Oct. 22, 2019 /TechCrunch/ – There are 831 financial technology startups headquartered in or operating in Canada, according to data collected by Fintech Growth Syndicate, yet only a handful of venture capital funds specializing in the region and sector. Luge Capital,...

Oct. 11, 2019 /The Globe and Mail/ – The public-market landscape for the new cohort of tech companies seems to be crumbling more and more every day. WeWork Co. Inc., Peloton, Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. are not experiencing the elation of their initial public...

Oct. 4, 2019 /MEDICI/ – Americans spend about $4 trillion per year on their credit cards. That’s more than the GDP of both the UK and France. Yet, when it comes to payments infrastructure, we have not seen much improvement for decades. You may argue that if it ain’t...

Sept. 3, 2019 /Fintech Impact/ – In this 85th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Ramin Wright, Investment Analyst at Luge Capital. Luge Capital is a Canadian venture capital fund...

August 2, 2019 /BetaKit/ – Owl.co, a software company that helps banks and insurers collect and encrypt customer data, has raised its first round of funding, securing $2.6 million CAD. The seed round was led by two FinTech-focused firms, Luge Capital and Impression...

July 29, 2019 /BANK ON IT/ – In this episode I chat with Karim Gillani from Luge Capital. Luge Capital, is a venture capital fund focused on early stage fintech and artificial intelligence (AI) applied to financial services. Luge looks for founders that improve...

July 11, 2019 /BetaKit/ – The Digital Finance Institute has released its top 50 women in FinTech for 2019, a curated list of 50 women disrupting financial services through technology in Canada. For this list, over 400 women were recommended to the Digital Finance...