Event category: BetaKit Keynote Stage

Canada’s tech landscape is buzzing with venture financing and a record number of unicorns popping up. Here from inside Canada growing stable of unicorns: how they got there, critical lessons learned, new challenges and practical perspectives to help fellow SaaS leaders bust into the unicorn stable.

In the next decade, it has been predicted that nearly every company will significantly boost revenue by offering new financial services.  In this session you’ll hear from three fast-growing SaaS companies, Hopper, Lightspeed  and Ceridian, and learn how they have taken advantage of customer needs to add new financial services and drive explosive revenue growth.

Over the past 5 years 15m SaaS founders and investors have listened in as Latka interviewed 3,218 SaaS founders for his podcast “The Top Entrepreneurs”. In this session, he’ll share recent data points driving SaaS economics and predict what the market will look like in Q1 2022: SaaS founders getting 40x revenue multiples are optimizing for this 1 metric (hint: not revenue growth), IPO watch: 6 SaaS companies likely to IPO in next 6 months and fastest growing: These 9 SaaS founders broke $10m in ARR, growing 100%+ yoy. Here’s what they’re doing.

Trulioo’s CEO Steven Munford shares extensive insights for leading companies through rapid growth and operational excellence.

Under Steven’s leadership, Trulioo has raised 476 million CAD and reached unicorn status with a $2.1 billion valuation.

Steven will explore Trulioo’s growth opportunities which are a result of vast digital transformation and include building out AI/ML capabilities and global expansion.

Over the last eight years, Toronto-based B2B software startup Loopio has grown from 3 Co-founders to a 280-person strong company boasting over 1,400 customers. From 3+ years of bootstrapping, to being VC-backed for another 3+ years, and most recently, their Private Equity investment ($252 million CAD), Co-founder & CEO Zak Hemraj has had to constantly evolve himself and the company. In this session, you’ll learn about Zak's key takeaways from each distinct chapter of growth, how he's had to evolve as a CEO, and some challenges & failures along the way.