Inovia Capital

Alex McIsaac has over 12 years of experience as both an operator and early-stage investor. He previously led the Canadian practice as a Partner at Global Founders Capital and served as a Principal at BDC Capital, where he helped manage the Seed Fund and Women in Tech fund; earlier, he spent more than six years as a co-founding employee at the energy storage cleantech startup NRStor. He holds a BScH from Queen's University and an HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Alice Reimer is a technology entrepreneur and mentor active in Alberta's startup community for two decades. She is currently CEO of Fillip Fleet, a fintech company in the fleet card industry, and previously co-founded Evoco (acquired in 2012) and served as CEO of Chaordix, a crowdsourcing and open innovation software firm. Earlier in her career she led SaaS companies serving retailers including Walmart, Home Depot, and LEGO.

David Nault co-founded Luge Capital and has more than 20 years of experience building early-stage tech companies as an investor, founder, and executive. He previously invested at Inovia Capital, led Callio Technologies (an infosec compliance software firm acquired in 2009), and worked in business development at Pivotal Payments (now Nuvei). He holds a BCom from Concordia University.

Devon Galloway is a general partner at Garage Capital. He previously worked at Research in Motion and co-founded Vidyard in 2010, where he oversees engineering and product development. He holds a Systems Design Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo and completed Y Combinator in Summer 2011.

Emmanuelle Coppinger is managing partner of Front Row Ventures, a Canadian university-focused VC firm operating across more than 20 campuses, where she recently closed an oversubscribed $5.5M pan-Canadian fund. She previously helped build Next AI Montreal as Director of Ventures, handling startup recruitment, portfolio management and investor/mentor relationships, and founded a travel accessories brand she ran for eight years. She holds an MBA from ESSEC Business School in Paris and began her career in auditing in France followed by three years in investment banking in Australia.

Eva Lau is the founding and general partner of Two Small Fish Ventures, where she backs early-stage transformative technology companies. She was previously a founding team member of Wattpad, leading community and content as the platform scaled its user base, and earlier served as director of product development at the Toronto accelerator Brightspark Labs. She holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Schulich School of Business.

Jennifer Vancini is a general partner known for candid feedback, teaching structured fundraising via AMAs, and advocating a product-manager–focused thesis that treats traction with product leaders as an investment signal.

Jonathan Ehrlich is the founder of Roar Ventures, a seed-stage venture fund based in Palo Alto, California. He previously spent a decade as a Partner at Foundation Capital and 17 years as a startup founder and operator, and served as Facebook's first marketing leader. Born in Toronto, he holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Judy Fairburn is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of The51 and General Partner of The51 Fund I, Fund II, and The51 Food and AgTech Fund. She previously co-founded the cleantech/digital venture fund Evok Innovations, served on the Global Advisory Council for Emerald Technology Ventures, and was the first Board Chair of Alberta Innovates, with prior senior executive roles including Chief Digital Officer and EVP Business Innovation. She holds an MSc in Chemical Engineering, an MBA, and an Institute of Corporate Directors designation, and her expertise spans sustainability, technology commercialization, portfolio management, operations, and governance.

Co-founder and General Partner at Luge Capital with a background in fintech, mobile technology, engineering, finance and strategy. He previously led corporate development and M&A for PayPal in Canada, built the corporate development practice at Xoom, and led M&A and strategic investments for BlackBerry, and holds engineering, finance and law degrees plus a Kauffman Fellowship.

Mark Trevitt is a former engineer and operator who led product at a data analytics startup that was acquired by S&P. At BDC Capital, Canada's largest venture investor, he ran a $300M strategy and helped expand the fund into AI and software, with two investments receiving the CVCA Deal of the Year Award. He now runs Defined, an early-stage firm focused on AI, is a Kauffman Fellow, and serves as a Venture Partner at Tribe Capital.

Matt Stein left school to become one of the earliest employees at Clearco, where he worked for five years as Chief of Staff and VP of Corporate Development, contributing to the company's capital raising and strategy efforts. He is associated with Inovia Capital's emerging manager partners.

Max Altschuler is a full‑cycle founder and best‑selling GTM author who built Sales Hacker from four‑person meetup into 30‑city community, re-acquired it as GTMnow, and offers hands‑on GTM support.

Michael Litt is co-founder and general partner of Garage Capital, a seed-stage fund focused on Super-Cluster companies seeking to expand into Silicon Valley. He is also co-founder and CEO of Vidyard, a video-based technology company. He has served on the board of directors of Communitech, a Kitchener-Waterloo organization supporting company growth.

Mike McCauley co-founded BufferBox, a network of eCommerce smart lockers (YC S12) that was acquired by Google. At Google he launched Fi, the company's wireless carrier, and later worked as a Product Manager at Google X. He holds a degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

SC Moatti uses her Products That Count community of hundreds of thousands of product managers to source and accelerate later-stage sub-$1M investments through customer adoption, partnerships and hiring.

Shelley Kuipers is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of The51 and General Partner of its Fund I, Fund II, and Food and AgTech Fund. She previously co-founded the consumer participation platform IOVIA, founded the crowdsourcing company Chaordix, co-founded the software development and marketing firm Stormworks, and co-founded her family office, Adventure Capital. She has invested in early-stage startups for about 20 years, starting in energy before moving into technology with a focus on innovation-driven companies.

Alex has over 20 years of experience in startup operations and investing, co-founded TechTO, and launched AngelList Ventures in Canada. He has had two successful exits as an operator and holds a B.Comm from McGill and an MBA from Wharton.

Founder and Partner at Inovia Capital, originally from Bonaventure in Quebec's Gaspe region. He launched his first internet company in the 1990s and co-founded Inovia Capital in 2007.

Doug Penick is a Partner focused on emerging managers. He previously served as a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs.

Étienne Mérineau is a Montreal-based entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded a conversational AI startup in 2017 that was acquired for $60M in 2021. He now works with founders on scaling their growth and go-to-market strategies. He holds a BBA in Business and Marketing from Bishop's University and a Certificate in Disciplined Entrepreneurship from MIT.

Luis Gutiérrez Roy is a venture capital investor with over 15 years in the technology sector and previously served as an M&A director at EY in Europe. He is the Founder and Managing Partner of Telegraph Hill Capital, a Barcelona-based seed fund that has made more than fifty investments in B2B SaaS startups. He holds an MBA from the University of San Francisco and a bachelor's degree in business administration and economics from the University of Barcelona.

Magaly Charbonneau is a Partner at Inovia Capital with experience in venture capital investing, Go-To-Market strategy, and M&A. She serves as a Board Member and participates on the Diversity & Inclusion and Government Relations committees at the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association.

Paul Irving is a General Partner at GTMfund, where he invests in early-stage B2B software companies and supports portfolio company operations across knowledge, hiring, and resources. He previously worked in investment management at the Royal Bank of Canada and holds a background in finance and the CFA charter. Irving co-founded a delivery service for university students in Vancouver in 2015 before transitioning to finance and venture capital.

Steven Woods is Partner and CTO at Inovia Capital, where he advises portfolio companies on product strategy, technology, and engineering leadership. He has over 30 years of experience in software engineering and company building, including co-founding three software companies—most notably Quack.com, an early interactive voice assistant acquired by Netscape/AOL in 2000—and leading product and engineering growth at Google Canada from 2008 onward. At Inovia, he evaluates investment opportunities through a technical and product lens while drawing on his background as an entrepreneur, engineer, operator, and board member.

Varun Dalal is a General Partner at Telegraph Hill Capital, a venture capital firm based in Barcelona, with over a decade of experience across venture capital, transaction advisory, and audit at KPMG. Since 2012 he has sourced and managed investments spanning technology, mobile, media, healthcare, engineering, and business process outsourcing. He is a Chartered Accountant and holds a B.Com (Hons) from Shri Ram College of Commerce (University of Delhi) and an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona.

Thomas Terrats is co-founder and CEO of Vessel, a white-label marketing platform for LP engagement in private markets. Previously, he was an LP at Teralys Capital, where he participated in over 50 investment decisions, and spent four years at Inovia Capital leading fundraising efforts that resulted in $1.1B raised across three funds and growth of firm assets under management from $900M to $2.2B.

Andre Charoo was among the first 25 employees at Uber and helped launch Uber Canada. He now runs Maple VC, a seed-stage fund investing in founders with Canadian roots, and serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Inovia. He previously served as Co-Chair of the C100 for three years and studied at the University of Toronto.

Omar has over a decade of venture and corporate venture capital experience, having deployed more than $100M and raised $300M for his companies while scaling multiple international markets. He holds a B.Comm in Finance from UBC and an MBA from Ivey Business School.

Arie Koifman is co-founder and chairman of Life in Green, a company focused on office coffee service. With over 25 years of experience in the food and beverages industry, he has founded and invested in multiple businesses while serving as an advisor to other ventures.

Gabriele Papievyte leads XTX Ventures at XTX Markets, focusing on late seed to Series A investments in machine learning and AI-driven software and deeptech companies, with portfolio companies including Anthropic, Groq, and Tenstorrent. She serves on boards of multiple portfolio companies and previously helped launch Inovia Capital's European operations and a $450M growth fund, with prior board experience at Neo4j and Zwift. Her background includes technology M&A and early-stage investing, and she advises the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and serves on the ConceptionX Deeptech Advisory Board.

Geoff Judge is Managing Partner at Trio Three Equity and former Partner at iNovia Capital, where he worked from 2010 to 2017. Since 2002, he has made over 200 seed and angel investments, primarily in New York-based companies across fintech, ad tech, digital media, payments, and travel technology, with notable exits including Payoneer, TripleLift, BentoBox, and Pond5. Judge previously served as co-founder and General Manager of the media division at 24/7 Real Media, which sold to WPP for $649 million in 2007, and held executive positions at iMarket, Inc. and American Express; he holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University.

Henri-Charles Machalani is the founder and CEO of Machalani Ventures, a family office investing in AI, robotics, medtech, and biotech startups. He previously founded Mistplay, a mobile gaming platform that generated over $300 million in annual revenue. Machalani was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year.

Katy Yam is a Partner at Real Ventures and General Manager of FounderFuel, with over 20 years of experience leading product, business intelligence and marketing teams across venture capital, AI, gaming, consumer packaged goods, telecommunications and nonprofits. Before Real Ventures, she spent three years at Element AI, helping scale the company from pre-Series A through its acquisition. She is active in the startup community as a mentor, guest lecturer and board member, and is ICD.D certified.

Founded and exited iBwave and Beltron, former Chair of Anges Quebec and a founder/partner at 500 Startups Canada; recognized as Canadian and Quebec Angel Investor of the Year.

Sarah Marion is a Senior Product Manager at Wealthsimple responsible for the kids and teens accounts product line. She has experience in fintech and SaaS product management, with a focus on identifying customer problems and developing user-centered solutions.

Simon Constantineau is a wealth management professional at Le Groupe Constantineau, RBC Dominion Securities, where he works with entrepreneurs, families, and professionals on portfolio management, growth, and asset protection. He leads a team providing personalized service with an institutional approach emphasizing strategic planning and client relationships.