Elevate Your Housing

Amber French is the intersection of technology and community. Through her work with Catalyst and Archangel, Amber facilitates entrepreneurs investing back into the local ecosystem including real estate. The concept of parallel entrepreneurship focuses on related and supporting businesses producing a strong whole based on great teams in each.

-Catalyst Ventureswww.catalyst-ventures.co

Creating spaces, building technology and investing is sustainable innovation models.

-Catalyst Capital www.catalystcapital.io

Catalyst Capital was founded in 2019 to link accredited investors to technology & real-estate opportunities in Kitchener-Waterloo Region. The founding team is passionate about entrepreneurship and started Catalyst Capital to make a meaningful contribution to the local community.

-Catalyst Commonswww.catalyst-commons.com

Catalyst Commons is built for real work. From startup to enterprise, Commons has all the spaces, services and amenities companies need to thrive.

-Archangel Network of Fundswww.archangelnetwork.ca

ARCHANGEL is the overarching angel stage investment fund with the mission of unlocking capital through the support of a consortium of superangels and venture capitalists.

Sean Campbell is working on a solution to the housing crisis through a social enterprise called Union Co-operative, which is working to buy residential and commercial properties in Waterloo region for permanent rental affordability through community ownership. Through Scaled Purpose, Sean applies his skills and expertise to assist the not-for-profit sector with research, strategic and project planning and grant writing. As a strong advocate for not-for-profit housing, Sean was an obvious choice for the innovative partnership to create 10,000 affordable homes, Build Now Waterloo Region.

-Scaled Purpose www.scaledpurpose.com

Scaled Purpose is a management consultancy for not-for-profits, co-operatives, charities, co-operatives, social enterprises, and municipalities.

-Union Cooperative www.unionsd.coop

Union Co-operative is working to buy residential and commercial properties in Waterloo Region for permanent affordability through community ownership.

-Build Now Waterloo Region www.buildnowwr.ca

BUILD NOW: Waterloo Region is a modernization of Canada’s wartime housing program, offering a combination of affordable rental and home ownership options as a plan to help solve the national housing crisis.

Tom Nagy is one of the many talented business leaders to come from Research in Motion and the tech community in Waterloo. For Tom, there is both a desire to give back to the community and to build for future prosperity. Increasingly, the housing crisis is seen as a threat to the area’s prosperity and tech leaders are mobilizing to find solutions which could turn housing into a strength. Tom’s investment group has been instrumental in area affordable housing projects including 55 Franklin LP.

-ProVisionIP www.provisionip.com

Tom is co-founder and director of proVisionIP, a boutique Intellectual Property consultancy managing IP (patents, trademarks, copyright) for firms / organizations, and I work in the arts.

-Union Co-operative www.unionsd.coop/whoweare

Tom is a member of Union Sustainable Development Co-operative and excited by the merging of socially progressive organizations and local business skills.

Michael Maxwell and Peter Maxwell are owners of Maxwell Building Consultants. MBC has been active in the residential development space in Waterloo Region for over 20 years with projects totaling over 1200 units. Since 2020, MBC has focused on the development of affordable housing in Waterloo Region. Along with developing owned buildings, MBC acts as development manager for affordable housing projects including the 55 Franklin project. MBC focuses on innovations in building design and energy efficiency including our hybrid CLT midrise program. MBC is a founding partner in Build Now Waterloo Region. Build Now is working to create affordable housing at scale in Waterloo.

-Maxwell Building Consultants www.maxwellbuilding.co

Building Affordable Housing Together. Harnessing public/private partnerships to achieve affordable housing for all.

-Build Now Waterloo Region www.buildnowwr.ca

BUILD NOW: Waterloo Region is a modernization of Canada’s wartime housing program, offering a combination of affordable rental and home ownership options as a plan to help solve the national housing crisis.