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Series finale - Successfully exited founders who become fintech investors wrapped around the government's role in fintech support and the response by incumbents and external competition.

In this episode we’ll follow the creation of Luge Capital, Diagram Ventures, Highline Beta and influx of VC money into different stages of fintech which came from firms such as Portage Ventures, Georgian Partners and iNovia.

In this episode we’ll follow how Portage Ventures & the Desmarais family fueled the growth of fintech through injecting capital and a foundational framework for fintech in Canada. And other firms such as Ferst Capital, which invested in Mogo and Moka, as well as Impression Ventures and Sagard Portage investing in Wealthsimple. 

In this episode we follow the spark of Canadian entrepreneurial innovation with the creation of Next 36, Communitech, the DMZ, District 3, MaRS and the need for retention of Waterloo tech talent from R.I.M. The Ottawa government creates programs to not fall behind. Flowing into the role played in Montreal, Quebec.