

Future of Small Business Finance | CALPE ✕ Evatech | Capital Innovation Series
Future of Small Business Finance | Capital Innovation Series
The future of small business finance depends on collaboration across institutions, technologies, and markets.
Join a gathering of capital providers, fintech innovators, business leaders, and entrepreneurs exploring the ideas, partnerships, and strategies shaping the future of small business finance.
The Session
Designed to energize innovation, Calpe’s City Studio Sessions create a dynamic environment, part social, part action lab, where live market challenges, emerging ideas, and practical solutions are explored in real time.
The Toronto session convenes a curated mix innovators exploring the future of small business finance across underserved and rapidly evolving business markets.
Featured Perspectives
Arron Lin | Vice-president | RBCx https://www.linkedin.com/in/arronlin/
Bobby Bedi | Founder and CEO | Factiiv https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobby-bedi-17b2211b2/
A founder. A closed door. An open conversation.
One of our speakers built and lost a small business. They will come not to celebrate, not to blame, but to help a room full of finance people understand what it actually feels like from the other side.
Who it is? You’ll find out at 7:15.
Evening Flow
🕡 6:00 PM | Arrival + Drinks
Good people. Good food. Good conversations.
⚡ 7:00 PM | Welcome + Introductions
What’s breaking, what’s shifting, and where capital is headed?
🎤 7:15 PM | Spark Talks
Fast insight from people building in it.
🧠 7:45 PM | Capital Design Wall
Ideas on the wall.
🥂 8:30 PM onward | After Hours
Where the night usually gets interesting.
About CALPE LABS
Calpe Labs is a capital innovation firm and venture studio focused on designing and building investment platforms for underserved and understructured markets.
About EVATECH GLOBAL
Evatech Global is a fintech and credit risk technology infrastructure company that helps financial institutions assess, underwrite, and serve small and medium-sized businesses more effectively.