Peter-Paul Van Hoeken is the CEO of FrontFundr, a Canadian crowdfunding platform. When he moved from the Netherlands to Vancouver in 2010, he worked closely with startups to help them raise capital–this is where he noticed a gap in the Canadian market. An opportunity to enable everyday Canadians to invest in the private market. Peter-Paul […]
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Q+A with CTO of BlocPal on the Importance of Financial Inclusion
Financial inclusion has been an ongoing issue around the world, and for the majority of Canadians, appropriate financial services are readily available and accessible. However, we continue to witness several unbanked and underbanked communities around the world – whether it is rural and semi-urban parts of India and Mexico or even members of the Indigenous […]
Q+A with CEO of WELL Health on the Future of Digital Care in Canada
This past year has seen the North American healthcare system stretched to its limits, with hospitals and frontline workers being overwhelmed and Canadians struggling to access healthcare as they’ve done before. 2020 demonstrated the need for increased innovation in health technology and, at WELL Health Technologies, the focus has always been on leveraging technology to […]