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Marcus Daniels on the TechTO stage

Marcus Daniels

Founding Partner & CEO, Highline Beta

Venture CapitalTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2021

Marcus Daniels is the co-founder and chief executive of Highline Beta, a Toronto venture studio and VC firm that builds new startups with large corporations and then funds them. He ran the Highline accelerator before it, and describes venture studios as synthetic co-founders that should fill real gaps rather than duplicate services.

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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2021. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Marcus

In their words

Accelerators are always about the founders, and having the spotlight on them and talking about how they collaborate with Intuit and really having this shared purpose was amazing.

TechTO Intuit Prosperity Accelerator, Mar 2021 · watch at 63:41
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Quick answers

Who is Marcus Daniels?

The founding partner and CEO of Highline Beta, which he co-founded in 2016 with Ben Yoskovitz and Lauren Robinson. He previously co-founded the Highline accelerator and was managing director at Extreme Startups, and holds an MBA from Queen's University's Smith School of Business.

What is Highline Beta?

A hybrid venture studio and venture capital firm in Toronto. It works with corporations and family offices to find an opportunity, recruit founders, put in pre-seed capital and spin the company out, and it also runs corporate accelerators — including the Intuit Prosperity Accelerator.

What did Marcus Daniels speak about at TechTO?

He closed the March 2021 Intuit Prosperity Accelerator Demo Day, which Highline Beta ran with Intuit Canada, in a wrap-up conversation with Intuit's David Marquis about the inaugural cohort of eight startups and why the programme came together inside 30 days of the pandemic starting.

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