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Ruslan Nikolaev

Co-founder and Head of Product, Float

Fintech

Ruslan Nikolaev co-founded Float, the Toronto fintech that issues corporate cards and spend management software to Canadian businesses. He is Float's head of product. He started the company in 2020 with Griffin Keglevich while finishing a computer science and business degree across the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University.

Ruslan hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Ruslan co-founded Float, which appears in 1 talk in the archive.

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October 12, 2023: How much time will this save you?The TechTO newsletter · mentions Ruslan
2023

Around the web ×4

Podcast
Building the Financial Infrastructure Canada Deserves: Inside Float's VisionBoast
2026
Podcast
Building Float: Ruslan Nikolaev on Disrupting Canadian FintechStartWell
2025
Podcast
Ruslan Nikolaev from Float (Vol. 2)The Hard Part with Evan McCann
2025
Interview
Humans of Tech - Ruslan NikolaevArtemis Canada
2023

Quick answers

Who is Ruslan Nikolaev?

He is a co-founder of Float and its head of product. Float's own About page names him as "Co-Founder and Head of Product" alongside co-founders Rob Khazzam (CEO) and Griffin Keglevich, and lists the company at 119 Spadina Avenue in Toronto (Float About page, floatfinancial.com, checked 2026-09-21).

What did he do before Float?

He worked at Uber ATG as a perception engineer and at Shopify as a data scientist, and studied computer science at the University of Waterloo and business at Wilfrid Laurier University (Float About page, floatfinancial.com, checked 2026-09-21).

How did Float start?

Nikolaev and Griffin Keglevich started the business in their final year of university, took a semester off to validate it, worked from free space at the Accelerator Centre, and sold the first 100 customers themselves before recruiting Rob Khazzam as CEO (Artemis Canada, "Humans of Tech", 2023-02-01). A podcast episode description dates the founding to 2020 (The Hard Part with Evan McCann, 2025-01-06).

Is he still at Float?

Yes. Float's About page still lists him as Co-Founder and Head of Product (floatfinancial.com, checked 2026-09-21), and he discussed Float's platform on Boast's What The Tech podcast (2026-08-04).

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