Candice Faktor

Founder & Co-CEO

2021 - Current

Disco is the #1 platform for AI-powered social learning. Used by organizations for up-skilling, cohort-based learning, partner enablement, training and accelerator programs, Disco’s AI powered platform makes learning together super engaging and easy to operate. Venture backed by GSV, leading edtech investor and named Fast Co’s most innovative edtech of the year and Edtech’s Breakthrough’s Startup of the Year. Clients include Toronto Board of Trade, Kaplan, Coursehero, Deloitte, XPrize, Baptist Health and more.

Venture Partner

2021

Venture Partner at Lobby Capital, Series A VC. We care deeply about people and relationships and will never grow tired of meeting remarkable problem solvers and helping them change the world.

Founder

2016

We run a community for 3000+ innovators and host a livestream weekly w leading Gamechangers including Seth Godin, Margaret Atwood, Adam Grant, Ryan Holiday and more!

Board Member

2022 - 2023

DreamBox Learning is a company that is solving a very important societal problem of helping kids get better at math and reading using adaptive AI. This is ever more important after the massive #pandemiclearningloss and the critical shortage of teachers in the school system. Over 6MM students and 400,000 teachers rely on DreamBox Learning to improve outcomes for students.

Board Member

2018 - 2023

Coveo is one of Canada's leading AI companies focused on personalization and contextualization across channels for enterprises.

Interim CMO

2020 - 2020

Coveo is the leading intelligent search and experience intelligence platform helping the best enterprise brands deliver highly relevant and intelligent experiences leveraging leading machine learning and cloud technologies. I stepped in to lead the marketing team of 50 people through a transformation from a predominantly field events focus to developing a world class, digital first focus which involves rearchitecting the narrative from tactical to strategic, investing in best in class performance marketing, ops and analytics capabilities and creating a modern, digital first product marketing capability. Coveo recently raised $200MM to develop the first experience intelligence platform for enterprise brands to have the superpowers to compete on intelligent experiences in search, commerce, service and workforce knowledge management. We are hiring!

Global GM and Head of Business

2012 - 2016

As the GM & Head of Business I helped scaled the mobile social storytelling platform from pre series A to Series E and 100MM users. Wattpad was acquired for US $660MM by Naver Corp in 2022.

Co-Founder and VP, Innovation and Corporate Development

2006 - 2012

I co-founded Torstar Digital, a corporate venture and incubation arm of Torstar, and invested in, acquired, and scaled over 25+ digital businesses including: Olive Media (premium ad network), Web2Mobile (Mobile ad network), Wagjag (group buying),Jaunt (travel e-commerce) Eyereturn, (ad tech) and Workopolis (job search), TOPS (CMS). During this time, I had many roles including leading our investments, our strategy, our product development, corporate development, m&a, innovation and business development.

Founder and CEO

2006 - 2008

Created a local recommendation engine and user review community for local businesses.

Strategy Consultant

2000 - 2005

New Business Development and Strategy Consultant (Office of the CEO)

2004 - 2004