Two new VPs based at Communo’s Vancouver headquarters in Gastown

Nov. 13, 2018 - Communo announced today the purchase of Vancouver-based LocalSolo, an online network for top tier freelancers. The acquisition is the first for Communo, as it opens a Vancouver office, expa...

Althea Wishloff is the newest member of the Panache Ventures team, working out of the Toronto office. She joins us from a career in buy-side finance, and has a background in fintech, Indigenous issues, and most recently, acting as a researcher for Sidewalk Labs, the ci...

MONTREAL - Panache Ventures, the second most active private independent VC firm in Canada according to Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (​CVCA​), today announced a new strategic corporate limited partner – TELUS Ventures. As the strategic investm...

Did you know that Panache Ventures has a foot on the Edmontonian ground? In March, we added on Dan Belostotsky as a venture partner to establish a presence in the city. I’ve had the pleasure of chatting with him about the startup ecosystem there and wanted to share the...

When I started as an entrepreneur over 30 years ago, the term “angel investor” was considered an oxymoron. The only investors out there, at least in Canada, were bankers and back then they were not considered angels. Entrepreneurship was not encouraged and mentorship w...

(Or, how we’ll build a massively diversified portfolio by investing in the most promising and ambitious Canadian seed stage startups.)

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Welcome to the new fresh Panache Ventures blog! Panache is a seed stage VC fund active across Canada (and sometimes beyond)...