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Raphael Christian-Roy
Early-Stage Team @Real Ventures
Co-Founder @Front Row Ventures
Product Geek & Software Engineer
Early-Stage Team @Real Ventures
Co-Founder @Front Row Ventures
Product Geek & Software Engineer
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Early-Stage Team
Real backs world-class entrepreneurs building game-changing companies, connecting them to local and national ecosystems and helping guide them through their next stages of... more evolution. The firm invests throughout the life-cycle of early-stage companies and provides stage-appropriate capital and support for the founders it backs. Real believes that VCs should play a role in accelerating the creation of world-class tech ecosystems by providing support beyond the companies for whom it writes cheques.
Founder, Co-Founder & National Managing Director
- Raised over $600k from Canada’s largest seed VC to allocate to our student-led investment vehicle.
- Recruited, brought together, and trained a team of 30 visionary... more and innovative students coming from all campuses and backgrounds in Montreal to be part of the investment team.
- Designed Front Row Ventures’ internal investment thesis, deal sourcing strategies, due diligence standards, investment committee processes, and post-investment added value offerings to portfolio companies.
- Recruited, brought together, and trained a team of 30 visionary... more and innovative students coming from all campuses and backgrounds in Montreal to be part of the investment team.
- Designed Front Row Ventures’ internal investment thesis, deal sourcing strategies, due diligence standards, investment committee processes, and post-investment added value offerings to portfolio companies.
Volume7
Product & Business Development manager
Volume7 is a digital product agency that creates software products and services for startups.
- Led all project and product efforts of ~10 products.
- Handled client... more communication, managed projects and their execution.
- Coordinated a team of 12.
- Led business development initiatives: attended networking events, tech and startup-related conferences, and events to promote Volume7 and prospect new clients - all while remaining the point of contact for clients.
- Led all project and product efforts of ~10 products.
- Handled client... more communication, managed projects and their execution.
- Coordinated a team of 12.
- Led business development initiatives: attended networking events, tech and startup-related conferences, and events to promote Volume7 and prospect new clients - all while remaining the point of contact for clients.
Software Engineer
Wrote a Node API + relational database structure for an internal invoice generating tool with a React frontend.
Rewrote existing Node applications to take advantage of... more ES2015 features (async/await, spread, etc.) Wrote a Node app to respond to webhooks from a Shopify store, process the received data and make calls to its API as a result. Developed a modular process to build a couple of static sites in Ruby using Middleman. Implemented a continuous deployment flow using Netlify.
Rewrote existing Node applications to take advantage of... more ES2015 features (async/await, spread, etc.) Wrote a Node app to respond to webhooks from a Shopify store, process the received data and make calls to its API as a result. Developed a modular process to build a couple of static sites in Ruby using Middleman. Implemented a continuous deployment flow using Netlify.
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Raphael is one of the three co-founders of Front Row Ventures, Canada’s first student-led venture capital fund. He joined the early-stage team of Real in 2017 to build and grow the FRV fund across Canada. An entrepreneur since childhood, Raph went from owning a car garage to a window-cleaning business to a tech startup — all before he hit twenty. A software engineer and product geek who is passionate about creating outstanding technologies that enhance people's lives, Raph has also been involved in organizing tech-focused events including Startup Weekends, hackathons and other educational programs. Prior to FRV, Raph spent two years working as a Product Manager and developing Volume7, a digital product agency that partners with forward-thinking startups and companies. When he’s not working on building startups or the tech ecosystem, Raph can be found skiing, snowboarding or coding his newest product idea.
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