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"You're seeing folks from Brazil, India, China really consider Canada as an option."

The US has suspended the H1B visa allowing high-skilled tech workers to enter the country. What does Canada have t…

"UP is back! Ish."

Leaders from Symend, Vendasta, Bold Commerce, and 54e Dev Studios join in a discussion on hiring, onboarding, and scaling culture pre- and mid-pandemic. Recorded at UPish 2020.

Spo…

"Did we vet these questions?"

Black Swan producer Kattie Laur joins the gang to help answer some incredibly detailed listener questions about the recent Throne Speech, cleantech investing, and what H…

“Within the span of a week or two, it went from ‘I’m prepping for demo day’ to ‘holy shit, go raise whatever you can.'"

Lilia founder and CEO Alyssa Atkins explains how her Y Combinator experience ch…

"If students don't go to university, we don't have a business."

Mike Silagadze, co-founder and CEO of Canadian EdTech startup Top Hat, joins for a candid conversation on the state of post-secondary e…

"The market's been weird. It's hot for some."

Ameet Shah, partner at Golden Ventures, joins to discuss rising dealflow, shifting round focus, and increasing interest from US VC's in the Canadian tech…

"Teachers across the board are anxious."

Peekapak co-founder and CEO, Ami Shah, joins to explain how startups are supporting back to school this fall.

Produced with support from TWG.

"There's this asterisk attached to everybody's answers right now, because they reserve the right to revise them all in a week."

Raw Signal Group returns to discuss the evolving problems tech companie…

"Not only was there no time to prepare, we don't even know what are the consequences now of not being compliant."

Luke Vigeant (Inkblot Therapy) and Brett Belchetz (Maple) join to share how their tel…

“I think the onus is on event organizers to figure out how to make themselves relevant to the community. For every event company, there is going to be an element of reinvention.”

Rebecca Croll, Direc…

"We want to be bold, we want to think big, but we want to be flexible and nimble as well."

BetaKit speaks with Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, about the federal governmen…

"I get here at seven, I leave here at 11 or midnight. I've been doing that for the last 40 days and I wouldn't rather be doing anything else."

Jeremy Hedges, President of InkSmith and CEO of The Cana…

"We're not a business that a lot of Canadian VCs found sexy."

Willful CEO Erin Bury, who longtime listeners might remember as a regular guest on BetaKit’s CanCon podcast, joins to explain what COVID-…

"Wubba lubba dub dub!"

To ease you into the holiday break, Black Swan producer Kattie Laur joins to help answer listener-submitted questions. Put your feet up, grab a cold beverage, and enjoy.

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"We were witnessing the rapid decline of job opportunities available in the country, and also watching companies start to lay off employees en masse."

Marianne Bulger, founder and CEO of Prospect, jo…

"Canadian investors don't back Black women-led startups. Let's talk about that."

Amoye Henry (Pitch Better) and Danielle Graham (Sandpiper Ventures) join to discuss the underlying social problems tha…

"It's sad in the sense that we're dealing with this in 2020. But at the same time, it's pretty amazing that I'm able to be part of something like this."

Canadian transplant Idil Omar (Uber) joins fro…

“Instead of crying, I started laughing.”

Jordan Dutchak (Uniting the Prairies) on what it's like to pull the plug on your community-built event. Lisa Zarzeczny (Elevate) on planning for something tha…

"How do we not lose the last decade of investment into the ecosystem?"

Terry Rock (CEO, Platform Calgary) and Chris Rickett (Director, COVID-19 Business Mitigation and Recovery, City of Toronto) join…

"I get here at seven, I leave here at 11 or midnight. I've been doing that for the last 40 days and I wouldn't rather be doing anything else."

Jeremy Hedges, President of InkSmith and CEO of The Cana…