Chris Arsenault
Partner Inovia Capital
Chris Arsenault
Partner Inovia Capital
Montreal, Quebec
Overview
Work Experience
Board Member
2024 - Current
Wealth for life! Plenty is where modern couples invest and plan for their future together. Plenty builds personalized investment portfolios for each of your life's goals. Create shared goals with your partner or keep some private - it's up to you. https://www.withplenty.com/
Partner
2007
We actively support founders to build sustainable global companies. Inovia capital is one of the few Canadian firms in the world that can offer full-stack venture support to entrepreneurs – from early-stage through growth and beyond – by providing them with multi-stage capital, resources, and coaching to support their rapid scale. Inovia capital backs founders with global aspirations, who leverage technology to improve peoples’ lives. Inovia capital invests in applied services and infrastructure platforms focused on transforming complex legacy industries, such as financial services, healthcare, commerce, transportation, travel and others. Investments include: Alayacare, AppDirect, Basis (Intel), Chango (Rubicon), Cohere, Clearpath Robotics (Rockwell), Plenty Financial, Hopper, Lightspeed (IPO), Luxury Retreats (Airbnb), Poka (IFS), Neo4J, North (Google), Routehappy (APTCo), Smooch (Zendesk), Super.com, Sonder (IPO), Talent.com, Top Hat, Tacktik (TrackForce), Vessel, Well.ca (McKesson), Wealthsimple, and WorkJam. For more information, visit us @ www.inovia.vc (Twitter: @inovia).
Board Member
2022
With over 30 million jobs available in more than 75 countries, we at Talent.com have established ourselves as one of the largest sources of employment around the world. Our mission is to centralize all jobs available on the web, whether they come from companies' career websites, staffing agencies or job boards. Talent.com offers the most diverse and complete content to job seekers. Contact us at hello@talent.com.
Board Member
2021
Life House is a venture-backed and vertically-integrated hotel brand, management, and software company. Life House has built a proprietary technology stack to power a platform that makes hotels more seamless and more profitable for hotel owners and travel more meaningful and more accessible for travelers. Life House operates and brands 4-star hotels, and operates independent hotels across the chain scale. https://www.lifehousehotels.com/
Board Member
2011
Board member of AppDirect - The leading cloud service marketplace and management platform. AppDirect is dedicated to revolutionizing the way businesses run. Its award-winning platform connects businesses, brands, and developers through a global network of partner marketplaces. Based in San Francisco & Montreal, AppDirect powers the marketplaces of trusted companies around the globe—including Deutsche Telekom, Bell Canada, Appcelerator, and more—and has helped millions of businesses discover, buy, and manage the best cloud-based software and services. Visit www.appdirect.com
Board Member
2017
Super.com is a super app for everyday Americans who want to save, earn, and build credit so they can experience more of what life has to offer. Their flagship products include Super Travel (30-50% off hotels) and Super Pay (A Cashback and Credit building Mastercard). Customers can also save and earn in many other ways - keeping more cash in their pocket! The Company has raised ~$200MM to date, has driven over $2B in sales, and has saved our customers over $200M!
Board Member
2019
Groupe Dynamite is a global fashion retailer with two brands at the heart of its success, Garage and Dynamite. We operate more than 400 stores in Canada and worldwide and employ over 5,200 people. We have our roots planted firmly in the terrain of fashion’s retail landscape. Within our walls, our spirited group creates, designs, markets and distributes a constantly evolving collection to a large network of Dynamite and Garage retail stores. The brand’s core strength is rooted in a solid understanding of its customer. Acting as a Canadian leader among the international brand landscape, both Garage & Dynamite continue to thrive in an ever-crowded marketplace. Our passionate team continues to lead expansion of the business in new markets, including e-commerce while always leveraging our shared values.
Board Member
2018
Mission The Montreal Heart Institute Foundation raises and administers funds to support research, care, teaching, prevention, rehabilitation and the assessment of new technology at the Montreal Heart Institute. It thereby promotes excellence at this internationally-renowned institution serving the entire Quebec community, and allows it to fulfill its mission to fight cardiovascular disease, the number-one cause of death worldwide. Vision and values Our pursuit of excellence is driven by commitment, integrity, openness and respect, as well as good stewardship, accountability and transparency in the management of the funds entrusted to us. Our sense of accomplishment is fuelled by the hard work of our many volunteers and the generosity of our donors. Driven by our values and our profound sense of commitment, we facilitate the innovative approach and longevity of the Montreal Heart Institute, a world-renowned, ultra specialized cardiology hospital. Curious about the impact of your donations? Please let me know and learn more about how your gifts keep hearts beating strong.
Charter Member
2010
Supporting Canadian Entrepreneurs. C100 is a non-profit, member-driven organization dedicated to supporting Canadian technology entrepreneurship and investment. C100 is comprised of a select group of Canadians based primarily in Silicon Valley, including executives of leading technology companies, experienced startup entrepreneurs and venture capital investors. C100 members are passionate about leveraging their collective experience, expertise and relationships to help mentor and grow a new generation of successful Canadian-led technology companies. C100 Charter Members include startups CEOs, top executives of companies such as Apple, Cisco, EA, eBay, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Oracle, and venture investors representing more than $8 billion in capital. www.theC100.org
Board Member
2015 - 2023
Poka is the first social industrial platform that focuses towards efficient training, knowledge retention and real-time information within the manufacturing world. Poka’s new collaborative approach breaks down the traditional silos that have divided the workforce, management and factories for decades. Our platform will increase your factories' productivity, decrease your downtimes, drastically lower your internal failure costs while empowering your employees with better training and confidence. Visit www.Poka.io The company was acquired by IFS in June 2023
Education
un-completed BAC
1991 - 1993