Frank Pizzolato

Sampler is the leading Direct-to-Consumer product sampling platform helping brands like L'Oréal and Nestlé deliver samples online and gather the insights they need to build one-to-one relationships with consumers. Sampler has worked with over 900 brands in 24 countries, and has built a reach of over 59M consumers. Its most notable clients include CPG industry giants Unilever, Pepsi, Henkel, and L'Oreal.

Sherpa Venture Studio formulates and launches technology startups. We are founders partnering with founders looking to build enterprise software and managed services companies delivering solutions to the mid-market. Our playbook accelerates the venture maturity curve, value creation, all while mitigating risk.

We’re on a mission to simplify the underwriting process for commercial real estate professionals around the world. We’re doing this through both our flagship Excel-based underwriting and valuation software and our dedicated managed underwriting service. Based in Toronto, we continue to pioneer new technology solutions that are transforming how our industry acquires, develops, and manages real estate. Powered by U-Rite’s cloud engine, our software optimizes the underwriting workflow process and gets the job done more than 70% faster than competing platforms, while our Underwriting-as-a-Service offering liberates professionals to spend more time on value creation activities. Our team is comprised of expert real estate professionals who are committed to revolutionizing the way our industry approaches underwriting.

Delbridge Solutions provides management and implementation consulting services in the area of Corporate Performance Management (CPM) which includes Budgeting, Forecasting, Consolidations, and Reporting solutions. As a partner with leading software vendors such as CCH Tagetik, Vena, IBM, Oracle, Prophix, and Adaptive Insights, we are uniquely positioned to help clients select and implement the right solution for their requirements.

MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF) is a leading seed stage fund investing in high-potential IT, health and cleantech companies in Ontario. IAF has over a 10-year history of successfully providing innovative firms with the capital, mentorship, and networks needed to validate ideas and bring products to market. Its mission is to keep Ontario’s talent and technology local while helping its companies go global.