Michelle Scarborough
Board Member, VCAA

Featured in ‘Workshop - Crisis Management Case’ at 2:45 p.m. on February 26.

Michelle is a sought-after venture capital investor and entrepreneur with over two decades of experience building, scaling, and investing in high-growth companies across industries and sectors.  She has founded numerous companies and investment funds, including two of the world’s first and largest funds investing exclusively in women led enterprises.

She has managed more than $1B in assets over her career and galvanizing more than $2B into Canadian technology companies that are creating new categories and disrupting industries, bringing software, hardware and AI together to have global impact and build a better and more equitable and sustainable future for all. She has led some of Canada’s largest financing rounds into companies like Waabi, alongside Uber, Khosla Ventures and Porsche, as well as notable exits in Beanworks, acquired by Quadient SA, and Bitstew systems, acquired by GE and CVCA Deal of the Year 2017, 

She is recognized for advancing innovation, fostering entrepreneurial ecosystems and shaping markets. An ecosystem builder at heart, she has fostered movements to generate positive economic, social and environmental impact and empowers others to do the same. She is an active champion of mindfulness, conscious creation, and mental health, and regularly instructs at retreats worldwide in meditation practices and connection for entrepreneurs. She serves on a number of private boards and not for profit organizations and is currently evaluating opportunities to build her next big thing.