Category: News

Montreal, QC (March 17th 2020) – It is with much anticipation that Holt is proud to announce a new addition to the family. Founding partners, Brendan Holt Dunn & Jan Christopher Arp, are pleased to announce that former Holt Advisor, Elisabeth Laett will be joining the Holt team as Managing Partner. Elisabeth brings a wealth of

Montreal, QC (March 4 2020) – Holt Fintech Accelerator is currently receiving applications for their 2020 cohort – version 3.0!This will be the third cohort following active investments in 18 top fintechs, enabling 30+ deals for their startups (ie. half with financial institutions as customers / partners, half with institutional investors), resulting in companies raising

The role of a product manager could never fit into a box. It’s difficult to define. There’s no set or standard job description. So what exactly does a product manager do? And why should companies care about investing in them? The best product managers think strategically and make difficult trade-offs quickly. They use unconventional ways

Following the success of the 2018 edition, the Chamber invites tech companies to participate in its second trade mission to Singapore. From November 10 to 15, 2019, participants will take part in the very first collaborative edition of the Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) and the Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH) : SFF x

Here at Holt Fintech Accelerator, we’ve spent the past 3 months recruiting early-stage fintechs to apply to our program. With the application period officially closing tomorrow, we’ve been able to get an overview of the challenges in recruiting female-led fintechs into our ecosystem. We believe that closing the gender gap in fintech depends on us

MONTREAL, QC (June, 2019) – Holt’s fintech program 2.0 is going to be bigger and better with more advisors, potential for more investment, and more services to help fintech startups grow. Chosen early-stage pre-series A fintech startups (i.e. bootstrapped, pre-seed, seed, or bridge) will receive up to CAD $125,000, and a host of increased benefits

It’s that time of year again! The time of year where the Holt Accelerator team is searching for the hottest early-stage fintechs across the globe. In 4 weeks time, we’ll be taking all your applications and selecting 30 startups who will come and pitch at our July Selection Days. You might be asking yourself why

We are currently accepting applications into the next cohort at Holt Fintech Accelerator! This is the beginning of a really exciting period for the whole Holt team as we work to attract startups to apply to our new cohort over the next couple of months. In the last month, we have been to dozens of

We are thrilled to announce that the Holt Accelerator Family is growing! We recently added two new people to our team who will work to connect with startups and promote our program to the world. Our new Head of Programs is Timur Shomansurov and our new Head of Marketing is Kelly Bergeron. Both joined the

The Department of Finance Canada recently sent out a call for papers on the merits, risks and recommendations of Open Banking (see here). We are proud to have collaborated on this endeavour to build a 35-page in-depth review, based on 45 interviews from interested stakeholders and an assessment of over 50 research articles, research papers