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NuSession: Engineering at Scale for 127M+ Customers

Founded in Brazil in 2013, Nubank is now one of the world’s largest digital financial services companies, serving 127M+ customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Nu’s impact has been recognized in multiple awards, including Time 100 Most Influential Companies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World’s Best Banks. As it deepens its North American footprint, the company is actively building global systems and hiring top engineering talent in Canada.

Key facts about Nubank:

• Became Brazil’s most valuable company by market capitalization in Q4 2025

• Became the most valuable brand in Brazil in Q4 2025

• Enabled more than 25 million Brazilians to access their first credit card or bank account

• Holds the highest preference rate among financial institutions in Brazil, serving ~60% of the adult population; 60% of those customers consider Nu their primary banking relationship

The NuSession event series is a Nubank initiative, and this first Toronto edition, presented in partnership with TechTO, is a curated event that brings Toronto’s fintech and engineering community inside how Nubank designs, scales, and operates core banking and platform infrastructure – and how it builds high-performing engineering teams across countries, time zones, and rapid growth.

Featured speakers include:

• Renan Capaverde, General Manager, Nubank - A decade-long leader at Nubank who helped scale its core banking and platform capabilities across Latin America.

• ​Daniel Kamakura, Engineering Director, Nubank - An experienced engineering leader with Amazon roots, now driving Nubank’s core banking and credit initiatives in a rapidly scaling digital bank environment.

• Vivian Isuyama, Senior Software Engineer, Nubank - A seasoned engineer with 9 years of experience, currently supporting Nubank’s U.S. expansion by leading architectural decisions and cross-team integrations, and previously building credit card underwriting systems across Latin America.
  
  

Why this matters now:

• Nubank is actively expanding into the U.S. market, publicly announced via U.S. national bank charter application, signalling a long-term commitment to building at global scale.​

• Toronto is becoming a key engineering hub in Nubank’s global network, offering local talent a direct path to work on high-impact, large-scale financial systems.​

• This is a rare opportunity to engage directly with the leaders shaping Nubank’s technology and North American strategy in an intimate, curated setting.
  

Capacity is intentionally limited and registrations are reviewed to maintain a high-caliber peer group of senior engineers, heads of engineering, CTOs, and fintech builders.

Apply now to request your invitation and be in the room as Nubank scales its presence in Canada.

Venue Partner: StartWell – Level Up Space

Together Toronto: Y Combinator Special Edition

This is not a panel.
This is not theory.
This is as close as you get to the Y Combinator room without being inside YC.

On Monday, February 2, Together Toronto becomes a Y Combinator Special Edition - a rare, YC-focused night designed for founders who are serious about building venture-scale companies and want real signal on what it actually takes to get into the world’s most competitive accelerator.

For this edition, we are starting the evening with a private, YC application-focused session led by YC alumni, exclusively for selected founders. This is where the filters come off.

You will hear directly from founders who have been through the process on:

• How they approached the YC application

• How they thought about narrative, traction, and timing

• The mistakes most founders make (and why they get filtered out)

• What they would do differently if applying again today

No templates. No recycled blog advice. Just lived experience from people who made it through.

After the YC session, the night opens into the full Together Toronto experience - YC founder talks, fireside conversations, and community open mic - featuring builders who have scaled, raised, and navigated high-growth paths.

Early Bird tickets are already gone.
Spots are limited.
This will sell out.

If YC is on your radar - this is the night you do not miss.

🗓️ UPCOMING EVENTS

• Commerce Toronto: Wednesday, January 21 @ 5:30pm - LAST TICKETS

• Together Toronto: Monday, February 2 @ 6:00pm - REGISTER HERE

• Sales Toronto 2026: Wednesday, February 09 @ 6:00pm - EARLY-BIRD TICKETS HERE

• Health Toronto 2026: Wednesday, February 24 @ 6:00pm - EARLY-BIRD TICKETS HERE

• NuSession: Engineering at Scale for 127M+ Customers: Wednesday, February 24 @ 6:00pm - APPLY HERE

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👀 OPPORTUNITIES TO WATCH

Google for Startups Accelerator - Canada

The Google for Startups Accelerator: Canada is now on the radar again - and if you are building a high-growth tech company, this is one worth paying attention to.

This equity-free program supports Canadian startups with hands-on mentorship from Google experts, access to Google Cloud resources, and deep technical and growth support designed to help companies scale responsibly. It is especially relevant for founders working in AI, data, and platform-driven products who are ready to move beyond experimentation and into execution.

If accelerating with world-class operators, technical depth, and global exposure is part of your 2026 roadmap, keep this one close.

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