Panache Ventures

Panache Weekly Roundup! Here’s where we’ve been: 📍 Vancouver — Reverse pitch + panel at the Entrepreneurship Forum 📍 Toronto — @UofT Desjardins Pitch Competition 📍 Montréal — Day at @Mila_Quebec + AI × enterprise event 📍 Montréal — Coworking at Ax.c with founders

Join us for our Full Stack Pancakes Breakfast! 🥞 March 22, before Day 2 of the @socraticainfo Symposium. Pancakes, coffee & conversations with founders, engineers, and builders. Thanks to @FaskenLaw and @UWVelocity. Register👇 hubs.li/Q045TVd40

Panache Weekly Roundup! Here’s where we’ve been: 📍 Across Canada — Attended & pitched at Forum events 📍 NYC — Joined the inaugural Principals Club dinner 📍 Toronto — Prepped founders for @UofT Entrepreneurship Week’s Desjardins Pitch Comp

We’re proud to be recognized once again as one of the top 10 most active venture firms in Canada! 🇨🇦🚀 Source: @cvca Full report: intelligence.cvca.ca/assets/files/r…

@ycwest @Forbes Congratulations!! 👏

For the second year running, we made the @Forbes Fintech 50 list! 🚀🚀🚀 We’re proud and grateful to be recognized again as a market leader. Moments like this are a great reminder of why we do what we do. We're here to make every small business great with money. And, this is as much a win for us as it is for the mom and pop flower shops, main street boutiques, and neighborhood electricians who use @bankwithrelay every day to control their cash flow. When 99% of businesses are small businesses, we all win when entrepreneurs can chart a clear path to profitability. Stronger small businesses mean stronger families, teams and communities, and we’re lucky to be a part of that 💚 In 2026, we're only accelerating. We’ve got big plans on the horizon: Relay Capital (new lending product), instant payments, AI-powered financial tools, a second season of our video podcast Becoming Self Made. The list goes on! 🔥 🔥🔥 If this sounds like work you’d like to be apart of, come build the future of small business banking. Open roles below!

Panache Weekly Roundup! 📍 Vancouver — CDL Compute session 📍 Vancouver — Vancouver Tech Journal talk 📍 Toronto — Young Builder Event 📍 Toronto — Forum Pitch Semi-Final 📍 Toronto — Reverse pitch at Forum Female Founders Breakfast 📍 Toronto — Lunar New Year celebration

Panache Weekly Roundup! 📍 Toronto — @VectorInst Demo Day 📍 Toronto — New Deals: Founder × Funder (@MaRSIAF × @YSpace) 📍 Toronto — @Google × UTMIST Startups 📍 Montréal — Elle-Invest @ReseauCapital @Espacecdpq 📍 Montréal — @North_Star_MTL @domdelvex

@North_Star_MTL last week was a masterclass in community-driven startup events. The Young Founder & Unicorn panels delivered, but the @daxdasilva x @fredlalonde fireside🔥? That was the moment. Mtl's startup ecosystem is building real momentum. 🚀 Congrats to all the organizers!

Who else is headed to @North_Star_MTL later? Let's catch up IRL

Panache Weekly Roundup! 📍 Toronto — Vector Data Readiness & Model Dev Demo Day 📍 Toronto — VC Supper Club + Z Fellows x UofT Builders x Nation Graph 📍 Montréal — Venture Scientist Demo Day Another week connecting with founders across the startup ecosystem. 🚀

Panache Weekly Roundup! To kick off the year, our Toronto team has been active on the ground: 📍Judged the Queen’s Entrepreneurship Competition 📍Supported founders at @merakiatuoft Demo Night 📍Joined Canadian VC Night A great start to the year.

Panache Weekly Roundup! This month across Canada: 📍 Vancouver — Canadian AI Demo Night 📍 Calgary — Alberta Catalyzer, Wine Wednesday, Festivus, MobSquad Holiday & Tech Thursday 📍 Toronto — UofT Reception, Chai Tech Pitch Finals, Polarity Holi-Tech 📍 Montréal — Tech Noël

Visited Nord Quantique for a behind-the-scenes look at their quantum labs. Eight teams working together on a full-stack system for commercial use. Proud to back this world-class team. 🚀

Panache Weekly Roundup! 📍 Vancouver — SFU Opportunity Fest, KickStart 2025, CWVC Breakfast & VC Drinks 📍 Calgary — Building a Better Canada + CVCA YPC Social 📍 Toronto — Schulich Dinner + Startup TNT Agri-Food Finale 📍 Montréal — Ax-C Reverse VC Pitch + Mila Startup Program

Canada’s founder base is getting stronger. 🇨🇦 This year’s formation data shows a meaningful shift in who’s building in Canada: Get the full report ↓

Panache Weekly Roundup! Last week: 📍 Vancouver — Launch Builders Meetup 📍 Toronto — AGM Dinner 📍 Calgary — Founders & Funders Dinner, Investor Panel at Platform 📍 Montréal — AGM Dinner, 5@7, 555 × @Shopify, panel on breaking into VC 🌐 Online — Virtual AGM

📊 AI-native startups are now a major driver of early-stage formation across Canada. Most founders are focused on the application layer (88%), with growing momentum in infrastructure and limited activity at the foundational layer. ⬇ Read more