ Follow us: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/flashstock Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/flashstock Instagram: http://instagram.com/flashstock/ Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/flashstock/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClz2Bj5z4Wi8FP3xJ-f-XAQ
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2020
Board Member
2020
At Service Inspired Restaurants we take great pride in our diverse portfolio of restaurants and believe a brave, bold and results-driven culture inspires and creates new opportunities for everyone. Our values and promises are not simply a dream, vision, or mission, but a way of life for every person that becomes or wants to become a member of our team. Our goal is to be the first choice of our guests, team members, supplier partners, communities and investors by living our values and promises in everything we do. These values and promises describe how we conduct business, achieve our goal, and live our passion. We offer opportunities at the corporate level, as well as across all our concepts, including: Jack Astor’s Bar and Grill®, SCADDABUSH Italian Kitchen & Bar®; Reds® Wine Tavern, The Loose Moose® and The Antler Room, Duke's Refresher® + Bar and Abbey’s Bake House in Muskoka. So what are you waiting for … come learn more and see if you have what it takes to join our team!
Board Member and Investor
2020
Panasas, the data engine for innovation, provides purpose-built data solutions for high-performance and AI applications in manufacturing, life sciences, energy, media, financial services, and government. The company’s flagship PanFS® parallel file system and ActiveStor® solutions uniquely combine ease of management with extreme performance, scalability, security, and reliability for modern workloads. The Panasas data engine solves the world’s most challenging problems: curing diseases, designing the next jetliner, creating mind-blowing visual effects, and using AI to predict new possibilities. Our data solutions has been deployed by Fortune 500 commercial customers as well as leading government and research agencies in over 50 countries, including Boeing, P&G, NIO electric vehicles, TGS energy exploration, National Institute of Health, Siemens, Harvard Medical School and NASA. If you want to work with a team of experienced technologists who develop solutions to complex problems, this is the place. We have a vibrant, “can do” culture where every individual has the potential to have a real impact on business success. The simplicity of our common goal: to deliver exceptional product quality and value to our customers. Visit us at www.panasas.com to learn about current opportunities.
2019
Board Member and Investor
2019
Retail is at a turning point. The wholesale industry is a trillion-dollar market split between 1.2MM retailers. In the past, the market had been dominated by big-box stores, largely selling the same products from the same national brands – but the consumer has changed. Today, consumers are purchasing smaller, independent brands that are healthier, more environmentally friendly, more ethical. Consumers have moved their spending to independent retailers (both online and offline) who they share values with, and who provide the best curated selections of craft brands. This is where Hubba comes in. We’re a marketplace that allows independent retailers to purchase products directly from the planet’s hottest craft brands to carry on their store shelves. We use a combination of machine learning and personal curation to match these retailers with their next best seller.
2016
Board Member
Jan 2016
Atomic AI is the world’s leading AI-powered platform for optimizing marketing and eCommerce content. Atomic AI boosts traffic, customer engagement and conversions by matching content's readability and emotional tone to its audience’s preferences, delivering personalization at scale. With the power of machine learning, the platform optimizes content for each customer segment or persona with just the click of a button. Companies such as: ● Accenture ● Golf Town ● UBS ● Umbra ● Grant Thornton ● Constellation Software ● University of Washington And 150+ others are using Atomic AI to grow their revenue and build their brand.
mid stageInternet
2014
Board Member
Jan 2014
At FlashStock, we’re revolutionizing the global exchange of creativity for hundreds of F500 brands. Powered by our technology, we connect you with creatives to drive faster, more efficient content creation. Creating visual content is a complex and time-consuming task. But, great content is at the core of your brand, so it’s important you get it right! It brings your stories to life in ways nothing else can. The traditional ways of creating content are slow and cumbersome, and they’re not scalable: vetting, negotiating, securing rights, processing payments, ensuring quality – the list goes on... So how do you make it easy to create great content for your brand? How do you scale content creation? Unlike any other solution, FlashStock creates customized content, with real people using your products, in over 200 markets around the world. Learn more at: http://www.flashstock.com/ Follow us: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/flashstock Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/flashstock Instagram: http://instagram.com/flashstock/ Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/flashstock/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClz2Bj5z4Wi8FP3xJ-f-XAQ
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