Open Chats Recap: Decoding Fundraising with Jan Christopher Arp During the latest Fintech Hub Open Chats  edition “Decoding Fundraising”, Founding General Partner at Holt XChange, shared profound insights on navigating the complex field of early stage fintech startup fundraising. This discussion offered our fintech founders a deep dive into essential strategies for pitching, managing investor relations, red flags to avoid and structuring fundraising efforts to maximize success. Crafting a compelling story With hundreds of pitches and decks flowing into investors’ inboxes, it’s crucial ..read more

For International Women’s Day, we would like to take a moment and celebrate our women founders shaping the future of fintech for Canadians. Discover some of these incredible entrepreneurs below!  From disrupting traditional banking to pioneering innovative payment solutions, these visionary leaders are driving change and breaking barriers one innovation at a time. Our industry still has a lot of work to do to achieve an accurate representation of diversity in entrepreneurship, finance and technology, but while we tirelessly put in the effort to achieve our ideals, let’s take the time ..read more

Walletifai Is Helping More People Build Healthy Financial Lives North Americans have over $1 trillion in credit card debt and lack the right financial tools to build their best lives. The Walletifai team, driven by their ambitiously dedicated founders, is committed to creating change by leveraging AI technology.  Their mobile app is a smart assistant in your pocket. All you need to do is sign up, link to any US or Canadian bank account, and set your shopping goals. The app ensures that you can make your purchase without accruing debt when the time comes. The Walletifai Mission Roya ..read more

Let’s celebrate 2023 together! A big thank you to all of our founders, community & corporate partners, industry experts, sponsors and fintech enthusiasts for believing in our mission and helping as advance the financial system to serve all Canadians for the better. To officially wrap up 2023, we’re releasing our Annual Report to look back on all the great successes of the year. Thank you to all of our partners and industry experts for their support and to our community of founders, students and professionals for their trust once again this year. English Version Version ..read more

Author: Maria Aponte Accelerating Growth and Building Trust: Insights from Malik Yacoubi, Founder of Nesto In a recent Fireside Chat with Malik Yacoubi, the visionary founder and CEO of Nesto, we delved into the fascinating journey of disrupting the $450 billion mortgage industry in Canada. With over $160 million in funding and a team of 350+ employees, Malik shared invaluable insights on moving fast, gaining traction, building trust, and shaping the future of Nesto. Learning from the Past: Malik’s entrepreneurial journey began with funding Mobilito, a mobile marketing company, and subsequ ..read more

BuyProperly is Making Investing More Accessible   Meet Khushboo Jha, founder of BuyProperly. In 2019, she was getting fed up by the world of real estate investing. The lack of accessibility to wealth-building opportunities for the average person has consistently caused frustration for her. Despite the inaccessibility of such opportunities, she was convinced that there must be a better way to participate. The Solution Upon discovering this challenge, Khushboo focused her entrepreneurial skills on developing a solution to make wealth-building accessible to everyone. Private market investing ..read more

PulseAI is Pushing the Boundaries of Data Analytics & Education   For 8 years, Nicholas Ponari found himself using the same formulas, same spreadsheets, and the same approach to finance over and over again. Being an angel investor in numerous companies, he decided to pursue a Master’s degree in Finance, aiming to assume the responsibility of managing accounting matters for the startups within his investment portfolio. While doing the job, he wondered if there was a way to bring this kind of expertise to more businesses, at scale and at a reasonable price for startups’ founders. H ..read more

On July 27th and 28th, our 2023 IFH Lab Cohort kicked off the program with a two-day orientation session together in Toronto. The eight startups gathered in person and had the opportunity to network, hear from experts in multiple domains, attend workshops, and more. Let’s dive into the orientation and its many insights! Meet the IFH Lab 2023 Startups IFH Lab is a program created for startups using technology to build solutions that drive forward the financial health of consumers and SMEs. This year’s cohort comes from various fintech verticals, but they all share one thing: having an impact ..read more

Profitual Is Helping More Companies Succeed by Democratizing Financial Intelligence As venture capitalists, Daniel Hoyles and Raymond Fitzpatrick got a higher than average exposure to the world of startups, founders, and funding. Through this work, they kept coming into contact with a simple problem: startups didn’t have the financial information they needed, a way to understand it, or the capital to get both. They discovered that as many as 82% of businesses fail due to cashflow issues and poor financial planning, and 10% fail before even reaching their second year! It begged the question, “H ..read more

Interview by Skyla Valade Profitual Is Helping More Companies Succeed by Democratizing Financial Intelligence As venture capitalist, Daniel Hoyles and Raymond Fitzpatrick got a higher than average exposure to the world of startups, founders and funding. Through this work, they kept coming into contact with a simple problem: startups didn’t have the financial information they needed, a way to understand it, or the capital to get both. It begged the question, “How many good companies are falling behind, simply due to a lack of financial literacy?”With Raymond spearheading the company’s sale ..read more