Pender Ventures invests in data centric startups in health-tech, enterprise software, and industrial transformation. We interview leaders and entrepreneurs in these areas, with a focus on women in technology and startups.
Pender Ventures Podcast - WELL Health: Building Canada's Digital Healthcare Company
Hamed Shahbazi on founder lessons, public markets, and building WELL Health through M&A and digital transformation.
In this episode of the Pender Ventures podcast, host Maria Pacella sits down with Hamed Shahbazi, founder and CEO of WELL Health Technologies. Hamed traces his journey from building TIO Networks, a bill payment infrastructure company acquired by PayPal, to founding WELL Health with a vision to modernize and digitize Canada's healthcare system. Along the way, he shares what he learned about M&A strategy, the value of pivoting faster, and why the Canadian public markets are a more powerful and underappreciated tool for founders than most people realize.
29 Jul 2026
Pender Ventures Podcast: The Science of Scaling
HubSpot's founding CRO Mark Roberge shares a data driven framework for knowing when startups are ready to accelerate growth.
In this episode of the Pender Ventures podcast, host Maria Pacella, Pender Ventures Managing Partner, sits down with Mark Roberge, HubSpot's Founding Chief Revenue Officer, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, and Co-Founder of Stage 2 Capital, to unpack the framework behind one of his most-watched talks. They cover why founders consistently misdefine product-market fit, how to build a leading indicator of retention for any business, the shift from founder-led selling to go-to-market fit, common hiring mistakes at each stage of scale, and what AI is really changing in go-to-market.
25 Jun 2026
Pender Ventures Podcast: Building Software That Communities Depend On
How Class Software transformed chaotic registration lines into critical infrastructure for municipalities worldwide.
In this episode of the Pender Ventures podcast, host Maria Pacella, Pender Ventures Managing Partner, sits down with Ralph Turfus, Founder, Alex Barnetson, VP Sales, and Gary Young, Class's very first customer, to trace the full arc of Class Software, from North Vancouver recreation center lines to a 2004 acquisition. They cover the origin story, what it really takes to sell mission-critical software into government, how they achieved customer retention, and the lessons that still apply to founders building in the public sector today.
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