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...

June 1, 2019 /NCFA/ – What is your background, and how did you come to co-found Luge Capital? Karim: My background is in fintech, mobile tech, engineering, finance and strategy. Prior to Luge, I was at PayPal, leading M&A activities in Canada. I joined PayPal...

May 29, 2019 /MEDICI/ – Bruce Schneier of IBM ended his main stage presentation at the Payments Canada Summit by telling the world not to use the blockchain. Although he was speaking from a security perspective, his words were more far-reaching than that. For decades,...