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🚨 New Tank Talks Episode! From Breaking News to Breaking Barriers: Amber Kanwar’s (Amber Kanwar) Bold Leap into Independent Media 🎙️ After 15 years as one of Canada’s top financial journalists at BNN Bloomberg, Amber Kanwar is charting her own path with her new

Did you know there are over 450 corporate venture capital funds as of April 2025? Yet so many people are still unaware of what Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) actually is and how it operates. On this weeks episode of Tank Talks we welcome Adam Coccari MD at HubSpot

Crowdfunding $15M from parents? GoHenry strategy changed the fintech game forever. Dean Brauer turned a parenting frustration into GoHenry—a fintech platform teaching kids financial literacy with a debit card + app. Parents became investors, raising $15M through equity crowdfunding

🎧 The Rundown Show with is out, and John Ruffolo & I discuss it all: ➡️ Canada’s VC funding just hit a five-year low. Is our tech future slipping away? ➡️ BDC and CVCA reports show early-stage activity is drying up and U.S. capital is barely trickling in. The result? Founders are

Decentralized, open-sourced, and citywide. Is this the future of every tech festival? Toronto Tech Week is turning heads with almost 240 tech events across 24 neighbourhoods—all in 5 days. No central committee. Just grassroots energy, big names like Shopify and Google Cloud, and a

🚀 Up Next in the Tank, we have Ryan Gariepy from Clearpath Robotics by Rockwell Automation discussing what it takes to build the Operating System for the Future of Automation From a garage in Waterloo to a $600M exit—Ryan Gariepy shares the wild ride of building Clearpath, landing industry-shaping

🚨 New LIVE Tank Talks Episode Just Dropped! Ever wonder what late-night coding sessions in a coffee shop can turn into? For Sam Pillar and Forrest Zeisler, it became Jobber platform now helping thousands of small service businesses run smoother, work less, and grow

Canada's outdated capital gains policies are driving entrepreneurs and investors away. We need competitive tax reform to keep talent and investment here, building the businesses of tomorrow. Today, Canada has two policies to encourage builders to start businesses the Lifetime

The latest Rundown episode of Tank Talks is live—this one’s a must-listen. John Ruffolo and I break down some of the biggest trends shaping the future of Canada’s innovation economy: Canada’s Data Sovereignty Crisis ➡️ Foreign control of our data centers poses major risks.

🚀 New Tank Talks Episode🎙️ The Power of Pre-Seed with Gaurav Jain from Afore Capital What if your best investment happened before a founder even had an idea? In Episode 267 of Tank Talks, I sat down with Gaurav Jain, co-founder of Afore Capital, one of the OGs of pre-seed VC to

I'm incredibly fortunate to chat with Michelle Zatlyn (Michelle Zatlyn), Co-founder & President of Cloudflare $73B public powerhouse protecting the global internet! 🚀 Tank Talks has sparked amazing connections I never expected. This ep started at a Web Summit dinner in

Will junior bankers be obsolete in the future? What if you could ditch the endless late nights building pitch decks and crunching numbers — without losing your edge? On the latest Tank Talks, I sit down with Kunal Tangri and Noah Faro , co-founders of Farsight, the

"From AI to Asteroids: Brett Gibson on the Future of Seed Investing" On this week's episode of Tank Talks, we welcome brett gibson , Managing Partner at Initialized Capital Capital, to discuss Seed Investing in the Age of AI, Crypto & Space Tech 🚀 From co-founding posterous with

“It’s a lot easier to build up a payment network that no one owns, and get people to buy into it as it gains momentum, than it is to get a bunch of banks and governments to agree on something before they start building it.” - brett gibson Check out Brett on the Tank Talks ,

This week's episode of Tank Talks , we welcome Nikunj Kothari of FPV Ventures to discuss 'The Power of Benevolent Dictatorships in Startups' Ever wondered why some of the best companies—think Shopify or Coinbase—thrive under strong, opinionated leaders? 🤔 Nikunj unpacks his

Is Canada ready for the AI boom? What role will energy, blockchain, and Canadian tech talent play in shaping our future? In this weeks Rundown episode of Tank Talks w/ John Ruffolo and I unpack some of the most pressing issues facing Canada’s economy and tech ecosystem: •⚡

🤖 Is Quantum Computing the Next Big Tech Revolution? 🚀 On this week's episode of Tank Talks - I chat with Christian Weedbrook, Founder & CEO of Xanadu , on photonic quantum computing's potential to revolutionize AI, drug discovery, and materials science. Xanadu's