#35 Capital Migration w/ Sean O’Connor of Conexus Venture Capital
Dan talks with Sean O’Connor, Fund Manager for the Conexus Venture Capital Fund about moving from the major tech hub of Vancouver to prairie Canada to run a brand new fund that invests in their booming tech ecosystem.
Conexus Credit Union is just that, a local credit union. In 2019, they did what no other credit union in North America had ever done before and started a venture capital fund to invest in early-stage tech startups. As the tech ecosystem had started booming in Saskatchewan, more capital had started to migrate to the region from Silicon Valley and other major hubs like Toronto. However, Conexus noticed a gap in access to early-stage capital for startups.
So they tapped Sean O’Connor, from the Vancouver fintech startup darling Grow Technologies. Sean, like a lot of capital these days, migrated to the prairies to blaze new trails in what’s becoming one of Canada’s hottest startup markets.
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