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Opening Session Introduction with Kari LaMotte
Fireside Chat
Natalie Dakers, CEO, Entrepreneur, Board Director, Leader in the Canadian Health Sciences sector and Mike Hagerman, Managing Director, DirectorsEdge
Q&A
Natalie Dakers, CEO, Entrepreneur, Board Director, Leader in the Canadian Health Sciences sector and Mike Hagerman, Managing Director, DirectorsEdge
Introduction with Fraser Pogue
Ones-to-Watch (who is in the entrepreneurship@UBC pipeline)
Come and meet our newly minted Phase 3 ventures. These early-stage entrepreneurs have completed customer discovery, competitive analysis and problem validation.
Eight ventures from both Lab2Launch and CORE will be presenting, followed by Roundtable Discussions with some of our entrepreneurship@UBC alumni founders.
DECAP Research & Development
Speaker: Ina Na
Champion: Jennifer Malti
Difinity Solutions
Speaker: David Kim
Champion: Linh Li
Dream Photonics
Speaker: Hossam Shoman
Champion: Gabe Kalmar
Leafi Home
Speaker: Will Wang
Champion: Graham Smith
Nautical Crimes Investigations
Speaker: Dyhia Belhabib
Champion: Dave Taylor
ProState
Speaker: Hamed Helisaz
Champion: Cynthia Shippam
Total Flow Cannula
Speaker: Hillary Pierce
Champion: John Barclay
Founder AMA
Speaker: Michael Carlson, Founder of CarboNet
Proudly Unconventional is their tag line, join this session to find out why! Mike Carlson, a leading researcher at the University of British Columbia, founder of CarboNet and their Chief Technology, is a problem solver who developed exciting new technology that is helping preserve our planet's most precious resource: water.
Founder AMA
Speaker: Ayissi Nyemba, Founder of Emkao Foods
Emkao Foods is redefining transparency in the chocolate industry. More than just chocolate: EMKAO is creating a more sustainable future for cacao farming. Founder & CEO Ayissi Nyemba is driving much needed change around sustainable farming and fair trade food production practices. Driving global change that can be felt at the social and economic level of local communities.
Founder AMA
Speaker: Doug Buchanan, Serial Entrepreneur, Co-Founder of Roam
Serial Entrepreneur and entrepreneurship@UBC mentor, Doug Buchanan, has co-founded several successful e-commerce businesses companies, his latest Roam (currently on Kickstarter), is a skill-building game for kids with perks. Doug is not only deeply passionate about being an entrepreneur, he is equally committed to coaching founders on how to build and scale innovative online businesses that drive recurring revenues.
Introduction with Sean Lumb
Sneak-a-Peek (ventures raising in the next 6 - 12 months)
Ventures in this category are building their roadmap. They have established a beachhead market, or have some partnerships. They have a rudimentary revenue model based on a proposed plan to market and they are working through financing and other resources to help fuel their growth. These ventures will be fundraising in the next 6-8 months.
Fourteen ventures from both Lab2Launch and CORE will be presenting, followed by Roundtable Reverse Pitches from a select group of Angel investors.
ABOZymes
Speaker: Geoffrey Houlton
Champion: Karen Boodram
Amphoraxe Life Sciences Inc.
Speaker: Fatih Birol
Champion: Jason Robertson
ApplyChance
Speaker: Mahyad Aghigh
Champion: Paul Needham
Aqua Intelligent
Speaker: Reza Rezaei
Champion: Udi Daon
BioForm
Speaker: Duncan Acres
Champion: Gabe Kalmar
The C.O.D.E Initiative Foundation
Speaker: Bahar Heravi Moussavi
Champion: Paul Needham
FLIK
Speaker: Ravina Anand
Champion: Shannon Bard
GUD
Speaker: Enzo Garofalo
Champion: Kyle Cheriton
NeuPeak
Speaker: Anshul Porwal
Champion: Tom Urban
RhYme
Speaker: James Round
Champion: Michele Wallcraft
RiskMetrics
Speaker: Tanner Geary
Champion: Dick Ballard
Soulect
Speaker: Sara Amini
Champion: Wolfgang Strigel
Susgrainable
Speaker: Marc Wandler
Champion: Kyle Cheriton
ThorTech
Speaker: Roxanna Delima
Champion: Gabe Kalmar
Q&A
Introduction with Chang Han
HATCH Ready-to-Raise (entrepreneurship@UBC investor pitches)
Ventures in this category are currently fundraising. Some of these ventures are currently in Phase 3 but have demonstrated fit for this group. These ventures are in market with clinical trials and/or customers.
Nine ventures will be presenting, followed by Roundtable Reverse Pitches from a select group of VCs.
The HATCH Accelerator program is made possible in partnership with the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS). Some ventures in this category are pre-HATCH but have demonstrated fundraising readiness and are therefore included in this category.
BarrelWise
Speaker: Jason Sparrow
Champion: Michele Wallcraft
Daanaa
Speaker: Udi Daon
Champion: Peter Wong
healthQB
Speaker: Guy Davis
Champion: Udi Daon
Matidor
Speaker: Sean Huang
Champion: Michele Wallcraft
ShapeMeasure
Speaker: Ben Blumer
Champion: Peter Wong
Skylab
Speaker: TJ Rak
Champion: Jon Cartwright
11:00 - 11:05 am
Nyoka
Speaker: Yamila Franco
Champion: Lexcy Li
11:25 - 11:55am
Q&A
Join industry leaders & change-makers Natalie Dakers & Mike Hagerman in this Fireside Chat where they will share their thoughts around what has become foundational, practical and inspirational in their own venture building and professional journeys. The COVID-19 pandemic can act as a catalyst for change across many industries and institutions. But where do we need radical reinvention to be most urgently happening and how do we prepare the next generation of leaders to help us get there?
Founder AMAs
Whether you are an entrepreneur or an entrepreneurial thinker, the journey towards taking innovation to impact is rife with ups and downs. There is no straight line to being an entrepreneur. In these AMA sessions, you will hear from founders across different industries: Climate, Social Impact and E-Commerce. These sessions are designed as intimate and interactive discussions where we encourage audience participation right from the beginning.
11:25 - 11:55am
11:25 - 11:55am
11:25 - 11:55am
2:10 - 2:40pm
2:10 - 2:40pm
Reverse Pitches from our Investor Community
Learning the “in’s and out’s” of fundraising is a key element of an entrepreneurs venture building journey. But even more important is building relationships with potential investors, as these are the champions that can provide guidance, open doors and provide valuable insights to navigate from what, when and how to fundraise. Join our Angel Investor Roundtables following our “Sneak-a-Peek” presentations. These discussions are designed to be intimate and interactive, candid conversations on how to build a fundraising strategy. What you need to know by industry and company stage.
2:10 - 2:40pm
Helping promising life science inventions get access to the best possible advice, are developed properly and reach patients worldwide. Novateur currently has investments in entrepreneurship@UBC alumni ventures Sonic Incytes, Aspect Biosystems and GenXys.
One of the longest serving angel networks in Canada with the goal of growing Vancouver’s early stage ecosystem through providing a platform for promising early stage high tech companies to connect with angel capital. Angel Forum currently has investments in entrepreneurship@UBC ventures BarrelWise and alumni Arbutus Medical.
Angel investing via teams. By investing via teams, E-Fund is able to do better due diligence, by leveraging the domain expertise of their investors and by providing post investment advice and connections to the companies they invest in. E-Fund currently has investments in entrepreneurship@UBC ventures BarrelWise and alumni Arbutus Medical, Sonic Incytes and Aspect Biosystems.
One of the longest serving angel networks in Canada with the goal of growing Vancouver’s early stage ecosystem through providing a platform for promising early stage high tech companies to connect with angel capital. Angel Forum currently has investments in entrepreneurship@UBC ventures BarrelWise and alumni Arbutus Medical.
With a mission to remove the structural barriers on how women access capital, Women's Equity Lab is helping women access the opportunity to make positive impacts on community and society to the potential for significant financial gains. Through early stage investing, women can gain the inside track and play a leading role in building innovative companies that are transforming society across a range of industries.
3:40 - 3:45pm
Sonus
Speaker: Rob Rohling
Champion: Gabe Kalmar
3:45 - 3:50pm
Verdi
Speaker: Arthur Chen
Champion: Tom Urban
3:50 - 3:55pm
Zennea
Speaker: Rachel Chase
Champion: Udi Daon
3:55 - 4:30pm
Q&A
4:30 - 5:00pm
Reverse Pitches from our Investor Community
Learning the “in’s and out’s” of fundraising is a key element of an entrepreneurs venture building journey. But even more important is building relationships with potential investors, as these are the champions that can provide guidance, open doors and provide valuable insights to navigate from what, when and how to fundraise. Join our VC Investor Roundtables following our "HATCH Ready-to-Raise" presentations. These discussions are designed to be intimate and interactive, candid conversations on how to build a fundraising strategy. What you need to know by industry and company stage.
4:30 - 5:00pm
Inspired by purpose-driven companies that have successfully launched, they support next level growth with values-aligned money in partnership with executive talent where needed. Active Impact Investments has investments in entrepreneurship@UBC alumni venture ChopValue.
4:30 - 5:00pm
Leading early-stage financings in innovative and complementary health technology companies in British Columbia. Nimbus Synergies currently has investments in entrepreneurship@UBC ventures Zennea and alumni Arbutus Medical, GenXys and HeadCheck Health.
4:30 - 5:00pm
A Seed/later-stage investment firm featuring a talented team of expert analysts, security selectors and independent thinkers who actively manage a suite of niche investment funds, exploiting inefficient parts of the investing universe to achieve their goal. Pender Ventures specifically focuses on technologies that move the world forward.
5:00 - 6:30 pm
Mentor Holiday Appreciation Social (by invitation only)