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Elisabeth Laett

Managing Partner | Fintech Investor AI |Top 50 Women in Fintech in Canada | Sports, Media & Entertainment fund

📍 Canada🔄 Updated November 2026💼 3 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2022
Angel investor🌍 Canada
3
Total investments
2
Early stage
0
Mid stage
1
Late stage
11y
Years active

Portfolio

3 investments · sorted by recency
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Nov 2022
Flightclaim.ca helps air passengers who suffered from a flight delay, cancellation, overbooking or denied boarding.
late stageLaw Practice
Investor, Board observer
Oct 2022
Acceleron Bank, In Formation builds innovative software that helps community banks and credit unions automate international payments and earn non-interest income through an FX marketplace and currency conversion tool. Our technology streamlines wire processing, ensuring seamless end-to-end data transfer and enabling transactions in over 90 countries at reduced rates. Serving over 200 financial institutions and orchestrating over $1 billion in international payments annually, Acceleron helps community banks and credit unions bring FX services in house and compete more effectively with high-fee big banks. Our correspondent banking solutions integrate seamlessly with Fiserv Payments Exchange and other leading payments platforms, ensuring quick implementation and smooth operation.
VP Business Development, Seed Investor
Oct 2015
Exagens’ Behavioral Banking solutions enable community-based financial institutions to grow with their members/customers and win against big banks. They have been responsible for improving the financial lives of millions while simultaneously increasing engagement, digital sales, and adoption/usage, thereby improving financial institutions’ top line while delivering operational efficiencies to strengthen the bottom line. Our Behavioral Banking solutions fuse industry-leading behavioral science and data analytics to proactively and emotionally engage people via compelling money-related experiences specific to their unique situation, catalyzing them to save, spend, borrow and invest wisely. As a result, Exagens and its solutions have received multiple industry awards including ones from EFMA, Celero and OCTAS and has been named a Cool Vendor in Banking by Gartner.
Experience · 5 entries
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Investments (3)
Board (1)
2022
Investor
Nov 2022
Flightclaim.ca helps air passengers who suffered from a flight delay, cancellation, overbooking or denied boarding.
late stageLaw Practice
Investor, Board observer
Oct 2022
Acceleron Bank, In Formation builds innovative software that helps community banks and credit unions automate international payments and earn non-interest income through an FX marketplace and currency conversion tool. Our technology streamlines wire processing, ensuring seamless end-to-end data transfer and enabling transactions in over 90 countries at reduced rates. Serving over 200 financial institutions and orchestrating over $1 billion in international payments annually, Acceleron helps community banks and credit unions bring FX services in house and compete more effectively with high-fee big banks. Our correspondent banking solutions integrate seamlessly with Fiserv Payments Exchange and other leading payments platforms, ensuring quick implementation and smooth operation.
2020
Managing Partner
Mar 2020
The Holt Xchange is Canadas most active seed fintech investor.  Supported through five generations of experience and a robust global network, Holt Xchange is powering innovative tech products, world-class companies, and entrepreneurs, helping shape the future of their businesses and technology in the financial services sector. Tracking over 10,000 early stage fintechs globally. We utilize our advanced data platform; algorithms enhanced with human capital, to seek best matches with our investment thesis and Advisor network (ie: individuals who represent financial institutions, institutional investors and domain experts). We enable through our network, new revenue opportunities as well as growth funding for our portfolio companies.  The Holt family has a history of investing, growing, supporting, and building financial companies for the past five generations. With the rising need for AI throughout all aspects of our daily lives, we have decided to launch Holt Fintech Accelerator that focuses on boosting AI capabilities of Fintech businesses and expanding their international network.
2015
VP Business Development, Seed Investor
Oct 2015
Exagens’ Behavioral Banking solutions enable community-based financial institutions to grow with their members/customers and win against big banks. They have been responsible for improving the financial lives of millions while simultaneously increasing engagement, digital sales, and adoption/usage, thereby improving financial institutions’ top line while delivering operational efficiencies to strengthen the bottom line. Our Behavioral Banking solutions fuse industry-leading behavioral science and data analytics to proactively and emotionally engage people via compelling money-related experiences specific to their unique situation, catalyzing them to save, spend, borrow and invest wisely. As a result, Exagens and its solutions have received multiple industry awards including ones from EFMA, Celero and OCTAS and has been named a Cool Vendor in Banking by Gartner.
2009
Managing Partner
2009
Enabling Entrepreneurs with Intelligent Capital Xaphan Group is a worldwide alliance of accredited investors with decades of business and entrepreneurial expertise. We partner with early stage and other growth-orientated businesses to fuel passage through the various stages of building companies; from prototype to sustainable and profitable revenue growth. Xaphan Groups unique boutique approach to investing intelligent capital enables us to actively engage with a variety of companies including those often overlooked by traditional angel investors. Our collaborative approach features strategic and operational assistance, mentorship, and financial capital - generally in the range of $50,000 to $1,000,000. We also have the ability to syndicate deals that require more extensive capital. Overview Founded in 2012, Xaphan Group members are successful entrepreneurs, executives, and business leaders around the globe who are passionate about the commercialization of disruptive technologies & products. While our group is relatively new, our experience is not. Collectively, our members have decades of worldwide experience and expertise spanning all functional aspects of growing and reviving companies from the early formative stages through public listing, and management of 1+ billion dollar enterprises.
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2015–2022 · 3 investments
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