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Angie Chan

Co-founder, Peekapak

Edtech

Angie Chan co-founded Peekapak with Ami Shah, who has described Chan as a childhood best friend then living in Hong Kong and writing her first children's book. The Toronto company sells a social-emotional learning platform, curriculum and storybooks to K-12 schools. Chan's current role at Peekapak could not be confirmed.

Angie hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Angie co-founded Peekapak, which appears in 1 talk in the archive.

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Did Angie Chan co-found Peekapak?

Yes. Kidscreen reported on November 14, 2017 that "former teacher and Proctor & Gamble marketer Ami Shah co-founded Peekapak two years ago with children's writer Angie Chan", which places the founding around 2015. Bold Business Insights published a Peekapak feature on November 14, 2018 quoting Shah directly: "I started the company with my best friend from childhood, Angie Chan."

How did Peekapak start?

In the Bold Business Insights piece of November 14, 2018, Ami Shah says of Chan: "Angie was living in Hong Kong at the time and writing her first children's book." Kidscreen's November 14, 2017 article reports that the platform was then backed by about US$1 million from Imagine K12, "the ed tech vertical of startup incubator Y Combinator", plus the Canadian accelerator JOLT and the Denver incubator Uncharted.

Is Angie Chan still Peekapak's Chief Product Officer?

Not confirmed. Peekapak's own site could not settle it: peekapak.com and its /about page are a JavaScript application that returns no team or founder names to a direct fetch, checked September 22, 2026. Third-party directories disagree with each other, with Crunchbase listing her as Chief Product Officer and The Org listing her as "Advisor & Co-Founder" on a profile marked unverified and carrying no date. No page opened for this profile establishes her present role, so only the founder title is used here.

Is Peekapak still operating?

The company still has a live site: peekapak.com resolved and served its application when checked on September 22, 2026. Nothing found in this research indicated a shutdown or an acquisition, but no page was opened that states the company's current operating status directly.

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