Our People
Managing Partner
Andre Charoo
Born and raised in Canada. Moved to the US 20 years ago. Lived in Korea for five years. Based in San Francisco.
Uber
Employee #25 — hired Uber's current COO & President Andrew Macdonald
HBS
Executive Fellow with Prof. Reza Satchu at Harvard Business School
C100
Co-Chair of The C100, the most influential network of Canadian expats in global tech
U of T
Bachelor of Economics, University of Toronto
Wachovia
Investment banking analyst, M&A and Debt Capital Markets (acquired by Wells Fargo)
Partner
John Edgar
Born in Canada, raised in Scotland. Over 15 years in NYC building, investing and earliest stage advising founders at Netlify, Anthropic, SF Compute to name a few.
DigitalOcean
Employee #15 — Chief Technology Evangelist & SVP of Strategy
Canada
Deep community-building expertise across the Canadian founder ecosystem
Advisor
Over 10 years advising and investing in early stage startups, from Netlify to TigarData
Partner
Jane Lee
Born and raised in Canada. Moved to LA 10 years ago. Now based in San Francisco. Over 15 years advising and investing in early-stage startups. Maple Advisor since 2019.
Shopify
Early Employee & Entrepreneur in Residence
LaunchPop
Founder — marketing infrastructure for early-stage consumer brands
CMO
CMO & Advisor — Formula Fig, WTHN, Topicals, Liquid IV, Myo, More Labs.