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At Best Startup Canada we track over 100,000 Canadian startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top British Columbia based CEO’ operating in the Social space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.ca.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Jesse Joudrey
CEO, Co-Founder of VRChat
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About VRChat: VRChat is a virtual reality social platform that allows users to easily build social virtual reality content.
Tim Gamble
President & CEO of Thunderbird Entertainment
A founding partner of Thunderbird, Tim Gamble oversees all business operations, with a particular focus on corporate finance, and strategic alliances, as well as Executive Production services of feature films and television series. Prior to forming Thunderbird, Tim founded and served as president of Peace Arch Entertainment Group (TSX, AMEX) from 1982 until 2002.
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About Thunderbird Entertainment: Thunderbird is a rapidly growing Vancouver-based TV and film production company with offices in Los Angeles, Toronto and London.
Bernadette Butler
CEO & Founder of Storytap
CEO and chief storyteller, Bernadette is a 20 year veteran in marketing and advertising, and one of the creators of StoryTap.
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About Storytap: StoryTap is humanizing the online shopping experience with customer video reviews.
Johann Starke
President & CEO of FCV Interactive
John Starke is the President & CEO of FCV, a full-service digital advertising agency with offices in Toronto and Vancouver. Before FCV, John was Director of Business Development at Expedia. Prior to Expedia, he worked with several organizations and was a consultant with Accenture. In addition to his role at FCV, John serves as a director at BC Assessment, an independent, provincial Crown corporation, and is an MBA mentor at the University of British Columbia. John holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Computer Information Systems from the University of Colorado and is a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. In 2010,he was recognized in Vancouver’s Top 40 Under Forty, and his leadership and philanthropic endeavours earned FCV a 2010 Community Leadership Award from the British Columbia Technology Industry Association.
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About FCV Interactive, FCV Interactive: User-focused transformation agency
James DeGreef
Founder & CEO of ChatterBlock
Founder and CEO of www.ChatterBlock.com Consummate business and technology entrepreneur with the ability to assimilate market knowledge rapidly and accurately, and attract the resources and team to execute on pinpoint opportunities with disruptive technical solutions and go-to-market strategies.
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About ChatterBlock, GenoLogics, Good News Ventures, Good News Ventures: ChatterBlock is a social networking and content website that targets the requirements of families and their supporting communities.
Jesse Chen
CEO CoPilot AI
Jesse is an ex-EA entrepreneur and the co-founder, CEO of CoPIlot AI. Jesse was involved in shipping 12 titles during his time at EA on the core FIFA team. Jesse has over 20 years of experience in the software industry and led the development and growth of CoPilot’s AI.
CoPilot AI is a SaaS company based in Vancouver, Canada in the AI Sales Enablement space. The company uses AI and dynamic video technology to help sales teams automatically target qualified prospects on social media, initiate one-to-one conversations, and surface timely sales opportunities without requiring any content marketing, spam emails, or advertising. The company’s vision and mission is to humanize the way businesses connect with their targeted audience at scale. Customers have connected with over 3.3M prospects in 2022 through CoPilot AI. With an AI engine trained on 8M conversation threads doubling every 8 months, CoPilot AI is becoming the leading sales, marketing and recruitment prospect platform.
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About CoPilot AI, WealthBar: CoPilot AI is a SaaS company that uses A.I. and rich social data to connect businesses with customers in a whole new way.
Mike Cordoba
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & Partner of RAMMP Hospitality Brands Inc
Partner Mike Cordoba has 25 years of diverse business experience. He has managed a portfolio of public and private companies with $1billion in total revenue in various industries including restaurants, retail, manufacturing and processing and real estate. In his executive capacity he has built companies from the ground up to become industry leaders in their segments. Mike currently sits on various company boards and is chairman of the board for Mr. Lube. His expertise in M&A activity is highly regarded in the marketplace.
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About RAMMP Hospitality Brands Inc: RAMMP Hospitality Brands goal is to build national hospitality brands through long standing and profitable franchisees.
Ali Tajsekandar
Founder & CEO of Wishpond
Ali Tajsekandar is a Founder & CEO at Wishpond.
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About Wishpond: Wishpond is an all-in-one marketing suite that enables users to generate and nurture leads.
Harsh Mehta
Founder & CEO of Synctag
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About Synctag: Synctag is a unique aggregator that brings your email, social, media, content networks and provides AI analytics for such networks
Daryl Hatton
CEO of FundRazr
Daryl leads the innovative collaborative funding company ConnectionPoint, producer of the award winning advanced digital fundraising platform FundRazr, the creator community crowdfunding platform Crowdfundr, and the leading edge healthcare crowd-financing platform CoCoPay. As a serial entrepreneur who loves the challenge of building companies from scratch, Daryl is frequently called upon for expert commentary on entrepreneurship, nonprofit fundraising and crowdfunding topics for CBC, CTV, Global News, TVO, PostMedia, BBC, Forbes, and Bloomberg. Today, he serves as board member or advisor to multiple start-ups/scale-ups including FrontFundr, Quandri, WalletCard, and SignR, and serves as Finance Committee Chair and Director of the PayPal Giving Fund (Canada).
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About ConnectionPoint: World’s leading advanced digital fundraising platform
Yahoel Van Essen
Founder and CEO of Eleos Robotics
Yahoel Van Essen is the visionary and driving force behind the revolutionary RoboWeeder technology. As a high-tech entrepreneur, Yahoel leverages emerging technologies to solve low tech problems facing industry. He is passionate about creating new things. He was educated at BCIT in entrepreneurial marketing and business administration. Before Eleos Robotics he was solving problems in supply chain, digital marketing, and in marine technology. Yahoel comes from humble beginnings and is a believer in Jesus Christ.
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About Eleos Robotics: Eleos Robotics invented the RoboWeeder an artificially intelligent weeding killing robot.
Jake Tyler
CEO / Co-founder of Finn AI
Jake Tyler is Co-founder and CEO at Finn.ai, an award-winning AI powered personal banking and financial management assistant. Finn can regularly be found featured in the likes of USA Today, American Banker and Bloomberg, or on stage at Money20/20, Finovate and VivaTech Paris. Originally from Australia, he has worked and lived in five countries in the last decade. Prior to founding Finn, Jake was a Director at Brook Intelligence, as well as an M&A Strategy Consultant at PMSI Consulting (London). MBA at IE Business School.
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About Finn AI: Finn AI provides AI-powered conversational banking technology for personal banking and finance.
Keith Ippel
Co-Founder and CEO of Spring Activator
Co-Founder at Spring University.
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About Spring Activator: Spring Activator is an incubator and accelerator changing the world through entrepreneurship
Joseph Nakhla
Founder & CEO of bazinga! Technologies
Joseph is the Founder and CEO of Gateway Property Management.
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About bazinga! Technologies, Gateway Property Management: Bazinga offers a range of software and services that focus on community management and communications.
Sam Mehrbod
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Roomvu
Experienced , Award Winning, TOP 1% of all realtors in Greater Vancouver. Constantly Improving the World Of Real-Estate With Fringe Technologies at Roomvu.com
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About Roomvu: Roomvu uses AI to provide ready-made hyper local VIDEOS, that realtors personalize and publish on social media or promote via SMART ads
Errol Toksoz
Founder + CEO of Ambitionary
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About Ambitionary, The ToolBox App: Where people meet to collaborate
Daniel Ling
Founder/CEO of antsquare
Founder, CEO of antsquare.
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About antsquare: Antsquare builds the next generation of online retail marketplace, anywhere and everywhere with mobile
Zachary Chester
Chief Executive Officer / Cofounder of ShoutExchange
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About ShoutExchange: Connecting brands with influencers on social media platforms. Influencers get free products and money to post about brands they love!
Gurjeet Matharu
CEO of Nava Ventures
Experienced Full Stack Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the Financial Services and Defence industries. Skilled in Kubernetes, Cloud, Python, Java and supporting the production of ML and scientific workflows and products. Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) focused in Systems Engineering from Simon Fraser University.
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About Nava Ventures: Nava Ventures is a SaaS company that offers an ecosystem of socially responsible fintech products.
Eric Boland
CEO of W-World Media
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About W-World Media: News, Media Production, Social Network
Dustin Sproat
Co-founder & CEO of Shnarped
Founder at Shnarped
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About Asana, Shnarped: Shnarped builds sports media applications for athletes and fans to connect and create simple video highlights.
Jennifer Maloney Adab
Founder & CEO of Brix Media Co.
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About Brix Media Co.: Brix Media Co. is North America’s leading PR & Influencer Marketing Agency focused on social innovation.
Michelle Mollineaux
Co-founder & CEO of KoolProjects Media Inc.
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About KoolProjects Media Inc.: Social enterprise platform to showcase and follow projects from start to finish
Michelle Mollineaux
Co-founder & CEO of KoolProjects Media Inc.
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About KoolProjects Media Inc.: Social enterprise platform to showcase and follow projects from start to finish
Kehar Gill
CEO of yWorld
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About yWorld: yWorld is an online platform that allows its users to chat and have HD video conferences while collaborating on documents.
Kehar Gill
CEO of yWorld
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About yWorld: yWorld is an online platform that allows its users to chat and have HD video conferences while collaborating on documents.
Linden Schwark
Founder and CEO of Vancouver SEO Agency
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About Vancouver SEO Agency: Vancouver SEO Agency is a results orientated company that uses ethical SEO services to dominate the competiton.
Linden Schwark
Founder and CEO of Vancouver SEO Agency
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About Vancouver SEO Agency: Vancouver SEO Agency is a results orientated company that uses ethical SEO services to dominate the competiton.
Urs Camenisch
Founder / CEO of 5F – Find Fit Friends. For Free.
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About 5F – Find Fit Friends. For Free.: 5F is a free iOS app to find Sport Buddies nearby. There are over 100 different activities to choose from and 4 different skill levels.
Ryan Stratton
Founder & CEO of Craftt
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About Craftt: Craftt is a modern business management system designed specifically for breweries.
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