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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 🇨🇦 https://t.co/bGrpOF83hf

And of course finally meeting @backboneangels founders IRL was a highlight! Fireside chat with @rachren1 about her journey from designer to founder and the impact of @wethosco. 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

catch me in NYC next week with @konval, an absolute mastermind from @Shopify / @backboneangels and a @wethosco angel investor! by the time we're done with ya you'll be convinced that designers are the next generation of startup founders

Congrats to @Preql_ team on their raise to help businesses get real value from their own data! @gabisteele & Leah Weiss are such a focused & experienced team for tackling this!Honoured to see it first hand as an angel along with @amitkarp @BessemerVP & rest of their investors.

Congratulations, team @joinwavy !

One year after launching @backboneangels the group of current and former @Shopify leaders are proving there is a market for investing in founders who are often overlooked.

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! 🙏🤞🇨🇦 @aratisharma @bunnyghatrora @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.” @lynseythornton 🇨🇦

“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.” @atleeclark P.S. we’re hiring! https://t.co/LqRtctrfdc

“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” @lynseythornton

Thank you @megesimpson @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, @MadelineLStone @BusinessInsider!

P.S. We’re hiring!

Starting today, we’ll have multiple active submission periods a year where founders can submit their business for Backbone to review and consider investment. Apply today or share with the women and non-binary founders in your network:

The best part yet—we’re just getting started. We found from our year in review survey that over 56% of our founders are women of colour. While we’re proud of that number, we know it isn’t just about checking off a box. That’s why we’re iterating on our application process 👇🏾

Over 72% of our portfolio founders are first time entrepreneurs, a stat we were thrilled to see. We know it’s much easier to be funded if you’ve done it before. And our investments were across all stages of businesses.

On this day last year, we officially launched Backbone Angels to the world. #IWD With a big mission to help close the funding gap for women founders, we’re proud to share that we’ve backed 42 companies and invested over $2.3M USD in just one year.

When being an avid user and referrer isn’t enough… you join in the @1Password Series C with @backboneangels. Congrats to the 1Password team, stoked to be a part of this journey 🚀