Table Ronde with Katy Yam (Real Ventures x FounderFuel)
Katy Yam is a Partner at Real Ventures, General Manager of FounderFuel (Canada’s first startup accelerator), and Producer of TEDxMontréal. For over 20 years, she’s operated at the intersection of startups, scale, and institutions — helping founders turn early ambition into durable companies.
Her career spans venture capital, AI (Element AI), gaming (Loto-Québec), consumer brands (Maple Leaf Foods), telecom (Bell Canada), and the nonprofit world. She also serves as an independent board member at Loto-Québec, following her nomination by the Quebec Cabinet, and sits on multiple early-stage boards as an investor, advisor, and observer.
Topics on the menu:
🚀 Founder Signal: What separates strong founders early on.
🧠 VC Reality Check: How investors actually make decisions.
🎤 Story That Lands: Why narrative and trust matter.
🏛️ Across the Table: Lessons from startups, boards, and institutions.
🔥🔥 Live Pitches: Founders pitch live to Katy and get real-time feedback.
What is Table Ronde?
Table Ronde is a curated space for people who are building.
In a world full of noise, advice is everywhere — but real experience is becoming harder to find and access.
Table Ronde exists to bridge aspiration and real experience.
We bring builders together with founders, investors, and executives who share what really happened — the context, constraints, and tradeoffs behind real outcomes.
No fluff. No polish.
Just honest conversations and real human connection.
Signal over noise.