The Flagship Podcast brings you inside stories from the Canadian technology ecosystem. You'll hear from founders, investors, builders and learn about their triumphs, hardships and hard earned lessons. You'll learn about strategies and tactics and about the human side and what it takes to build a thriving technology company which will hopefully help you on your journey.
Flagship Podcast
Claim This Podcastby Amiral Ventures
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51 episodes
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The Flagship Podcast brings you inside stories from the Canadian technology ecosystem. You'll hear from founders, investors, builders and learn about their triumphs, hardships and hard earned lessons. You'll learn about strategies and tactics and about the human side and what it takes to build a thriving technology company which will hopefully help you on your journey.
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Publishing Since
10/29/2023
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Recent Episodes
June 28, 2026
Agile Is Dead. The Best Engineering Teams Are Now 3 People. | Zaid Al Hamami, Boost Security
<p dir="ltr">Zaid Al Hamami built Immunio in the early 2010s, sold it to Trend Micro, and is now back at it with Boost Security. He joins Nectar to talk about what changes when you build a cybersecurity company twice, fifteen years apart.</p> <p dir="ltr">The conversation traces Zaid's path from coding as a kid in Jordan to running product at Canonical, founding Immunio and navigating the RASP category consolidation, and the market insight behind Boost: securing software at the speed that AI now writes it.</p> <p dir="ltr">What gets covered:</p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Why "if you build it, they will come" nearly cost Immunio its shot</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">What Mythos actually changes for cybersecurity, and where it's overhyped</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">The economics of running frontier models on every pull request (hint: tens of millions)</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Developer endpoints as the new CISO blindspot</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">CI/CD pipelines as the next supply chain attack surface</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Why agile is dead and the best engineering teams are now three people</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">How one major airline restructured 600 developers into 200 three-person pods</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Founder scar tissue from a first exit, and what ports over to the second company</p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr">Plus the story of Zaid and Nectar being WeWork neighbors years before Amiral ended up investing in Boost.</p> <p> </p>
April 22, 2026
The Canadian Founder Building a Rocket to Orbit, Bachar Elzein, CEO & Founder @ Reaction Dynamics
<p dir="ltr">Bachar Elzein knew at 13 he wanted to build rockets. Twenty-five years later, he's the founder & CEO of Reaction Dynamics — the Montreal-based company building Canada's first orbital launch capability.</p> <p dir="ltr">In this episode, Bachar breaks down the hybrid propulsion breakthrough that makes RDX's rockets cheaper, safer, and deployable from virtually anywhere — including the back of a truck. We talk about what it takes to survive nine years building deep tech, skipping payroll, and betting everything on a technology the market wasn't ready for.</p> <p dir="ltr">We also get into the geopolitics: why Canada is the only G7 country without sovereign launch capability, what the recent federal backing means, and why allied nations are now paying attention.</p> <p dir="ltr">A rare conversation at the intersection of frontier engineering, national strategy, and founder resilience.</p> <p> </p>
March 18, 2026
Building Canada's Next Flagships - Amiral Ventures
<p dir="ltr">Two years after first appearing on the Flagship Podcast, Nectar, Fred, and Dom reunite for a long-overdue conversation: Amiral Ventures has officially closed Fund 1.</p> <p dir="ltr">In this candid episode, the three partners trace the origins of the fund: how Fred's entrepreneurial journey (including co-developing LTE at Nortel and a successful Series A & B raise at Mnubo) first brought him together with Dom, a veteran M&A banker who went on to launch Xpnd Capital and deliver two IPOs. Nectar rounds out the team, coming off years of post-investment value creation work at PNR and crossing paths with Fred through this very podcast.</p> <p dir="ltr">The conversation gets real about what it actually takes to raise a fund from scratch: nearly three years in the trenches, no product to show, just a slide deck and conviction. They share what they've learned, the primacy of trust-building, the importance of giving candid feedback to founders (even on a "no"), and the gap they're filling in the Canadian ecosystem at the seed-to-Series A inflection point.</p> <p dir="ltr">The team also lifts the curtain on their Prosperity Decoded thesis, backing AI-native companies driving enterprise productivity, sustainability, and resilience; and spotlights their first two portfolio companies: Maxa (AI for CFOs and FP&A) and Maket (AI for residential architecture and design).</p> <p dir="ltr">They close on what excites them most: the caliber of Quebec founders, the community of successful exits now back as LPs and mentors, and the long game of building Canada's next generation of flagship technology companies.</p> <p> </p>
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