Panache Ventures

📍 Vancouver at CANSEC 2026 + BC Business House Energy Showcase · 📍 Toronto at @OneVest + judging 12 @NEXTAI companies on pitch day · 📍 Montréal at the TDIP x @WhiteStarCapital running networking event This is what building a Canadian ecosystem looks like. 🚀

One theme all week: Canadian with global ambition. Climate Solutions Prize. Le Cercle Canadien with Dax Dasilva. L'Annuel du Capital de risque. SuperVenture + SuperReturns in Berlin. This is what building a Canadian ecosystem looks like. 🚀🌎

This Weekly Roundup is all about TTW! 🇨🇦 Panache Ventures opened Toronto Tech Week with a Builders Breakfast and showed up for our ecosystem partners the rest of the week.

#WeeklyRoundup📍 Toronto: founder coaching + Girls into VC's first Canadian chapter 📍 Montréal: Mila x Panache VC Teacher Series (50+ founders) Vancouver: FemTech jury + ClimateGlobal pitch + Canadian Women in VC lunch This is what building a Canadian ecosystem looks like. 🚀

Ranger Emerges Out of Stealth to Transform Business Operations for Industrial Engineering. Ranger, the agentic revenue operations platform for industrial tendering, led by James Zhan, Sari Saadi, and Kyle Jordan, has emerged from stealth with $8.4 Million in seed funding led by Bonfire Ventures @bonfire_vc, along with 25madison @25m_official, Inovia Capital @inovia, and Panache Ventures @PanacheVC. Read More At: menlotimes.com/post/ranger-em… Source: Press Release

Excited to announce InstaSwitch's $4.7M seed round, led by Chicago Ventures, with Panache continuing from pre-seed. Huge congratulations to Daniel West and the entire InstaSwitch team. Check out why we doubled down: hubs.li/Q04fqNqy0

Join us in congratulating the Featherless AI team for raising a $20 million Series A to build the neutral foundation for open-source AI: hubs.ly/Q04f2G5G0

Panache Weekly Roundup! 📍 Breakfast with Deep Sky (Montréal) 📍 Raising Capital 201 with Platform Calgary (Calgary) 📍 Tech 4 Sick Kids (Toronto) 📍 The Forum pitch finals (Vancouver) Company-building, capital raising, and mentoring. 🚀

Panache Weekly Roundup! Four cities this week: 📍 Réseau Capital (Montréal) 📍 BMO Summit + CDL AI Stream (Toronto) 📍 Innovation UBC Showcase and DND × Canadian Builders / OnDeck AI (Vancouver) 📍 Harvard demo day (Boston) Showing up where the future of tech is being built. 🚀

Panache Weekly Roundup! 📍 Toronto — Talk at @UWaterloo's student venture fund 📍 Calgary — Investor Office Hours at @PlatformCalgary with @GTMfund & @AlpacaVC 📍 Vancouver — Judged the @UBCSOAR Pitch Competition Coast to coast. 🚀

Panache Weekly Roundup! Here’s where we’ve been in Toronto: 📍 Off the Cap Table dinner 📍 International Women’s Month social 📍 @CIXCommunity — Opening remarks, roundtable & investor 1:1s 📍 VC dinner A week fully immersed in the startup ecosystem. 🚀

Panache Weekly Roundup! Here’s where we’ve been: 📍 Vancouver — VC session HATCH + BC Defence Tech 📍 Waterloo — Full Stack Pancakes 🥞 (@UWVelocity, @FaskenLaw, @socraticainfo) + @Akatoshouse Showcase 📍 Toronto — Office hours with @NEXT_Canada

@CarbonRun panache.vc/post/a-gigaton…

By 2050, we’ll need to remove 5-10 GT of CO₂ annually. One overlooked solution? Rivers. We explore how @CarbonRun is restoring river alkalinity to enable durable, scalable carbon removal. Read more ↓

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!