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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Daneal Charney

Founder · FIVEX (also referred to as 5X & Associates)

Toronto, Canada

She has watched more than 200 startup teams go from seed to exit, which means she can tell a founder what usually breaks first: the wrong first VP, cofounders that are…

Happy to help with Cofounder alignment and conflict

Jay has written cheques from inside two of Canada's largest corporate venture arms, and he knows how to turn a corporate parent into a customer, a channel and a board-…

He is the rare telecom insider who is buyer, operator and investor at once, and he holds the Rogers relationships with the University of British Columbia and the Unive…

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…

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,…

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…

Christina is the person who carries Southwestern Ontario founders into national rooms, from the CIX Summit selection committee to the SAAS NORTH mainstage, where she h…

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

Zoya Ipek

SVP, People Strategy and Development · IntouchCX

Waterloo, Canada

She knows what happens to a team when a company is bought: how to keep the talent, merge two people functions based on the product road map, and coach the leaders thro…

Happy to help with I can help as a mentor across the span of people and operations, how to approach scale, org design, leadership challenges,

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,…

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…

Happy to help with Give first connecting attitude so just reach out

Will has raised venture money as an operator, lent it as a technology banker and now writes first cheques across sectors, so he can tell a founder what each kind of ca…

Yohan Mahimwala

Senior Manager / Department Manager, Commercial Credit Adjudication (Central Canada) · RBC (Royal Bank of Canada)

Toronto, Canada

He knows how small business and commercial credit decisions actually get made at Canada's largest bank, and he has sat on the other side of that table as an owner seek…

She has founded two companies and sold both, one of them a Calgary-built platform that helped Canadian employers hire technical talent from global markets without the…

Happy to help with Deep tech innovation adoption, Identifying International market leverages, IRAP funding

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…

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…

She has done the full arc of an early-stage portfolio, from first cheque through follow-on rounds and into LP and institutional partnership conversations, and she back…

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…

She sources and diligences early-stage fintech deals and handles the transactional side herself, a habit carried over from years practising corporate law.