Janice Diner

Founder & CEO, Horizn (acquired by Inbenta, 2023), Horizn

FintechTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2016

Janice Diner founded and led Horizn, a Toronto fintech whose digital-adoption platform helped banks and their customers learn new digital features. She built it as a bootstrapped, client-funded business that deliberately took no venture capital, and sold it to Inbenta in 2023. She spoke at TechTO in 2016 on going against the grain.

On the TechTO stage ×1

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Janice Diner Of Horizn presents Going Against the Grain

TechTO · January 2016

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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2016. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Janice ↗

In their words

we tend to ship before the paint is dry

TechTO, Jan 2016 · watch at 3:27 ↗

you can in fact build a business with your clients and be profitable from day one

TechTO, Jan 2016 · watch at 2:07 ↗

A few quotes can’t cover everything Janice said on the TechTO stage. 1,600+ talks are searchable.Ask about Janice ↗

Around the web ×1

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Horizn acquired by US conversational AI firm InbentaBetaKit

2023

Quick answers

Who is Janice Diner?

The founder and CEO of Horizn, a Toronto fintech whose digital-adoption platform helped banks and their customers learn new digital features; it was acquired by Inbenta in 2023.

How did she build Horizn?

As a bootstrapped, client-funded business that was profitable early and deliberately took no venture capital.

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