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Pender Ventures
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Pender Ventures invests in data centric startups in health-tech, enterprise software, and industrial transformation. We interview leaders and entrepreneurs in these areas, with a focus on women in technology and startups.
Episodes
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Pender Ventures Podcast - WELL Health: Building Canada's Digital Healthcare Company
Hamed Shahbazi on founder lessons, public markets, and building WELL Health through M&A and digital transformation. In this episode of the Pender Ventures podcast, host Maria Pacella sits down with Hamed Shahbazi, founder and CEO of WELL Health Technologies. Hamed traces his journey from building...
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Pender Ventures Podcast: The Science of Scaling
HubSpot's founding CRO Mark Roberge shares a data driven framework for knowing when startups are ready to accelerate growth. In this episode of the Pender Ventures podcast, host Maria Pacella, Pender Ventures Managing Partner, sits down with Mark Roberge, HubSpot's Founding Chief Revenue Officer,...
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Pender Ventures Podcast: Building Software That Communities Depend On
How Class Software transformed chaotic registration lines into critical infrastructure for municipalities worldwide. In this episode of the Pender Ventures podcast, host Maria Pacella, Pender Ventures Managing Partner, sits down with Ralph Turfus, Founder, Alex Barnetson, VP Sales, and Gary…
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Founder Series - The Future of Medical Imaging
Handheld ultrasound, AI-guided diagnostics, and expanding access to point-of-care imaging worldwide. In this episode, Cheri Corbett, Partner at Pender Ventures spoke with Clarius CEO Laurent Pelissier, exploring the journey of building a handheld ultrasound platform designed to make medical…
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Founder Series - From Spin-Out to Scale: Modernizing Community Recreation
Building software for YMCAs, JCCs, and recreation centers, and reimagining member experiences through AI-powered automation. Lara Gilchrist, CEO at Traction Rec, joins Cheri Corbett, Partner at Pender Ventures to discuss management, payments and registrations of parks and recreation centers in…
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Health Tech Ignite Fireside Chat
In this episode, Pender Ventures Principal Meryeme Lahmami spoke with Angelo Papatheodorou who shared his unfiltered story behind scaling PointClickCare from startup to healthcare SaaS leader. He breaks down the pivotal deals, tough "no" decisions, sales discipline, pricing strategy, and...
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Founder Series - Verified Impact at Scale
In the first episode of the new Pender Ventures Founder Series, Cheri Corbett, Pender Ventures Partner, talks with Derrick Emsley, co-founder and CEO of Tentree and Veritree. They discuss his founder journey and the creation of a technology platform bringing verification, transparency, and trust…
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Deploying Generative AI and Other TMT Predictions Part 3
We are pleased to welcome back Duncan Stewart, Director of TMT Research at Deloitte Canada, for Pender Ventures' annual Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) update. Hosted by Maria Pacella, Managing Partner at Pender Ventures, this wide-ranging conversation explores Deloitte's 2026 TMT...
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Navigating Debt as a Growth Driver with Kevin Houston
A founder's guide to revenue-based financing as a capital strategy for scaling SaaS businesses In this episode, Isaac Souweine speaks with Kevin Houston, founder of Duration Growth Advisors, about debt financing as an alternative funding strategy for software companies, especially bootstrappers…
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Play Your Own Game - Brice Scheschuk's Framework For Founders Seeking To Understand The World Of Venture Capital
Isaac Souweine, Partner at Pender Ventures hosts Brice Scheschuk, Managing Partner at Globalive Capital. Brice is an active private technology investor in Canada with firsthand founder experience as the co-founder of Wind Mobile (now Freedom Mobile) in 2008. In this podcast he talks to Isaac…
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Deploying Generative AI and Other TMT Predictions - Part 2
Sub-Title: GenAI, machine learning, cloud computing and chips galore. Where business leaders are investing. Maria Pacella, Managing Partner of Pender Ventures hosts Duncan Stewart, director of TMT Research, Deloitte Canada for a second time. Duncan is a globally recognized expert on the…
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The Story of Wattpad
"I would absolutely attribute some of our successes to like building this company in Canada and not anywhere else." On this episode in the Pender Ventures series on great Canadian technology companies, Maria Pacella, Managing Partner, hosts Co-Founder and Operating Partner of Two Small Fish...
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PMC-Sierra - The importance of innovation, adaptability and resilience
This is the first in a new Pender Ventures podcast series reflecting the scale-up stories of some of the great Canadian technology companies. We kick off with the story of PMC-Sierra, a pioneering and leading semiconductor chipset supplier that specialized in the design and development of...
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Deploying Generative AI: Predictions, Surprises, Strategies and Shortages
Maria Pacella, Managing Partner of Pender Ventures gets an in-depth status report on Generative AI in this fascinating conversation with Duncan Stewart, Director of Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Research at Deloitte Canada. Duncan's research includes travelling the world for...
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FundFest Panel: How Investors Can Support Exits
Moderated by David Dufresne, Partner, CMD Capital chats with Maria Pacella, Managing Partner of Pender Ventures, Anne Phan, VP, Corporate Development at Wealthsimple and Brent Holliday, Founder & CEO of Garibaldi Capital Advisors. They discuss the final phase of the venture cycle. Subtitle:...
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Traction on Demand
We are delighted to welcome Greg Malpass, founder of Traction on Demand, to the podcast studio, with host, Maria Pacella, managing partner of Pender Ventures. With Traction on Demand having been acquired by SalesForce in 2022, Greg can reflect on the journey to build and sell Traction, creating a...
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Jill Earthy & Leah Nguyen – InBC Investment Corp.
In this episode Maria Pacella, Managing Partner of Pender Ventures chats with Jill Earthy, CEO of InBC and Leah Nguyen, CIO of InBC. Jill and Leah discuss their career journeys, their entry into venture capital and the experiences that have inspired them to keep pushing boundaries. Leah and Jill...
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International Women's Day 2022
In this episode Maria Pacella, Managing Partner of Pender Ventures celebrates International Women's Day 2022 by taking a listen back to some of the "best bits" from our podcasts featuring Judi Hess, Natalie Dakers, Norma Biln, Jacqueline Ovens, Christy Wyatt, Michelle Scarborough and Alison...
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Wils Theagene - Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
In this episode Kenndal McArdle, Principal, Pender Ventures chats with Wils Theagene, Senior Director Private Equity CDPQ - Equity 25^3 Fund. Kenndal and Wils talk about diversity within venture capital and the private asset class, discuss how EQ25^3 is leveraging diversity as a vector of...
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Mark Longo - Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt LLP
In this episode Maria Pacella, Managing Partner of Pender Ventures, is joined by Mark Longo, founder, and Managing Partner of Osler's Vancouver office. They look back at 2021 and discuss a variety of topics from talking about the M&A momentum, record IPO numbers, valuations, secondaries, and the...
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Exiting The Year With "A Year Of Exits"
In our final episode for the year, Felix Narhi is joined by David Barr, Maria Pacella and Amar Pandya for a year end discussion on exits. The team looks back at the year through the lens of our record-breaking list of exits, with 11 public and 6 private liquidity events. They reveal some of the...
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The One45 Story
In this episode Tony Rautava, Associate, Pender Ventures is joined by David Barr, Pender's CEO and Portfolio Manager, Brian Claire, former CEO of One45 and Derek Hemmes, Founder and Board Member of One45. Together they take a stroll down memory lane and talk about the early days of One45, the…
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Carlo Perez – Swift Medical
In this episode Kenndal McArdle, Principal, Pender Ventures chats with Carlo Perez, Founder and CEO of Swift Medical Inc. Kenndal and Carlo talk about the series of decisions and choices that led Carlo down the path of entrepreneurship and the eureka moment that led him to launch Swift Medical....
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Stephanie Andrew – Women's Equity Lab
In this episode Maria Pacella, Managing Partner of Pender Ventures, is joined by Stephanie Andrew, founding partner of Women's Equity Lab (WEL). They discuss Stephanie's background, the history behind the formation of WEL, the success it has achieved so far and the direction it is headed in. They...
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Andrew Mosawi – iATS Payments
In this episode Kenndal McArdle, Principal, Pender Ventures chats with Andrew Mosawi, President of iATS Payments. Kenndal and Andrew discuss how he pivoted from being a scuba diving instructor to the world of payments. They talk about the challenges that Andrew saw in the payments industry…
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Pender's Private Equity Approach to Public Markets
In this episode David Barr, President, CEO and Portfolio Manager, chats with Kenndal McArdle, Principal, Pender Ventures. They discuss their private equity approach to public markets, and in particular, how this approach relates to Pender Growth Fund. They also discuss Kenndal's career path from...
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Women Investing in Women
In this episode Maria Pacella, Managing Partner of Pender Ventures, is joined by Jacqueline Ovens, Alison Nankivell and Heather Conradi. Gathered to mark International Women's Day, the guests discuss how they invest in women fund managers and entrepreneurs, how gender diversity plays a role in...
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David Smith - Teradici
In this episode Maria Pacella, Managing Partner of Pender Ventures, is joined by David Smith, CEO of Teradici. They discuss the acceleration of the work-from-home movement caused by COVID-19 and how Teradici was well-equipped to support existing and new clients in this digital shift. They also...
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Introducing Pender Ventures
In this episode Maria Pacella is joined by Kenndal McArdle, Principal of Pender Ventures, and their new team member, Kristina Bergman, Partner at Pender Ventures. Maria chats with Kristina to learn more about her background and experiences working as a tech product marketer and manager, an...
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What Scales is Simplicity
Original Publication Date: June 4, 2020 In this episode Kenndal McArdle, PE/VC Investment Associate, talks to Matias Marquez, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Buyatab Online Inc. They discuss Buyatab's start in 2009, Matias' entrepreneurial spirit, and the decisions Matias has made along…
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Women in Tech – Exploring Leadership and Diversity of Thought
Original Publication Date: December 5, 2019 Maria Pacella is joined by Christy Wyatt, CEO and member of the board of directors at Absolute Software. They discuss Christy's education at the College of Geographic Sciences, her career as a software engineer and her rise to executive leadership...
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Women in Tech – Advice for the Next Generation of Women Leaders in Health Tech
Original Publication Date: September 26, 2019 Maria Pacella, SVP and co-manager of Pender Technology Inflection Fund is joined by Natalie Dakers and Norma Biln, role models for any young girl looking for a career in the STEM disciplines. Natalie is the President, CEO and founder of Accel-Rx…
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The Highs and Lows of Venture Capital
Original Publication Date: August 1, 2019 Maria Pacella, Senior Vice President of Private Equity at Pender, is joined by Michelle Scarborough, Managing Director of Strategic Investments and the Women in Technology Venture Fund at the Business Development Bank of Canada. They discuss the…
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Tech – Just What the Doctor Ordered
Original Publication Date: May 6, 2019 Clarius is an inflection-stage tech company which has developed and commercialized wireless handheld ultrasound scanners which can be used anywhere from a physio office to remote emergency service calls. Laurent and Maria talk about his entrepreneurial...
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Tech – Building an Enterprise from the Ground Up
Original Publication Date: April 2, 2019 Maria was joined by Vlad Tucakov, Don Murray and Malcom Steenburgh who share stories from their days at the University of BC to building an organisation of over 300 employees worldwide. They give insights into how Point Grey Research grew over the years…
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Tech – Women in Tech – Leadership Lessons from Judi Hess
Original Publication Date: March 8, 2019 Judi talks about her experience of rising through the ranks, being overlooked for leadership positions, how she arrived in her current role as CEO and how she still sees instances of gender bias in the workplace today. Maria asks her about who inspired and...
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Tech - Disruption 4 - Edge Computing, IoT and Anomaly Detection
Original Publication Date: December 28, 2018 This is the last in the four part series on Disruptive Technology. Maria Pacella, SVP, Private Equity and Portfolio Manager of the Pender Technology Inflection Fund, has been talking with Silicon Valley veteran, Rich Miller. In this last podcast they…
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Tech – Disruption 3 – Big Data
Original Publication Date: December 17, 2018 Maria Pacella, SVP, Private Equity and Portfolio Manager of the Pender Technology Inflection Fund, continues her conversation with Rich Miller, Silicon Valley veteran, about data management. Rich has an interesting take on data as an asset that needs...
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Tech – Disruption 2 – Blockchain
Original Publication Date: December 10, 2018 In the second of this four part series on disruptive technology, Maria Pacella, Senior VP, Private Equity at Pender, continues her conversation with Rich Miller, a technology expert and Silicon Valley veteran. This time the discussion turns to…
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Tech – Disruption 1 – A Front Row Seat
Original Publication Date: November 29, 2018 Maria Pacella, SVP Private Equity at Pender, interviews Rich Miller, who has had a long and illustrious career in Silicon Valley, being at the forefront of distributed computing and networking technologies that we rely on today for the web. From...
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Pender Ventures invests in data centric startups in health-tech, enterprise software, and industrial transformation. We interview leaders and entrepreneurs in these areas, with a focus on women in technology and startups.
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