Portfolio.YVR Web Summit Vancouver 2026 Special Edition: BC Founders Building for Business, Community, and Net Safety

Ten Web Summit Vancouver 2026 founders building for business, community, and net safety — fintech, HR, wellness, cybersecurity, and more.

VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA, June 8, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Portfolio.YVR Business & Entrepreneurs Magazine has released its 2nd Annual Web Summit Vancouver Special Edition, celebrating the founders, operators, and professionals who converged at Web Summit Vancouver this year — each engaged in building the technologies and services that strengthen how business operates, how communities connect, and how the digital world stays safe.

The edition opens with Kerri Kinna, founder of BARTR, a peer-to-peer trading app developed in parallel with more than a decade of operating a customer-facing retail business. Kinna’s trajectory — from tanning studio operator to app developer — is a study in parallel building, disciplined reinvention, and the kind of entrepreneurial conviction that does not wait for permission. BARTR is now entering a full platform rebuild informed by real user data and the rigorous scrutiny of the Web Summit environment.

Neel Singh of Tropoly brings nearly 25 years of brand and go-to-market expertise to companies approaching their most critical inflection points. Hassan Pardawalla of Parda Sense Solutions delivers the operational architecture that allows founder visions to scale. Paschal Okwundu of Binta Financial is building infrastructure so that financial reputation travels with people across borders. Dana Ramnarine of rhum.hr is advancing a rigorous, human-centred model of HR consulting for founders serious about sustainable growth. And Truc Tran of Anera Life Inc. has built a science-driven longevity and wellness company from lived experience, guided by the philosophy “Help Heal Humanity.”

“Web Summit Vancouver draws founders who are solving real problems for real people,” says Helen Siwak, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Portfolio.YVR. “Every story in this special edition reflects the depth and diversity of what is being built here on the West Coast — and the global conversation that it is already part of.”

The edition also revisits the journeys of three women who have become distinctive voices in Vancouver’s technology and cybersecurity community. Mary Carmichael, now Field CISO, Western Canada with Bell Cyber, is reshaping how Canadian organizations approach cyber resilience at an institutional level. Amarjeet Kaur of Yali-CyberShield has sharpened her market thesis and launched the Security for Startups Fellowship, advancing cybersecurity as a foundational business discipline. Margaret Dibor has replatformed her original vision into Dima Risk Solutions, building a trusted risk advisory practice serving the Canadian SMB market. Rounding out the edition is Lyndsay Malchuk, a capital markets reporter with the Apaton Group whose growing international platform keeps investors and decision-makers informed on the developments shaping the technology world.

“The founders in this edition are not simply building companies,” Siwak adds. “They are building the frameworks, the standards, and the conversations that will define how this industry grows. That is the story Portfolio.YVR exists to tell.”

The 2nd Annual Web Summit Vancouver Special Edition is available now on portfolioyvr.com and distributed across Portfolio.YVR’s full international network.

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