Podcast
TechPoutine
Technology and AI conversations with Canadian perspective on startups, markets, policy, and the broader tech industry.
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TechPoutine: The Ten-Year Overnight Success Behind Eli Health
Marina Pavlović Rivas explains how Eli Health built instant saliva-based hormone testing from scratch, turning a personal frustration into a medically rigorous consumer health platform. The episode focuses on the company’s technical architecture, fundraising path, U.S. expansion, and the patience required to build deep tech in femtech.
TechPoutine #20 - Building in the AI Era: Talent, Capital, and the Canadian Reality
The episode argues that AI is shifting company building from human-led workflows to AI-led operations supervised by humans, with Shopify, Hopper, and Cursor used as concrete examples. The hosts also debate Canada’s startup capital gap, the role of emerging manager funds, and how AI could reshape education, trades, and junior jobs.
TechPoutine #19:The AI Land Grab, the Death of SaaS, and Stay22's $122M Raise
Tech Poutine returns with a wide-ranging discussion of Stay22’s $122M raise, the tightening software market, and how AI is reshaping startup economics. The hosts argue that Canada’s tech scene has a real opening in this cycle, but only if founders move faster and build with much leaner teams.
Brightspark Get Together: Montreal's Tech Renaissance | Lunch, Learn, and Lead
The episode centers on a live Montreal tech lunch that brought together founders, investors, and LPs to discuss what makes the city’s ecosystem distinctive and where it still needs work. The panel argues for more coaching, faster belief, better capital formation, and a more optimistic, globally ambitious narrative for Canadian tech.