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Pender Ventures invests in data centric startups in health-tech, enterprise software, and industrial transformation. We interview leaders and entrepreneurs in these areas, with a focus on women in technology and startups.

  1. APR 16

    Founder Series - The Future of Medical Imaging

    Handheld ultrasound, AI-guided diagnostics, and expanding access to point-of-care imaging worldwide. In this episode, Cheri Corbett, Partner at Pender Ventures spoke with Clarius CEO Laurent Pelissier, exploring the journey of building a handheld ultrasound platform designed to make medical imaging accessible far beyond traditional hospital settings. The conversation explores the evolution of point-of-care ultrasound, how AI is reducing training barriers for clinicians, and how Clarius is leveraging one of the world's largest ultrasound datasets to power the next generation of diagnostic tools.

    47 min

  2. MAR 5

    Founder Series - From Spin-Out to Scale: Modernizing Community Recreation

    Building software for YMCAs, JCCs, and recreation centers, and reimagining member experiences through AI-powered automation. Lara Gilchrist, CEO at Traction Rec, joins Cheri Corbett, Partner at Pender Ventures to discuss management, payments and registrations of parks and recreation centers in the US. In the podcast Cheri and Lara talk about Traction Rec's spin out from its parent Traction on Demand in 90 days, what its like to have NFPs as your core customer base and how they are barreling head first with the use of AI and agents in the very near future of their product.

    50 min

  3. FEB 20

    Health Tech Ignite Fireside Chat

    In this episode, Pender Ventures Principal Meryeme Lahmami spoke with Angelo Papatheodorou who shared his unfiltered story behind scaling PointClickCare from startup to healthcare SaaS leader. He breaks down the pivotal deals, tough "no" decisions, sales discipline, pricing strategy, and culture-building lessons that drove decades of sustained growth.

    57 min

  4. FEB 9

    Founder Series - Verified Impact at Scale

    In the first episode of the new Pender Ventures Founder Series, Cheri Corbett, Pender Ventures Partner, talks with Derrick Emsley, co-founder and CEO of Tentree and Veritree. They discuss his founder journey and the creation of a technology platform bringing verification, transparency, and trust to global reforestation.

    37 min

  5. JAN 5

    Deploying Generative AI and Other TMT Predictions Part 3

    We are pleased to welcome back Duncan Stewart, Director of TMT Research at Deloitte Canada, for Pender Ventures' annual Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) update. Hosted by Maria Pacella, Managing Partner at Pender Ventures, this wide-ranging conversation explores Deloitte's 2026 TMT Predictions and what they mean for investors, operators, and policymakers. Duncan shares insights on AI-driven economic growth, data center infrastructure, agentic AI, robotics, energy constraints, and the narrowing gap between AI promise and reality.

    41 min

  6. 05/16/2025

    Navigating Debt as a Growth Driver with Kevin Houston

    A founder's guide to revenue-based financing as a capital strategy for scaling SaaS businesses In this episode, Isaac Souweine speaks with Kevin Houston, founder of Duration Growth Advisors, about debt financing as an alternative funding strategy for software companies, especially bootstrappers and other denizens of the "messy middle". The conversation is grounded in the concept of matching duration of financing capital to the expected company outcome. Within that framework, Kevin and Isaac explore when debt can be a good fit, how to evaluate options across stages of company development, and how to manage risk. They also take a crack at the en vogue concept of "seed-strapping."

    1h 1m

  7. 01/30/2025

    Play Your Own Game - Brice Scheschuk's Framework For Founders Seeking To Understand The World Of Venture Capital

    Isaac Souweine, Partner at Pender Ventures hosts Brice Scheschuk, Managing Partner at Globalive Capital. Brice is an active private technology investor in Canada with firsthand founder experience as the co-founder of Wind Mobile (now Freedom Mobile) in 2008. In this podcast he talks to Isaac about his "play your own game" framework, a thought exercise for founders that shifts their sole focus from pitching to investors to include selling to customers.

    1h 7m

  8. 01/10/2025

    Deploying Generative AI and Other TMT Predictions - Part 2

    Sub-Title: GenAI, machine learning, cloud computing and chips galore. Where business leaders are investing. Maria Pacella, Managing Partner of Pender Ventures hosts Duncan Stewart, director of TMT Research, Deloitte Canada for a second time. Duncan is a globally recognized expert on the forecasting of consumer and enterprise technology, media and telecommunication trends and is co-author of the Deloitte Global Research Annual Prediction Report. In this podcast he talks to Maria about his 2025 predictions on disruptive technologies across industries and reflects on what he got right (and wrong) for 2024.

    39 min
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Pender Ventures invests in data centric startups in health-tech, enterprise software, and industrial transformation. We interview leaders and entrepreneurs in these areas, with a focus on women in technology and startups.

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