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Giselle Guimarães

Co-founder, VanHack

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Giselle Guimarães co-founded VanHack, a Vancouver platform that places international software talent with employers in Canada, the US and Europe, with her husband Ilya Brotzky in 2015. The pair met in Brazil. By October 2021 the bootstrapped company reported a community of 250,000 tech workers, per the Vancouver Tech Journal.

Giselle hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Giselle co-founded VanHack, which appears in 2 talks in the archive.

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What did Giselle Guimarães found?

VanHack, a tech talent recruitment and relocation platform. The Vancouver Tech Journal reported on 2021-10-28 that Ilya Brotzky and his co-founder and wife Giselle Guimarães founded it in 2015.

How did VanHack's founders meet?

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business reported on 2022-07-06 that Brotzky met his wife, Giselle Guimarães, in Brazil, and that the two launched VanHack in 2015.

How large had VanHack grown?

The Vancouver Tech Journal reported on 2021-10-28 that the bootstrapped company had a community of 250,000 tech workers. Cornell's 2022-07-06 article described it as a multimillion-dollar company employing 100 people worldwide.

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