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Overview Executive Summary

A ngel investment activity continued to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic through- out 2021, with both the number of investments and the amount invested rising in Q1 and Q2, with investment activity falling back marginally in the second half of the year. The 41 angel organizations for which information is available made 635 investments in 2021, with $262.1 million invested.

Angel investment activity was significantly higher in 2021 than in 2020. When the investments that were identified from public sources are included, the number of investments in 2021 was 53% higher than in 2020 and the amount invested was 150% higher. However, if publicly available data is excluded, then 22% more in- vestments were made — with 57% more dollars invest- ed — in 2021 than in 2020.

2022 ANNUAL REPORT ON ANGEL INVESTING IN CANADA

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