Agrivanna won round one. Now it’s FinTech’s turn.
Haden Harrison’s virtual fencing for cattle took the AgTech round, and Agrivanna moves on to the final. Thanks to everyone who voted.
Round two is now live! Last Thursday, two FinTech founders got 90 seconds each, and you decide who moves on to compete for $3,000: $1,000 in cash plus $2,000 in legal services from BLG.
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AMLOK, pitched by Juana Attieh, Co-Founder and Chief of Strategy & Operations, who joined us live from Montreal. AMLOK connects a lender’s own banking data with data borrowers give permission to share, then uses AI agents across the life of the loan. Juana says it can surface warning signs six to eight weeks before a default, so lenders can adjust payments or refinance before anything goes wrong.
Woveo, was pitched by Jonah Chininga, Co-Founder & CEO. Small businesses are about half of Canada’s economy, Jonah says, yet they get just 5% of new commercial financing. Banks don’t want small loans, because it costs as much to underwrite a $20,000 loan as a $1 million one. Woveo uses AI underwriting, cash flow data and what Jonah calls “social collateral” to make lending decisions in under 10 minutes. It’s managing a $13 million fund with BDC and credit unions.
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Know a founder who should pitch in our last round on November 18th? Drop their name in the comments below. 💬
We recorded Episode 5 of Tech Thursday Live! on November 5th in front of a packed room during Calgary Innovation Week, and it was our FinTech episode, co-hosted with our friends at Questrade.
Mark Le Dain and I went through the week’s tech news: US voters turning down new data centres, Cohere’s new raise with the Government of Canada on the cap table, the federal budget’s new capital gains break for founders, and big banks blocking AI agents from customer accounts.
We also sat down with:
Lucas Scheer, Co-Founder & CEO at Purelend, on rebuilding how lenders approve mortgages
Andrej Simeonov, Head of Technology at Questrade, on turning a 27-year-old brokerage into a bank
📺 You can watch the full episode on Youtube here. Or listen on Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. If you enjoy the episode, please subscribe and review.
Here’s what stuck with me.
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