Mike Janzen

The Golden Triangle Angel Network (GTAN) is a members-only, not-for-profit organization of accredited investors seeking investment opportunities in promising early-stage businesses. In addition to financial support, GTAN members provide dynamic early-stage companies with valuable mentorship and access to capital networks in order to facilitate learning, networking, and growth. GTAN helps accelerate companies into becoming market leaders in their industry by bringing together investment, experience and knowledge. The Golden Triangle area, comprising Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph and Stratford, is one of the top five growth areas in Ontario. Having a strong industrial and agricultural base, Kitchener-Waterloo’s high-tech cluster and four major post-secondary institutions, this area has spawned many early stage companies and academic research, as well as nurtured stable employment and prosperity. GTAN operates under the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation’s Angel Network Program and is a part of the Equation Angels group.

Adrenaline Fund, part of the Archangel Network of Funds, provides unique access for Canadian accredited investors to a highly diversified portfolio of Canadian startups. We are helping to jump start the future of Canadas innovation economy by helping to fill the early stage capital gap. We work by leveraging the crowd intelligence provided by leaders in the angel ecosystem. Each year we welcome new investors to join in.

HyperJar Ltd is a London-based Fintech. It raised Series A funding of USD$24mm in 2023, one of the largest Series-A rounds for a European business that year. Its award-winning B2C digital wallet HyperJar is the spending super-app: a brilliantly effective, visually engaging account with a prepaid debit card that helps people to Spend Life Well. Behind the simple idea of managing money in digital jam jars is a lot of world-first tech, offering access to all types of instant rewards – including up to 1.5% cashback on all spending. These rewards sit alongside unique tools for organising, sharing and controlling spending. The ability to share money in a single ‘jar’ with other people solves a myriad of devolved spending challenges in a way no other account can: sports teams paying in subs and spending from one source; parents managing expenses with a child-minder; housemates sharing bills; a couple wanting something less formal than a joint bank account. The app currently has 600,000 customers and has been the top-rated digital account on the major UK review and app store sites for over 12 months.  HyperLayer is the company’s B2B venture. It provides unique tech capabilities globally to organisations who want to offer enhanced spending and other services to their customers or employees. These organisations include banks, asset managers, pension funds, merchants, and any enterprise whose clients are also spenders. Since public launch into UK app stores in October 2020, HyperJar Ltd has won 14 awards for its proprietary technology, including Money Management Platform of the Year; Personal Finance Tech of the Year; Banking Tech of the Year and Best Future Payments Initiative in 2023.

Finovertech has contracts with fintech companies to build B2F and B2C platforms. The B2F platform will be used by many of the largest financial institutions around the globe. The B2C platform will reach businesses and consumers across the world. Finovertech takes equity stakes in the companies it builds technology for thereby becoming an aligned partner. Finovertech is building up low level fintech micro-service infrastructure that can be reused by fintech companies: think AWS for fintech.