Jonah Midanik: engineer by trade and Serial Entrepreneur by choice. As the COO and General Partner at Forum Ventures, Jonah supports founders on their journey to building world-class companies - while occasionally still founding companies of his own.
Jonah has spent the last twenty years building companies in the Canada and US as a serial entrepreneur. He has been lucky enough to have seen the startup journey from a variety of perspectives: as a successful bootstrapped founder/CEO, having helped launch new corporate divisions at BigCo, and as the founder/CEO of Limelight, a Venture backed company. Jonah currently spends his time helping companies grow with Forum Ventures as the COO and General Partner.
In supporting over 60 founders per year, he has carved out a niche in the market of teaching founders how to build and deliver pitch decks proven to raise capital, even being featured on this topic at Collision 2022.
Jonah lives in Toronto with his wife and two children.
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Jonah Midanik has spent the last twenty years at the intersection of marketing and technology as a serial entrepreneur in Canada.
He has experienced several different lenses on the founder journey from bootstrapping his own startup, to launching new corporate divisions, and raising 8 figures of venture capital.
Today, in supporting hundreds of founders’ growth, Jonah has carved out a niche in the market of teaching founders how to build and deliver pitch decks proven to raise capital.
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