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Donato Sferra is a Toronto-based business executive and investor specializing in the cannabis sector. He is currently principal and managing partner at Hillcrest Merchant Partners, an angel investment firm focused on a number of industries, including cannabis, blockchain, mining and tech. Donato has extensive experience in the financial sector and has worked for firms that include TD Securities, Macquarie Group and Dundee Capital Markets. Sferra has also co-founded a plant-based foods company called Above Food Corp., where he serves as Chief Corporate Development Officer and Executive Vice President. Prior to establishing Hillcrest Merchant Partners in 2017, Donato Sferra served as the managing director of investment banking at Eight Capital, where he led the company’s cannabis investment banking team. Donato also served at Dundee Capital Markets, first as director of institutional sales, then as managing director of investment banking, where he had his first exposure to the cann
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- • 82 investors hold the Co founder role in VCSift. Donato Sferra is one of them.
- • 2,014 investors are based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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