Selection Committee
The CIX Top 20 Early and CIX Top 10 Growth Selection Committees are composed of investors and technology and innovation experts. Their mandate is to evaluate a random group of submissions against the main criteria of Business Model, Quality of Product, Service Offering, Market Opportunity and Depth of Management.
This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and ambiguity around the depth and length of the economic slowdown, their task is more difficult. We would like to thank the 100+ judges who are participating this year.
Please note that judges are recused from evaluating any submissions if a conflict of interest exists. The 2020 selection process will occur over 3 weeks in August on CIX’s awards platform.
CO-CHAIRS
Plaza Ventures, Matt Leibowitz
Nicole LeBlanc
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
| 3M Canada Company, Scott Mikalachki | Lighter Capital, Jon Prentice |
| 500 Startups, Neha Khera | Luge Capital, Ramin Wright |
| 7 Gate Ventures, Shahab Samimi | MacKinnon, Bennett & Co., Geetanjali Kanwar |
| Amplify Capital, Kathryn Wortman | Maple Leaf Angels, Prathna Ramesh |
| AngelList, Alexander Norman | MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, Connor Edwards |
| Azure Capital Partners, Andrea Drager | McRock Capital, Siddharth Srivastava |
| BC Tech Association, Anastasia Hambali | Mistral Venture Partners, Code Cubitt |
| BCF Ventures, Bonnie Chau | National Bank, Nik Rasskazovskiy |
| BCF Ventures, Sergio Escobar | NBIF (New Brunswick Innovation Foundation), Raymond Fitzpatrick |
| BDC, Jasmin Ganie-Hobbs | New Avenue Capital, Manny Pada |
| BDC Capital, Steven Abrams | Ontario Capital Growth Corporation, Brenda Hogan |
| BDC Capital, Kimberly Yeung | Panache Ventures, Prashant Matta |
| BDC Capital, Loren Rafeson | Pegasus Tech Ventures, Jack Warning |
| BDC Capital, Rob Dennison | Pelorus Ventures, Chris Moyer |
| BDC Capital, Mark Trevitt | Portag3 Ventures, Ricky Lai |
| BDC Capital, Lally Rementilla | R&D Capital Inc., Nikhil Rodye |
| Bessemer Venture Partners, Elliott Robinson | Radian Capital, Mattia Flabiano |
| Brightspark Ventures, Eleonore Jarry | Real Ventures, Hamzah Nassif |
| Build Ventures, Rob Babara | Real Ventures, Sam Haffar |
| Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Mathieu Provost | Relay Ventures, Alex Baker |
| Canopy Rivers, Narbe Alexandrian | Relentless Venture Fund, Brenda Irwin |
| Cathay Innovation, Alex Lazarow | Revolution Growth, Patrick Conroy |
| Celtic House Venture Partners, Cory Michalyshyn | Rhino Ventures, Jay Rhind |
| CENGN (Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks), Tom Astle | Ripple Ventures, Matt Cohen |
| CIBC Innovation Banking, Daniel Lee | Roar Growth, Peggy Van de Plassche |
| Cisco Investments, Ankur Saxena | Round13 Capital, Craig Strong |
| Comerica Bank, Kamal Bal | Round13 Growth Fund, Sanjiv Samant |
| Communitech, Lori Cashmore | Royal Bank of Canada, Amy Ng |
| Crédit Mutuel Equity, Raghu Bharat | Samsung Catalyst Fund, Will Fung |
| Dragonfly Ventures, Eric In | Samsung NEXT Ventures, Deborah Conway |
| East Valley Ventures, Gerry Pond | Sandpiper Ventures, Danielle Graham |
| EDBI San Francisco, Terence Teo | Silicon Valley Bank, Win Bear |
| Espresso Capital, Mark Gilbert | SkyChee Ventures, Ray Wu |
| Fairhaven Capital, Paul Ciriello | StandUp Ventures, Michelle McBane |
| Fastbreak Ventures, Matt Saunders | TDF Ventures, Matthew Bressler |
| ff Venture Capital, Adam Plotkin | Techstars Toronto, Sunil Sharma |
| ff Venture Capital, Marcia Mitchell | Telus Ventures, Rich Osborn |
| Fintech Collective, Brooks Gibbins | The Big Push, Sharon Zohar |
| First Ascent Ventures, Noah Chaikof | Timia Capital, Rob Foxall |
| Flow Capital Corp., Kutral Veerabadran | Trust Ventures, Richard Deulofeut |
| Flow Ventures, Bryan Watson | Two Signma Ventures, Villi Iltchev |
| Framework Venture Partners, Ajay Gopal | Two Small Fish Ventures, Eva Wong |
| Georgian Partners, Nick Chen | University of New Brunswick, Joe Allen |
| Globalive Capital, Brice Scheschuk | Vanedge Capital, Amy Rae |
| GM Ventures, Lee Rawlings | Varshney Capital, Praveen Varshney |
| Golden Venture Partners, Jamie Rosenblatt | Venbridge, Garron Helman |
| HarbourVest Partners, David Zug | Version One, Max Webster |
| Highline Beta, Lauren Robinson | Verstra Ventures, Karl Schabas |
| Highline Beta, Marcus Daniels | Vertu Capital, Gil Nayot |
| HSBC Bank Canada, Brad Robichaud | Vista Equity Partners, Rene Yang Stewart |
| Impression Ventures, Muneeb Ahmed | Vistara Capital Partners, Noah Shipman |
| INFOR Financial Group, Yong Kwon | Voyager Capital, Meredith Powell |
| Information Venture Partners, Alex Tong | Warburg Pincus, Stephenie Zhang |
| iNovia Capital, Sarah Marion | WD Capital Markets, Tyler Lang |
| Intel Capital, Elana Lian | Welsey Clover, Josh Seerattan |
| Island Capital Partners, Paul Lypaczewski | Whitecap Venture Partners, Russell Samuels |
| Jenifer Bartman Business Advisory Services, Jenifer Bartman | Whitecap Venture Partners, Shayn Diamond |
| Kensington Capital Partners Limited, Win Bear | Wittington Ventures, Jim Orlando |
| Klass Capital, Kevin Climans | York Angel Investors, Galen Udell |
| LDV Partners, Winston Fu |
