Christian Levan
Director of Portfolio Support at Front Row Ventures
Montreal, Quebec
Overview
Work Experience
Analyst, Investment Team | Early-Stage Venture Capital
2025 - Current
Pan-Canadian, Pre-Seed/Seed, Technology Investments. $250k to $1.5m cheque sizes. Contact: christian@panache.vc Deal Exposure: - AI Code Editor for Enterprise (Stealth) // Pre-Seed - Asepha AI (https://www.asepha.ai/) // Seed - Cybrid (https://www.cybrid.xyz/) // Series A Follow-on
Director of Portfolio Support | Platform & Fundraising
2024 - 2025
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 Deals Led: - Ora Medical (First Check. Seeded by Orthopediatric, BDC, Boreal Ventures etc) - EncephalX - TRAQC - Queva - Dynamo - Fireraven - Shadow (First check. Seeded by Drive Capital) - Asepha AI (First check and follow-on. Seeded by GlassWing, Core Innovation Capital & Panache Ventures) - Acrylic Robotics (Follow-on. Seeded by Two Small Fish Ventures) - Dispersa (Follow-on. Seeded by Nadarra Ventures, BDC, Cycle & The 51)
Business Operations 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
Associate Product Manager | AI/ML Venture Studio
2025 - 2025
Building and exploring AI/ML products and ventures in FinTech/Climate. Investopedia's founder created the venture studio. Venture Exposure: - AI Wealth management platform roll-up. - AI Fuel Grid Classification for wildfires.
Investment Analyst | Series A/B Venture Capital
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
White Star Capital is an international venture and early growth-stage investment platform in technology.
Biz Ops, Product & GTM Roles
2020 - 2024
Worked in Ops, Growth/Sales/ & Product hats at various startups during my undergrad. 2020: CLVINTAGECO - Founded a side hustle selling vintage streetwear & and workwear, sneakers, and other custom rework products. 1-2k MRR. 2022: EdTech Marketplace Solutions - Helped to build out a internal marketplace software for education consultancy. 2022: Transmuter Defi - Worked under founder in Ops role to build out DeFi Options Vault Startup. Everything from partnerships, sales, fundraising support etc. 2024: Ground AI - Worked in a Special Projects role to assist in GTM/Sales/CS and Ops. NYC based seed stage startup focusing on helping DTCs drive revenue with AI. 2024: Optionality AI - Backed by Inovia Capital, joined the founding team at less than 5 FTE, working under Founder on key initiatives like Product & Growth. Montreal based seed stage startup focusing on building Agentic workflows for M&A advisors/analysts.
Investment Analyst | Seed/Series A Venture Capital
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
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
Emergency Ambulance Operator | Military Service
2020 - 2021
Stationed at Khatib Camp medical center on standby for internal military personnel emergencies. Awards: CTO coin, BSOM award x3, marksman, ippt gold.
Artillery Motor Transport Operator (Howitzer/Mortar Gun Tower) | Military Service
2019 - 2021
Towing Howitzers guns for field missions, troop lifts of 30+ soldiers, evacuating soldiers to hospitals, maneuvering a military prime mover at the age of 19. for now the most formative years of my life.