Nicolas Jacques-Bouchard

Venture Partner

2022 - Current

Inertia Ventures is an early-stage venture fund that supports world-class entrepreneurs with intellectual, relational, and financial capital. We focus on accelerating the growth trajectory of disruptive companies at the nexus of mature, complex, high-barrier-to-entry sectors, and emerging technologies. Selected Investments: Docusign, Carta, Robinhood, Calm, Epic Games, Coinbase, Pacasso, Snaptt

Advisor & Technology Operating Partner

2021

IJW’s mission is to be a leader in mid-market investment banking, specializing in Mergers & Acquisition advisory services for our clients throughout the technology and consumer sectors. We are committed to delivering premium outcomes by leveraging our global relationships, industry-specific expertise, and relentless deal execution capabilities. Our team strives to provide an exceptional, individualized level of service based on trust, transparency, respect, and innovation.

Co-founder & General Partner

2017 - 2021

Panache Ventures is Canada's most active seed stage venture capital fund. Panache is led by a team of experienced operators, with a strong angel investor track record, years of institutional VC experience, and a strong network in Canada, in Silicon Valley, and worldwide. The fund has a founders-first philosophy, a commitment to diversity, and strategically co-invests with smart angel investors and seed stage funds. If you are going to invest in the best early stage tech startups. Selected Investments Fund I: Dooly, Spocket, Fightcamp, Certn, Lane (acq. by View The Space), Flinks (acq. by National Bank), Botpress, Relay, SoleSave, Swyft, Qohash,Tailscale, GoFor, Skillful, Valence Discovery (formerly InVivo AI), Practice, Nolk, Perksy, Wingocard, Moves, Clutch

Angel Investor

2021 - 2021

Angel Investor

2021 - 2021

Early Investor & Board Observer (Acquired by NBC)

2020 - 2021

Flinks is a data company that empowers businesses to connect their users with financial services they want. Trusted by hundreds of world-class companies, Flinks enables businesses to connect users’ bank accounts, enrich their data, and utilize it to deliver better products.

Early Investor & Board Member (Acquired by Recursion)

2020 - 2021

Valence is harnessing a revolution in computation to improve human health. The company is a leader in developing and deploying AI and physics-based technologies to enable the design of differentiated small molecules with improved properties and function. Following successful partnerships with leading biotech and pharmaceutical companies, and an unparalleled track record of innovation featured in top AI journals and conferences, Valence has built a team of interdisciplinary industry veterans and computational experts focused on rapidly advancing a portfolio of internal drug discovery programs. Valence launched publicly in 2021, is supported by leading biotech and deeptech investors, and is headquartered in Montréal.

Angel Investor

2021 - 2021

Advisor

2020 - 2021

Ditch is on a mission to help over a billion people worldwide who struggle with an addiction to cigarettes and e-cigarettes by developing a self-modulating nicotine inhalator paired to a smart mobile app that seamlessly reduces the user’s nicotine intake over the course of a few months to reach a complete nicotine withdrawal.

VC Advisory Board

2017 - 2021

Front Row Ventures is Canada's 1st student-run venture fund. We invest in Montreal's most talented students. At Front Row Ventures, we believe students are in a unique position to challenge the status quo. Their university years are an entrepreneurial sweet spot, and we want our peers to capitalize on their potential. We want to help them to launch unthinkable ventures, and start companies that change the world. Our team of student investors assists student startups in every step of their entrepreneurial journey. Not only do we invest $25K in our portfolio companies, but we also aim to create irreplaceable value for our student startups. Our bigger mission is to spread startup and venture capital culture across Montreal campuses. We engage and empower students to learn, get involved, and create from Montreal’s vibrant technology sector.