"When you listen to different companies it expands your spectrum and helps you learn interesting approaches." - Dave Thomas, partner at Rocket Builders
"While market uncertainty has slowed overall investment in the Canadian sector, funds continue to flow to firms developing technologies to combat the impacts of the coronavirus." - Sunil Mistry, KPMG
"It was about finding a partner who could help us accelerate growth." - Rick Perreault, CEO of Unbounce
"You are dead in the water as just a piece of paper unless your CV includes Apple, Google, MIT, or McKinsey."
"What happened at [Vancouver's] Quadriga was an old-fashioned fraud wrapped in modern technology." - Ontario Securities Commission
The Harvard MBA joined Kensington from Parallel49 Equity in 2019
"I think as a general rule in Canada, we have funded, relatively speaking, too many companies with not enough money." - Rich Osborn, managing partner of Telus Ventures
"What's critical is their ability to interpret, to see around corners, to read the tea leaves."
Relax Vancouver. When you think it through, you realize that it's great news for everyone.
"They all have this business model getting in between the restaurants and the customer and they’re charging the restaurants an exorbitant fee." - Jonathan Hoyles, CEO of Park Hero
“Our job is to translate the small flywheel of the startup to the big flywheel of Telus." - Rich Osborn, managing partner of Telus Ventures
"When I came to the MDM program in 2011, I didn’t know much about how digital media was made." - Richard Smith, outgoing head of the Centre for Digital Media
