Founder Series - The Future of Medical Imaging
Pender Ventures
Handheld ultrasound, AI-guided diagnostics, and expanding access to point-of-care imaging worldwide. In this episode, Cheri Corbett, Partner at Pender Ventures spoke with Clarius CEO Laurent Pelissier, exploring the journey of building a handheld ultrasound platform designed to make medical imaging accessible far beyond traditional hospital settings. The conversation explores the evolution of point-of-care ultrasound, how AI is reducing training barriers for clinicians, and how Clarius is leveraging one of the world’s largest ultrasound datasets to power the next generation of diagnostic...
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Founder Series - From Spin-Out to Scale: Modernizing Community Recreation
Pender Ventures
Building software for YMCAs, JCCs, and recreation centers, and reimagining member experiences through AI-powered automation. Lara Gilchrist, CEO at Traction Rec, joins Cheri Corbett, Partner at Pender Ventures to discuss management, payments and registrations of parks and recreation centers in the US. In the podcast Cheri and Lara talk about Traction Rec's spin out from its parent Traction on Demand in 90 days, what its like to have NFPs as your core customer base and how they are barreling head first with the use of AI and agents in the very near future of their product.
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Health Tech Ignite Fireside Chat
Pender Ventures
In this episode, Pender Ventures Principal Meryeme Lahmami spoke with Angelo Papatheodorou who shared his unfiltered story behind scaling PointClickCare from startup to healthcare SaaS leader. He breaks down the pivotal deals, tough “no” decisions, sales discipline, pricing strategy, and culture-building lessons that drove decades of sustained growth.
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Founder Series - Verified Impact at Scale
Pender Ventures
In the first episode of the new Pender Ventures Founder Series, Cheri Corbett, Pender Ventures Partner, talks with Derrick Emsley, co-founder and CEO of Tentree and Veritree. They discuss his founder journey and the creation of a technology platform bringing verification, transparency, and trust to global reforestation.
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Deploying Generative AI and Other TMT Predictions Part 3
Pender Ventures
We are pleased to welcome back Duncan Stewart, Director of TMT Research at Deloitte Canada, for Pender Ventures’ annual Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) update. Hosted by Maria Pacella, Managing Partner at Pender Ventures, this wide-ranging conversation explores Deloitte’s 2026 TMT Predictions and what they mean for investors, operators, and policymakers. Duncan shares insights on AI-driven economic growth, data center infrastructure, agentic AI, robotics, energy constraints, and the narrowing gap between AI promise and reality.
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Navigating Debt as a Growth Driver with Kevin Houston
Pender Ventures
A founder’s guide to revenue-based financing as a capital strategy for scaling SaaS businesses In this episode, Isaac Souweine speaks with Kevin Houston, founder of Duration Growth Advisors, about debt financing as an alternative funding strategy for software companies, especially bootstrappers and other denizens of the "messy middle". The conversation is grounded in the concept of matching duration of financing capital to the expected company outcome. Within that framework, Kevin and Isaac explore when debt can be a good fit, how to evaluate options across stages of company...
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Play Your Own Game - Brice Scheschuk’s Framework For Founders Seeking To Understand The World Of Venture Capital
Pender Ventures
Isaac Souweine, Partner at Pender Ventures hosts Brice Scheschuk, Managing Partner at Globalive Capital. Brice is an active private technology investor in Canada with firsthand founder experience as the co-founder of Wind Mobile (now Freedom Mobile) in 2008. In this podcast he talks to Isaac about his “play your own game” framework, a thought exercise for founders that shifts their sole focus from pitching to investors to include selling to customers.
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Deploying Generative AI and Other TMT Predictions - Part 2
Pender Ventures
Sub-Title: GenAI, machine learning, cloud computing and chips galore. Where business leaders are investing. Maria Pacella, Managing Partner of Pender Ventures hosts Duncan Stewart, director of TMT Research, Deloitte Canada for a second time. Duncan is a globally recognized expert on the forecasting of consumer and enterprise technology, media and telecommunication trends and is co-author of the Deloitte Global Research Annual Prediction Report. In this podcast he talks to Maria about his 2025 predictions on disruptive technologies across industries and reflects on what he got right (and...
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The Story of Wattpad
Pender Ventures
“I would absolutely attribute some of our successes to like building this company in Canada and not anywhere else.” On this episode in the Pender Ventures series on great Canadian technology companies, Maria Pacella, Managing Partner, hosts Co-Founder and Operating Partner of Two Small Fish Ventures, Allen Lau. In 2006, Allen co-founded Wattpad, a technology company for storytellers and their stories, which went on to be acquired by South Korean internet giant, Naver in 2021. Wattpad provided a platform where creators could access and receive real time feedback from millions of...
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PMC-Sierra - The importance of innovation, adaptability and resilience
Pender Ventures
This is the first in a new Pender Ventures podcast series reflecting the scale-up stories of some of the great Canadian technology companies. We kick off with the story of PMC-Sierra, a pioneering and leading semiconductor chipset supplier that specialized in the design and development of integrated circuits for networking, telecommunications and data storage. Maria Pacella, Managing Partner of Pender Ventures sat down with three key executives and co-founders, each of whom made significant contributions to the semiconductor industry, Greg Aasen, Kevin Huscroft and Colin...
info_outlineIn this episode Maria Pacella, Managing Partner of Pender Ventures chats with Jill Earthy, CEO of InBC and Leah Nguyen, CIO of InBC. Jill and Leah discuss their career journeys, their entry into venture capital and the experiences that have inspired them to keep pushing boundaries. Leah and Jill also share life lessons for current and future women entrepreneurs and discuss missed opportunities as well as the mistakes they have made along the way. Other topics of interest center around DEI, sustainable development and the opportunities and challenges Leah and Jill see for BC when it comes to investing in Canadian companies. The podcast ends with book recommendations from Leah and Jill.