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🏆 Congratulations to Andre Charoo - C100 Charter Member and former Board Co-Chair - on winning C100's Shawn Price Leadership Award! Along with being one of the first 25 employees at Uber and Hired, Andre runs Maple VC, the only Silicon Valley pre-seed and seed stage fund focused primarily on backing Canadians founders building in the US. While C100 Board Co-Chair (alongside Janet Bannister) he helped steer the organization during a leadership transition and shared his expansion expertise to shape the Fellowship program. We thank you for your steady hand and passionate heart for Canadian tech entrepreneurs! 🇨🇦 We were honoured to have 2x Canadian Olympian Maddy Price OLY 🏅 present the Shawn Price Leadership Award to Andre. Maddy spoke movingly of her father's leadership legacy, of the importance of grit -- whether you're an Olympic runner or building a company -- and why the C100 community is so critical as the connector between Silicon Valley and Canada. We loved having you at our celebration Maddy! #cdntech #leadership #olympics #grit #teamwork Digital Moose Lounge

🚀 Day 2 of the #C100Growth Cohort Workshop was packed with insights on product strategy, thanks to our amazing speakers. We’re deeply appreciative of the time and wisdom shared by these industry leaders, helping our cohort continue their growth journey with actionable advice and fresh perspectives. Key takeaways from the day: 📈 Building a compelling product strategy: A winning strategy isn’t the same as a long-term vision—it’s about focusing on how you will win in the market today. Keep it clear and precise to guide your efforts effectively. 🔄 Interplay of strategy dimensions: When refining your strategy, make sure all aspects fit cohesively. Avoid innovating across every dimension. Instead, innovate where it counts and rely on best practices in areas that don’t require disruption. 🗣️ Customer understanding: Engaging with customers is crucial, but without clear objectives, it’s easy to fall into the garbage in, garbage out trap. Make every conversation count by knowing exactly what you need to learn. 🏗️ Building great teams, processes, and products: Organize around customer needs, not internal convenience. Many startups have faced setbacks from avoiding tough decisions, and alignment issues often lead to product failure. A huge thank you to our speakers David Weiss Stefanie Hutka, PhD Sachin Rekhi for sharing these invaluable insights! 🙏 We’re excited to see how our cohort will apply these learnings as they scale their businesses. C100 2024 Growth Cohort companies: 7Gen Arteria AI ContactMonkey e-Zinc Humi MY01 Phoenix (YC W21) Rebelstork Relay RetiSpec Stan and Uride. #CdnTech #ScalingSuccess #ProductStrategy #CustomerSuccess #Leadership

What a powerful first day at our Growth Cohort Product Workshop in Palo Alto! So much insightful content from our speakers and meaningful discussions with our Growth company leaders and mentors. 🚀 Here's some of what was covered: + This century will be known as the century of AI and every company should know how to use it and how it will impact their business. + A product mindset is having a single-minded focus on creating meaningful value for customers before all else. Common elements include defining your customers (and all stakeholders), beginning with user needs, focusing on needs to drive the solution, getting continuous feedback from users, placing outcomes before output (but managing both), enabling solution free discovery, and aligning your organization with products. + A product culture is a shared mindset that helps teams align on what and how to develop products; it can help speed decision-making and avoid discrepancies. + How to handle the tension between sales and customer requests and staying focused on product vision. + Creating a strong culture will help companies scale effectively and significantly -- and don't be afraid to hire slow and fire fast. Thank you so much to our expert speakers: Shomit Ghose Ann Crady Weiss Thomas Nielsen and Benji Shomair and to our Product Specialists for their guidance and mentorship: Dennis Rohm Marie Goodell Goly A. Mark Grilli, Chris Chen Abbie McBride Samer Hamadeh Yen Lee and Nathan Trueblood. C100 2024 Growth Cohort companies: 7Gen Arteria AI ContactMonkey e-Zinc Humi MY01 Phoenix (YC W21) Rebelstork Relay RetiSpec Stan and Uride. #C100Growth #entrepreneur #cdntech #scale #product

Congratulations to Unified.to and Roy Pereira on closing their $1.1M pre-seed round led by LOI and Developer Capital, with support from Alumni Ventures, Techstars, and more. The Unified.to team is helping software teams 100x their integration launches with its real-time unified API platform, which powers the data for AI assistants, insights, automation, and more. We're glad to have this company in our 2024 Fellows Cohort and can’t wait to see what’s next! 🚀 #C100Fellows

Last week at 48Hrs, it was truly inspiring to hear from our Fellows during the Fellows Intro Showcase. Each founder shared the bold ideas behind the companies they are building, the unique challenges they face, and how they hope to leverage the C100 community for support. Thanks to all the C100 members who came to meet the Fellows later that day at our social night! The conversations were rich, and the energy was high as our members explored how they could lend their expertise and resources to help these promising founders succeed. The Fellows’ journey is just beginning, and we’re excited to see how this incredible network comes together to support them in scaling their companies! Adauris Agentnoon Blanka Bounce Cascade Debt CruxOCM Endor Health Friendlier GoVeyance Hyper Kento Health MarineLabs NiaHealth Numr CXM Optimotive Rhenti Rootd Swap Robotics Taiv TeamLinkt Tengiva Ubenwa Health Unified.to Youthfully Zown #C100Fellows #CanadianEntrepreneurs #CdnTech #ScalingTogether

What a great first day at 48Hrs! So many opportunities for connections, thoughtful questions and lessons learned. Thank you to our Leadership panel for their insights about growing as a leader, hiring the right people at the right time, founder vs manager mode, and much more: Julie Currie Tate Hackert Evan Macmillan Michael Buhr. It was good for the Fellows to hear perspectives from founders further along on their journey and an HR practitioner. Lots to reflect on! 🚀 Adauris Agentnoon Blanka Bounce Cascade Debt CruxOCM Endor Health Friendlier GoVeyance Hyper Kento Health MarineLabs NiaHealth Numr CXM Optimotive Rhenti Rootd Swap Robotics Taiv TeamLinkt Tengiva Ubenwa Health Unified.to Youthfully Zown #C100Fellows #entrepreneurs #Cdntech #leadership

An epic start to 48Hrs in the Valley with the 2024 Fellows cohort today! A bike ride across Golden Gate Bridge, followed by dinner and a fireside chat with Mike Wessinger, co-founder and executive chairman of PointClickCare. Very excited for the next 48 hours with this amazing cohort! Adauris Agentnoon Blanka Bounce Cascade Debt CruxOCM Cybrid Endor Health Friendlier GoVeyance Hyper Kento Health MarineLabs NiaHealth Numr CXM Optimotive Rhenti Rootd Swap Robotics Taiv TeamLinkt Tengiva Ubenwa Health Unified.to Youthfully Zown #C100Fellows

This past week was an exciting start for the first cohort of C100’s Growth program. 🚀 A big thank you to the cohort companies and their leaders who brought their A-game to our first workshop in Toronto: 7Gen Arteria AI ContactMonkey e-Zinc Humi MY01 Phoenix (YC W21) Rebelstork Relay RetiSpec Stan and Uride! We're proud of the 12 standout Canadian companies in this cohort and it was inspiring to watch them process and challenge the learnings and takeaways from the sessions. It’s always incredible to see how much value can be unlocked with high-calibre, experienced speakers. They brought vulnerability and honesty that resonated deeply with the cohort and gave them countless actionable takeaways. It was powerful to see founders and their senior leadership teams learning together—walking away not only with actionable strategies but also a shared understanding of the challenges and opportunities ahead. Our speaker lineup included some of the most experienced leaders in the ecosystem: Mike Wessinger on Building a Unicorn in Canada, Sloan Gaon on Navigating the Management Tornado, Dan Park on Surviving is Winning, Allen Lau on The Founders Evolution, Rohan Mahimker on Leading for Growth, Rebecca Kacaba on Leading with Purpose, Joanna Griffiths on Scaling to Success, Chris Bryson on From Startup to Scaleup. Thanks to them all! 🙏 Their shared takeaways and actionable plans will help set the stage for growth, and it's incredibly exciting for C100 to come alongside these companies through this next phase of their journey. Thanks to our moderators, Geoff Baum, Michael Buhr, and Afraj Gill, for facilitating the sessions and to Samer Hamadeh for the peer group overview. Workshop feedback from the cohort has been positive, affirming why this program is so meaningful and integral to the Canadian tech ecosystem. We're excited to see where these learnings will take them. 🚀 Next up is our Product Workshop in October in Palo Alto. Can’t wait! #C100Growth #cdntech #entrepreneur #leadership #founder

Today's opening session at #ALLIN2024 addressed the central question of where Canada stands in the global AI ecosystem. C100 Executive Director Michael Buhr joined David Skok and JULIEN BILLOT and spoke about Canada's place in the AI ecosystem, assigning grades across talent, investment and commercialization, the implications of Canada's risk "Catch-22", and what Canada needs to do to play a global role. ALL IN SCALE AI | Canada's AI Global Innovation Cluster Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute CEIMIA #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Innovation #TechInnovation

🚀 Announcing the 2024 #C100Growth and #C100Fellows Cohorts! Join us in welcoming the 12 scaling companies representing the best in Canadian tech innovation to our Growth Program and the 26 early-stage Canadian founders building category-defining companies to our Fellows Program. These companies and founders were selected from a pool of hundreds of applications and have the potential to shape the future of the Canadian tech ecosystem. The Growth Program is designed to support rapidly scaling Canadian companies with $10M+ in annual revenue. The 12 companies in the cohort exemplify the best of tech innovation in Canada. The cohort comprises pioneers in B2B SaaS, fintech, health tech, cleantech, and AI. 2024-2025 Growth Program cohort companies include 7Gen, Arteria AI, ContactMonkey, e-Zinc, Humi, MY01, Phoenix (YC W21), Rebelstork, Relay, RetiSpec, Stan, and Uride. Now in its 15th year, the re-energized C100 Fellows Program (with 1:1 mentoring and an additional “48Hrs in the Valley” event) continues its tradition of identifying and supporting early-stage companies that showcase ingenuity, technological advancement, and a commitment to social impact. This year’s cohort of 26 startups – the largest ever – is characterized by its diversity, spanning B2B SaaS, deep tech, health tech, fintech, legal tech, and beyond. 2024-2025 Fellows Program cohort companies include Adauris, Agentnoon, Blanka, Bounce, Cascade Debt, CruxOCM, Cybrid, Endor Health, Friendlier, Hyper, Kento Health, MarineLabs, NiaHealth, Numr CXM, Optimotive, GoVeyance, Rhenti, Rootd, Swap Robotics, Taiv, TeamLinkt, Tengiva, Ubenwa Health, Unified.to, Youthfully, and Zown. C100’s Growth and Fellows Programs are central to C100’s mission of empowering Canadian entrepreneurs to build domestic and international category leaders. Congratulations to all! 🎉 We are thankful for the support of our Legacy Partners, Scotiabank and BDC, and look forward to continuing to work with them to support these companies. #CDNtech #entrepreneur #scale