Mentors

Farooq Abbasi

General Partner, Preface Ventures

Artificial Intelligence, Prime

Mike Abramsky

Executive In Residence, MaRS Discovery District

Blockchain

Umair Akeel

Product Architect, Twilio Inc.

Artificial Intelligence

Benjamin Alarie

CEO, Blue J Legal

Artificial Intelligence

Milad Alucozai

Venture Partner, Entrepreneur First

Artificial Intelligence, Health

Chad Anderson

Managing Partner, Space Capital

Space

Ludovic André

Managing Director, Credit Mutuel Equity

Artificial Intelligence, Supply Chain

Jehangir Appoo

Scientist | Artificial Heart Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Health, Prime, Recovery

J. Brant Arseneau

CEO, 9Point8 Capital

Space

Robert Ashcraft

Senior Manager, Samsung Corp

Matter

Douglas Beach

Chairman of the Board, Eavor Technologies Inc.

Ag, Artificial Intelligence, Energy, Prime

Jill Becker

Former Founder and CEO, Cambridge Nanotech Inc. | CEO, Kebotix

Matter

Nick Beim

Partner, Venrock

Liran Belenzon

CEO, BenchSci

Artificial Intelligence, Quantum

Dawn Bell

Global Development Head, Strategic Partnerships Team, Novartis

Health, Recovery

Dennis Bennie

Founder & Principal, XDL Capital Group

Artificial Intelligence

Andy Bergmann

Partner, Wessex Capital

Prime

Eve Blossom

Co-founder, Future Family

Health, Recovery

Ronald Bridges

Professor of Medicine, University of Calgary

Health, Prime, Recovery

Jamie Bruce

Executive Vice President, Canada Health Infoway

Health

Michael Bucella

Partner, BlockTower Capital

Blockchain

Ethan Buchman

Co-founder, Cosmos | CEO, Informal Systems

Blockchain

David Byrd

Principal, Acequia Capital

Elizabeth Caley

Co-CEO, Poppy

Artificial Intelligence, Prime

Neil Cameron

Investment Director, Emerald Technology Ventures Inc

Matter

Jeffrey Carbeck

Former Founder and CEO, MC10 and Arsenal Medical | CEO, 10EQS

Matter

Christian Catalini

Chief Economist, Diem Association

Blockchain

James Cham

Partner, Bloomberg Beta

Artificial Intelligence, Prime

Kelly Chen

Partner, Data Collective VC

Prime, Supply Chain

Stephanie Choo

Partner, Head of Investments, Portag3 Ventures

Blockchain, Risk

Iain Christie

CEO and Founder, SideKickSixtyFive Consulting

Space

Jeff Chung

Venture Capitalist, AME Cloud Ventures

Artificial Intelligence, Health

Mark Cunningham

Advisor, StudioMaC

Prime, Space

Mark Cupta

Managing Partner at Prelude Ventures

Matter

Timur Davis

Principal, Munich Re Ventures

Quantum

Ron Dembo

Founder and CEO, Riskthinking.ai

Artificial Intelligence, Climate, Risk

Eden Dhaliwal

Global Managing Director, Conflux Network

Blockchain

Jeff Enslin

Managing Member, Perimetre Capital, LLC

Health

Lauren Epstein

Associate, OMERS Ventures

Artificial Intelligence, Energy, Prime

William “Mac” Evans

President, W MacDonald Evans Consulting Inc

Space

Candice Faktor

Managing Partner, Faktory Ventures

Prime

Beric Farmer

Former Co-Founder, XE

Blockchain, Quantum

Brandon Farwell

Managing Partner, Xfund

Space

Josh Felker

Founder and Managing Partner, BoxOne Ventures

Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain

Joel Finlayson

Partner, iGan Partners | SVP Corporate Development, Think Research

Health

Debbie Fischer

Vice Chair and Secretary, North York General Hospital Board of Governors

Health

Ash Fontana

Managing Director, Zetta Venture Partners

Artificial Intelligence, Climate

Douglas Foster

Investor & Advisor, Foresite Labs

Health, Recovery

Anders G Frøseth

Partner, Propagator Ventures

Matter

Joseph Fung

Managing Partner, Saltagen Ventures

Prime, Quantum

Ryan Gariepy

CTO and Co-founder, Clearpath

Space

Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka

Principal, Canaan Partners

Space

Patricia Gauthier

General Manager, Moderna

Health

Lahav Gil

Founder, Kangaroo Ventures

Health

Sven Grail

Co-CEO, Altima Dental Canada | Co-founder and Executive Chairman, MCI Brighthealth.ai

Health

Jeff Green

Managing Director, Rusheen Capital Management

Matter

David Greenberg

President, D. Dave HealthCare Solutions and Lecturer, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto

Health

Jason Greenspan

Former Co-founder and CEO, WHOOSH!

Matter, Recovery

Jeremy Greven

Co-founder, Manifest Climate

Health

Simon Grocott

Deputy Director, Missions at the Space Flight Laboratory, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies

Space

Jacob Grose

Investment Manager, BASF Venture Capital

Matter, Quantum

Kanu Gulati

Principal, Khosla Ventures

Artificial Intelligence

Baris Guzel

Principal, BMW i Ventures

Prime

Amy ter Haar

President, Integra Ledger

Blockchain

Michelle Hanlon

Founding Partner, ABH Aerospace and Co-founder, For All Moonkind

Space

James Hardiman

Partner, Data Collective

Health

Michael Harries

Partner, The Robotics Hub

Prime, Quantum

Michael G. Helander

President & CEO, OTI Lumionics

Matter, Prime, Quantum

Duncan Hill

Cofounder and General Partner, Mantella Venture Partners

Prime

Jim Horowitz

Senior Manager, Beresford Ventures

Commerce, Health, Prime, Quantum

Sam Ifergan

CEO, iGan Partners

Health

Mohammad Islam

Principal, DFJ Venture Capital

Prime, Quantum

Jordan Jacobs

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Radical Ventures

Jacki Jenuth

Partner, Lumira Ventures

Health

Christophe Jurczak

Partner, Quantonation

Quantum

Dina Kamal

Partner, Deloitte LLP

Artificial Intelligence, Recovery

Sutha Kamal

CTO, VMware

Health, Prime

Gareth Keane

Partner, Promus Ventures

Space

Andra Keay

Managing Director, Silicon Valley Robotics

Space

Rabia Khan

Founder, StealthMode Startup

Health

Karin Klein

Founding Partner, Bloomberg Beta

Prime,

Michael Kuhlmann

CEO, Colony Networks

Blockchain

Nathan Kundtz

CEO, Rendered.AI | Physicist in Residence, Tectonic

Space

Eva Lau

Founding and General Partner, Two Small Fish Ventures

Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Health, Prime, Supply Chain

Allen Lau

CEO and Co-founder, Wattpad

Artificial Intelligence

Stephen Leonard

Head of IP, Qvella/Hill and Schumacher

Health

Millie Liu

Managing Partner, First Star Ventures

Artificial Intelligence, Health, Space

Phil De Luna

Program Director, Materials for Clean Fuels Challenge Program, National Research Council

Climate, Matter

Michael Lyon

President and CEO, Lyon Capital, Inc.

Space

Jiong Ma

Partner, Braemar Energy Ventures

Blockchain

Jevon MacDonald

CEO and Co-Founder, Manifold

Prime

Margarita Marinova

Senior Engineer and Planetary Scientist, Independent Consultant

Space

Tony van Marken

Managing Partner and Co-founder, First Ascent Ventures

Artificial Intelligence

Prashant Matta

Partner, Panache Ventures

Artificial Intelligence

Linda Maxwell

Founding and Executive Director, The Biomedical Zone

Health

Kevin McBride

Partner and CSO, AmorChem Ventures

Health

Murray McCaig

Managing Partner, ArcTern Ventures

Artificial Intelligence, Climate, Matter, Prime, Quantum

Bruce McDonald

Co-CEO, Black & McDonald

Prime

Jason McFall

CTO, Privitar Ltd

Artificial Intelligence

Duke McKenzie

Founder & CEO, re6l

Prime

Adam McNamara

Founding Partner, Ramen Ventures

Artificial Intelligence, Climate, Prime

Ricky Mehra

Founder, General Partner, Continuum Ventures

Health

Laurie Menoud

Partner, At One Ventures

Matter

Mina Mitry

Co-founder & CEO, Kepler Communications

Prime, Space

Chris Moehle

Managing Director, Coal Hill Ventures

Health, Supply Chain

David Moehring

General Partner, Cambium Capital Partners

Quantum

Luke Moloney

General Partner, SpaceFund Inc

Space

Michelle Moon

Senior Investment Associate, LG Technology Ventures

Matter

Jodie Morgan

CEO, Greenmantra Technologies

Matter

Brian Mosoff

CEO, Ether Capital Corp

Blockchain

Clay Mowry

Vice President, Blue Origin

Space

Pulakesh Mukherjee

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Imperative Science Ventures

Climate, Matter

Jan-Maarten Mulder

Founder, Summer Capital

Quantum

Ash Munshi

Founder, Pepperdata, Marianas Labs

Ag, Artificial Intelligence, Prime

Mike Murchison

CEO, Ada

Artificial Intelligence

Barry Nalebuff

Milton Steinbach Professor, Yale University

Prime

Karamdeep Nijjar

Partner | iNovia Capital

Artificial Intelligence, Prime

Dror Nir

Board of Directors, Spark Centre | Advisor, Innerspace HQ

Artificial Intelligence

Alex Norman

TechToronto Co-Founder and Canadian Partner, AngelList

Artificial Intelligence, Health

Brent Norton

Venture Partner, Lumira Capital | Director, AFMC & Ortho RTI

Health

Haig Farris, O.C.

Founding Chairman, D-Wave Systems | Co-Chair, Creative Destruction Lab

Artificial Intelligence, Health, Prime, Quantum

Loren Padelford

VP & GM, Shopify

Commerce, Space

Kaustubh Pandya

Principal, Brick & Mortar Ventures

Artificial Intelligence, Prime, Space

Michael Pangia

Former President and CEO, Aviat Networks

Prime

Julien Pham

Founder & Managing Partner, 3CC | Third Culture Capital

Health

Donald Plewes

Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

Health

Michael Pley

President, Pley Consulting Inc.

Space

Richard Pournelle

Senior Vice-President of Business Development, Nanoracks

Space

Hena Prasanna

Machine Learning Practice Leader, AWS

Artificial Intelligence

Shanti Rao

Senior Engineer, JPL

Space

Michael Rapps

President and CEO, Clarke Inc.

Marty Reed

CEO, Evok Innovations

Climate, Energy, Matter, Prime, Quantum

Lally Rementilla

Managing Partner, IP Investments, BDC Capital

Health

Ian Rhind

Advisor & Investor

Artificial Intelligence, Prime

Raphael Roettgen

Managing Partner, E2MC Ventures

Space

Lewis Rose

Strategic Advisor, Board Director and Investor; Former CEO

Blockchain

Maryanna Saenko

Co-founder, Future Ventures

Matter, Quantum

Tekin Salimi

General Partner, Polychain Capital

Blockchain

Brice Scheschuk

Managing Partner, Globalive Capital Inc

Prime

Jessy Kate Schingler

Director Policy and Governance, Open Lunar Foundation

Space

Jim Seto

COO, ePIC Blockchain Technologies

Blockchain

Riam Shammaa

Founder, Canadian Centres for Regenerative Therapy | Managing Director, Regen Capital

Health

Ashmeet Sidana

Chief Engineer, Engineering Capital

Blockchain, Prime, Quantum

Sohaib Siddiqui

Managing Partner, Kettleback Ventures

Health, Recovery

Micah Siegel

Partner, Vanedge Capital

Matter

Kirk Simpson

CEO and Co-founder, Wave

Prime

Doug Sinclair

Engineering Fellow, Rocket Lab

Space

James Slifierz

Co-founder and CEO, SkyWatch Space Applications

Space

Joel Spark

Co-founder and CTO, Spire Global

Space

Bharat Srinivasa

Co-founder and Principal, Amplitude Ventures

Health

Matt Stevens

Cofounder and CEO, FleetCarma

Prime

Jamie Stiff

Managing Director, Genesys Capital

Health

Benji Sucher

Co-Founder and General Partner, Radical Ventures

Blockchain

Ying Tam

President & Managing Director, YINGCo

Health

Vincent Tang

Investor, Samsung Q Fund

Artificial Intelligence

Andrew Thompson

CEO, Proteus Digital Health

Health

Luka Tomljenovic

Investment Partner, Airbus Ventures

Space

Stephan Uhrenbacher

Founder, Density Ventures

Artificial Intelligence, Climate, Health, Prime

Iliana Oris Valiente

Managing Director & Canada Innovation Lead, Accenture

Blockchain

Paul Veradittakit

Partner, Pantera Capital

Blockchain

Neil Wainwright

CEO, UpHabit

Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Matter, Prime, Quantum, Recovery

Chris Wake

Founder & Investor, Atypical Ventures

Matter, Space

Lucy Wang

General Partner, Divergent Capital

Health, Recovery

Lamar Warren

Associate Investment Manager, LM Ventures

Prime, Quantum

Boris Wertz

Founder, Version One Ventures

Blockchain

Alex Wiltschko

Senior Research Scientist, Google Brain

Matter

Vincent Win

Partner, Venture Advisory

Health, Prime

Harold Wodlinger

President, Wodlinger Consulting

Health

Lyon Wong

Co-Founder, Blameless

Prime

Ozge Yeloglu

VP Advanced Analytics, CIBC

Artificial Intelligence, Quantum

Xiaoming Yin

Investment Manager, Lockheed Martin Ventures

Artificial Intelligence, Space

Elizabeth Yin

General Partner, Hustle Fund

Prime, Quantum

Catherine Zhu

Former Head, Egon Zehnder (Greater China Practice)

Health

Shelley Zhuang

Founder, Eleven Two Capital

Health, Quantum

Shivon Zilis

Project Director, Office of the CEO, Neuralink, Tesla

Artificial Intelligence, Health

Lynne Zucker

Advisor, DiD Software Inc

Health, Recovery