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Aug 27, 2025 | Language Matters: Why Words Shape Companies, Culture, and Clarity
Aug 21, 2025 | The Looming Stablecoin Storm: Why Canada Can’t Afford to Sit Idle:
Aug 21, 2025 | Chasing the Tornado: Why Canada’s Future Can’t Wait
Aug 12, 2025 | Playing It Safe May Be the Riskiest Strategy in Business
July 29, 2025 | The Panopticon of Packages: How Supply Chain Visibility Software Is Revolutionizing How We Move Everything
July 15, 2025 | The Rise of Growth Equity: Why Founders Are Turning to Strategic Partners for Scale
July 8 2025 | Scaling With Intent: Why Organizational Design is a Growth Equity Superpower
July 2 2025 | Cash Flow Hacks: Entrepreneurial Financing for Growth Stage Companies
June 10 2025 | From Feature Factory to Future Ready: Outcome-Driven Leadership in the Age of AI
June 5 2025 | Section 899: The “Revenge-Tax” Putting Canadian Investors in its Cross-Hairs
June 3 2025 | Understanding Value Accrual in Technology Stacks
May 27 2025 | Psilocybin in Healthcare
May 27 2025 | How to Run an ELT Assessment & Tune-Up: A CEO’s Guide to Getting the Executive Team Back on Track
May 13 2025 | Navigating Tariff Turbulence: The Importance of Agile Supply-Chain Software
Apr 13 2025 | Reshaping Canadian Finance Through Open Banking
Apr 8 2025 | Just Dive In.
Apr 1 2025 | John Ruffolo: Removing interprovincial trade barriers is a mirage, not a solution
Mar 27 2025 | Trust on the Brink
Mar 26 2025 | Canada’s AI Edge: How to Attract and Retain World-Class Talent in a Global Talent War
Mar 18 2025 | The Future of Healthcare in 2045
Mar 12 2025 | It's Time to Reset Your Company's Vision
Jan 30 2025 | How Stablecoins Are Rewiring Global Payment Rails
Jan 7 2025 | Why Growth Private Equity and Why Maverix?
Dec 12 2024 | Re-Thinking Product-Market-Fit for Growth Investing
Dec 12 2024 |The Future of Sleep
Dec 11 2024 | The Renaissance of PropTech: Why Now is the Moment for Real Estate Innovation
Dec 10 2024 | Powering the Future of Solar: Why We Invested in Raptor Maps
Dec 3 2024 | The Top 10 Canadian Health System Priorities and the Innovators Working to Solve Them
Dec 2 2024 | John Ruffolo: We Need A Plan To Ensure Canadian Prosperity and These Three Ideas Are A Good Start
Nov 26 2024 | 15 Lessons From Three Decades in Tech
Nov 20 2024 | The Evolving Role of the Chief Revenue Officer
Oct 10 2024 | The Evolving Role of the CFO and the Changing Landscape of Financial Tools
Oct 9 2024 | Cracking the Code to a Longer, Healthier Life
Sept 25 2024 | The Gaming Opportunity - An Investors' Perspective
Sept 18 2024 | The AI Bubble: Signs of a Pop and What Follows After
Aug 29 2024 | The Silver Tsunami—Canada’s Demographic Challenge
Aug 21 2024 | The Future of Manufacturing #2 - The Smart Factory Stack
June 27 2024 | Private Clinics: Ontario's New Prescription for Faster Healthcare
June 17 2024 | Solving Canada's Productivity Emergency
June 11 2024 | The Growth of Digital Pharmacies in Canada
June 5 2024 | Future of Private Market Secondaries
May 14 2024 | Our Education System - How Did We Get Here and How Might The Future of Education Look?
May 6 2024 | Sector Spotlight: The Future of Manufacturing
May 3 2024 | Unintended Consequences of Capital Gains Tax Increase Will Cost Us All
Apr 15 2024 | Investing in KODE Labs: The Centralized Smart Building Platform
Apr 9 2024 | Federal Budget 2024 — Patent Boxes: A Chance to Address Canada’s “Christmas Tree” Problem
Apr 3 2024 | When the Tide Rolls Out
Mar 28 2024 | Industrial XR
Mar 20 2024 | The Golden Age of WealthTech
Jan 30 2024 | The Creator Economy - Understanding its Meteoric Rise and Predictions for the Future
Jan 23 2024 | Pharmacogenomics
Jan 16 2024 | How to Develop Great Relationships With Investors Before You Need Them
Jan 11 2024 | Sector Spotlight: Women's Health
Jan 3 2024 | 2023 Predictions Scorecard – A Look Back at a Year of Economic Turbulence
Dec 20 2023 | AI Entrepreneurs: Strategies for Fortifying Your Competitive Moat
Dec 15 2023 | Central bankers should rethink the 2-per-cent inflation target
Dec 15 2023 | How to think about intellectual property for your startup or scale-up business
Dec 14 2023 | Redefining Recovery: The Rise of Hospital-at-Home
Dec 13 2023 | Revolutionizing Healthcare Documentation: The Role and Impact of AI-Assisted Medical Transcription
Dec 6 2023 | Will 2024 Be the Breakout Year for M&A in Startup Land?
Nov 7 2023 | Contextualizing the Gap: Canada’s Tech Underperformance Relative to the U.S.
Oct 31 2023 | Why Human Connections Still Take Center Stage
Oct 17 2023 | How Embedded Finance is Enabling Companies to Become FinTechs
Oct 16 2023 | Will 2023 be the year Canadians finally get pharmacare?
Oct 3 2023 | Seeing the Forest Through the Trees: Computer Vision in Healthcare Diagnostics
Oct 2 2023 | Governance, the Entrepreneur, and the Good Old Hockey Game
Sept 13 2023 | Crucial Intel for Entrepreneurs: The Top 3 GenAI Predictions You Must Know!
July 31 2023 | A Framework for Defining, Identifying and Analyzing ‘Disruptive Innovation’
July 26 2023 | On Surplus Savings and The Outlook For Consumer Spending
July 25 2023 | The Future of AR and VR: Transforming the Way We Work, Live, Play, and Learn
July 18 2023 | Demystifying SaaS Pricing and How to Maximize Profits
Jul 11 2023 | Navigating the Rapids: Understanding Persistent Inflation and Contractual Safeguards
July 5 2023 | Venture Capital: Not a Short-Term Business
May 30 2023 | The Future of Work: The Luddite Legacy in the Age of AI
May 24 2023 | Navigating in Turbulent Times — Do you Grow Horizontally or Vertically?
Apr 25 2023 | Beware the Stroke of the Pen
Apr 20 2023 | When it comes to big investment deals, it's all about values—not price. Here's why
Apr 20 2023 | A People Business
Apr 17 2023 | Driving Disruption for Smart Cities: Why We Invested in Miovision
Apr 12 2023 | You’ve got a shiny new acquisition opportunity. Now what?
Apr 11 2023 | The Golden Age of WealthTech
Mar 2 2023 | Cash is King
Jan 31 2023 | Raising Capital in Turbulent Times and How, as a Founder, to Protect Yourself from Getting Screwed!
Jan 24 2023 | 2023 Predictions — Brace for Volatility & Uncertainty
Jan 18 2023 | The Maverix Investment Process
Dec 21 2022 | A head-spinning year to be a growth investor…
Nov 30 2022 | Raising Capital: What Is The Fundraising Process Like?
Oct 26 2022 | Disruption, Hype & Product-Market-Fit
Oct 2 2022 | Building Your Business Grounded in Culture — Part Deux
Sept 28 2022 | Now It’s Our Turn: Leveraging Technology to Support Our Aging Population
Aug 25 2022 | Looking for innovation in consumer and retail
Aug 23 2022 | The New Normal: Building Your Business Like You Did in the Old Normal
Aug 2 2022 | Might As Well Win
July 19 2022 | Exploring Trends in Supply Chain & Logistics
Top 10 Things To Do As An Entrepreneur in Navigating The Storm
June 7 2022 | The future of our built world will be … smart!
May 10 2022 | Why Agora? Why Now?
Apr 22 2022 | Why we invested in Viral Nation
Apr 19 2022 | UN-icorns are Coming
Mar 1 2022 | The Future of Health Care
Feb 22 2022 | The Importance Of Following Up
Feb 15 2022 | Have you heard of Canada’s Christmas tree problem?
Feb 10 2022 | Building Your Business Grounded in Culture
Jan 13 2022 | Where does virtual care go from here?
Jan 3 2022 | Predictions 2022: Banking on the Future of Financial Services
Dec 8 2021 | The Next Wave of Financial Services Disruption
Nov 17 2021 | The Impact on Private Equity & Venture Investing in an Inflationary Environment
Oct 5 2021 | A Recipe for Starting a Career in a Pandemic
Sept 27 2021 | Defining what it means to be a “Maverix”
Sept 22 2021 | Through the Lens of Gratitude, Resilience & Hope
Aug 30 2021 | Confessions of a repatriate
Aug 12 2021 | Canada’s Report on Open Banking — A Toe in the Water
Apr 19 2021 | With anchor funding in place, John Ruffolo’s Maverix Private Equity is in motion
Apr 19 2021 | The Evidence Suggests There’s Light Coming at the End of Canada’s COVID-19 Tunnel
Mar 26 2021 | One of Canada’s top investors, John Ruffolo, is back from the brink with a new $500 million fund
July 25 2019 | Canadian Companies Must Prepare for Disruptors to Come Knocking