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On the TechTO stage
The future of identity I Rohan Nair, Head of Technology at Highline Beta
Watch on YouTube ↗Attributes of Safe & Connected Cities | Aviva Canada & Highline Beta
Watch on YouTube ↗Intuit Prosperity Accelerator Demo Day -- March 2, 2021
Watch on YouTube ↗Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Highline Beta ↗
About
Highline Beta was founded in Toronto in 2016 by Marcus Daniels and Ben Yoskovitz, and sits between a venture fund and a studio. Its model is corporate co-creation: work with a large company to find an opportunity its own structure cannot chase, recruit founders against it, invest pre-seed, and spin out an independent startup. Alongside that it runs corporate accelerator programmes — the Safe & Connected accelerator with Aviva Canada put two cohorts of urban safety and mobility startups through with Aviva staff as mentors. Highline Beta has appeared on the TechTO stage twice: Rohan Nair, then head of technology, on the future of identity in October 2019, and Valerie Swatkow, then chief development officer, hosting the Safe & Connected demo day in April 2022 with Aviva's Paul Fletcher and Nicole LeBlanc of the urban tech fund 2150.
Backers
Corporate and institutional limited partners; specific backers not confirmed here.
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Quick answers
What does Highline Beta do?
It co-creates startups with large corporations — identifying the opportunity, recruiting founders, investing pre-seed and spinning out an independent company — and runs corporate accelerator programmes alongside that.
Who founded Highline Beta?
Marcus Daniels, founding partner and CEO, and Ben Yoskovitz, founding partner, in Toronto in 2016. Yoskovitz had earlier co-founded Year One Labs and co-wrote Lean Analytics.
What was Safe & Connected?
A two-cohort accelerator run with Aviva Canada on urban safety and mobility, from road collision data to junction near-miss analysis. Aviva staff mentored the cohorts; the April 2022 demo day was hosted with TechTO.