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Gaurav Bansal

CEO / Founder · AMG Venture Partners Inc.

Mississauga, Canada

He has written cheques into 50+ startups globally, mostly pre-seed and seed in AI/ML, and sits inside 550+ angel syndicates, most of them American, which is a rare lin…

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Farah Bastien

Founder · Watch Her Win

Toronto, Canada

She has stood up data science and engineering teams from scratch inside one of the country's largest sports organizations, hiring research scientists and data engineer…

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Karen Budahazy

Independent Advisor (Payments & Embedded Finance); Board Advisor, Open Finance Network Canada · Open Finance Network Canada (OFNC)

Toronto, Canada

Karen knows the issuing side of Canadian fintech from the inside: how cards get sponsored, how programs clear regulatory and CDIC questions, and who at a bank has to s…

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Michael Buhr

Executive Director and Board Member · C100

Los Altos, United States

Michael has been the CEO in the chair, at Filld, Zerve and Travelport's consumer business, and has founded, acquired, invested in and sold companies, so he reads a gro…

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Rory Capern

Chief Operating Officer · Redbrick

Victoria, Canada

He has sat on the platform side of the table at Google, Twitter and Microsoft, built the partnerships that Canadian media and tech companies depend on, and now evaluat…

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Lauren Cappell

Lauren Cappell

Independent AI Consultant (Applied AI / Legal AI) · Self-employed

Toronto, Canada

She knows how legal work actually gets done and how AI products get bought, having taken SageMaker to market at AWS, shaped long-term technology strategy alongside a C…

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David Charbonneau

Managing Partner and Founder · Boreal Ventures

Montreal, Canada

He has written the first institutional cheque into photonics, health and B2B software companies, and he raises from the LPs Canadian funds need most, including Investi…

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Jacquelyn Corbett

Owner / Chief-Everything-Officer · mini mioche

Toronto, Canada

She has built, launched and scaled close to 80 brands since 1997, and through her agency JC+CO growth accelerants she has run e-commerce and paid-channel strategy for…

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Mike Cotton

Co-Founder, The Curling Group · The Curling Group (owner of Grand Slam of Curling and Rock League)

Toronto, Canada

He has taken a broadcaster-owned sports property private, raised venture money against it, and sold three years and 300 hours of US coverage to ESPN.

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Dharti Desai Chatterjee

Chief Marketing Officer · Toronto Business Development Centre (TBDC) and BHive

Oakville, Canada

She knows what it takes for a founder from India or the Gulf to land in Canada and start selling here, and she has built the demand engines at the two Ontario programs…

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Arnav Dey

Risk Management Intern, Credit and Operational Risk · BMW Financial Services Canada

Toronto, Canada

He has seen credit and operational risk from inside two Canadian lenders, and he builds quantitative portfolio strategy from the data side rather than the pitch deck s…

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David Dufresne

Investment Partner · AQC Capital

Montreal, Canada

He has been writing first cheques into Canadian companies for more than twenty years, from institutional funds to his own angel portfolio spanning robotics, logistics,…

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Peter Faist

Founder and CEO · Staffy (Staffy Health / Staffy Canada Inc.)

Toronto, Canada

He knows what it takes to fill a shift at a long-term care home at short notice: vetting and supply on one side, hospitals, retirement homes and home care buyers on th…

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Joel Finlayson

Senior Vice President, International Growth · League

Toronto, Canada

He knows how healthcare actually gets bought in the Gulf, having helped structure Saudi Arabia's first healthcare public-private partnership and run a healthcare incub…

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Rosco Hill

Founder & General Partner · Co:Build Ventures

New York, United States

He has done the same thing four times over: first engineer or early team at companies that became very large, then founder twice.

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Aron Jones

Operator / Builder · Martell Ventures

Toronto, Canada

Aron has taken products from a blank repository to real scale four times over, in consumer fintech, retail marketplaces and institutional debt software, and he has rai…

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Probal Lala

Chief Executive Officer · Fluent.ai

Toronto, Canada

He has written early cheques into Toronto technology companies for more than a decade and chairs the capital corporation that formalized how Maple Leaf Angels invests,…

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Dean Lindal

Dean Lindal

Director / Co-Founder · Canuckaroos Ventures

Melbourne, Australia

Dean's working life has been spent introducing entrepreneurs to each other, first through peer communities and now through a deal network that reaches investors and fa…

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Matt McGowan

Senior Vice-President, Business Solutions · Bell Media

Toronto, Canada

Matt has been the person a global platform trusts to open and run a country: he took Snap's Canadian operation from a new country manager seat to a full general manage…

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Sultan Mehrabi

CEO, Relay Robotics; Managing Director, DMZ Ventures · Relay Robotics / DMZ Ventures

Toronto, Canada

He has taken a company from two founders to an acquisition by a US insurance giant, and he now decides which early-stage companies get funded out of one of Canada's be…

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Jayesh Narani

Founder and CEO · OnetapHELLO

Toronto, Canada

He has built enterprise data governance and AI practices for global industries, and he has incorporated and run Ontario companies across consulting, hardware and food…

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Peter Nixon

Peter Nixon

Founder / Professor / Keynote Speaker and Facilitator · Potential Dialogue

Hong Kong, China

He has sat in on negotiations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Korea, Japan, India, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, and has trained more than 600 companies across…

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Dom Perri

Co-Founder & Managing Partner · Altitude Cyber

Santa Monica, United States

Dom knows what a cybersecurity company is worth and who will buy it, having advised founders into sales to Cisco, Barracuda and Workday and served as exclusive advisor…

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Russell Rogers

Russell Rogers

Founder · Russell Rogers Consulting

Toronto, Canada

He has sold to Fortune 100 companies and now works face to face with roughly 400 independent Toronto business owners, so he knows how both ends of the market decide wh…

Happy to help with Selling to SMB owners: pitch, pricing and closing

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