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Investing in a pandemic world
Talks about VC investment during pandemic, work from home challenges and virtual due diligence
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Meryeme Lahmami
Associate at Creative Destruction Lab
Canada
Overview
Meryeme Lahmami is a Principal at Pender Ventures in Canada with a background in venture capital, entrepreneurship, and marketing. She has experience working with startups, mentoring entrepreneurs, and judging international case competitions, demonstrating a strong commitment to fostering innovation and growth in the business world.
Work Experience
Principal
2022 - Current
Associate
2022
Associate, Venture Capital
2020 - 2022
Startup Mentor
2020 - 2022
Judge
2017 - 2022
Mentor
2019 - 2022
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
Investment Manager
2018 - 2020
Medteq Invest is $14 million fund dedicated to early stage companies in medical devices, diagnostics and digital health sectors.
Head of Montreal Chapter
2016 - 2018
We Are Wearables is on a mission to foster adoption and facilitate innovation in wearable tech. We believe that wearable technology is augmenting the human experience making us better at everything we do in work, life and play. We act as a platform to highlight the entrepreneurs, startups, companies and ideas making this happen. We achieve this by offering a series of events in various cities and in storytelling in social media and in our blog. We Are Wearables is the largest wearable tech community in the world with a total reach across all our channels of over 100,000 and physical chapters in Toronto, Chicago, Montreal & Ottawa. Our audience is made up of entrepreneurs, investors, media, product managers, marketing and advertising executives, brand managers, OEMs, UX and graphic designers and developers. Join the wearable revolution! www.wearewearables.com or on Twitter @WeAreWearables
Entrepreneur In Residence
2016 - 2018
TandemLaunch is a unique start-up foundry focused on creating early-stage technology ventures. TandemLaunch works closely with consumer electronic companies and universities to identify disruptive technologies with a sizeable market opportunity. This unique demand-driven approach reduces market risk early in the start-up process.
Founder
2016 - 2018
Biomindr is the ultimate quantified-self platform. It allows to capture a wide variety of biosignals to provide self-guiding solutions for athletes and consumers to better understand and approach their health and fitness. We combine our unique patented RF-based sensor technology with software and cloud into an easy-to-use system to address the shortcomings of optical sensors and to measure hydration status without the need for invasive blood samples.