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 |

