MindAngler Capital

Nigel Stokes, the founder and CEO, makes all investment decisions. Stokes is the former CEO of DataMirror, a data-integration company he took public and later sold to IBM. His operational background in enterprise software and his role as a Founding Fellow at the Creative Destruction Lab inform his deal selection and diligence process.

Edsby is the only publicly confirmed portfolio company. Edsby provides a K-12 learning management and student-wellness platform used by school districts across Canada, the United States, and New Zealand. The investment is notable not only for the company's international reach but for the co-investor syndicate: the founders of SMART Technologies, whose interactive whiteboards are ubiquitous in North American classrooms, and XDL Capital Group, a longstanding Canadian venture firm.

Nigel Stokes is a Founding Fellow in the G7 stream at the Creative Destruction Lab, a mentorship-driven accelerator founded at the University of Toronto. This role involves advising early-stage, science-based startups and provides a structured pipeline for potential investments. The relationship is professional and mentorship-driven rather than an institutional partnership; CDL does not take equity in the startups it advises, and Stokes invests independently from his CDL activities.