AF

Amber French

Catalyst | Building businesses and community

Waterloo, Ontario

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $300,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $200,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Member Board of Directors

    2024

  • CEO, Co-Founder

    2019

    Investing in technology and real-estate opportunities in Waterloo, one of Canada's top technology epicentres. Catalyst Ventures is comprised of three arms: Catalyst Placemaking (businesses that focus on building community), Catalyst Software (a venture studio focused on building B2B SaaS companies), and Catalyst Hardware (stealthily working away on something that my kids finally give me some credit for being the slightest bit "cool:...my words, not theirs).

  • Co-Founder

    2021

    A 70,000sqft co-working space (currently growing to 150,000sqft!!) in the heart of Waterloo Region. We'll soon be the largest privately held co-working space in Canada! https://www.catalyst-commons.com/

  • Co-Founder

    2023

    Real food. Real music. Real community. Opening 2024 on the lake in Downtown Kitchener.

  • Co-Founder

    2020

    A consortium of superangels and venture capitalists from the Toronto-Waterloo Innovation Corridor whose goal is to make angel investing more accessible. Archangel aims to help Canadian startups scale into the United States and global markets and reinvest back into the angel ecosystem. www.archangelnetwork.ca

  • Board Member

    2023

2021

  • Member

    2021

2020 - 2022

  • Director of Capital Services

    2020 - 2022

Supply+Protect Inc.

2020 - 2021

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2020 - 2021

    Supply+Protect was a not-for-profit and was considered Canada’s largest marketplace for Canadian-made PPE at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. With over 40 Canadian manufacturers on the platform, S+P was a one-stop-shop focussed on helping Canadian businesses re-open safely and easily. financialpost.com/executive/executive-women/good-things-happened-when-the-wealthy-barber-bumped-into-the-problem-solver