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Clearco's Story, Ultimarii's Fundraise, Taste in AI | Andrew Curtis, Doug Schweitzer, George Bugg (opens the original)
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Episode 2 of Tech Thursday Live!, recorded in front of a studio audience in Calgary. Phil and Mark cover the latest tech news, including Canada's new tax cut on business investment, the banks and pension funds committing billions to Canada, and Apple's iPhone Duo. Our guests include: Andrew Curtis, CEO of Clearco, on recapitalizing the company, the new $100M facility from Macquarie Group, and what DTC brands are seeing heading into Black Friday. Doug Schweitzer, Co-Founder and CEO of Ultimarii a
How Questrade is Building a Bank (opens the original)
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Questrade has been building for 27 years. It's one of Canada's first online brokerages, it's now a Schedule I bank, and it has never taken outside money. Recorded live at Model Citizen in Calgary, this conversation covers why Questrade chose the harder path into banking, how AI changed the way the team ships, what the rebrand is really signalling, and why they think the competition is the Big Five rather than other fintechs. Featuring: Hwan Kim (Chief Product Officer, Questrade Financial Group)
Ep. 1: The Alberta Data Centre Bubble? (opens the original)
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Our first episode in the new live format, recorded in Calgary. Hosted by Philippe Burns and Mark Le Dain, CRO at Fuelled.Graham Harrison makes the case that 99% of Alberta data centre projects will fail, and it has nothing to do with power or permits. Nic Beique of Helcim on raising a $53M Series C, ten years of bootstrapping, and giving the Globe and Mail an exclusive he couldn't control. Sandy Gilbert on why Canadian founders leave, why Canadian buyers say no, and the Eventbrite problem nobody
GeologicAI: $100M Raised to Make Mining More Efficient (opens the original)
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GeologicAI builds robots that scan drill core and tell mining companies where to dig. They spent their first eight years doing research projects for oil companies in Calgary, pivoted to mining in 2019 against nearly everyone's advice, and raised a Series A thirteen years in from Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy, BHP and Rio Tinto. They're now capital break even, 330 people, and building a new scanning unit every three weeks. CEO Grant Sanden and CTO John Mortimer on the long road to product marke
How Rob Khazzam (Float) and Jeff Adamson (Neo Financial) Are Re-Engineering Canadian Fintech (opens the original)
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Five banks own 96% of the Canadian market. The relative cost of banking has barely moved in a century. Rob Khazzam co-founded Float and just raised a $60 million Series B. Jeff Adamson co-founded Skip the Dishes, then Neo Financial, and scaled it to 600 people. Both are building independent technology companies inside one of the most protected industries in the country. In this conversation: how homebuilt fintech platforms are pressuring the incumbents, how early fintech advocacy on NSF fees shi
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