Northside Ventures is a solo GP venture fund in Toronto. The focus is on supporting strong Canadian founding teams at the earliest stages.

The partner, Alex McIsaac, previously worked at Global Founders Capital and BDC. He brings over 15 years of experience in the Canadian ecosystem as both an operator and early stage investor.

As a product engineer, I work with Alex across our full funnel from first touch to committed capital. I source founders, join calls, and support research and memo writing. I also build internal workflows and scoring systems leveraging AI that strengthen how we evaluate founders and manage our process in a lean team.

Undergraduate Research Assistantships at Waterloo place students on funded research teams where they contribute to data analysis, modeling, and software pipelines. I worked under Professor Ken McKay, a senior faculty member in Management Sciences known for work in behavioral analytics, anomaly detection, and decision support systems across operations, security, and information networks.

As an AI Research Assistant, I helped build a predictive modeling pipeline using Chicago Police Department homicide and contextual datasets. I engineered key indicators, merged multi-source data, and supported exploratory analysis across more than a decade of records. The team used Python, pandas, scikit-learn, and SHAP/LIME for modeling and interpretability.

Geotab is a global leader in connected vehicle telematics and fleet management, serving millions of vehicles worldwide. Founded in 2000 and still privately held and employee owned under founder CEO Neil Cawse, the company is consistently ranked among the top fleet management platforms and recognized as a high growth tech company.

I worked on the Enterprise Architecture team, supporting large scale technology transformation across the organization. My work focused on improving system inventories, raising data quality, and strengthening internal workflows. I reviewed thousands of applications, standardized records, and supported automation efforts that helped teams work with clearer, more reliable information.

Epoch is a San Francisco based employee experience platform that helps people teams plan, promote, and measure internal events and programs in one place. Founded by University of Waterloo alumni Jade Choy, Keith Choy, and Michael Miller, Epoch raised a US$3.6M seed round led by Rally Ventures with participation from others.

I joined as a Product Analyst, working across product, customer experience, and engineering. My work focused on building data driven reports and internal tools, including direct work for clients like Salesforce, Electronic Arts, and Workday. I also helped launch new features like Communities for multiple enterprise clients, set up demo and onboarding environments, and created documentation that improved how the team onboarded and supported customers.

Siemens is a global technology company with more than 300,000 employees, known for its work in automation, digital industries, and infrastructure. The Regional Process Office supports digital transformation across the organization by improving workflows, streamlining operations, and driving adoption of internal platforms used by hundreds of teams.

I supported product, analytics, and process optimization work. This included redesigning internal systems (Figma + low-code), building dashboards (Power BI) that improved visibility into project activity, supporting AI and GenAI onboarding, and delivered updates to internal Mendix features and workflows. I also created documentation, improved SOPs, and supported events and presentations that helped teams align on digital transformation efforts.

BMW is a global premium automotive group that sold 2.45 million cars and over 210,000 motorcycles worldwide in 2024, with a workforce of about 159,000 employees. I was working abroad specifically under BMW Turkiye in Istanbul.

As a GTM Intern, I supported the loyalty and digitalization effort. I helped map and design processes, built presentations for internal and external pitches, supported cross-functional teams in marketing and customer experience, and helped design loyalty program segments, membership tiers, and data-driven campaign structures. I also handled data normalization tasks, website form design, and reporting analysis — helping bridge business goals with technical execution.