Usha Srinivasan

Strategic Innovation Leader | Collaborative Community Builder I Entrepreneur I Angel Investor

📍 Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2023
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Angel Investor
Oct 2023
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Experience · 5 entries
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Investments (1)
2024
LP at Flair Ventures
Sep 2024
Flair Ventures is pre-seed venture capital fund based in Toronto. We invest in early-stage startups in Canada and the US. We are passionate about backing immigrant founders and have been fortunate to work with amazing founding teams.
2023
Angel Investor
Oct 2023
Ready in 10 minutes with just a pan and spatula. No prep, no mess. Cook restaurant-quality dishes from flash-frozen at home! As a Chef-to-consumer marketplace, we partner and collaborate with some of Toronto’s most celebrated Chefs to create a deliciously diverse menu. By using modern flash-freezing technology, SPATULA Foods provides foodies the opportunity to cook elevated cuisine at home, turning their kitchens into their favourite new restaurant in under 10 minutes. Taste the difference SPATULA makes. Delivery available across most of Ontario, follow for updates as we continue to grow!
2020
Founding Director
May 2020
Located within the burgeoning Brampton Innovation District, Brampton Venture Zone by TMU aims to enhance the city’s social and economic vitality by supporting the growth of new business, creating high-skilled jobs, building a talent pipeline, and solidifying Brampton’s standing as a global hub of innovation. Part of Toronto Metropolitan Universitys Zone Learning Network, formerly Ryerson University. Join us as we write our new chapter. https://bit.ly/3rUGt86
early stageHigher Education
2019
Vice President - Partnerships and Talent
May 2019
Elevate is a Canadian non-profit that shapes and unites world-class innovators through incubator programs and industry-leading events at the intersection of technology, arts, and social innovation. Through strategic partnerships, a robust community, and a roster of world-renowned speakers, Elevate empowers its community to co-create a more equitable and sustainable future. We believe technology holds the incredible potential to transform the world for the better. Elevate connects global icons, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, corporate innovators, policymakers and students to help solve complex social problems. #ElevateTechCA Elevate was founded in 2017, producing its very first technology and innovation festival in under 90 days! Over 95 partners – corporate, community, founders, investors and government – united to bring together the brightest minds across the globe looking to build a better future for society. Elevate Festival became the world’s fastest-growing tech and innovation festival. With 30,000 guests, over 350 speakers, and 150 partners, the festival has hosted global icons, including former First Lady Michelle Obama, businesswoman Martha Stewart, astronaut and author Chris Hadfield, VP Al Gore, and the former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt. Learn more at Elevate.ca.
2018
Vice President - Venture & Talent Programs
Apr 2018
MaRS is the worlds largest urban innovation hub in Toronto that supports startups in the health, cleantech, fintech, and enterprise sectors. When MaRS opened in 2005 this concept of urban innovation was an untested theory. Today, it’s reshaping cities around the world. MaRS has been at the forefront of a wave of change that extends from Melbourne to Amsterdam and runs through San Francisco, London, Medellín, Los Angeles, Paris and New York. These global cities are now striving to create what we have in Toronto: a dense innovation district that co-locates universities, startups, corporates and investors. In this increasingly competitive landscape, scale matters more than ever – the best talent is attracted to the brightest innovation hotspots.