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Featured Founder Story
Vitaly: StackAdapt
Ten years ago, StackAdapt was flying below the radar. Usage-based revenue, an unproven team, no long-term contracts. Today, those same characteristics are exactly what make the company one of Canada’s most durable and globally competitive tech businesses — and proof that you don’t have to leave Canada to win.
SCALE CANADIAN OP-ED
Canada Doesn’t Have a Founder Problem. It Has a Seed Stage Problem.
A case for building, funding, and owning more of Canada’s next generation of global companies.
The Stories
The Data
30+
Exited Canadian founders have reinvested approximately $25M as LPs in Graphite Ventures
40+
Exits in the Graphite Ventures portfolio
<15%
Graphite Ventures portfolio failure rate
$44M to $2B
Graphite Ventures has converted $44 million in government- supported funding into more than $2 billion in private-sector follow-on capital
$8B
Invested across 571 Canadian VC deals in 2025
The Stories
StackAdapt: Vitaly
StackAdapt CEO Vitaly Pecherskiy on how the traits that scared off early investors became the reason StackAdapt scaled into one of Canada’s biggest tech success stories.
StackAdapt: Vitaly
StackAdapt CEO Vitaly Pecherskiy on how the traits that scared off early investors became the reason StackAdapt scaled into one of Canada’s biggest tech success stories.
StackAdapt: Vitaly
StackAdapt CEO Vitaly Pecherskiy on how the traits that scared off early investors became the reason StackAdapt scaled into one of Canada’s biggest tech success stories.
StackAdapt: Vitaly
StackAdapt CEO Vitaly Pecherskiy on how the traits that scared off early investors became the reason StackAdapt scaled into one of Canada’s biggest tech success stories.
StackAdapt: Vitaly
StackAdapt CEO Vitaly Pecherskiy on how the traits that scared off early investors became the reason StackAdapt scaled into one of Canada’s biggest tech success stories.
StackAdapt: Vitaly
StackAdapt CEO Vitaly Pecherskiy on how the traits that scared off early investors became the reason StackAdapt scaled into one of Canada’s biggest tech success stories.
StackAdapt: Vitaly
StackAdapt CEO Vitaly Pecherskiy on how the traits that scared off early investors became the reason StackAdapt scaled into one of Canada’s biggest tech success stories.
StackAdapt: Vitaly
StackAdapt CEO Vitaly Pecherskiy on how the traits that scared off early investors became the reason StackAdapt scaled into one of Canada’s biggest tech success stories.
StackAdapt: Vitaly
StackAdapt CEO Vitaly Pecherskiy on how the traits that scared off early investors became the reason StackAdapt scaled into one of Canada’s biggest tech success stories.