Dion Madsen has more than 25 years of experience working with innovative startups and major public companies and is the co-founder and Partner at Amplitude Ventures.
Prior to this, he was Senior Managing Partner of the Healthcare Venture Fund at BDC Capital where the fund built two billion-dollar Canadian companies showcasing the potential of Canadian innovation. He started his venture career with RBC Capital Partners’ and moved to San Francisco in 2002 to expand RBCs platform, he was recruited to lead Unilever’s Corporate venture fund in the USA and founded and was managing director of Physic Ventures, a pioneering investor in consumer driven health. Dion is a founding member of the C100 – a group of the leading Canadians in Silicon Valley.
Dion received his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Saskatchewan and is a C.F.A. charterholder.