Nanun Nanun

Nanon de Gaspé Beaubien-Mattrick is the President and Founder of Beehive Holdings, an angel fund founded in 2012 and focused primarily on seed to Series A investments. The firm backs technology companies with diversified teams and a focus on products or services mostly used by women.

Before Beehive, she worked in sales and marketing at Playtex International, then spent 10 years as Senior Vice President of Telemedia Corporation. Beehive’s biography says she helped grow Telemedia into Canada’s largest consumer magazine publisher, with titles including Elle, TV Guide, and Canadian Living, and helped build it into one of Canada’s largest radio operators.

In 1991, she co-founded MdGB Capital, where she is co-President. She is also president and co-founder of Maison Homes, a British Columbia real estate development company focused on luxury boutique residences and multifamily residential units.

She was born in Montreal, graduated with honours from Harvard College, and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. Public biographies describe her as fluent in English, French, and Spanish. Her board and advisory roles have included Allocadia Software, Petnet, Photonic, the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Foundation, Monthly Gift, Accompany, and Ruby Ribbon.

• Beehive describes itself as “an angel fund focused primarily in seed to Series A investing” with a focus on diversified teams.
• The firm invests in companies that address “challenges and opportunities associated with products and services that are mostly used by women.”
• Beehive’s model is not only capital: the firm says it brings “seed money, support and social capital” to entrepreneurs.
• The firm prefers founders who already have a first product iteration and paying customers, then helps them scale.
• Geographic focus is primarily the West Coast, with stated activity in Vancouver, Seattle, and Silicon Valley.
• Nanon looks for pitches where the company solves a pain point, can scale, faces manageable competition, and has financials that make sense.
• Her investor posture is relationship-driven; she told BCBusiness: “Investing is a relationship, through good times and bad times.”
• Beehive says it likes founders who “sign up, and show up” and seeks hard workers who believe the way around a problem is through it.