Cory Jennermann is a runner, skier, outdoor enthusiast, and possibly the funniest person you might run into during a marathon. He is the co-Founder and Managing Partner of RunGuides Media, a platform that helps runners find races and clubs near them. RunGuides recently launched the Virtual Baton App to help organizations produce fun virtual team ch…

Sylvain Morel est le co-fondateur et le COO de Sportihome, une plateforme qui offre des solutions d’hébergement pour les sportifs et les assoiffés d’activités extérieures. En plus d’être à la tête d’une entreprise en plein essor, Sylvain jongle deux autres rôles à temps plein: celui de père de famille et de zélé de kitesurf. Sylvain a grandi dans l…

Éric Gerardin est un entrepreneur et une source constante d'idées innovatrices dans le monde du tourisme. Il est le co-fondateur et le CEO de Doyoogo, un réseau distribution de plus de 450,000 d’activités disponibles dans plus de 3000 destinations. Il est également le co-fondateur et le CEO de Génération Voyage, un site qui propose plus de 5000 art…

Eliot Jackson is a former professional Downhill Biker and World Cup Racer, and a Red Bull Presenter. He is also the Founder of the Grow Cycling Foundation, and the CEO and Founder of Reggy, an online discovery platform for mountain biking race/ride events. On Reggy, you can also connect with other riders and with the MTB community at large. Eliot g…

Oli Russell-Cowan is the CEO and Founder of Rad Season, a web platform with all-in-one information on action sports, adventure events and music festivals around the world. Oli grew up in England and became a rad adventurer at a very early age, when he picked up bodyboarding during family vacations to Spain. While at Swansea University, he started s…

Vincent Brunet-Dupont is the CEO and co-Founder of Trebuchet, a Montreal development studio that specializes in VR games and experiences. Vincent grew up on the south shore of Montreal. From an early age, movies and video production fascinated him. During a personality test at school, he scored high in the artistic, entrepreneur and social categori…

Clément Lhommeau est le co-fondateur et le CEO de Helloways, une plateforme dédiée à la découverte de randonnées et de microaventures à proximité de la ville. Né en Vendée, Clément a grandi dans une famille toujours en contact avec la nature. C’est lorsqu’il est au lycée qu’il découvre son amour pour la grimpe, et pour les paysages qui l'accompagne…

Mike Petrakis is the CEO and Co-Founder of Bach. BACH is a mobile app for groups planning bachelor and bachelorette parties to discover and book incredible experiences. Growing up in Philadelphia, Mike had a love for the outdoors and playing competitive sports which ultimately led to his passion for entrepreneurship. While in college, he broke his …

Sylvain Caucheteux is an entrepreneur and a tourism marketing guru. He is the co-CEO of Cirkwi, a French company that offers a database of over 3.5 million POIs and over 22,000 guidebooks to tourism professionals in any language required. Sylvain always had an affinity for tourism and decided to make a career out of it. For Sylvain, tourism can off…

Iris Wermescher is an outdoor enthusiast and the Business Development Director of Travel at Komoot. Born in Austria, Iris’s love for nature comes in part from her dad, an avid mountain guide. She rediscovered her love for the outdoors while studying business and tourism in Innsbruck - a city known for its love for mountains, no matter the season. L…

Ioana Todosia is a cross-cultural entrepreneur, experiential facilitator, photographer, and writer. She’s the founder of Comuna Project, a cultural exchange platform that connects a global generation to creative cultures through transformative and regenerative experiences. Ioana was born in Romania, grew up in Northern British Columbia after emigra…

Bruno Maltor a créé le blog de voyage Votre Tour du Monde en 2012 pendant son stage en marketing à Shanghai. Son goût du voyage a commencé lorsqu’il était tout jeune. Il passait beaucoup de son temps dans sa chambre à coucher, à contempler une immense carte du monde affichée à côté de son lit et à en mémoriser toutes les capitales. Une fois adulte,…

Ian Cumming is a travel industry super connector, investor, techie and global founder of Travel Massive, the largest tourism community in the world. In what started as a small gathering for travel startups at the top of Sydney’s YHA Hostel a decade ago, Travel Massive has now turned into a community of more than 63,000 members in 173 cities around …

Jonas Svengård is an avid trail runner and professional bandy player who was born in Melbourne, Australia to Swedish parents. Eventually settling in Gothenburg, Jonas worked in the coffee and service industry for 20 years. Then one day, he read Haruki Murakami’s memoir “What I talk About When I Talk About Running” and he started running. Around the…

Welcome to Pod22 the experiences and travel podcast brought to you by Stay22 and hosted by Philippe Baird. Subscribe now where ever you get your podcast.By Philippe Baird

Andrew Lockhead is a serial entrepreneur exploding with passion. When a new idea comes to him, he just can’t get it out of his head. So when Andrew and his co-founder Hamed came up with the idea for Stay22, they hit the ground running. Three years later, Stay22, a FounderFuel alumni, is re-shaping the way travelers book accommodation for events usi…

In 2006, Ian Jeffrey left Montreal to join the startup world in Silicon Valley. Three years later, his company “Tiny Pictures” was acquired by Shutterfly. The experiences he gained in San Francisco allowed him to reshape the startup landscape in the city he grew up in. Back in Montreal, he went on to become a venture partner at Real Ventures, co-fo…

Financial literacy and personal finance are topics that are widely covered today. Blogs, magazines, and books are quick to offer tips, tricks and lessons to improve your finances. Philip Barrar, however, realized that what Canadians really need is a tangible solution. He conceptualized Mylo, an app that rounds up your everyday purchases and invests…

Julien Smith has always been a forward thinker. He consistently adopted new technologies before the masses did and loved envisioning how they can create new business opportunities. In 2014 he set out to change the landscape of private workspace leveraging technology, one location at a time.

While solar energy is notoriously efficient, oddly enough the industry itself is actually quite inefficient. This is an issue Lennie Moreno picked up on pretty quickly working in the industry. His answer: Sofdesk. Sofdesk is a Montreal-based startup developing software platforms that allow roofers and solar installers to scale their business. Lenni…

Felipe Coimbra is a rare bread. He’s a serial entrepreneur who started a non-profit focused on helping Syrian refugees, got featured on Tech Crunch and has lived in 19+ cities throughout his life. Felipe’s latest startup is called Untask, an AI based intelligent task manager designed to help us organize and prioritize our busy lives.…

Eamonn O’Rourke made a significant observation in the construction industry that would change his life forever. The serial entrepreneur noticed the incredible man-hours wasted from contractors making material trips to the hardware store. Eamonn, who was born in Dublin, set out to build a platform that would make those material trips obsolete. Expan…

It’s fair to say Marc’s never been one to shy away from hard work or a challenge. In 2016, he left the landscaping company he helped build for a new, bigger challenge. His plan was to change the way landscapers and material vendors do business by building a double sided marketplace. The new startup was branded GoMaterials and while the growth is li…

At the age of 23, Maxime found himself unsure of his career path. Having spent the million dollars he had just won playing professional poker in Europe, ideas began to unravel on ways he can earn extra cash renting out space in his home as storage. Thus led the birth of Sharebee, a peer-to-peer platform for self storage. Today Sharebee’s platform o…

In part 2 of this 2 part mini-series, Montreal tech legend Hamnett Hill recounts how his business, as well as the city itself, emerged out of the dotcom crash in the early 2000s. Hamnett also discusses how they spun out their latest venture, Smooch to which he is now Chairman.

In 1996 Hamnett found himself in the heart of Montreal’s thriving tech scene. The Alberta native provides a first-hand look at how the tech boom impacted the city of Montreal and his role in it. Rises and falls, mergers and acquisitions, wins and losses highlight Hamnett’s fascinating and influential career in tech. *Hamnett was a finalist for entr…

Having travelled the world as a professional dancer, Ashley always knew she would have benefited from having a qualified mentor that had walked in her shoes before. Proper mentorship would have provided valuable insight and direction on her career and would have significantly reduced costly mistakes. No stranger to risk and hard work, Ashley and he…

It’s fair to say Chris Defour isn’t afraid to juggle multiple projects at once. At one point, he was operating 4 different companies at once all while winding down a competitive squash career. Fast forward a couple of years and Chris is laser-focused on tackling the issue of workforce management through an innovative and multi-functional SaaS platf…

In 2014, Phil Cutler set out on a mission to democratize education. He was tired of seeing less fortunate students fall behind because of a lack of access to resources. Less than five years later, Phil is running a fully-funded startup tackling that very problem. Phil goes into detail about his early experiences in education, launching his first co…