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Dec 19, 2022
Recap: Year in Review 2022
Deemed consistently as “the best show in town” and “an event not to miss” from attendees, on Thursday, November 10th, 2022, we hosted our Year in Review at the Rialto Theatre in Montreal, Quebec featuring +500 portfolio companies, Holt Advisors, fintechs, industry experts and other ecosystem players. Throughout the day, we tailor activities to the
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Nov 18, 2022
Innovative Sentro platform picked by Humania Assurance for customer-centric group insurance administration
Breakthrough contract in Canada for New Zealand tech leader Montréal, November 15, 2022 – Sentro, a leading New Zealand-based tech firm, announced today that Canadian life and health insurer Humania Assurance has selected the Sentro solution as its new core group insurance policy administration platform. Sentro is a cloud-native, application programming interface (API)-centric solution platformed
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Nov 15, 2022
Fintech Show 2022: Fintech Seasons
👇 CHECK OUT THE LIVESTREAM 👇 The theme for this year’s Fintech Show was Fintech Seasons, which compared all of our collective years of experience passing through differing economic cycles. For instance, during the economic summer, it is a time to nourish your garden of projects, and we at Holt Xchange were doing just that:
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Sep 01, 2022
Recap: Holt Xchange Selection Days 2022
On July 12th and 13th, we hosted our annual 2-day VIP portfolio selection event where we involve our advisory network to take a peek at our potential portfolio investment. This is a great opportunity for our advisors to get a view of how different fintechs technologies are being used around the world and whether such
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Mar 09, 2022
#BreakTheBias: International Women’s Day 2022
International Women’s day is a special day to appreciate the complexity and value that women bring to the world. By respecting these unique differences that both men and women bring, the world would not be the same as we know it. Unfortunately, there are still parts of the world that do not offer the same
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Dec 21, 2021
Recap: Holt Xchange Year In Review 2021
Hear from our existing portfolio companies about the value Holt Xchange helped bring to the table. With capital to unlock, a 14-week growth program and a full day Year in Review, we have spent the last few months helping these companies grow their business and create new milestones. Apply to Holt 2022 Growth Program Here
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Nov 25, 2021
Sentro Partners with HBM+ to Deliver Powerful New Solutions for Canadian Insurers
Innovative Cloud-Native Technology Facilitates Group Insurance Policy Administration and Claims Processing Montréal, November 1, 2021 – New Zealand-based Sentro is partnering with Canada’s HBM+ to offer Canadian insurers a unique end-to-end group health administration solution designed to anticipate and meet diverse business needs. Sentro is a fast-growing tech firm that has developed an innovative platform
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Nov 20, 2021
Watch the Holt Xchange Fintech Show 2021
At The Holt Xchange Fintech Show 2021, our latest portfolio additions pitched their company in industries that include payments, real-estate, banking, regtech and trading. WATCH THE LIVESTREAM NOW >
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Dec 19, 2022
Recap: Year in Review 2022
Deemed consistently as “the best show in town” and “an event not to miss” from attendees, on Thursday, November 10th, 2022, we hosted our Year in Review at the Rialto Theatre in Montreal, Quebec featuring +500 portfolio companies, Holt Advisors, fintechs, industry experts and other ecosystem players. Throughout the day, we tailor activities to the
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Nov 15, 2022
Fintech Show 2022: Fintech Seasons
👇 CHECK OUT THE LIVESTREAM 👇 The theme for this year’s Fintech Show was Fintech Seasons, which compared all of our collective years of experience passing through differing economic cycles. For instance, during the economic summer, it is a time to nourish your garden of projects, and we at Holt Xchange were doing just that:
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Sep 01, 2022
Recap: Holt Xchange Selection Days 2022
On July 12th and 13th, we hosted our annual 2-day VIP portfolio selection event where we involve our advisory network to take a peek at our potential portfolio investment. This is a great opportunity for our advisors to get a view of how different fintechs technologies are being used around the world and whether such
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Dec 21, 2021
Recap: Holt Xchange Year In Review 2021
Hear from our existing portfolio companies about the value Holt Xchange helped bring to the table. With capital to unlock, a 14-week growth program and a full day Year in Review, we have spent the last few months helping these companies grow their business and create new milestones. Apply to Holt 2022 Growth Program Here
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Nov 20, 2021
Watch the Holt Xchange Fintech Show 2021
At The Holt Xchange Fintech Show 2021, our latest portfolio additions pitched their company in industries that include payments, real-estate, banking, regtech and trading. WATCH THE LIVESTREAM NOW >
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Feb 12, 2021
A Canadian Fintech Snapshot: A Report by Holt Accelerator & Fintech Cadence
In collaboration with Fintech Cadence, we spent the past year gathering feedback from our Advisors to gage how the Fintech landscape in Canada has changed as a result of COVID-19. This report shares key insights on what our government can do to foster a more competitive innovation ecosystem that can enable the Canadian Fintech landscape
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Sep 11, 2018
Holt Selection Day: All You Need To Know!
Last week was a key milestone for the entire Holt team. After several months searching far and wide for the most innovative fintech startups across the globe to join our accelerator program, we finally had our highly-anticipated ‘Selection Day!’ The 2 day event, held in the beautiful and fitting setting of L’Espace CDPQ, Montreal, welcomed
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Aug 06, 2018
A Holt Accelerator Thank You
The application period for the Holt Fintech Accelerator has officially ended! What an exciting period it’s been for the whole Holt team. Our Managing Partners Jan Arp and Brendan Holt Dunn attended numerous events all over the world, from Tel Aviv to Europe to Asia, spreading the word and talking to innovate and promising Fintech
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Mar 09, 2022
#BreakTheBias: International Women’s Day 2022
International Women’s day is a special day to appreciate the complexity and value that women bring to the world. By respecting these unique differences that both men and women bring, the world would not be the same as we know it. Unfortunately, there are still parts of the world that do not offer the same
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Nov 25, 2021
Sentro Partners with HBM+ to Deliver Powerful New Solutions for Canadian Insurers
Innovative Cloud-Native Technology Facilitates Group Insurance Policy Administration and Claims Processing Montréal, November 1, 2021 – New Zealand-based Sentro is partnering with Canada’s HBM+ to offer Canadian insurers a unique end-to-end group health administration solution designed to anticipate and meet diverse business needs. Sentro is a fast-growing tech firm that has developed an innovative platform
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Mar 25, 2019
Ivy Lender – UI/UX Designer
Company Name: Ivy LenderCompany Website: www.ivylender.comSeniority Level: Intermediate/JuniorSkill Set: User Interface and User Experience development The Company: At Ivy Lender, we apply artificial intelligence to solve the complex end-to-end problem of business loan, from matching loan applications to lenders to payment and management and credit improvement. The Role: We are looking for UI/UX Designer who is eager to build
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Feb 15, 2019
Holt Accelerator Mentor Highlight
The Holt team is thrilled to announce Amar Ahluwalia, VP of Partnerships and Capital Markets at OnDeck Capital (NYSE: ONDK), as the newest addition to the Holt FinTech Accelerator mentor program bringing nearly 10 years of experience in financial services and capital markets. At OnDeck Canada, Amar leads a team focused on transformative digital initiatives
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Nov 29, 2018
Holt Highlight: The Liquidity Marketplace
Who They Are When The Liquidity Marketplace (LMX) was founded, it was done so with the mission to transform liquidity markets for institutional clients, such as Fortune 1000 companies and big banks. The LMX team has created a marketplace where clients can lend directly to each other with no intermediation. They also offer a SaaS
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Nov 21, 2018
Holt Highlight: KapitalWise
Who They Are KapitalWise powers deeper relationships between financial institutions and their customers, offering personalized recommendations and helping people set and achieve financial goals. Using the power of machine learning and predictive analytics, their solutions can uncover opportunities for savings and investing, prompt contextual product offers, build scenario-based forecasting and provide deep insight into a
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Nov 13, 2018
Holt Highlight: SmartPay.me
Who They Are SmartPay.me is a mobile solution for banks and retailers that addresses the EU’s new Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) regulation. PSD2 is an initiative that encourages open banking by making room for new direct-to-account banking methods and better freedom of movement of information between account holders and third parties. Chip and pin payment
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Nov 02, 2018
Holt Highlight: Owl
Who They Are From Vancouver, Canada, Owl is a salesbot platform used to complete sales and improve customer rates for various products of banks and insurers. Owl provides a zero-knowledge platform with unique customer profiling capabilities allowing regulated institutions, such as banks and insurers, to offer personalized solutions to their customers without compromising security or
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Sep 17, 2019
HodlBot Internship – Growth Hacker/Digital Marketing
Company Description: HodlBot is an early stage start-up that helps investors automatically diversify and rebalance their cryptocurrency portfolios. In the last year, HodlBot executed over $60 million in transaction volume. We also have attracted more than 500,000 + people to our blog in the first year. Hodlbot is currently in the Holt fintech accelerator program
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Sep 17, 2019
HodlBot Internship – Fintech Writer/Creative Content
Fintech Writer / Creative Content Company Description: HodlBot is an early stage start-up that helps investors automatically diversify and rebalance their cryptocurrency portfolios. In the last year, HodlBot executed over $60 million in transaction volume. We also have attracted more than 500,000 + people to our blog in the first year. Our content strategy is
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Aug 12, 2019
FundSeeder – Senior DevOps
A Sr. DevOps is required to join a vibrant financial/tech start-up. Responsibilities: Develop and automate the processes to deploy, manage and configure our application in theAWS & XEN Server environment. Solve technical problems in our systems and improve deployment and maintenance. Explore new technologies, tools, and components. Containerize our services and manage them with orchestration
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Aug 12, 2019
FundSeeder – Senior Quantative Developer
A Sr. Quantitative Developer is required to join a vibrant financial/tech start-up. We will consider other locations, so candidates are encouraged to apply irrespective of their geographical location. Responsibilities:The successful applicant will be working alongside other members of the team conducting an analysis of various data-sets to tackle real-world problems in the wider financial sector.
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Aug 12, 2019
FundSeeder – Senior Ruby Developer
A Sr. Ruby Developer is required to join a vibrant financial/tech start-up. We will consider other locations, so candidates are encouraged to apply irrespective of their geographical location. Responsibilities:Develop the core of our system that connects different parts and makes data processing to meet complex requirements.This includes, but not limited to get data from external
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Mar 25, 2019
Ivy Lender – Front-End Web Application Developers
Company Name: Ivy LenderCompany Website: www.ivylender.comSeniority Level: Intermediate/JuniorSkill Set: Front-end web and mobile development The Company: At Ivy Lender, we apply artificial intelligence to solve the complex end-to-end problem of business loan, from matching loan applications to lenders to payment and management and credit improvement. The Role: We are looking for Front End Web Application Developers who are eager
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Nov 28, 2018
KapitalWise, Inc. – Head of Sales
Job Title: Head of SalesCompany Name: KapitalWise, Inc.Company Website: www.kapitalwise.comSeniority Level: SeniorSkill Set: Sales & Business Development The Company:KapitalWise powers deeper relationships between financial institutions and their customers, offering personalized recommendations and helping people set and achieve financial goals. Using the power of machine learning and predictive analytics, our solutions can uncover opportunities for savings and investing, prompt contextual product
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Nov 28, 2018
QuantumSense – NLP Expert
Job Title: NLP ExpertCompany Name: QuantumSenseCompany Website: quantumsense.aiSeniority Level: Mid-LevelSkill Set: Data Scientist The Company:We provide an AI-powered semantic search association for FinTech and InsureTech.QuantumSense is an artificial intelligence company founded in Canada and successful graduate of the first quantum machine learning track of the CDL program in Toronto. It provides a top semantic search engine that works on the
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Nov 25, 2021
Sentro Partners with HBM+ to Deliver Powerful New Solutions for Canadian Insurers
Innovative Cloud-Native Technology Facilitates Group Insurance Policy Administration and Claims Processing Montréal, November 1, 2021 – New Zealand-based Sentro is partnering with Canada’s HBM+ to offer Canadian insurers a unique end-to-end group health administration solution designed to anticipate and meet diverse business needs. Sentro is a fast-growing tech firm that has developed an innovative platform
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Sep 27, 2021
Holt Kicks Off 2021 ACCELERATE Program with 8 New Companies and a New Brand
Driving Canada’s Fintech leadership, Holt Accelerator rebrands to The Holt Xchange to better reflect its mission as a global early stage fintech fund. The X represents the four-axis of [Founder, Market, Product and Financing] to identify the best investment opportunities. The Δ represents the delta (change) that Holt Xchange brings to accelerate their portfolio companies’ growth expansion. The ≡ (triple bar/bond) represents the strength of
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Aug 06, 2021
What Changed the Most during the Pandemic & Life Moving Forward
The Holt Xchange partnered with Territory, a visual design consultancy that works with leaders and teams on how to grow, transform and evolve their strategy, organizations, processes, and people. We captured a sample from our advisors on WHAT CHANGED THE MOST during the pandemic and what life moving forward looks like: Professionally, Personally, Technologically and
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May 13, 2021
Trading with Unknown Market Wizards: A Q&A with Jack Schwager
Jack Schwager, co-founder of FundSeeder, a platform designed to find undiscovered trading talent worldwide and connect unknown successful traders with sources of investment capital, is coming out with a new book called Unknown Market Wizards: The best traders you’ve never heard of. Q1: What inspired you to write this book? This isn’t Jack’s first rodeo when it
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Jan 26, 2021
Holt Awards a Financial Grant to Agryo, with the Support of Scale AI
Montreal, QC (January 26 2021) – Holt, a leading Global Fintech Program, has awarded a financial grant to Agryo, an AI-driven blockchain-based risk intelligence platform, with support from Scale AI Acceleration program that helps Canadian accelerators and incubators fund startups to enhance their AI-based product and service offerings, assist on AI go-to-market strategies, thus driving
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Aug 05, 2020
Holt Accelerator Announces 2020 Portfolio Companies
Today, the Holt Fintech Accelerator announces the launch of its 2020 cohort, the third in its history. This year, Canada’s only business accelerator devoted exclusively to all Fintech verticals has pivoted due to the ongoing pandemic. To accelerate competition in this space during Covid-19, Holt extensively analysed the current market conditions (see Holt’s Fintech Magazine), and identified 4
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Jul 22, 2020
Trading with Unknown Market Wizards: A Q&A with Jack Schwager
Jack Schwager, co-founder of FundSeeder, a platform designed to find undiscovered trading talent worldwide and connect unknown successful traders with sources of investment capital, is coming out with a new book called Unknown Market Wizards: The best traders you’ve never heard of. Q1: What inspired you to write this book? This isn’t Jack’s first rodeo when it
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May 27, 2020
Curu secures $3M in funding.
Curu secures $3M in funding as the demand for credit skyrockets during the global pandemic. Denver, C.O., [May 27, 2020] — Curu, an automated lead recovery solution enabling lenders to fund more loans, announced the close of its $3M seed round led by Vestigo Ventures, a leading fintech firm based in Boston, MA. Vestigo Ventures was joined
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Nov 18, 2022
Innovative Sentro platform picked by Humania Assurance for customer-centric group insurance administration
Breakthrough contract in Canada for New Zealand tech leader Montréal, November 15, 2022 – Sentro, a leading New Zealand-based tech firm, announced today that Canadian life and health insurer Humania Assurance has selected the Sentro solution as its new core group insurance policy administration platform. Sentro is a cloud-native, application programming interface (API)-centric solution platformed
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Nov 25, 2021
Sentro Partners with HBM+ to Deliver Powerful New Solutions for Canadian Insurers
Innovative Cloud-Native Technology Facilitates Group Insurance Policy Administration and Claims Processing Montréal, November 1, 2021 – New Zealand-based Sentro is partnering with Canada’s HBM+ to offer Canadian insurers a unique end-to-end group health administration solution designed to anticipate and meet diverse business needs. Sentro is a fast-growing tech firm that has developed an innovative platform
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Sep 27, 2021
Holt Kicks Off 2021 ACCELERATE Program with 8 New Companies and a New Brand
Driving Canada’s Fintech leadership, Holt Accelerator rebrands to The Holt Xchange to better reflect its mission as a global early stage fintech fund. The X represents the four-axis of [Founder, Market, Product and Financing] to identify the best investment opportunities. The Δ represents the delta (change) that Holt Xchange brings to accelerate their portfolio companies’ growth expansion. The ≡ (triple bar/bond) represents the strength of
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Sep 22, 2020
Naoris Creates an Immune Response for your Business by Using your Infrastructure Against Hackers
Last year, a cross industry survey was released, showing that more than 90% of US companies reported that they knew they were breached at least once in the 12 months prior, and that the resulting average breach cost was around $4M. While this does represent the average, it certainly does not represent damages from loss
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Sep 10, 2020
Fidectus is Transforming Post-Trade Processing
Dr. Jens Bartenschlager, CEO of Fidectus, began his career in the energy industry and stayed in the space for more than 15 years. He started off as a consultant in a small management boutique and got into energy trading very early on in his career before he took over the lead for energy & utilities at
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Sep 08, 2020
Ownest is Changing the Way Financing is Done
Kendall Raessler, CEO of Ownest, was always fifty steps ahead when it came to understanding the mortgage industry. He was a mortgage broker himself for about 25 years and came to realize first-hand that the model was broken. “A bank lends you money in order to make money and a client wants to save money.
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Sep 03, 2020
Agryo Creates an Opportunity to Improve Legacy Systems
In the early 2000s, Isaque Eberhardt and Leisy Teixeira began their career in the fields working on financial contracts with farmers to get them approved. They came to realize how inefficient this process was, which normally took them one to three weeks and in some cases up to 6 months. Using agryo’s technology, you can have it done in about
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Sep 01, 2020
Relativity6 Brings AI to Insurance Brokers and Independent Agents
While Alan Ringvald was writing his thesis at MIT it became very clear that although AI was clearly valuable and transformational as a concept, actually getting it into practice with a large enterprise was incredibly challenging. “These larger organizations have really messy data, don’t structure it correctly, and typically deliver predictions to end users in confusing ways”
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