Flagship Podcast

On this week’s show, we spoke with Bethany Deshpande, Founder & CEO @ Soma Detect. Bethany is a highly motivated, big-picture thinker who has more than a decade of experience in science and entrepreneurship, and is always excited to tackle big problems in big ways

On this week’s show, we spoke with Marc-André Roberge, Co-Founder @ Nectar. Marc-André is the co-founder of the Nectar apicultural technology company. Marc-André graduated from the Université de Montréal in 2014. He is a volunteer beekeeper with the Santropol Roulant Beekeeping Collective, a non-profit organization that maintains beehives in Montreal; he has designed bee-centered design projects in addition to working in the field of product design

On this week’s show, we spoke with Laurent Féral-Pierseens, Co-Founder @ Inception Block Ventures. Laurent is co-founder and partner of Inception Block Ventures, a Montreal-based venture capital firm dedicated to supporting the blockchain industry as well as Executive Director, Blockchain Advisory of KPMG Canada.

On this week’s show, we spoke with Marc-Antoine Bonin, Co-Founder @ Entr. Marc-Antoine is a brilliant young entrepreneur working at his second startup. His first one was Uvolt that didn’t pan out but that isn’t stopping him.

Entr is a rental platform that connects event planners with a city’s most dynamic spaces. They understand the importance of curating memorable experiences and are seeing great traction.

On this week’s show, we spoke with Narjès Boufaden, CEO @ Keatext. Narjès is passionate about solving technical challenges involving natural language understanding, Narjès is among first researchers who specialized in Text mining technologies for conversational text, such as dialogues and telephone conversations. She has contributed in the field with more than 15 scientific publications and several conference talks.

On this week’s show, we spoke with Mitch Joel, President @ Mirum Agency

Mitch Joel is President of Mirum – a WPP owned digital marketing agency (formerly Twist Image). Marketing Magazine dubbed him the "Rock Star of Digital Marketing" and called him, "one of North America's leading digital visionaries." Mitch is a past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Marketing Association and a former Board Member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada and Postmedia.

On this week’s show, we spoke with Jan Christopher Arp, Founder and Director @ FormFintech.

Jan is an unconditional supporter of Fintech. He’s passionate about improving the financial well-being of society. Thanks to FormFintech.com, he is working on the creation of teams gravitating around artificial intelligence and blockchain to solve the problems of the financial industry, and this, in collaboration with key players in the fintech ecosystem.

On this week’s show, we spoke with Chris Stern, Partner @ Innovobot Chris is a serial entrepreneur with more than 15 years’ experience in Cleantech, Chris is a co-Founder and Principal at Innovobot, an Operating Private Equity firm. Based in Montreal with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Toronto, Innovobot focuses on human and financial capital investments in Cleantech, IIOT, Robotics and IT Security.

On this week’s show, we spoke with Daniel Robichaud, Managing Partner @ Diagram Ventures. Dan is a serial entrepreneur and an angel investor. His first company was acquired in 2006 by a Global Fortune 500. He went on to start and exit 5 other technology companies

On this week’s show, we spoke with Frederic Bastien, CEO @ Mnubo. Fred is a passionate entrepreneur with a keen sense for innovation and business value creation. Fred is driving mnubo to be the strategic catalyst in truly opening up the Internet of Things, so that OEMs can maximize value from the data generated by their connected objects.