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Steven Uster on the TechTO stage

Steven Uster

Co-founder & CEO, FundThrough

FintechTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2015

Steven Uster is the co-founder and CEO of FundThrough, the Toronto fintech that gets small businesses' invoices paid in as little as 24 hours. He started it in 2014 after a career as an investment banker, and has spoken on TechTO stages three times since 2015. FundThrough acquired Ampla and raised US$25M in April 2025.

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First seen on a TechTO stage in 2015. Every TechTO talk is searchable — ask the archive about Steven

In their words

It's never a clear sail forward. Anybody who tells you differently either hasn't run a company, or is hiding something.

TechTO, Aug 2018 · watch at 0:37

If you're gonna let us connect to your data sources, we're gonna give you money almost instantly. It may not be exactly what you want, but we're gonna show you that we're committed to you — so that you can take that next step and give us a little bit more data.

TechTO, Aug 2018 · watch at 4:10

What we realized, after way too long, is that perhaps we should use the words that our users use, and not the words that we think that our users use.

TechTO, Nov 2016 · watch at 2:58
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Quick answers

What is Steven Uster known for?

Co-founding FundThrough in 2014 and running it as CEO. FundThrough funds small businesses against their unpaid invoices, cutting a 30-to-90-day wait down to as little as 24 hours.

What did Steven Uster do before FundThrough?

He was an investment banker, as he told the TechTO stage in November 2016. He also said in July 2015 that FundThrough was his third startup and the first one to be outside-funded.

How many times has Steven Uster spoken at TechTO?

Three times — July 2015 on landing coverage in the New York Times, November 2016 on building a new category in financial services, and August 2018 on the lessons from fintech lending.

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