Luge Capital is a $155M fintech focused venture capital fund, investing in early-stage teams shaping the way the world experiences financial services. We are an experienced team with value added financial institutions as investors and deep industry networks to help founders build successful fintech companies. We love entrepreneurs challenging the status quo with better ways of delivering financial services. NOTE: If you would like Luge Capital to consider an investment opportunity please use this link: https://www.luge.vc/contact-us/

Flare Systems is a cybersecurity solution that helps financial institutions protect their customers and employees against fraud, account hijacking and monitor cyberthreat activities against their organization.

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Life insurance provider - Direct to consumer and digital first.

ProNavigator helps insurance carriers and their brokers get immediate answers to underwriting and policy questions using a sophisticated Natural Language Understanding.

Owl helps insurance carriers reduce insurance claims fraud.

Westhill simplifies the way insurance claims are created, managed and processed..

Before Key Living, there existed two primary options for residential housing: buy or rent. Key is now offering a third option fractional ownership.

Students of the EMBA class come up with an idea for a startup business and works on it throughout the MBA. Their objective: make an effective pitch to a panel of Venture Capitalists on behalf of the startup they are working with. This project gives the class the opportunity to apply their learnings to a real life situation, and it provides the startups with fresh sets of eyes to look at their business models and other challenges.

The Canada FinTech Forum is a unique annual gathering organized by Finance Montréal whose primary objective is to identify and develop business opportunities for the global financial services and information technology industries. The Canada FinTech Forum also seeks to discover new talents, facilitate networking, raise interest towards new IT trends applied to finance and promote Canada's financial technology expertise.

ABOUT VENTURE FOR CANADAOur mission is to provide opportunities for the best and brightest to create dynamic companies for themselves and others, to restore entrepreneurship as a career path for elite young grads and to assist great companies through providing sharp young minds to help them grow.

iNovia Capital has $500M of venture capital under management across three seed and early stage technology funds. At iNovia I am in charge of evaluating and investing in early stage tech companies as well as providing support to the growing Canadian entrepreneurial ecosystem. iNovia partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build successful companies in high growth sectors. The team is comprised of entrepreneurs and sector experts focused on SAAS, Mobile, Internet and Digital Media. For more information, visit www.inovia.vc.

The TRIOOMPH Foundation encourage youth to stay hooked on school through a one-of-a-kind program designed to have a positive impact on their day-to-day performance and their outlook for the future.Students who have shown outstanding perseverance toward achieving their goals and who have pushed themselves to perform academically all year long will be treated to a very special day during the Prix TRIOOMPH events.The chance to ride shotgun in a high-performance car alongside one of the TRIOOMPH Foundation’s certified drivers.A celebratory meal with the Mentors, Mentor-drivers and TRIOOMPH Foundation team members.http://www.trioomph.com/

Helping entrepreneurs grow their business.Sales Management: refining sales pitches, channel strategies, commission plans, sales restructuring, sales tool kits, reseller agreements, affiliate agreements.Marketing & Communications: Press articles, website development, marketing plans/ budgets, web 2.0 strategies, business case development, market research, corporate images, tradeshow strategies and securing industry awards.Financing/ Budgets: Venture capital and strategic angel fund raising, business plans, investor presentations, elevator pitches, due diligence.Mergers & acquisitions: Due diligence, positioning, presentations and negotiations. US/ Canada -French/ english

Business: Information Security Compliance SoftwareAccomplishments: • Restructures and sold the company • Reduced burn rate to minimum and ensured continuity• Closed key sales to IBM, KPMG, Banque de Paris, Maroc Telecom, Deloitte, Saudi Aramco• Hands-on development and qualification of a international reseller program in over 25 countries including Europe, Latin America, S.E. Asia, Russia and North America • Presented the opportunity to the Ottawa and Quebec venture capital community• Attracted three M&A partners for the company and sold the intellectual property to Bell Canada

Organically grown start-up that went from 2 to over 400 employees. Tier 1 payment processor for POS and online. Formerly known as Pivotal Payments. Nuvei is one of the largest independent credit card processors in North America with over 80,000 customers and $12 Billion in Payment Processing volume (now $35B). They offer payment processing solutions for both online and offline merchants. Accomplishments: - Headed referral partnerships with leading shopping carts, web hosters, website developers, software providers.- Developed marketing materials, legal agreements, lead generation programs. - Evaluated new business opportunities.- Worked on company branding and positioning.- Provided input on new products and services.- Sales management. for online and point of sale businesses. - Helped company win numerous awards and gain mass market traction.

• Helped turn the company around.• Hired a tier 1 US CEO.• Raised $15 million of growth venture capital• Prepared successful new product launch strategies. • Wrote, presented and executed marketing plans. • Created new company positioning.• Secured large customers such as Microsoft, Worldcom, Sprint, Bell Canada and US Army.