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Qasim Virjee is listed as Founder at StartWell, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at ibm.com, phone signal with area code 416, 647, 888, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Qasim Virjee.
Qasim Virjee previously worked as Chapter Director - Toronto at Startup Grind and Principal at Design Guru. Qasim Virjee holds Ba, Religious Studies, Humanistic Studies from Mcgill University.
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As an entrepreneur with experiences running businesses between Canada, East Africa and India, I apply a unique lens on how people live and work. I'm a serial entrepreneur who got started in business reselling Internet access when it came to East Africa in 1995; teaching people what the Internet was and why they needed it, armed with a bag of modems walking around downtown Nairobi after high school.I've founded a number of companies since the '90s - including Design Guru (a creative studio whose portfolio of clients included cause-based organizations like the Stephen Lewis Foundation to large multinationals like the Coca Cola Corporation), the BBC-partnered global music brand Indian Electronica, GetFilmi (a digital distributor of Indian cinema) and other software startups. My passion for enabling innovation through technology has led to creating the Founder Deck playing card game, WeTeachStartup ideation bootcamps, Startup Safaris global pitch sessions as well as running IBM’s startup program across Canada, before founding StartWell in 2017.Now in its 7th year of operations, StartWell's downtown campus has evolved into 3 buildings occupying 20,000 square feet - designed and furnished to enable turn-key corporate meetings and events as well as professional film shoots.My high value for hospitality begins with complimentary barista service at reception and extends to our integrated studio model at StartWell. The StartWell approach to producing corporate content incorporates a bleeding edge software and hardware tech stack built into multiple film studio spaces with staffed crew. Our shoots are booked on-demand from a website - giving agile companies a professional content engine that is easy, quick and affordable.
Listed skills include User Interface Design, Digital Media, Social Media, Web Development, and 25 others.
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Toronto, Ontario, CA
A purpose-built downtown Toronto campus that has hosted thousands of collaboration sessions for all types of organizations - in every industry. With integrated media production, our clients can instantly stream and record stage presentations at meetings/events... and our closed-set studios produce killer video podcasts and scripted content.
Palo Alto, California, US
Startup Grind is the world’s largest community of startups, founders, innovators, and creators. With over 6,500 local members the Toronto chapter has historically been an important source of opportunity for Canadian founders and in 2022 it will be relaunched as a hybrid event series - raising a global stage to our amazing local startup ecosystem with.
Toronto, Ontario, CA
- Founded this studio to bring community inclusiveness online through context sensitive interface design approaches, strategic planning and development using Open Source Software. - Developed/Incubated SaaS startups Tripping.co (collaborative travel planning) and introduction.io (online creative portfolio platform) as well as Open Source distribution.
Toronto, Ontario, CA
- Co-ordinated the efforts of all business units whilst developing partnerships and consultant relationships to enable a larger network to support growth efforts.- Helped raise a $1.8M seed investment round (brought in $500k personally.)- Led a re-branding effort to humanize the company and its products, moving away from an 'enterprise' aesthetic to one.
- Founded IE as a music zine in 2003 & grew monthly readership to 10s of 1,000s globally within 2 years- Worked with 100s of artists around the world to release their music live on stage as well as through digital broadcasts and commercial releases.- Created/operated our own music festival with dates through 2006-2009 in NYC, Toronto, Bombay and London in.
- Founded this project based in Canada to forge alliances amongst the global startup ecosystem whilst establishing a sustainable value chain for all stakeholders. - Hosted event programming in East Africa bringing investors and entrepreneurs together - the winning pitch of our 2016 session in Nairobi was invited to our partner festival, Metabridge in.
Armonk, New York, NY, US
- Represented IBM within/across Canada's startup ecosystem - negotiating partner agreements & sponsorships with festivals, event organizers, accelerators, incubators and others. - Sourced high growth startups across the country to bring onto IBM's cloud infrastructure through direct mentorship and access to cloud credits (free hosting on Bluemix/Softlayer.
US
- Grew the Catalyst program across Canada, sourcing & on-boarding cloud based startups (mainly SaaS) - giving them high touch mentorship (business and technical strategy & network access) & cloud credits (up to $100k/yr)- Developed Softlayer's exposure in Canada (US Based top-tier cloud hosting company)
Toronto, Ontario, CA
- Licensed 100s of films for global digital exhibition/distribution from Disney/UTV, Shemaroo Entertainment, Rajshri, Overdose, Virgin Produced India and more. - Built a custom SVOD platform & launched a digital channel streaming to the web and iOS mobile/tablet devices with 1,000s of subscribers (paid & trial/free.) - Pivoted into a B2B play facilitating.
- Developed South Asian feature and documentary programming - including selecting titles to screen, planning for industry programs and more.
Toronto, Ontario, CA
- Created outreach and promotional strategy for DX's annual festival of digital media ('DigiFest')- Produced video segments for 'Connecting the World Through Canadian Design' - a series of learning activities and case studies for Canada's Virtual Museum (http://virtualmuseum.ca) illustrating the international impact of Canadian design on issues such as.
Brooklyn, NY, US
- Extrapolated PPS' approach to planning physical spaces into the digital realm; creating a new methodology for engaging people through web properties.- Created a new communication strategy involving email and the web which helped propel the momentum already developing behind PPS' thought leadership in the urban planning and policy space.
Nairobi, Nairobi, KE
- Helped this agency move away from proprietary systems and static approaches to web development using the Joomla (then called Mambo) Content Management System. - Developed a new sustainable approach to client work through promoting Open Source software.
- Developed a business plan to venture into digital services - creating a web version of the physical Yellow Pages book plus a micro-agency for custom web development/design work. - Modelled potential for the Yellow Pages to become an ISP.
- Built custom PCs for student customers plus the University itself and other commercial clients of the store.- Serviced student computers.- Maintained and developed the store's website.
- Worked with an in-house sales team and the Managing Director to create cohesive marketing strategy entailing strategic alliances with technology firms for this, the first ISP in East Africa.- Developed programs for leased-line installation to rural communities and educational institutions. - Created teaching materials for sales staff to help explain what.
Independently selling Internet access, installing modem hardware and associated software plus training customers to use various Net technologies (Web, IRC, FTP etc...) and generally understand what the Internet was.
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Qasim Virjee has worked for Startwell, Startup Grind, Design Guru, Skrumble, and Indian Electronica.
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Qasim Virjee holds Ba, Religious Studies, Humanistic Studies from Mcgill University.
Qasim Virjee is listed with skills including User Interface Design, Digital Media, Social Media, Web Development, Strategy, Wordpress, Web Design, and Drupal.
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