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Stefan Palios

Stefan Palios

Stefan Palios works in product marketing and sales enablement; he contributed to BetaKit from 2016 to 2024. He tells the stories of Canadian tech, and has interviewed over 500 entrepreneurs on how they built their businesses.

Hackers are smart but lazy. Here’s how startups can take advantage

Jul 14, 2022

There’s more to security planning than multi-factor authentication.

Deven Parekh
VC

Why VC Deven Parekh doesn’t mind “overpaying” for a good deal

Jun 20, 2022

Insight Partners VC values growth sustainability over price.

Startup Luxembourg wants Canadian founders to know its country is a gateway to the European market

Jun 17, 2022

Funding, support, and access to the single market are some of Luxembourg’s startup draws.

Canalyst founders James Rife and Damir Hot

Why Canalyst’s Damir Hot thinks every entrepreneur should have a co-founder

May 31, 2022

Establish complementary skillsets buoyed by a shared hatred of losing.

How being open to feedback helped Stephany Lapierre scale TealBook

Apr 25, 2022

Unwilling to settle for a simple no, Lapierre pushed investors for feedback.

The five things every Security Operations Centre manager needs to know

Apr 14, 2022

“The security industry is a mix of creativity and constraints.”

Impact

The many obstacles to inclusion in startups (and one aid from Innovate BC)

Feb 14, 2022

For startups looking to make positive changes, it’s important to first have a conversation about bias.

Tina Goulbourne Vena Solutions
FinTech

What jobs at Apple, Xerox, and HP taught Vena Solutions COO Tina Goulbourne about building a startup

Jan 21, 2022
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Kelly Schmitt Benevity

Why Benevity’s new CEO Kelly Schmitt is already thinking about her successor

Dec 23, 2021

How Benevity found the right fit after suffering from “organ rejection.”

cybersecurity

Hybrid workers are vulnerable to cyberattacks. Here’s how employees can play defence at home and in the office

Dec 21, 2021

“Hybrid work is out of the box and there’s no putting it back.”

How corporates can drive innovation through impact investing
Impact

How the global “phenomenon” of impact investing is heating up in Canada

Dec 17, 2021

How to balance profit with purpose.

BetaKit Live: The State of Canadian Startups

Tech panel thinks Canadian startups are ready to move from defence to offence in 2022

Dec 7, 2021

With over $1.6 billion invested in Toronto area startups and nearly $1 billion invested in Vancouver startups in Q3 2021 alone,…

Katherine Regnier

How Katherine Regnier found the right enterprise customers for Coconut Software

Nov 29, 2021

As founder and CEO of financial services customer engagement platform Coconut Software, Katherine Regnier brings the lessons…

cybersecurity

CDW survey uncovers troubling data about the state of cybersecurity in Canadian startups

Nov 9, 2021

Almost all working Canadians (92 percent) believe it’s important to protect work devices from cybersecurity threats, according…

BetaKit Live: Solving the developer-security divide

HugOps: how to get developer and security teams working together

Nov 8, 2021

With nearly 3.5 million cybersecurity jobs to fill worldwide by the end of 2021 alone, there’s a massive gap in cybersecurity…

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