Solmaz Shahalizadeh

WALO is Canadas award-winning money app for families. We provide a debit card and educational app that help parents teach their children about money management and financial responsibility in a fun and interactive way. WALO takes a unique approach to address the financial literacy gap, by empowering parents to teach their kids about money. With WALO, parents can automate allowances, assign tasks, and track their childrens learning and spending. WALO is designed to make it easier for parents to set up an allowance and help their kids establish good financial habits. The app and card provide a secure and safe way to manage money, and parents can monitor their kids spending and help them reach their goals. With WALO, kids can learn to earn, save and spend smarter, empowering them to become money-smart in the future. By using proprietary algorithms, WALO guides its young users into making the next best action via a gamified financial learning experience.

Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations from inception to build long-standing companies. With more than 155 IPOs and 450-plus portfolio companies across industries, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from seed through every stage of growth. Bessemer has backed industry defining companies including Anthropic, Abridge, Canva, LinkedIn, Perplexity, Pinterest, RocketLab, Shopify, ServiceTitan, Toast, and Twilio, and has $20 billion of assets under management. Bessemer invests globally, with investment teams located in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv.

Fullscript believes in the power of whole person care and is fully committed to helping all providers deliver it. We help create an ongoing cycle of whole person care by giving providers a single platform that brings together industry-leading labs, clinically effective supplements, and an intuitive suite of tools to promote adherence and outcomes. www.fullscript.com

Invest Ottawa, is Ottawa’s leading economic development agency for fostering the advancement of the regions globally competitive knowledge-based institutions and industries. Invest Ottawa delivers its economic development services through a unique partnership with the City of Ottawa, where the City and Invest Ottawa, through its members set the strategy and manage the programs that move Ottawa’s economy forward. Invest Ottawa is a non-profit, partnership organization that operates on an annual budget that comes from a variety of sources including: municipal, federal and provincial government; membership fees; professional development programs; and private sector contributions.

WALO is Canadas award-winning money app for families. We provide a debit card and educational app that help parents teach their children about money management and financial responsibility in a fun and interactive way. WALO takes a unique approach to address the financial literacy gap, by empowering parents to teach their kids about money. With WALO, parents can automate allowances, assign tasks, and track their childrens learning and spending. WALO is designed to make it easier for parents to set up an allowance and help their kids establish good financial habits. The app and card provide a secure and safe way to manage money, and parents can monitor their kids spending and help them reach their goals. With WALO, kids can learn to earn, save and spend smarter, empowering them to become money-smart in the future. By using proprietary algorithms, WALO guides its young users into making the next best action via a gamified financial learning experience.

Backbone is a collective of active angel investors. We came together to invest in women and non-binary founders with a focus on investments in Black, Indigenous, and Women of Colour-led companies. Being witness to the power of entrepreneurship, Backbone believes there is space for many founders to succeed but that access to the resources it takes to succeed are not equitably distributed. They want to change that. Founders in the Backbone portfolio will have access to expertise in product, data UX, marketing, talent, legal, operations, and strategy. With an investment from Backbone, founders gain access to the strength of the collective.