Panache Ventures

We’re Canada's most active early-stage venture capital fund.

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Weekly Roundup: Techtoberfest founder meetings 📍Waterloo · judging FemTech Breakfast Club pitches 📍Toronto · Canadians everywhere at SF Tech Week 📍SF This is what building a Canadian ecosystem looks like. 🚀

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Canada is entering a new era of nationalism. Panache is building the Canadian ecosystem daily. 🚀
This week: Velocity Pitch Comp, Vector Institute, TechTO, Fintech Forum Canada, TogetherTO, NEXT AI, Endeavor, ALL IN (Nord Quantique on stage), Accelerator Centre speed pitches

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CWVC Champions Program mentoring (Toronto) + NEXT Canada Venture Day (Toronto) + VC summer rooftop social (Toronto) + Althra accelerator demo day (Vancouver) + BC Founders Day (Vancouver) This is what building a Canadian ecosystem looks like. 🚀

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📍 Toronto: pitch prep with Vector Institute, 30+ founders ready to raise 📍 Montréal: strategy session at Eli Health's new office 📍 San Francisco: padel meetup strengthening ties with Canadian builders abroad This is what building a Canadian ecosystem looks like. 🚀

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Montreal, all hands on deck for Startupfest: a packed rooftop social plus a Founder Breakfast with Forum Ventures before most people's first coffee.
This is what building a Canadian ecosystem looks like. 🚀

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📍 Vancouver at CANSEC 2026 + BC Business House Energy Showcase · 📍 Toronto at @OneVest + judging 12 @NEXTAI companies on pitch day · 📍 Montréal at the TDIP x @WhiteStarCapital running networking event This is what building a Canadian ecosystem looks like. 🚀

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One theme all week: Canadian with global ambition. Climate Solutions Prize. Le Cercle Canadien with Dax Dasilva. L'Annuel du Capital de risque. SuperVenture + SuperReturns in Berlin. This is what building a Canadian ecosystem looks like. 🚀🌎

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This Weekly Roundup is all about TTW! 🇨🇦

Panache Ventures opened Toronto Tech Week with a Builders Breakfast and showed up for our ecosystem partners the rest of the week.

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#WeeklyRoundup📍 Toronto: founder coaching + Girls into VC's first Canadian chapter 📍 Montréal: Mila x Panache VC Teacher Series (50+ founders) Vancouver: FemTech jury + ClimateGlobal pitch + Canadian Women in VC lunch This is what building a Canadian ecosystem looks like. 🚀

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Ranger Emerges Out of Stealth to Transform Business Operations for Industrial Engineering.

Ranger, the agentic revenue operations platform for industrial tendering, led by James Zhan, Sari Saadi, and Kyle Jordan, has emerged from stealth with $8.4 Million in seed funding led by Bonfire Ventures @bonfire_vc, along with 25madison @25m_official, Inovia Capital @inovia, and Panache Ventures @PanacheVC.

Read More At: https://t.co/XzsWgjAmCr

Source: Press Release

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Excited to announce InstaSwitch's $4.7M seed round, led by Chicago Ventures, with Panache continuing from pre-seed. Huge congratulations to Daniel West and the entire InstaSwitch team. Check out why we doubled down: https://t.co/SJuCiZHP6q

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Join us in congratulating the Featherless AI team for raising a $20 million Series A to build the neutral foundation for open-source AI: https://t.co/86iC76gd4V

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Panache Weekly Roundup!

📍 Breakfast with Deep Sky (Montréal)
📍 Raising Capital 201 with Platform Calgary (Calgary)
📍 Tech 4 Sick Kids (Toronto)
📍 The Forum pitch finals (Vancouver)

Company-building, capital raising, and mentoring. 🚀

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Panache Weekly Roundup! Four cities this week:
📍 Réseau Capital (Montréal)
📍 BMO Summit + CDL AI Stream (Toronto)
📍 Innovation UBC Showcase and DND × Canadian Builders / OnDeck AI (Vancouver)
📍 Harvard demo day (Boston)
Showing up where the future of tech is being built. 🚀

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Panache Weekly Roundup!
📍 Toronto — Talk at @UWaterloo's student venture fund
📍 Calgary — Investor Office Hours at @PlatformCalgary with @GTMfund & @AlpacaVC
📍 Vancouver — Judged the @UBCSOAR Pitch Competition

Coast to coast. 🚀

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Panache Weekly Roundup!

Here’s where we’ve been in Toronto:
📍 Off the Cap Table dinner
📍 International Women’s Month social
📍 @CIXCommunity — Opening remarks, roundtable & investor 1:1s
📍 VC dinner

A week fully immersed in the startup ecosystem. 🚀

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Panache Weekly Roundup!

Here’s where we’ve been:
📍 Vancouver — VC session HATCH + BC Defence Tech
📍 Waterloo — Full Stack Pancakes 🥞 (@UWVelocity, @FaskenLaw, @socraticainfo) + @Akatoshouse Showcase
📍 Toronto — Office hours with @NEXT_Canada

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@CarbonRun https://t.co/wdVxX5ljQe

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By 2050, we’ll need to remove 5-10 GT of CO₂ annually.

One overlooked solution? Rivers.

We explore how @CarbonRun is restoring river alkalinity to enable durable, scalable carbon removal.

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Panache Weekly Roundup!

Here’s where we’ve been:
📍 Vancouver — Reverse pitch + panel at the Entrepreneurship Forum
📍 Toronto — @UofT Desjardins Pitch Competition
📍 Montréal — Day at @Mila_Quebec + AI × enterprise event
📍 Montréal — Coworking at Ax.c with founders