Investorpreneur Peter Leung

World-renowned professional poker player and now breakthrough businessman Matt Jarvis is our feature Investorpreneur.

Cash Live, a cutting-edge poker mobile app, offers an unrivaled gaming experience, combining the best of online and live casino play but with a twist. This live experience allows you to enjoy all the excitement of a real casino environment, right from your phone or tablet. A tournament from start to finish in just 20 minutes.

Listen with us today as Matt shares his values, beliefs, practices, and vision that invited prominent investors to fund Cash Live and help bring it to the future of Poker and Online Casino gaming.

Cash Live has had some very prominent investors, like Phil Hellmuth, a sixteen-time World Series of Poker winner, or Justin Waldron, co-founder of Zynga, invest with Matt on this journey. How does Matt do it? Listen for yourself how he started from poker player to Investorpreneur.

https://www.cash.live/

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/matt-jarvis-78b24969

We have on the Investorpreneur podcast another special guest, a startup entrepreneur, Casey Grage. Casey is the CEO and Co-founder of Hubly Surgical. She will share her story of passion, innovation, and learning as she creates a whole new breed of medical equipment, opening unfamiliar but great doors as she raises funding for mass production.



In the US, over 3.5 million neurosurgical procedures are performed annually. Most of these patients require a craniotomy to access their brain and perform tumor removal or other surgical intervention. 



Neurosurgeons have been performing craniotomies for decades using manual drills with no safety backstops since their design in the 1950’s. What Casey brings to the field is safety and consistency with their invention. 



Join us as we chat with Casey Grage about her journey in creating a new generation of electric drill systems, revolutionizing the future of surgery.



https://hublysurgical.com/

https://twitter.com/hublysurgical

https://www.facebook.com/HublySurgical/

Dean Gorenc is a local Calgarian from mortgage broker to mega Real Estate Developer.
He founded UrbanStar on $5,000 just over 10 years ago. 

As an Investorpreneur, we are looking for opportunities that could yield good returns while protecting the downside.
Dean believes that Calgary has that Risk to Reward ratio covered as the third most resilient city in Canada while having a prominent place in the commodities market. 

"When you talk about real estate, you have to look at the underlying economics that allow for future development"

Dean and his team not only raised capital in Canada but abroad in Japan where you will hear about his secrets to raising over a hundred million of capital for deployment in the Calgarian market. 

The story is remarkable and Dean Gorenc is authentic with his sharing of his wisdom and experience. Listen in and take great notes.

Katie Kay is the Coach and Serial Entrepreneur you want on your corner when it comes to Starting, Growing and Scaling your business. 

Katie shares all the obvious secrets that most entrepreneurs constantly miss when they build their business. Sometimes it is the most common and simple things that make a business work and she shares her experience on her failures and also her successes in implementation.

She will share on this podcast how she started her first business, and how she was able to leverage her team in building a multimillion dollar empire. 

A few key-pointers to start:

1. Don't get emotional in business. Stay with rational and logic.
2. Incentivize people with commission structures and how to outperform the competition.
3. Put up non-competes in her employee contracts
4. Do not be afraid to exit

"If you want to exit, you have to scale" preaches Katie to her clients and partners.

Listen in as Katie shares her wisdom on her multiple company exits and why her coaching works.

A true Investorpreneur, Charles Bhatana is my guest on the show speaking about his Startup Experience and to Navigate the Capital Raising Game from investors. 

Raising Capital is such an important subject, especially to a startup that requires external resources. Do you tell investors what they want to hear or do you tell them what your vision is for growth? How do you build a startup with profit as well as growth and is it possible and liked by investors. 

Charles is the founder of JobsLab. His vision is to disrupt a competitive recruitment industry by matching the right candidates more effectively. Charles have had years of experience operating in this traditional space matching candidates to jobs in the financial world. What was his motivation to start this new business. 

We think that many industries will be impacted by the deployment of Artificial Intelligence and JobsLab is wanting to jump ahead from what is a geographical business to that of the global marketplace.

Charles speak on the topic of hiring for his team and all the things he have had to do to get the company growing while at a profit. 

I'm sure you will enjoy the teachings and wisdom Charles Bhatana will share with us today. 

https://www.jobslab.io/

"Learn to not bet on the horse, but on the jockey." Is there a way to mitigate risk when investing in Startups? These co-founders may have solve the riddle.

Sam Chandola and Thamer Matar are serial entrepreneurs. They are the classic Investorpreneur, they have shared their secret to evaluating deals. Each of them have achieved so much success in raising capital, for their previous projects and their current fund where they invest into startups. 

This show is very specific as to their sharing of how they grew this fund and the importance of soft skills to working with investors.
I promise this show is packed with insights with their on the ground knowledge of which industries are more likely going to make it big and which sectors to avoid. 

Sam Chandola is the recipient of the 2014 BC Business Top 30 under 30 award, the RBC Top 75 Canadian Immigrant award, and the 2017 TMX Canada's Next 150 award. He routinely talks about entrepreneurship at events and universities such as Pecha Kucha Nights, University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and the Center for Digital Media.

Thamer Matar's startup in Openspot, was the three finalists for the Startup of the Year Award from the BC Tech association in 2019. He has spoken on the largest expos around Smart Cities. 

We are grateful to have them as our guest on the Investorpreneur.