Prashant Matta is a Managing Partner at Panache Ventures who chairs the government relations committee for Canada's venture capital association and previously worked in Samsung's Global Strategy Group in South Korea on business strategy and acquisitions. He has written extensively about fintech, blockchain, and decentralized web technologies well before recent hype cycles, and actively mentors startups in CDL-Toronto's Artificial Intelligence stream while speaking at major Canadian tech events. Prashant Matta is a Managing Partner at Panache Ventures who chairs the government relations committee for Canada's venture capital association and previously worked in Samsung's Global Strategy Group in South Korea on business strategy and acquisitions. He has written extensively about fintech, blockchain, and decentralized web technologies well before recent hype cycles, and actively mentors startups in CDL-Toronto's Artificial Intelligence stream while speaking at major Canadian tech events.