Scott Loong is a general partner at Panache Ventures, Canada’s leading pre-seed and seed stage venture fund. Scott was a founder of Covera.ai (acquired in 2019), a FinTech startup that used technology to automate insurance renewal shopping. Prior to that, he was a Principal and EiR at Ferst Capital Partners, one of Canada’s pioneering FinTech venture funds. Scott mentors Ai, supply chain, and Metaverse startups, is a member of the Technological Innovation Advisory Committee (TIAC), which advises Quebec’s financial regulators, and is a startup coach at Concordia’s District 3 and the Creative Destruction Labs. Scott is a business lawyer and holds a master’s degree in business administration (MBA) from McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management, as well as civil and common law degrees from McGill’s Faculty of Law.
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TiE is the world’s largest entrepreneurship network in the world with 13,000 members and 3200 charter members in 58 chapters across 12 countries. Since its inception, in 1992, TiE members have generated over $1 trillion of wealth through their entrepreneurial endeavours. TiE’s sole mandate is to foster entrepreneurship and help its members create wealth through entrepreneurism. TiE Canada has three chapters – TiE Ottawa, TiE Toronto and TiE Vancouver.
Started in 2002, TiE Ottawa is celebrating its 20th anniversary. TiE Ottawa fosters entrepreneurship by providing a platform for networking, mentorship, global connectivity, entrepreneurship training and funding to Canadian entrepreneurs. Join the TiE Ottawa at ottawa.tie.org.