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Patrick Lor on the TechVancouver stage

Patrick Lor

Founding partner, Panache Ventures

Venture CapitalCalgaryOn TechVancouver stages since 2019

Patrick Lor is a Calgary investor who co-founded iStockphoto and sold it to Getty Images in 2006, then ran Fotolia's North American business and co-founded Dissolve. He is a founding partner at Panache Ventures, the Canadian pre-seed fund, and sat on a TechVancouver panel in 2019 about what founders and investors owe each other.

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First seen on the TechVancouver stage in 2019. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Patrick

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Who is Patrick Lor?

A Calgary investor and founding partner at Panache Ventures, Canada's pre-seed fund. He co-founded iStockphoto, which Getty Images bought in 2006, later led Fotolia's North American operations and co-founded the stock-footage company Dissolve.

What did Patrick Lor speak about at TechVancouver?

He joined Certn's Andrew McLeod and Allocadia's Katherine Berry on TechVancouver's October 2019 panel on the VC-founder relationship — how investors actually decide, what founders should ask before taking money, and how the relationship works when a company is not growing.

What is Panache Ventures?

A Canadian pre-seed and seed fund founded in 2018 with a nationwide team, writing first cheques of up to $1.5M. Lor is listed on its team page as a founder-turned-investor whose credentials read "Founded and exited iStockphoto (Getty) and Fotolia (Adobe)."

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