Laith Shukri

Director of Platform Engagement
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RBCx

Laith Shukri is the Director for Platform Engagement at RBCx, where his role is to help early-stage companies grow and scale in Canada. To this end, he consults with various ecosystem stakeholders to identify ways that RBCx can best serve their needs as they scale. Laith is particularly passionate about using his background and talents to help founders their companies to the next milestone; his skills include providing feedback on pitches, business models, capital raising strategies, as well as fostering connections between Canada’s upcoming game-changers and the most influential peers, organizations and programs in Canada’s innovation ecosystem that can help set new ideas in motion.

Prior to joining RBCx, Laith served as the Senior Market Development Manager at SVB Canada, and ScaleUP Ventures, a Toronto-based VC fund. Earlier in his career, Laith worked at the DMZ, a leading accelerator for tech startups in Canada. During this time, he built the incubator’s capital program from the ground up, growing the investor network from 30 to 400 names and facilitated hundreds of curated 1:1 founder/funder connections. The program helped the DMZ become a go-to source and thought leader on how to build similar programming in other accelerators and hubs across Canada.

Sessions

Behind the curtain: Finance

15/07/2022 15.15 - 15.20

AuditoriumAuditoriumPanel

What goes on behind the closed doors of a partner meeting? Why didn’t that investor back your round? Investor and Limited Partner thinking is often cloaked in secrecy—after all, nobody wants to be the one to say no to the next great Unicorn. So this year we’re taking you behind the scenes to show you how investors think. From product and tech, to culture, to finance and more, we take...