How Tofu Discovered a $96B Fraud Problem by Listening to Customer Feedback
Jason Zoltak had already pivoted his company once when a strange pattern in customer feedback made him pivot again. Names on resumes didn't match the voices answering the phone. With just three people on the team, he and his co-founder started calling candidates themselves with no caller ID, and what they found led straight into government warnings about state-sponsored fraud targeting hiring teams across North America. Jason is the Co-Founder of Tofu, an AI-native fraud and security platform tackling…
The Operator Behind Wealthsimple's Growth: Brand Bets, Blitz Hiring, and 125 Billion in AUA
Most financial institutions in Canada built trust the same way: slowly, through branch relationships, decades of presence, and the assumption that people had nowhere else to go. Wealthsimple decided to build it differently, betting on brand and on product experience at a moment when fintech was still trying to prove it could be trusted with people's money. Paul Teshima is Wealthsimple's Chief Commercial and Chief Marketing Officer. He came to the company in 2020, with no background in financial…
The Business of Prevention: Mike Goss Secured Over 8M and Built Longevity Platform, NiaHealth
Almost every country in the world is spending more on healthcare, with costs climbing faster than the economies paying for them, and almost all of them get the same thing back: a system built to treat people once they are already sick. Mike Goss of NiaHealth is hoping to change that. He is a Co-Founder and the company's COO, and before Nia he spent his career on both the public and private sides of healthcare, advising governments on policy and sitting close enough to the spending data to see exactly…
Serial Founder and Dragon: Michele Romanow on Building, Investing, AI & Motherhood
Canada has a habit of celebrating founders on the way up and chasing them on the way down. Michele Romanow has been both, and she doesn't pretend otherwise. She started her first company at 21 by driving to New Brunswick in a Toyota Camry with $150,000 in business plan competition winnings, catching fish and cold calling restaurants from a flip phone. That company became a caviar business during the 2008 recession. What came after was Clearco, a non-dilutive financing platform that deployed over $3…