Scott Pelton in Toronto, ON | Mcmaster University

Scott Pelton

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Toronto, ON

Scott Pelton (aka @spelton) has been a Canadian-based venture capitalist since July . It was an interesting time to start a career in technology investing and Scott can confirm that both astronauts and VCs are expensive to train. Scott joined Round Capital in February after six years with GrowthWorks Capital. Round is raising its first fund, the Round Founders Fund, with the help of Canadas most successful technology founders. Prior to GrowthWorks, Scott was a founding partner at Scotiabanks e-commerce VC group, e-Scotia Acquisition, later renamed Scotiabank Private Equity Investments. Scott spent the s going to school (Computer Engineering and Management at Mac), working with startups (Pandesic, Roadware) and large firms (PG, Intel, SAP) as a consultant, programmer or sysadmin. Notable investments include Fixmo (personal seed investor), BumpTop (sold to Google), Datawire (sold to First Data) and Sysomos (sold to Marketwire). read more ...