Associate in Osler Toronto’s Emerging and High Growth Companies Group. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP is one of Canada's leading full-service law firms, known for providing innovative legal solutions to clients across various industries. With a strong presence in major Canadian cities, as well as internationally, Osler offers expertise in areas such as corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, securities, litigation, tax, and intellectual property. The Emerging and High Growth Companies Group at Osler is dedicated to supporting early and growth-stage ventures. With offices in Toronto, Vancouver, Montréal, Ottawa, and Calgary, our Band 1-ranked team provides expertise to help emerging companies grow and succeed. We collaborate with our Venture Capital teams to guide clients through innovative opportunities and complex venture capital deals. Osler was ranked the top Canadian firm in global venture capital league tables, recognized as a leading advisor to both companies and investors.

Senior Manager, Health Partnerships at MaRS Discovery District. Spanning 1.5 M sqft in Toronto's Discovery District, MaRS is one of North America's largest health innovation campuses and Canada's largest hub for technology commercialization, advising 1200+ startups in scaling innovations. To date, MaRS-backed startups have raised >$19 B, generated >$11 B in revenue, and created >33 K jobs across Canada.

Senior Associate at Vistara Growth. Vistara provides highly flexible growth equity and debt solutions for mid-to-later stage technology companies across North America. We solve for a variety of use cases including organic growth, M&A financing, or shareholder liquidity.

Principal at VU Venture Partners. VU Venture Partners is a multi-stage and multi-sector investment fund that invests across Consumer, Enterprise, FinTech, Frontier, Healthcare, Global DeepTech and PropTech. VU is one of the most scalable venture fund in the world.

Executive Director at Upside Foundation. Upside Foundation is a charitable foundation that enables high-growth startups and founders to share their success for social good.

Director, Technology and Innovation Banking at Scotiabank. Scotiabank helps their clients achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

Senior Vice-President, Health Solutions at Sun Life. Sun Life is deeply rooted in Quebec and Canada, where it was founded 160 years ago. Initially focused on insurance, our offerings have expanded to include wealth management solutions and personalized health-focused programs. Today, Sun Life is an industry leader, serving millions of individuals and thousands of businesses across the country, and millions more worldwide.

Partner at Deloitte. He works for the Global Investment and Innovation Incentives practice and leads the Technology Media and Telecom team in Southwestern Ontario. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario (P. Eng.). and works directly with innovative businesses to create and deliver on strategies that maximize access to non-dilutive capital through tax credits and direct funding incentive programs for a wide range of investment initiatives including R&D, climate change, capital acquisition, business scale-up, hiring / training, and export market development.

Principal at TELUS Global Ventures.  TELUS Global Ventures invests in startups that drive TELUS' business in Health, Agriculture, IoT, Digital Customer Experience and Impact Investing. Our deep industry expertise translates into a suite of transformative resources: unparalleled insights, an extensive global footprint spanning 160 countries, and a mastery of operational excellence.

Obstetrician/gynecologist in Guelph, Ontario and is an assistant clinical professor at McMaster University. Dr. Stephanie Ferguson also works as a freelance journalist writing about women’s health and has published in Healthy Debate, the British Medical Journal, Chatelaine and more. She is passionate about the evolution of technology in women’s health and has both written on the topic and worked as a medical advisor and consultant for start-up companies in the women’s health space.

Head of Product Design at Forum Ventures (AI Venture Studio). Forum Ventures® is the leading early-stage fund, accelerator and venture studio for B2B SaaS startups. Founded in 2014 and based in New York and Toronto, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible, and successful for early-stage founders. We invest in founders at the earliest stages and work together to launch, build and scale their businesses. To date, we have made 500+ pre-seed and seed investments globally across industries like fintech, healthcare, applied AI, AI infrastructure, vertical AI, supply chain, and more.

Manager, Investments at MaRS. MaRS IAF is an early stage VC fund committed to investing in technology companies headquartered in Ontario.

Senior Manager in the Gi3 Practice at Deloitte. She began her SR&ED career in 2010 at a boutique firm and quickly developed a passion for the industry. She is passionate about helping companies of all sizes, in various industries on their non-dilutive funding journey.  Her unwavering drive to help others serves as a guiding force in all aspects of her life.

Associate Director at Ontario Bioscience Innovation Organization. OBIO® supports early-stage and venture-backed life sciences and health tech companies enabling them to raise capital, hire and train industry-ready talent, facilitate the commercialization and market adoption of their technologies in health systems, and access infrastructure. Through the OBIO® membership, we offer companies and their teams access to mentorship & expert resources, grants and experiential learning opportunities.

Principal at Flying Fishttps://www.flyingfish.vc/home/h Partners, an early-stage venture firm based in Seattle investing in high-potential AI and ML technology companies across the U.S. and Canada. 

VP of Operations at Innovation Factory, a not-for-profit business accelerator, serving as the catalyst for technology innovation in the greater Hamilton area. Innovation Factory provides business services, training, mentorship, and strategic connections to drive market adoption, leverage intellectual property, and increase revenues, investment, and jobs.

CEO & Founder of Hyivy, a partner for pelvic health journeys that offers holistic, patient-created, pelvic health rehabilitation for patients and clinicians.

President of QualMed Corporation. With 38 years of experience, Gordon's primary focus has been developing quality management systems in start-up or early-stage organizations. Gordon possesses extensive knowledge of Canadian Medical Device Regulations, FDA QSR, EU Medical device directive, the upcoming EU MDR, and other international regulatory agencies.

Partner at Esplanade HealthTech Ventures, Canada’s leading digital healthcare venture capital firm, investing in the US, Canada, Europe and Israel. Esplanade focuses on early-stage and high-growth companies shaping the future of healthcare delivery and actively empowering them to scale and grow.Esplanade has a strong focus on investment in women's health including several investments in the menopause and osteoporosis space.

Senior Venture Manager at Next AI. NEXT Canada is Canada’s strongest and most dedicated entrepreneurial network made up of 1000+ top Canadian academics, entrepreneurs, investors and founders.

Co-founder and Principal at Cross-Border Impact Ventures, an impact venture capital firm on a mission to revolutionize venture capital investing in health technology. They invest in world-class companies that create better health technologies benefiting women, children and adolescents inclusively and globally.

Founder & Principal at Venture Catalyst, LLC. Venture Catalyst, LLC is an investment consulting firm specialized in supporting emerging fund managers and mission-driven asset owners. They enhance investors' efforts to source, vet, and assess the potential of impactful, early-stage investment prospects within their competitive landscape.

Associate at Wittington Ventures, a multi-stage focus fund affiliated with iconic businesses in the retail, healthcare, real estate, and financial services verticals.

Associate at Panache Ventures, Canada's most active pre-seed and seed stage venture capital firm, currently investing out of our new $100M fund. Panache invests in Canada's most ambitious founders across all sectors.