Podcasts by AfternoonT - Stories from Successful Canadian Founders

Taufiq Rahim of 2040 Ventures: the world, differently from 2023-05-18T12:00

Taufiq Rahim is one of Canada’s global citizens. He is an investor and an international problem solver. Over the last two decades and in over 20 countries, Taufiq has driven investment, convened...

Jen Lee Koss of Springbank Collective: Investing in infrastructure to support women from 2023-05-11T18:37:37

Jen Lee Koss is an entrepreneur and investor, passionate about supporting, uplifting, and changing the lives of entrepreneurs and working families. She is a founding partner of Springbank Collec...

Anthonia Ogundele of Ethos Lab: Increasing representation in innovation from 2023-05-04T12:00

Anthonia Ogundele is the Founder and Executive Director of the Ethos Lab Educational Society. Ethos Lab is a non-profit STEM and culture-focused Innovation Academy for youth ages 13-18 that prov...

Rana Sarkar of Global Affairs: Consul General of Canada in San Fransisco from 2023-04-27T12:00

In episode 80 of the Afternoon T Podcast, Chris sits down for a chat with the Consul General of Canada in San Fransisco, Rana Sarkar.

Rana has also held various senior leadership position...

Kayla Isabelle of Startup Canada - helping Canada’s entrepreneurs from 2023-04-20T12:00

This week TTT president and co-founder Chris Hobbs sits down with the CEO of Startup Canada, Kayla Isabelle for Episode 79 of the Afternoon "T" Podcast.

With over a decade of experience i...

Maninder Dhaliwal of Lions Gate International: a global perspective on VC from 2023-04-13T12:00

Episode 78 of the Afternoon "T" Podcast finds Chris Hobbs chatting with the founder of Lions Gate International, Maninder Dhaliwal.

In addition to being the President and Co-founder of Li...

John Ruffolo of Maverix Private Equity - Canadian VC legend from 2023-04-06T12:00

For episode 77 of the Afternoon "T" Podcast Chris sits down to chat with Canadian VC legend John Ruffolo.

John is the founder and Managing Partner at Maverix Private Equity, as well as th...

Andre Charoo of Maple VC: helping launch the next generation from 2023-03-30T12:00

Andre Charoo is a prominent figure in the venture capital industry, known for his expertise in early-stage investments and his ability to identify promising startups.

Andre Charoo began h...

Sam Gharegozlou of Axiom Zen&Dapper Labs: a passion for technology and entrepreneurship from 2023-03-23T12:00

Sam Gharegozlou of Axiom Zen and Dapper Labs joins Chris Hobbs to for episode 75 of the Afternoon "T" Podcast.

Sam Gharegozlou is a true innovator in the tech world, and his impact on the...

David Helliwell of Thrive Health: Empowering relationships in health care from 2023-03-16T12:00

David Helliwell of Thrive health joins Chris Hobbs to launch season 6 in episode 74 of the Afternoon "T" Podcast.

Join us as David discusses lessons from his time working in government, b...

Kirk LaPointe of BIV: a lifetime in journalism from 2022-12-15T12:00

A little bit of different feel this week in the final episode of Season 5 as Chris welcomes legendary Canadian journalist Kirk LaPointe. Join us for a thoughtful chat about his depth of experien...

Tamer Mohamed of Aspect Biosystems: transforming how we treat disease from 2022-12-01T12:00

Tamer Mohamed of Aspect Biosystems joins Chris Hobbs this week for Episode 72 of the Afternoon "T" podcast.

Join us while Tamer discusses how Aspect Biosystems is breaking ground in the t...

Steve Irvine of integrate.ai: unlocking value while protecting sensitive data from 2022-11-24T12:00

This week Steve Irvine of integrate.ai joins Chris Hobbs for Episode 71 of the Afternoon "T" podcast.

Listen in as Steve discusses his time with Facebook, now Meta, and the interesting tr...

Harold Dumur of OVA: empowering business teams in the metaverse from 2022-11-17T12:00

Join host Chris Hobbs for Episode 70 of the Afternoon "T" podcast, with guest Harold Dumur of OVA.

Join us as Harold discusses putting Elton John's "this train don't stop there a...

Chris Neumann of Panache Ventures: tech startup hunter and farmer from 2022-11-10T12:00

In Episode 69 of the Afternoon "T" podcast Chris Neumann joins host Chris hobbs for a chat.

Have a listen while Chris Neumann discusses how venture capitalists need to have the qualities ...

Allen Lau of Wattpad: Removing barriers between readers and writers from 2022-11-03T12:00

Listen in for Episode 68 of the AfternoonT Podcast as Chris is joined by Wattpad co-founder Allen Lau.

Join Chris as Allen discusses why as a founder, you have to be your first and best c...

Michael Stephens of Fasken: leading Information Technology Lawyer from 2022-10-27T12:00

Join us for Episode 67 of the AfternoonT Podcast as Chris is joined by Michael Stephens a leading information technology partner at Fasken law firm.

Hear Michael's thoughts on the strateg...

Bryan Duarte of BlackTech Capital: Social Venturist in CleanTech from 2022-10-20T12:00

In episode 66 Chris sits down for a chat with BlackTech Capital founder and Enliten CEO Bryan Duarte.

Listen in as Bryan discusses Canada's place in the global Clean Tech industry (13:00)...

Brenda Bailey - MLA Vancouver False Creek: focused on diversity in the tech centre from 2022-10-06T12:00

In episode 65, Chris sits down with Brenda Bailey, elected MLA for Vancouver-False Creek in 2020 and now serving as the Parliamentary Secretary for Technology and Innovation. Max Lytvyn, who has made it his mission to help people communi...

David Abbey of Penny AI from 2022-06-30T12:00

David Abbey is a serial entrepreneur, founding his first business back in 2003.  After his exit in 2006 David enjoyed some time abroad while shifting into the world of tech startups, earning an ...

Dave Wessinger of PointClickCare from 2022-06-23T12:00

In 2000, Dave Wessinger co-founded PointClickCare with his brother Mike.  Together they pioneered healthcare’s digital transformation and drove improved outcomes for seniors and care teams throu...

Andrew Graham of Borrowell from 2022-06-16T12:00

Andrew Graham is co-founder and CEO of Borrowell, a financial technology company that helps consumers make great decisions about credit. Borrowell was the first company in Canada to offer credit...

Dan Burgar of Frontier Collective from 2022-06-09T12:00

Dan Burgar is a cheerleader and innovator who has helped Vancouver become a global powerhouse in VR/AR/Metaverse. Dan is the co-founder and CEO of the Frontier Collective, a coalition of leaders...

Marcus New of InvestX from 2022-06-02T12:00

Marcus New is the Managing Partner & Chief Entrepreneur of InvestX Capital. InvestX investments have included; SpaceX, Airbnb, Lyft, Impossible Foods, Pinterest, Spotify, Palantir, Dropbox, Docu...

Karn Manhas of Terramera from 2022-05-26T12:00

Founder & CEO of Terramera, Karn Manhas is an entrepreneur with more than 15 years of leadership experience in government, community, and business development. Karn is responsible for the vision...

Jay Giraud of Damon from 2022-05-19T12:00

Jay Giraud is an automotive tech entrepreneur focused on launching companies that redefine mobility. Jay has built successful products and companies by marrying disruptive solutions with disrupt...

Ev Tchebotarev of Sloika and 500px from 2022-05-12T12:00

Evgeny (Ev) Tchebotarev began photography in 2002 and since then he has spent the entirety of his professional career dedicated to the betterment of visual creativity. In 2021, He co-founded Slo...

Tanis Jorge of Trulioo from 2022-05-05T12:00

Tanis Jorge is a serial tech entrepreneur and a leading advisor on entrepreneurship and building successful cofounder partnerships.

Throughout her career in startups, spanning the last 20...

Marlon Thompson of Future Capital from 2022-04-28T14:12

Marlon Thompson is an angel investor, startup founder and experienced advocate for diversity in business. Thompson founded Future Capital in 2020 to change the landscape of startup investing acr...

Chris Albinson of Communitech from 2022-04-21T12:00

Chris Albinson is the President & CEO of Communitech, Co-Founder & Managing Director of the BreakawayGrowth Fund, and visionary founder and past chairperson of the C100. Albinson has been an ear...

Toufic Boubez of MacroHealth from 2022-04-14T12:00

Toufic Boubez is a serial entrepreneur with three successful exits to his name. He was the founding CTO of Saffron Technology with a mission of building cognitive computing systems for Big Data ...

Michelle Zatlyn of Cloudflare from 2022-04-07T12:00

Michelle Zatlyn is co-founder, President, and COO of Cloudflare, the Internet security, performance, and reliability company on a mission to help build a better Internet. Prior to co-founding Cl...

William Johnson of Vancouver Tech Journal from 2022-03-31T12:00

William Johnson is the founder and managing editor of the Vancouver Tech Journal. With a focus on business and technology, William’s writing has been featured in outlets including Maclean’s, The...

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Janet Bannister of Real Ventures&Kijiji from 2021-12-23T12:00

Janet Bannister is the Managing Partner of Real Ventures, Canada’s preeminent early-stage venture capital firm.  In addition to leading Real Ventures and working with her large portfolio of rapi...

Jason Smith&Sarathy Naicker of Klue from 2021-12-16T12:00

Today is a special episode of the AfternoonT as I have Sarathy Niacker and Jason Smith co-founders of Klue - an AI-powered Competitive Enablement platform designed to help product marketers coll...

Sunil Sharma of Techstars from 2021-12-09T12:00

Sunil Sharma is the Managing Director of the Techstars Toronto Accelerator, Techstars' first accelerator program in Canada. Previously, Sunil was founder of Extreme Startups, managed a Canadian ...

Web Summit Edition from 2021-12-02T12:00

Web Summit is an annual technology conference held in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference's theme centers on emerging technologies and venture capitalism. Web Summit's partners range from Fortune 5...

Cybele Negris of Webnames.ca from 2021-11-25T12:00

Cybele Negris is a serial entrepreneur, seasoned board member, speaker, mentor, and columnist. In 2000, Cybele became the CEO & Co-Founder of Webnames.ca, Canada’s original .CA Registr...

Mike Potter of Rewind from 2021-11-18T12:00

Mike Potter is the co-founder and CEO of Rewind, a leading cloud data backup provider trusted by over 30,000 businesses to protect their data on platforms such a...

Bertrand Nepveu of Vrvana from 2021-11-07T20:53:26

Bertrand Nepveu has spent his entire career working in the field of computer vision. From a very young age, he knew that he wanted to be an entrepreneur like his grandfather and change the world...

Kirk Simpson of Wave from 2021-10-28T12:00

Kirk Simpson is the co-founder and CEO of Toronto-based Wave. He’s a serial entrepreneur, having started multiple businesses prior. Kirk has led Wave to become an internationally disruptive fint...

Tobyn Sowden of Redbrick from 2021-10-21T12:00

Tobyn Sowden is the CEO of Redbrick, the parent organization to a growing portfolio of companies. Redbrick has been ranked the 5th Fastest-Growing Company in Canada and 2nd in software, by PROFI...

Andrew Reid of Rival Technologies&Vision Critical from 2021-10-14T12:00

Andrew Reid is the founder of Rival Technologies, Co-founder of Rival Group Inc. and Group CEO. He also founded Vision Critical, a cloud-based customer-intelligence platform provider. An industr...

Matt Smith of Thinkific&Later from 2021-10-07T12:00

Matt Smith is a technology entrepreneur who has founded multiple technology startups, including Thinkific and Later, both highly successful SaaS companies that help businesses succeed online. Th...

Alison Taylor of Jane App from 2021-09-30T12:00

Alison Taylor is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Jane, an online platform for healthcare practitioners that delivers a unified approach to online booking, charting, scheduling, video services, and ...

Philippe Beaudoin of Waverly (Season 3) from 2021-09-23T12:00

Philippe Beaudoin is a venture scientist constantly looking for ideas that can improve society. In 2020, he co-founded Waverly where he and his team are building a discovery engine for our incre...

Kim Kaplan of Snack from 2021-07-08T12:00

Kim Kaplan is the CEO of Snack, a video dating app that combines the matching algorithms of dating apps with the ability to share your life in real-time. Snack aims to disrupt the dating industr...

Maria Pacella of Pender Ventures from 2021-06-24T12:00

Maria Pacella is the Senior VP and Managing Partner at Pender Ventures, and has over 20 years of investing and operational experience in emerging growth companies, with a focus on technology bus...

Ian Crosby of Bench from 2021-06-17T12:00

Ian Crosby is the co-founder and CEO of Bench, North America’s largest bookkeeping service. Ian co-founded Bench Accounting, an all-in-one banking and accounting platform and service for small b...

Michael Argast of Kobalt.io from 2021-06-10T12:00

Michael Argast is the co-founder and CEO at Kobalt.io. Kobalt.io partners with various small and mid-sized organizations using industry standards and best practices shared service platforms, and...

Jason Flick of You.i TV from 2021-06-03T12:00

Jason Flick is the former CEO/co-founder of You.i TV, a company that has built an interface engine to power the world’s most beautiful multi-screen video applications and is now acquired by Warn...

Amer Abu-Khajil of Shop Studio Live from 2021-05-27T10:05

Amer Abu-Khajil is passionate about building things. From designing buildings - in a past life in Structural Engineering - to ideating, incubating, and launching startups. Amer’s work has allowe...

Jeff Sinclair of Eventbase from 2021-05-20T09:00

Jeff Sinclair is the CEO and co-founder of Eventbase, the leading provider of mobile apps for premium events including Tier 1 events for global brands such as IBM, Microsoft and SAP, SXSW, CES, ...

Leah Coss of Build a Biz Kids from 2021-05-12T14:08:23

Leah Coss is the Co-Founder and President of Build a Biz Kids, an organization that is challenging the education system and innovating how, why and what we teach our youth in order to better pre...

Michael Cheng of Lumen5 from 2021-05-06T11:28:37

Michael Cheng is the CEO and co-founder of Lumen5, an online video creation platform with over 750,000 users worldwide. Michael started Lumen5 with a vision to democratize video creation so that...

Karm Sumal of Daily Hive from 2021-04-29T12:05:04

Karm Sumal is the co-founder and CEO of Daily Hive, previously known as Vancity Buzz. What started out as a passion project in his basement in South Vancouver, has now evolved into the biggest o...

Anna Sainsbury of GeoComply from 2021-04-23T15:54:59

Anna Sainsbury is the Chairman of GeoComply and has worked in the area of compliance for the gaming sector since her first role at Technical Systems Testing (TST) in 2005.  In 2011, Anna setup G...

Jayesh Parmar of Picatic/Eventbrite&Gunkii from 2021-04-20T13:45:15

Originally hailing from Saskatoon, Jayesh is the former CEO/Co-Founder of Picatic.com which was acquired by Eventbrite in 2018. Jayesh is an active investor, a lifelong student, and has jumped b...

Mitchell Demeter of Netcoins from 2021-04-08T10:20:26

Mitchell is a serial entrepreneur and pioneering figure in the cryptocurrency industry. Having gained worldwide attention for launching the world’s first Bitcoin ATM in Vancouver, followed by lo...

Fay Arjomandi of mimik from 2021-04-01T10:36:51

Fay Arjomandi is a serial entrepreneur and renowned leader in tech having founded L3 Technology, Mobidia and mimik. She has filled many executive roles including CEO of Vodafone xone, the global...

Jack Newton of Clio from 2021-03-25T15:58:39

As the CEO and Co-founder of Clio and a pioneer in cloud-based legal technology, Jack Newton has spearheaded efforts to educate the legal community on the security, ethics, and privacy issues su...

Charles Lavigne of LlamaZOO from 2021-03-19T10:12:54

Charles Lavigne is the president, co-founder and CEO of LlamaZOO. As CEO of LlamaZOO, Charles’ visionary leadership drives the company’s mission to “change the way the world sees data”. He is pa...

Ilya Brotzky of VanHack from 2021-03-10T13:44:07

Ilya Brotzky is the founder and CEO of VanHack. Based in Vancouver, B.C, VanHack is one of the world’s largest tech recruiting companies. It has a network of over 100,000 software engineering, d...

Saba Mohebpour of Spocket from 2021-03-03T11:53:15

Saba Mohebpour is the CEO and founder of Spocket, an app that seamlessly connects buyers, retailers, and suppliers. He is focused on empowering online entrepreneurs by solving the trillion dolla...

Craig Slagel of RunGo from 2021-02-24T14:37:41

Craig Slagel is the founder of RunGo, the first navigation app for runners and walkers. RunGo helps people find great running routes then guides them with turn-by-turn voice navigation. RunGo is...

Lloyed Lobo of Boast.AI from 2021-02-18T11:36:24

Lloyed Lobo is the co-founder and president of Boast.AI, a company that is working to streamline and automate access to over $200 Billion in global R&D credits and innovation incentives, so comp...

Katie Dunsworth of Talk Shop from 2021-02-04T13:35:13

Katie is the co-founder of Talk Shop, a PR firm and one of Canada’s top employers and most inspiring agencies. Katie is a trained journalist and serial entrepreneur and both her professional and...

Holiday Special (Season 1 Finale) from 2020-12-18T14:42:39

In episode 15 and our Season 1 finale, we decided to have a special edition episode celebrating the 10 years of TTT. Alongside our host Chris, we have David Hobbs, Jose Hernandez, Josephine Wong...

Igor Faletski of Mobify from 2020-12-14T13:36:51

Igor is the co-founder of Mobify, the leading mobile web platform provider, powering hundreds of millions of mobile pageviews for its ...

Kris Hartvigsen of dooly.ai from 2020-12-07T13:08:26

Kris Hartvigsen is the CEO and co-founder of Dooly, a sales enablement platform that collects customer information essential to close business sales. The cloud-based platform uses artificial int...

Carl Schmidt of Unbounce from 2020-11-18T12:06:28

Carl Schmidt is a co-founder of Unbounce, a drag-and-drop builder that lets you create and publish your own landing pages, without the need for coding. Unbounce has helped over 15,000 brands cre...

Olivia Wong of Prototype Thinking Labs from 2020-11-10T11:11:03

Olivia Wong is a Senior Partner at Prototype Thinking Labs, a business design and innovation lab focused on solving new business models 10x faster. Using a unique approach born at GoogleX, Olivi...

Kyle Campbell of CTO.ai from 2020-10-28T10:26:27

Kyle Campbell is the founder and CEO of CTO.ai, a platform for rapidly scaling DevOps teams. Kyle founded CTO.ai in 2017, after working with DevOps teams as an investor and advisor to a wide ran...

Vivian Chan of Vancouver Startup Week from 2020-10-20T09:59:05

Vivian Chan is a community builder at heart and has a background in marketing, sales and event management, which she has implemented in the last 10 years while working with Canadian companies an...

Ray Walia of Launch Ventures from 2020-09-29T10:06:48

Ray Walia is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in both the entertainment and technology sectors, with his latest work being Launch Ventures. Launch Ventures owns and operate...

Casey Lau of RISE Conference from 2020-09-22T15:46:25

Casey Lau is a startup connector, ecosystem community builder, and international tech conference host. Casey co-hosts the world renown RISE conference boasting over 500+ speakers, 16,000 attende...

Josh Nilson of East Side Games from 2020-09-17T15:51:06

Josh Nilson is the CEO and Co-Founder of East Side Games (ESG), producer of popular titles such as Trailer Park Boys: Greasy Money,  It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Gang Goes Mobile, and ...

Kerry Gibson of EcoCentury Technologies from 2020-09-17T15:45:46

Kerry Gibson is the President of EcoCentury Technologies, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Ziphycare, and serves on the Board of Directors of many foundations and organizations. In this epi...

Ian MacKinnon of Later from 2020-08-24T12:33:22

Ian MacKinnon is co-founder and CTO of Later. Later was started at a hackathon and has grown to become the leading marketing platform for Instagram with over 2,000,000 of the world’s top brands ...

Chris Heard of Olive from 2020-08-14T00:58:20

Chris Heard is the CEO and Co-Founder of Olive. In this episode, Chris tells the story of Olive, a technology startup based in Vancouver, BC. With Olive, your teams can ensure user adoption, ski...

Steve de Jong of VRIFY from 2020-08-05T10:15:49

After selling Integra Gold Corporation for $590 Million, Steve de Jong founded VRIFY, a technology platform being used by some of the world’s most prominent mining companies to communi...

Chris Breikss of Major Tom from 2020-07-15T01:27:59

In this episode, we sit down with Chris Breikss of Major Tom to chat about his journey as an serial entrepreneur, and how giving up the reins of his business by appointing a CEO was the best dec...