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Christian Levan

Director of Portfolio Support @ Front Row Ventures

Montreal, Quebec

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Work Experience

  • Director of Portfolio Support | Platform & Fundraising

    2024

    Leading a team of Venture Managers to support Canadian University founders in raising their subsequent rounds of VC funding and conducting LP reporting.

  • Director of Investments QC | Early-Stage Venture Capital

    2023 - 2024

    Leading an investment team to deploy $3M across Quebec to back the most promising and high-impact university student founders in the form of 50k cheque sizes Investments: 1. Ora Medical 2. EncephalX 3. TRAQC 4. Queva 5. Dynamo 6. Fireraven 7. Shadow

  • Business Development Team | Operations

    2022 - 2023

    Support building & projects on the Front Row Academy, key account management, B2B/B2C sales of our courses Learned how to work at a "start-up" within an emerging VC fund

2024 - 2024

  • VC Summer Analyst | Early Growth Fund

    2024 - 2024

    Global VC (Series A & B Technology Investments), North America Team (NYC, TO, MTL); ~$1B+ AUM Screened and conducted DD on deals within B2B vertical SaaS, assisted with fundraising and LP relationship efforts

2024 - 2024

  • Biz Ops | FinTech

    2024 - 2024

    Backed by Inovia Capital Working directly under CEO in key initiatives such as product, sales & marketing

2023 - 2023

  • VC Summer Analyst | Venture Fund

    2023 - 2023

    Seed to IPO, investing in B2B Saas verticals, Venture Investment Team (Seed-Series A); ~$2.2B AUM Screened and conducted DD on cybersecurity Saas companies found an affinity for data security-related products and learned a lot that summer Investments: 1. Cavelo

2022 - 2022

  • VC Scout | Talent Investments

    2022 - 2022

    Entrepreneur First’s unique model brings together the people who should be co-founders, to create impactful companies that otherwise wouldn’t exist. Over 600+ companies ~ $10Bn combined portfolio value Learned how to spot the best future entrepreneurs across Canada

2022 - 2022

  • Biz Ops & Project Manager (PM) | Crypto FinTech

    2022 - 2022

    Transmuter is a platform which changes the DeFi Option Vault space. Structured Products to users that eliminate the risk of conversion. By solving the conversion problem, users can benefit from the enhanced yield of Structured Products but without the risk of losing their upside on their coin Managed Community Teams, assistant to Co-Founder, adhoc projects such as partnership drafting, fundraising support, account management, marketing initiatives

2022 - 2022

  • Research Summer Analyst | Growth Equity

    2022 - 2022

    Series B+, investing in global consumer brands in SEA ~175M AUM Built EdTech Investment Playbook for SEA

  • Business & Product Development | EdTech Marketplace Solutions

    2022 - 2022

    SEN is currently working on building their own technology enabled product, a new EdTech Marketplace which acts as a centralized platforms to find all your EdTech solutions in one place Built Low-Fidelity Mockups, Competitor Analysis, Product Development worked with SWE to plan & execute on the new platform

  • Emergency Ambulance Operator | Military Service

    2020 - 2021

    "wee-ooo-wee-ooo"

  • Artillery Transport Operator (Howitzer/Mortar Gun Tower) | Military Service

    2019 - 2021

    Towing Howitzers for field missions, troop lifts of 30+ soldiers, evacuating soldiers to hospitals, maneuvering a military prime mover at the age of 19. By far the most formative years of my life...

2020 - 2021

  • Founder

    2020 - 2021

    Side hustle selling vintage streetwear & and workwear, sneakers, and other custom rework products. Learnt sales, and B2C marketing through social media and marketplaces like Carousell. Managed imports and inventory of hundreds of products at a time and earned an average of 1-2k MRR in my first year of operations. Stopped when I started university but learned a lot about the hustle of building something from scratch as a solo founder.