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Canada’s CVC ecosystem is growing. It’s got a great talent base, attractive incentive schemes, an increasing number of corporates jumping into venture investment, and just overall great prospects for entrepreneurs.
Of course, it is now going through some tectonic changes in its most important economic and diplomatic relationship, with its immediate neighbour to the south. So how does this decoupling Canada and the US are going through affect Canadian startups and investors?
My guest today is Talia Abramowitz, managing partner of Deloitte Ventures, a unit which has made the vast majority of its direct investments in Canadian startups and is well-placed to speak to the feelings within ecosystem. We talk about how startups and investors are thinking of navigating the current uncertainty, and how far along Canada has come in terms of its CVC activity. The unit has also just recently passed its three-year anniversary since founding, so we talk about the challenges of standing up a new CVC, as well as the evolving business of AI, and much more.
But first, GCV’s Stephen Hurford joins us again to talk about the increasingly disruptive defence startup ecosystem in Europe.