Nathon Gunn (born November 4, 1973) is a Toronto-based Canadian serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Bitcasters Inc., Social Game Universe, LightningPlatform and most recently x-Pollinate.

He is a mentor, writer, speaker and advises in the support of start-ups, scale-ups, democratic development, civic engagement, democratization of technology and entrepreneurship at forums like the Government of Canada, C100 and conferences such as Personal Democracy Forum,[1] and in books[2] such as "Searching for the New Liberalism" [3] His most recent contribution to the Canadian political landscape was in the form of senior innovation advisor[4] to Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains where they developed Canada's Innovation Agenda, a primary focus of the 2017 Canadian federal budget.

[5] In 1996, Gunn founded Bitcasters with Duane Wall and Oli Goldsmith,[6] an early multimedia production studio that had offices in Toronto and New York.

[7] Bitcasters created Bitcast.com one of the first tools for uploading and editing video to the web [citation needed] and was a pioneer in the User-generated content space.

[11] The company created an ad banner system, IGAPI,[12] that leverages social media and game mechanics for product discovery.