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 Finance 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.
Sean Merat
Co-Founder and CEO of Owl.co
Sean Merat is serving as CEO at Owl since Aug 2017. He is also serving as Director of Marketing at Lavia Design since Lavia Design. Prior to this he was the co-founder and VP of Marketing for Imperus Technologies from July 2010 till May 2012.
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About Lavia, Owl.co: Owl is an insurance claims monitoring platform that detects non-eligible claims through evidence and facts with an audit trail.
Ian Crosby
Co-Founder & CEO of Bench
Co-Founder and CEO at Bench.
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About Bench: Bench is a fintech company that provides online bookkeeping services for small businesses.
David Marshall Feller
Founder & CEO of Mogo
David Feller founded Mogo in 2003 and currently serves as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our Board of Directors. Mr. Feller is a pioneer in online lending and a passionate advocate of helping all consumers improve their financial health regardless of their financial position.Mr. Feller is a former member of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO) of Canada and is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Mr. Feller’s experience leading the business over the past 12 years, along with his responsibilities for the strategic direction, product innovation and management of Mogo’s day-to-day operations, bring broad industry and specific institutional knowledge and experience to the Board of Directors.
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About Mogo: Mogo is a consumer finance company that helps in managing and controlling finances.
Adarsh Pallian
CEO of Trippeo
Adarsh Pallian is COO at SoleSavy.
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About SoleSavy, Trippeo: Trippeo Technologies develops a mobile application that automates business expense management process for business travelers.
Matthew Unger
CEO & Founder of iComply Investor Services Inc.
Matthew Unger is Founder & CEO of iComply.
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About iComply Investor Services Inc.: iComply Investor Services (iComply) is an award-winning software company focused on reducing regulatory friction in financial markets.
Marcus New
CEO, Chief Entrepreneur and Founder of InvestX Capital
Marcus New is the CEO, Chief Entrepreneur, and Founder of InvestX Capital.
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About InvestX Capital, Stockhouse: InvestX is the private equity marketplace for registered dealers to provide access to retail accredited investors.
Davyde Wachell
Founder & CEO of Responsive
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About Responsive: The enterprise hybrid wealth management solution for service excellence and actionable insights.
Min Kuang
Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer of Roadman Investments
Min Kuang is the Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Urban Select Capital Partners Corp.. Ms. Kuang has over 20 years’ experience in managing public companies, mergers and acquisitions, business development, and investment management. Ms. Kuang is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Asia Select Asset Management Inc. in Canada and the Chief Executive Officer of Asia Select Investment Fund Inc., a private equity firm established in April 2007, where she is responsible for equity investments, mergers and acquisition transactions, and taking companies public. From 2001 to 2007, Ms. Kuang founded Orient Ventures Ltd., a Vancouver-based investment and financial advisory firm which is engaged in mergers and acquisition transactions in China and Canada. She has been involved in a wide range of technology M&A, joint ventures, and other strategic alliance transactions for media , consumer, resource, medical device, and healthcare companies in China and, Canada. Ms. Kuang received an M.B.A. from Lawrence Technology University in Michigan and a B.A. degree from China.
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About Roadman Investments: Roadman Investments is an investment issuer that focuses on investing growth capital in private and public companies.
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.
Matthew Quetton
Founder & CEO of Momentum Venture Partners
Venture Development Advisor and Contract CFO. I work with a portfolio of startups in British Columbia to drive at the intersection of leadership, strategy, capital, finance and governance to support exceptional founders to clear bottlenecks for growth and build high value ventures. Founded and exited multiple companies Worked with over 20 startup founders Raised over $25M in capital Driven over $100M in total revenue Founded venture residency program in Vancouver
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About Audette, FTSY, Momentum Venture Partners: Venture Development Firm
Arlen Hansen
President & CEO & Founder of Kin Communications
Since founding Kin in 2007, Arlen has succesfully lead our talented team through upward and downward market trends to become regarded as one of the top investor relations firms in the industry. Arlen oversees the overall direction and strategy of all campaigns, combining traditional investor relations practices with innovative communication technologies that generate measurable results for our clients.
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About Kin Communications: Kin Communications is Canada’s leading full-service investor relations firm experienced in building research.
Kyler Hardy
Chief Executive Officer of Ridge Resources
Mr. Hardy has been focused on building cashflowing businesses in the natural resource sector for over 14 years. He is a founder and former CEO of a large turnkey geosciences consulting and logistic management business with operations across Canada and Africa and founder of the Ridge Group of Companies. His experience includes startups, ongoing operations, raising capital, corporate and business development, short and long term planning, leadership, strategic partnerships and deal structuring
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About Ridge Resources: Ridge focuses on building and seeding new businesses. Management opportunistically deploys capital and services.
Joe Hawes
CEO of Healthfirst financial
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About Healthfirst financial: HealthFirst Financial, a national patient financing leader.
Amin Vassefi
CEO of Signum Alpha Systems Inc.
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About Signum Alpha Systems Inc.: Signum Alpha develops financial software and investment related services.
Aaron Djekic
CEO of CrowdClan
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About CrowdClan, National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association of Canada: Crowdfunding Information Resource
Aaron Djekic
CEO of CrowdClan
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About CrowdClan, National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association of Canada: Crowdfunding Information Resource
