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Exits, Comebacks, and Where Builders Are Gathering
Ryan Osten’s Founder Journey, Together Vancouver, and what’s worth your attention right now.
Alex at TechTO
February 05, 2026 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes
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🎧 NEW EPISODE: FOUNDER JOURNEY FT. RYAN OSTEN (CO-FOUNDER & CEO, LYTEFLO)
From 5,000+ dealerships to the EV frontier.
Recorded live at Toronto Tech Week (powered by StartWell), this episode features Ryan Osten, Co-Founder & CEO of Lyteflo and former COO of Gubagoo.
Ryan helped scale Gubagoo into a global automotive SaaS platform used by 5,000+ dealerships, before its acquisition by Reynolds and Reynolds. Now, he is building again, this time focused on solving the EV problem for dealerships.
If you are building, scaling, or thinking about what comes next… this one is worth a listen.
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Together Vancouver (Feb 19)
If you’re building in Vancouver and you’ve been craving a room that feels like your people, this is it.
What it is: founders, operators, investors, and future collaborators in one room
On stage: Chris Neumann (4x founder, early-stage investor), Scott Elliot (Co-Founder & CEO, Slate), and Simon Wong (CEO, Pixieset); honest stories on the messy middle, the hard calls, and what actually moves a company forward. More speakers to be announced.
Where/when: SFU VentureLabs (555 W Hastings, 11th floor) - Thu, Feb 19 (doors 6:00 PM)
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YSpace Tech Accelerator 2026 Applications Now Open
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TechExit.io Vancouver 2026: Leading At Scale
Scaling doesn’t usually break the product first. It breaks how decisions get made.
At TechExit.io Vancouver 2026, Mark Longo (Osler) moderates a candid conversation with Jack Newton (Clio) and Jeff Shiner (1Password) on what actually changes when you’re growing fast and competing globally; how you make calls with incomplete info, stay steady under pressure, and keep the company aligned as complexity ramps.
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