What does an investor look for in an early-stage startup? How can startups best position themselves for success?
Join us for an insider’s perspective on what makes startups stand out to investors. In this intimate session featuring Panache Ventures, we’re bringing together experienced investors and successful founders to share real insights about fundraising, relationship building, and positioning your startup for success.
Panache Ventures is a leading Canadian pre-seed stage venture capital fund. Led by a team of experienced operators and fund managers, Panache Ventures invests in visionary entrepreneurs across all sectors and helps them transform their ideas into successful high-growth companies.
Hypercare is a mobile, secure, and comprehensive suite of digital healthcare collaboration tools to connect healthcare providers with one another at the right time for critical communications. Replacing legacy systems like pagers, switchboards, on-call lists, and paper-based task lists with a seamless platform that clinicians can use on their phone or computer, Hypercare increases communication during crucial moments in healthcare delivery.
Featherless AI is the future of AI inference: every model serverless. Their platform gives developers and enterprises instant access to over 1,900 Hugging Face models through a single API, eliminating the complexity of infrastructure management and model setup. By offering the world’s largest collection of AI models with efficient hot-swap capabilities and optimized inference, Featherless AI reduces costs by up to 10x compared to traditional hosting solutions.
Attendees will have the chance to ask questions, network with startups and investors, and learn more about the UofT Entrepreneurship Ecosystem.
Speakers
Albert Tai is the Founder and CEO of Hypercare. Under Albert’s leadership, Hypercare has been deployed at hundreds of healthcare organizations in North America, from small clinics to large multi-site…
Prashant Matta is a Partner at Panache Ventures. He leads the firm’s investment and portfolio management activities and he is a strong advocate for entrepreneurs across the country. Before launching Panache…
Co-Founder & COO, Featherless AI Wes has decades of hands-on software development experience and a proven track record of building scalable infrastructure. He is the former Co-Founder and CTO of…
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Light refreshments will be served.
Co-hosted by the U of T Innovations and Partnerships Office,
U of T Entrepreneurship, Panache Ventures, and the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus.
Space is limited. Register now to secure your spot and submit your questions in advance.
