Dr. Boris Wertz is one of the leading tech angel investors in North-America and the founder and CEO of W Media Ventures. His portfolio encompasses over 25 early-stage consumer internet, SaaS and mobile companies, including Chloe & Isabel, Edmodo, Flurry, GoInstant, Indochino, Suite101, Sparkbuy (acquired by Google), Summify, Tynt, Wattpad and Yapta.
He is also a venture partner with Acton Capital, a late-stage consumer internet fund, and one of the founders of GrowLab, a Vancouver-based start-up accelerator. Previously, Boris was the Chief Operating Officer of AbeBooks, the world’s largest marketplace for books which sold to Amazon in 2008. Boris joined AbeBooks in 2002 after JustBooks, the company he co-founded in 1999, was acquired by the company. He successfully finished his PhD as well as his graduate studies at the Otto Beisheim School of Management (WHU), Koblenz, majoring in Business Economics / Business Management.
Boris was named the Pacific Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award winner (2005), a Top 40 under 40 nominee by Business in Vancouver (2011) and BC Angel Of the Year (2011). Living in Vancouver with his wife Luisa and his two children, he loves the outdoors, reading and traveling.
