Bruce Croxon

Keynote Speaker | Toronto, Ontario

Digital Investor
Co-host of 'the Disrupt' | Bnn Bloomberg & Successful Entrepreneur

Bruce Croxon Expertise Business & Corporate, Business Growth, Digital & Social Media Marketing, Innovation & Creativity, Business Management, Business Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Project Management and Transformation.

Bruce Croxon

About Bruce Croxon

Keynote Speaker, Bruce Croxon is a managing partner at Round 13 Capita, co-host of The Disruptors on BNN, Digital Investor and a Lifelong Entrepreneur. He is a digital pioneer and a successful entrepreneur. In his starting businessman career, in 1998, he co-founded Lavalife, one of the first online dating sites and grew this early tech start-up into the marquee brand in online dating with over 2,000,000 users and led the sale of the company for 180 million dollars in 2004 and stayed on as CEO until 2006. Bruce has over 20 years of experience assisting start-up businesses in their growth and has participated in CBC's Dragon's Den for three years as an investor.

Bruce Croxon Videos

Dragon's Den's own Bruce Croxon, on Successful Entrepreneurs, Business

Former Dragon Bruce Croxon Talks Start-ups and Growing Your Business:

Bruce Croxon with Diply Co-founders Dean Elkholy & Taylor Ablitt at #s

Bruce Croxon: Disruption

Bruce Croxon Interviews & Podcasts

Former Dragon Bruce Croxon Talks Start-ups and Growing Your Business:

Meet Bruce Croxon, Our New Dragon.

Dragons' Den's Bruce Croxon on Scaling a Company 24/7, Work/life Balan

Bruce Croxon: Investing During a Crisis, Entrepreneurship and Dragons'

BRUCE CROXON BIOGRAPHY

Bruce Croxon is a managing partner of Round 13 Capita, and co-host of The Disruptors, BNN’s most recent, original TV program that spotlights Canadian digital innovators. Bruce Croxon is a digital pioneer and a successful entrepreneur who started his first business in 1998 and successfully sold it at 180 million dollars in 2004.

Bruce enjoys talking to business owners and sharing his insights. Bruce has over 20 years of experience assisting start-up businesses in their growth and has participated in CBC’s Dragon’s Den for three years as an investor. The visions and principles necessary to create firms in a dynamic commercial climate are particularly important to Bruce.

By co-founding Lavalife in 1988, Bruce Croxon established himself as a digital pioneer long before the term “social networking” became fashionable. This early digital start-up under his leadership developed into the leading name in online dating, with over 2,000,000 subscribers (and countless happy weddings!). With the help of his partners, Bruce Croxon oversaw the sale of the business for an astounding 180 million dollars after its meteoric rise.

Bruce Croxon is presently expanding the scope of his experience; he is the CEO of Round13, a business that invests in Canadian digital startups in their development stages. Bruce Croxon co-hosts The Disruptors, a weekly programme on BNN and CTV that features Canadian businesses, and he thinks our entrepreneurs can compete with anyone in the world.

Bruce Croxon invests personally in the health and wellness industry and is the owner of the Vida network of upscale holistic spas on Canada’s west coast. Most recently, Bruce Croxon made an investment in FEAST, a Toronto-based luxury food store that caters to allergy sufferers.

Over the course of his three years as an investor on CBC’s Dragons’ Den (2011–2013), Bruce Croxon added a wide range of companies and goods to his portfolio, including Balzac’s Coffee and Enriched Academy, which capitalize on his enthusiasm for digital media, marketing, and doing good in the world.

Bruce Croxon is always up for “going offline” to embrace his second love – the great outdoors. Bruce Croxon considers Canada’s terrain to be his personal backyard, where Bruce Croxon enjoys surfing, golfing, and kayaking. Bruce Croxon spends his leisure time on the exhilarating slopes of Whistler Blackcomb, whether by bike or ski.

Bruce Croxon likes spending time away with his wife and two children at his eco-friendly home, which is set on an island in gorgeous Georgian Bay. Bruce Croxon lives in Toronto with his family and is an outspoken advocate for Anaphylaxis Canada.

Bruce Croxon Topic Presentations

Bruce Croxon Toronto, Ontario, Canada delivers keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A, and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats.

Surviving and Prospering in a Period of Unprecedented Disruption

The Formula for Innovative Success

Values & Vision: at the Heart of an Organization

Got Passion?: the Life of an Entrepreneur: Only the Passionate Need Apply

Building a Brand: Bruce Croxon’s Lavalife Revolutionized How People Connect

Entrepreneurship by Collaboration

Building a Corporate Culture by Design, Not Default

Marketing Lessons from a Social Networking Pioneer

Bruce Croxon Books & Articles

Croxon: Business is in His Blood
Croxon: Business is in His

Flying high in the business world is never easy. But Dragon’s Den’s Bruce Croxon has worked hard throughout his life to take to the sky...

Bruce Croxon: Lifelong Entrepreneur
Bruce Croxon: Lifelong

Long before "social networking" became a buzzword, Bruce Croxon made his mark as a digital pioneer by co-founding the beginnings of...

Former ‘dragon’ Bruce Croxon to Kick off New Entrepreneurship Speaker Series Feb. 9
Former ‘dragon’ Bruce Croxon to Kick off New

NC’s schools of Business and Management, and Hospitality, Tourism and Sport, have launched a new virtual speaker series to shine the...

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On the CBC show Dragons’ Den, Bruce Croxon was the entrepreneur who built a multimillion-dollar company in the digital space. The...

Bruce Croxon Speaking Testimonials

"Bruce Croxon was by far the best speaker FEI has invited and the dinner was incredible. You have really set the bar for the remainder of the year! The speaker obviously enjoys speaking and does so frequently as he could present with no notes or power point. Bruce Croxon is also very passionate and therefore entertaining. It would be great if all of our speakers were like this. It’s a breath of fresh air for corporate financial execs to hear from a successful entrepreneur and, that too, a TV star."

Attendee

Financial Executives International

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