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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 iOS 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.
Ryan Peterson
CEO and Co-Founder of Finger Food Studios
Ryan Peterson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Finger Food Advanced Technology Group. He sets the course for the organization with his extraordinary vision, strategic planning, and unshakeable passion. Under Ryan’s leadership as CEO, Finger Food has seen tremendous growth, transforming from a small basement startup to a multi-million dollar company with 180+ employees. Finger Food builds custom technology solutions to solve some of the most complex and challenging problems faced by businesses today in industries including games, retail, oil & gas, education, healthcare, mining and more. The company creates a competitive advantage for its clients by helping them own their technology stack, rather than simply deploying on the same technology platforms as their competitors. In-house expertise in AI, AR/VR, Blockchain, Robotics, and IoT, enables Finger Food to create impactful and elegant cloud, web, mobile, machine and advanced-interface solutions built on top of emerging technologies. Finger Food sees an unprecedented market opportunity. Within 3 years, the cumulative R&D spend of the Global 1,000 will reach USD 1T. A conservative estimate would put the innovation spend of each of these companies at around USD 100MM annually.
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About Finger Food Studios: Finger Food delivers technology-driven business solutions that enable companies to move and innovate faster.
Kim Kaplan
CEO and Founder of Snack App
Kimberly Kaplan currently works as Chief Executive Officer and the Founder of the Snack App.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Snack App: Snack App is a video-first dating application in iOS that connects people online and focuses on Gen-Z.
Juan Orrego
Co-Founder and CEO of Cuboh
Juan Orrego is the cofFounder and CEO of Cuboh.
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About Cuboh: Cuboh is a developer of an application intended to automate online food orders for restaurants.
Vik Khanna
CEO of Boomerang Parental Control
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About Boomerang Parental Control: Our team of three dads are passionate about kids, education and technology. Helping guide parents with their family technology use.
Olena Tkhorovska
CEO & Co-founder of Pieoneers
Olena is a co-founder of Pieoneers Software Inc, a leading mobile development company in Canada.
With more than 15 years of experience, Olena helps companies and universities develop and launch innovative software products powered by great UX and resilient technology. Utilizing Google Cloud, Firebase, Go, Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin, Javascript, and Node.js, the Pieoneers team enables their clients to take advantage of the modern frameworks and languages. Pieoneers has successfully helped solve business challenges.
Olena loves hiking and spending time outdoors with the family. She is an avid health enthusiast interested in wearable technologies, sleep tracking, activity tracking, longevity, and preventive health care. She is a passionate leader of a team of skilled and talented individuals inspiring them to grow professionally and find work and life balance.
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About Pieoneers: Award-winning web and mobile development company in Vancouver, BC that delivered more than 50 web applications, iOS apps, and Android apps with seamless UI.
Pieoneers develops software solutions for logistics, education, research, geotechnical measurements, sports, life sciences, and healthcare services. From project planning and technology strategy, Pieoneers works as a part of your team to launch iOS and Android apps, web server applications, and cloud-based solutions. PIeoneers adhere to stringent security practices ensuring PIPEDA, HIPAA compliance, and data encryption.
Angela Robert
CEO of Conquer Mobile
Angela co-founded Conquer Mobile with a vision to transform the way people work by effortlessly embracing mobile technology. Angela graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science. She established her credentials as a software engineer at Scotiabank, IBM and Electronic Arts (EA). At EA, she worked as Development Director for Skate™ and Skate 2™ and worked on more than 20 games in five years. Angela’s passion is using gaming and simulation to transform medical education.
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About Conquer Mobile: PeriopSim is an interactive and immersive learning environment for perioperative clinicians.
Jerry Brace
CEO of Embraceware
CEO, Embraceware.
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About Embraceware: Embraceware develops games and applications for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Android.
Mike Schmidt
CEO of iFramed (Canada Ltd.)
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About iFramed (Canada Ltd.): iFramed is a mobile application that enables its users to brand their content with personalized filters and frames.
Parveen Kaler
CEO of Smartful Studios
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About Smartful Studios: Mobile Application Development
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.
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