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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 FinTech 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.
Alex Alexandrov
Chairman & CEO of CoinPayments
Alex Alexandrov is extremely well-versed in financial markets, and a pioneer in crypto-currency. Mr. Alexandrov was a technical Forex and Options trader and EA developer for MT4 platform. He then chose to venture into direct sales before branching out on his own to successfully develop and manage coincable.com, an online bitcoin mining hardware supply store that was based out of Vancouver. Alex brings over 15 years of combined experience in IT and business management to his latest venture as the owner and CEO of Coinpayments.net, a premium Bitcoin, Litecoin, Etherium and other alternative crypto-currency payment processor. Coinpayments’ services are trusted by over 600,000 vendors across 182 countries.
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About CoinPayments: CoinPayments is a cloud wallet solution and a payment gateway for merchants that integrates a checkout system for numerous cryptocurrencies.
Damir Hot
CEO & Founder of Canalyst
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About Canalyst: Canalyst is the leading destination for public company data and analysis.
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.
Catherine Dahl
CEO of Beanworks
Catherine is passionate about business process improvement and leads with a vision of making accounting easier and more enjoyable while increasing efficiency and reducing costs. As a CMA professional, she knows first-hand the challenges with financial management and is dedicated to driving change through innovation. Catherine is a co-founder.
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About Beanworks: Beanworks is an accounts payable automation solution that helps companies eliminate paperwork and reduce invoice processing costs.
Alexis Shahriar Assadi
Director and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Income Capital Corporation
Alexis Shahriar Assadi is an entrepreneur and private lender. He operates a group of companies that lend funds to real estate projects and businesses across Canada.
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About Assadi Private Capital Inc., Pacific Income Capital Corporation: Pacific Income Capital Corporation is the general partner of Pacific Income Limited Partnership.
Alex Wick
Founder/CEO of Cascadia Carbon
Alex Wick is a forester, data scientist and visionary, working at the intersection of climate change, carbon, cryptography, and coding. Living a conscious, low-carbon lifestyle since 2009.
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About Cascadia Carbon, Woodstock Chai: Building CODEX: A carbon-neutral blockchain cryptocurrency for carbon offset generation and storage
Jeff McCann
Chief Executive Officer of Apollo Insurance
Jeff believes in the broker channel. Getting ahead of the insurtech revolution, he co-founded ApolloXE to provide Canadian brokers with product, technology, and digital marketing enablement. He carries the vision of an industry where computers do the work so people can build relationships. With a background as a broker and strong insurance industry fundamentals, Jeff empowers producers and brokerages to reach their digital potential. Jeff was Insurance Broker Magazine Top 10 Under 40, and recipient of the Insurance Business Magazine Young Guns Award in 2018. He writes professionally for several publications including the Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Sun and The Province.
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About Apollo Insurance: Apollo Insurance is an online insurance company designed to help brokers to instantly transact insurance online.
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.
Ali Pourdad
Chief Executive Officer of Quantfury
Ali Pourdad joined Quantfury as Chief Executive Officer in 2021.
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About Pourdad Capital Partners, Quantfury: Quantfury is a blockchain fintech company located in Tortola.
Davyde Wachell
Founder & CEO of Responsive
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About Responsive: The enterprise hybrid wealth management solution for service excellence and actionable insights.
Hamed Arbabi
CEO & Founder of VoPay
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About VoPay: VoPay is a leader in payment innovation, digitizing online bank account payments with speed and transparency.
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.
Bijan Sanii
President & CEO of INETCO Systems Limited
Bijan Sanii has more than 20 years history as a technology industry executive. Before joining INETCO, Bijan was Executive Chair at UB Video, which developed one of the key enabling technologies for video over IP. He provided leadership and guidance that culminated in the acquisition of the company by Scientific-Atlanta (now a Cisco company). Prior to UB Video, Bijan joined Infowave Software in 1997. As General Manager of the Imaging Division, he successfully led a restructuring of the business and generated a record operating profit in 1998. He was later appointed Infowave’s Chief Operating Officer and CEO, driving Infowave’s IPO and strategic partnership agreements with Intel Corp, Compaq Computer Corporation, and other technology industry leaders. Bijan was born in London, U.K. and graduated with honors from the Polytechnic of Central London (now University of Westminster) with a B.A. in Economics. He currently sits on the board of Disternet, a digital media entertainment company based in Richmond, British Columbia. Bijan is also a charter member of the TiE Indus Entrepreneurs, and an active partner within BC Social Venture Partners.
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About INETCO Systems Limited: INETCO provides payment fraud detection, transaction monitoring and channel analytics solutions for banking and payments environments.
DH Kim
CEO of Finhaven
DH leverages his extensive experience in finance to disrupt the capital markets with blockchain technology. Finhaven Technology is leading the industry with the development of a blockchain-powered securities issuance platform and exchange
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About Finhaven: Finhaven is building an investment banking platform supporting the issuance, investment, and trading of digital securities.
Nelson Lin
Founder & CEO of FintruX Network
Nelson pioneered online credit adjudication for the asset-based finance and leasing industry in Canada as mentioned in the book ‘Unstoppable’ published 2014 by Beth Parker and endorsed by the Canadian Finance and Leasing Association (CFLA). He has over thirty years of experience delivering numerous custom enterprise applications to global organizations such as J.P. Morgan, AT&T Capital, etc
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About FintruX Network, Robocoder Corporation: Smart Business and Financial Solutions Built On The Blockchain.
Leif Baradoy
Co-founder and CEO of Giftbit
Co-founder and CEO at Giftbit.
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About Giftbit: Giftbit is a rewards platform that lets you buy, send and control digital gift cards.
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.
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.
Ajay Hans
Founder & CEO of Mobetize
Ajay Hans is the Founder and CEO at Mobetize.
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About Mobetize: Mobetize is collaborating and empowering leading financial institutions and telecom companies to revolutionize how financial services.
Lifa Nati
CEO and Publisher of Cheapsense.com
Domain name investments, consulting and branding. We help startups pick memorable well researched domain names. We believe in the power of the name that sticks, never to be forgotten.
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About Cheapsense.com: Domain investment Tips, Consulting and Branding
Nichola Lytle
Founder & CEO of EduFunder
Nichola Lytle is the Founder of Edufunder.com.
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About EduFunder: EduFunder is a crowdfunding platform that fast tracks extra money for bright and aspiring students. Sponsor a student today!
Nichola Lytle
Founder & CEO of EduFunder
Nichola Lytle is the Founder of Edufunder.com.
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About EduFunder: EduFunder is a crowdfunding platform that fast tracks extra money for bright and aspiring students. Sponsor a student today!
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