Amanda Filipe

📣Today, we're reflecting on significant findings from our 2023 angel investing report - entrepreneurial demand for funding was sky high yet total investment declined. A call to action for better support for Canadian entrepreneurs🇨🇦 @NACOCanada @shua_scott @BetaKit betakit.com/2022-angel-inv…

@FounderEric @jonathanhillis5 100% accurate. Our government has been fuelling the vc community but equal support is needed for pre-seed and angel stage investors. Would love to see matching funds, tax credits etc to activate early stage investors

@jonathanhillis5 Great point on that! Hahaha.... The biggest issue in Toronto and Canada is that there needs to be more funding for pre-seed or seed stage companies in Toronto.

Number of startup incubators and accelerators 🚀 🇨🇦 Toronto - 53 🇺🇸 New York - 47 🇺🇸 San Francisco - 37 🇬🇧 London -36 🇺🇸 Boston - 24 🇨🇦 Montreal - 19 🇺🇸 Austin - 17 🇨🇦 Vancouver - 16 🇺🇸 Miami - 14 🇺🇸 Chicago - 14 🇨🇦 Waterloo - 11 🇺🇸 Boulder - 9 🇸🇬 Singapore - 7

@patsearle @CADInnovators @DanaRoseOBorn @BMO @odgersberndtson @MaverixPe The gong! I wondered what happened to it.

And just like that, CCI’s inaugural Capital Markets Summit comes to an end with a final gong by Jim Balsillie! We had 125+ investors & business leaders join us in TO. Big thx to my team @CADInnovators, especially @DanaRoseOBorn, who at 9 mnths pregnant, put on a spectacular day!

“In Canada, diversity is a reality but inclusion is a choice” wise words from @mary_ng on #IWD2023

Our 4 year olds enjoyed a very special school visit from some Blue Jays today! They told us their teachers said they weren’t allowed to touch the Blue Jays or ask them any questions about bathroom stuff 🤣

@townerson LOL fair. It is beautiful now.

@townerson Damnnnn. Time to convince grandpa to sell!

Anti-abortion organizers worked for 20 years to overturn Roe v. Wade. It would be naive to ignore the impact of these movements in Canada. Send an email to your elected officials to make your support for abortion rights loud and clear: bit.ly/3u7Af5E @actioncanadashr

Let’s be clear on the facts now that Roe has been overturned: ➡️ People will be forced to give birth ➡️ People will be forced to seek unsafe abortions ➡️ This is gender-based violence ➡️ It is deeply racist, sexist and classist Will you take action? act.amnestyusa.org/page/107548/ac…

Guns officially have more rights than women. I can't.

@AngelForum See you soon :)

We've been getting ready for #CollisionConf by arriving early in Toronto as part of the #vantakeover. We like it here, in particular the street parties, the people and the sunny weather (forgot what that was!).

Looking for a Million Dollar way to actively ally? Tell three women founders about #SheBoot Investment readiness boot camp growing diversity in funders and the funded. Last year’s winner @growcer closed $1M from #SheBoot and @CapitalAngels investors alone.

Truly the best, weirdest thing I have seen in quite some time

@sarahboesveld @CarleyFortune I feel like we are living parallel lives right now! I just started that book last night although the baby keeping me up is still in utero and very very active :)

When the baby doesn’t sleep for half the night, you take care of yourself with a double shot of caffeine and @CarleyFortune’s debut novel (I’m just 20 pages in & love reading about familiar places ie Canada in this genre of novel) Congratulations, Carley! 💐

@sarahboesveld That's too funny!

@atfilipe Us too, I even pretended to call his daycare provider & relayed that she wanted him to dress warmly too but alas. He probably saw right through the ruse

Hell hath no fury like a threenager who got to leave the house in shorts & a T-shirt for four days in a row and was then expected, this morning, to wear a sweater. I’m still recovering.

⏰ Less than 24 hours to go! Women entrepreneurs, are you ready to apply for SheBoot? Get your startup investment-ready and pitch to win $150k this fall. For more info, visit bit.ly/3OU8N4h #SheBoot #WeMeanBusiness via Invest Ottawa & @CapitalAngels

Really enjoyed moderating today's panel on Investing in the North at @YukonFNCC #AIIC2022 feat. @Clint_Nunasi (Nunasi Corp), @PatrickLor (@PanacheVC), Donna Moore (däna Näye Ventures) and John Glynn-Morris (Yukon Venture Angels).

Did you know that today is a Day of Action and Memorial for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Two-Spirit and Trans people? Please take a moment today to reflect on the lives that have been taken far too soon. #MMIWG2ST bit.ly/34A5PQf

This is your 10:00 a.m. reminder that abortion is a human right.