Amber French

Member Board of Directors

2024 - Current

CEO, Co-Founder

2019

Investing in technology and real-estate opportunities in Waterloo, one of Canada's top technology epicentres. Catalyst Ventures is comprised of three arms: Catalyst Placemaking (businesses that focus on building community), Catalyst Software (a venture studio focused on building B2B SaaS companies), and Catalyst Hardware (stealthily working away on something that my kids finally give me some credit for being the slightest bit "cool:...my words, not theirs).

Co-Founder

2021

A 70,000sqft co-working space (currently growing to 150,000sqft!!) in the heart of Waterloo Region. We'll soon be the largest privately held co-working space in Canada! https://www.catalyst-commons.com/

Co-Founder

2023

Real food. Real music. Real community. Opening 2024 on the lake in Downtown Kitchener.

Co-Founder

2020

A consortium of superangels and venture capitalists from the Toronto-Waterloo Innovation Corridor whose goal is to make angel investing more accessible. Archangel aims to help Canadian startups scale into the United States and global markets and reinvest back into the angel ecosystem. www.archangelnetwork.ca

Board Member

2023

Member

2022

Member

2021

Director of Capital Services

2020 - 2022

Chief Executive Officer

2020 - 2021

Supply+Protect was a not-for-profit and was considered Canada’s largest marketplace for Canadian-made PPE at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. With over 40 Canadian manufacturers on the platform, S+P was a one-stop-shop focussed on helping Canadian businesses re-open safely and easily. financialpost.com/executive/executive-women/good-things-happened-when-the-wealthy-barber-bumped-into-the-problem-solver