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Flagship Podcast

Amiral Ventures

Business

Technology

Frequency: 1 episode/19d. Total Eps: 50

The Flagship Podcast brings you inside stories from the Canadian technology ecosystem. You'll hear from founders, investors, builders and learn about their triumphs, hardships and hard earned lessons. You'll learn about strategies and tactics and about the human side and what it takes to build a thriving technology company which will hopefully help you on your journey.

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🇨🇦 Canada - management
10/06/2026
#66
🇨🇦 Canada - management
21/04/2026
#54
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10/04/2026
#72
🇨🇦 Canada - management
20/03/2026
#50
🇨🇦 Canada - management
09/03/2026
#93
🇨🇦 Canada - management
08/03/2026
#61
🇨🇦 Canada - management
24/02/2026
#60
🇨🇦 Canada - management
18/02/2026
#62
🇨🇦 Canada - management
17/02/2026
#41
🇨🇦 Canada - management
15/12/2025
#85

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https://fellow.app/supermanagers/
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https://grandv.investquebec.com/
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https://www.maverixpe.com/
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Scaling and operating lessons with Julie Lacasse, co-founder @ Tracktik and Venture Partner @ Amiral Ventures

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 • Duration 46:36

I'm lucky that I get to work alongside Julie Lacasse and learn from her every day.

If you don't know her, Julie is a serial entrepreneur and current venture capital partner at Amiral Ventures. She's the cofounder of Tracktik, an innovative company specialized in optimizing the management of security agencies, she led the company to international success and exit.

Julie now brings her expertise to Amiral Ventures, where she focuses on venture capital investment. Her inspiring career path and strategic vision make her an influential figure in the entrepreneurial and investment ecosystem.

We spoke about:

Julie's entrepreneurial journey

Insight that led to hyper growth company

Board and VC dynamics

Principles that Julie learned operating and scaling

Lessons learned during the exit process

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Building successful tech startups with Richard Chénier, General Manager @ Québec Tech

Episode 13

Tuesday, August 20, 2024 • Duration 49:35

Startup Montréal, the non-profit organization that has supported early-stage Montréal startups is now known as Québec Tech. The rebranded organization has also adopted a new mandate to grow the international footprint of Québec tech companies with high export potential.

To talk about the important mission of Québec Tech, I had the pleasure of speaking with Richard Chenier on the podcast to learn more about their plans and how they plan on addressing a key challenge for Quebec based startups.
On the episode, we spoke about:

The reason to expand the mission of Quebec Tech to the entire province
How they plan to support their initial cohort of startups
Why they focused on international go to market as the key value creation lever
How Quebec compares to other provinces
Reasons for optimism and why Quebec startups will win

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Building a VC franchise with Scott Loong, Partner @ Panache Ventures

Episode 5

Friday, January 5, 2024 • Duration 56:57

Scott is a partner at Panache Ventures. Prior to joining Panache, Scott was the co-founder and CEO of Covera.ai (acquired in 2019), an InsurTech startup that leverages data and technology to take insurance renewals off of your to do list forever. Scott was also an Entrepreneur in Residence at Ferst Capital Partners, one of Canada's pioneering FinTech venture capital funds. Scott writes and speaks about how technology, analytics, design and data impact the various components of the modern FinTech landscape. Scott is a business lawyer and holds a masters degree in business administration (MBA) from McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management as well as civil and common law degrees from McGill's Faculty of Law.

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Self Belief with Vickie Joseph | Founder, Board Member, Leader

Episode 3

Sunday, December 17, 2023 • Duration 40:11

Originally from Montreal, business woman, creator and philanthropist, Vickie Joseph has been immersed in the world of fashion from a very young age. Today, as a happy mother of three children, the designer and businesswoman has been recognized for her projects on several occasions, including the multi million dollars she and her husband Frantz Saintellemy invested in the neighborhood of Saint Michel. Having created her clothing line in 2006, Vickie is a model of success. With determination and perseverance, she has succeeded in creating a company that broke into a very limited local market in Quebec, swept the country, and then spread internationally to create jobs for eager young women who would not otherwise have had the chance to work in such a niche sector

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Restless Maverick with John Ruffolo, Founder & Managing Partner Maverix

Episode 2

Monday, November 13, 2023 • Duration 48:03

John is the Founder and Managing Partner of Maverix Private Equity, a private equity firm focused on technology-enabled growth and disruption investment strategies. As a firm run by entrepreneurs, funded by entrepreneurs, and for entrepreneurs, Maverix invests in health and wellness, financial services, transportation and logistics, live, work, play and learn, and retail. John chairs the Investment Committee, guides the strategy of the firm, is deeply involved with fundraising and sourcing and leading investment opportunities, particularly within the technology industry. He led Maverix's first investment in Viral Nation and sits on their board.

John is also the Founder of OMERS Ventures and Co-Founder and Vice Chair of the Council of Canadian Innovators. Over the course of his leadership as the CEO of OMERS Ventures, they invested over USD$500 million in over 40 disruptive technology companies across North America, including growth investments in Shopify, Xanadu, Wattpad, Wave, Hootsuite, Rover, Desire 2 Learn, Hopper, DuckDuckGo, TouchBistro and League. During his tenure at OMERS, John also formed OMERS Platform Investments, and as its Executive Managing Director, he formed OMERS Growth Equity and led investments in Purpose Financial, PointNorth Capital, District Ventures, OneEleven and ArcTern Ventures. John co-founded the Council of Canadian Innovators with Jim Balsillie, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping high-growth Canadian technology firms scale globally.

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Flagship Podcast: Episode 1 | Amiral Ventures

Episode 1

Sunday, October 29, 2023 • Duration 01:06:16

For the first episode, I could not think of two better people than my mighty partners at Amiral Ventures, Frederic Bastien and Dominic Becotte. We spoke about:

Why we're starting Amiral Ventures
The funding gap in Canada and how we're planning to address it
Our investment thesis centered around sustainable economic dynamism
Why we believe that the Canadian tech ecosystem is just getting started

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Making meetings better with Aydin Mirzaee, Co-Founder & CEO @ Fellow

Episode 12

Wednesday, July 31, 2024 • Duration 37:15

I had a great conversation with Aydin Mirzaee, CEO & Co-Founder @ Fellow. Aydin is a tech loving entrepreneur with a passion for building great products, leadership and people. Fellow solves a huge problem for companies, help people spend less time in meetings and make them more productive. Previously , he was the co-founder and co-CEO of Fluidware which was acquired by SurveyMonkey.

On the episode, we spoke about:

Why he decided to start Fellow after having sold his previous startup

How meetings have grown significantly since the pandemic

Their product offering and how it improves organizational performance

Using AI for human level transcriptions and building institutional knowledge

Advice he gives to fellow founders

Why they started their own podcast Supermanagers (https://fellow.app/supermanagers/)

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Building an electric future with Marc Bédard, Cofounder & CEO @ Lion Electric

Episode 11

Wednesday, July 3, 2024 • Duration 35:56

Sur cet épisode du Flagship podcast, j'ai eu le plaisir d'échanger avec Marc Bédard, cofondateur et PDG @ Lion Électrique. Marc Bédard a toujours été passionné par la technologie, l'innovation et la finance. En 2008, il a fondé Lion Electric et a peu après mis l'entreprise sur la voie du zéro émission en s'engageant dans un portefeuille de produits de véhicules lourds et moyens entièrement électriques.

Sur l'émission, nous avons parlé de:

Comment le Karaté l'a aidé à devenir un meilleur leader
Acceptation sociale des véhicules électriques
Comment ils naviguent sur les marchés en tant qu'entreprise publique
Pourquoi nous en sommes encore aux premiers balbutiements de la transition énergétique pour les transports

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Backing AI founders at pre-seed with Jordan Steiner and Max McCrea, Co-Founders @ Dev/Cap

Episode 10

Wednesday, June 5, 2024 • Duration 46:05

There is a cool new fund called DevCap based in Montreal founded by Max McCrea and Jordan Steiner. Developer Capital is a pre-seed and seed-stage investment corporation. They strive to provide what other investors promise: real support for our investments in the form of actionable technical and operational support via its partnership with Monadical.

Jordan and Max are not building your typical VC firm which is structured as an evergreen investment corp. They bring solid technical expertise for their founders.

We spoke about:

Building a strong culture as a new VC fund
How they built a relationship of trust and decided to start a fund together
Culture principles they put into practice
Deep dive on the excitement around AI and their investment thesis

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Changing an industry with Simon Leblond, Co-founder & CEO @ SmartD Technologies

Episode 9

Monday, May 27, 2024 • Duration 29:23

J'ai eu le plaisir de discuter avec Simon Leblond, co-fondateur et PDG @ SmartD Technologies.

Simon est un entrepreneur avec 20 ans d'expérience entrepreneuriale dans la mise sur le marché de technologies disruptives dans tous les secteurs.

SmartD Technologies développe des variateurs de fréquence (VFD) pour le contrôle de moteurs.

Leur variateur de fréquence Clean Power VFD peut augmenter l'efficacité des moteurs, réduire l'usure des équipements, économiser de l'énergie et réduire les coûts pour les entreprises de nombreux secteurs, notamment les infrastructures, les services publics, l'agriculture, les mines, les transports, entre autres.

C'est un marché adressable énorme avec des gains en efficacité énergétique significatifs. En plus, Simon est un entrepreneur chevronné avec énormément d'expérience. Il a participé au lancement de trois entreprises, a introduit de nombreuses technologies sur le marché, et mentoré des entrepreneurs.

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