Janet Bannister
Managing Partner
Staircase Ventures
Janet is the Founder & Managing Partner of Staircase Ventures, which leads seed-stage rounds in Canada’s most promising B2B tech companies. Previously, Janet was Managing Partner at Real Ventures. Janet has won numerous awards including “Toronto Region Builder of the Year Award” in 2023, and Business Insider’s 2024 and 2023 “Best Women Early-Stage Investors”. In 2004, Janet launched Kijiji.ca and grew it to become one of the most visited websites in Canada.
Schedule
25 mins
St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts - Jane Mallett Theatre
Deep Tech Dollars: How VCs Identify and Invest in Cutting-Edge Innovations
Discover how venture capitalists pinpoint and fund the next wave of groundbreaking technologies. This session will unravel the strategies VCs use to identify promising deep tech startups and the criteria they apply to evaluate cutting-edge innovations.
