Bruce Croxon

Bruce Croxon

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Toronto, Ontario

Digital Investor - Co-Host of 'The Disrupt' BNN Bloomberg - Successful Entrepreneur

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. 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 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. He 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 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, he oversaw the sale of the business for an astounding 180 million dollars after its meteoric rise.

Bruce 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. He 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.

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

Bruce 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 lives in Toronto with his family and is an outspoken advocate for Anaphylaxis Canada.

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surviving and prospering in a period of unprecedented disruption

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  • Through the network effect of connected devices, we are arguably in the greatest period of change since the Internet was commercialized in the mid 90’s. What is going on, how fast, who is being impacted and what can today’s businesses do to adapt to an environment where nothing seems to stay the same.

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

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Croxon: Business is in his blood

The Chronicles

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 and soar. Croxon is a small-town guy you may well recognize. His achievements including his work as a former investor on the CBC show Dragon’s Den, and as co-founder of the Internet-dating site Lavalife cements why. Croxon always had business in his blood. “I think business picked me; I’m not sure I picked business,” said Croxon. From a very young age, he knew he wanted to be entrepreneurial, and follow in the successful footsteps of his father. His father was an immigrant, who came to Canada from England with a Grade 8 education in 50s.
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Bruce Croxon: Lifelong Entrepreneur

University of Toroto

Long before "social networking" became a buzzword, Bruce Croxon made his mark as a digital pioneer by co-founding the beginnings of Lavalife in 1988. Under his direction, this early tech start-up grew into the marquee brand in online dating with over 2,000,000 users (and countless successful marriages!). After its spectacular rise and with the support of his partners, he led the sale of the company to a stunning 180-million dollars. Since that time, Croxon has been active as both an investor and advisor in early stage companies in the technology and hospitality sectors, continuing to expand the reach of his entrepreneurial successes, and joining the Dragon's Den team.
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Former ‘Dragon’ Bruce Croxon to kick off new entrepreneurship speaker series Feb. 9

Inside NC

NC’s schools of Business and Management, and Hospitality, Tourism and Sport, have launched a new virtual speaker series to shine the spotlight on entrepreneurship with two exciting upcoming speakers on the roster. The series will kick off on February 9 at 9:30 a.m. with former Dragon’s Den host Bruce Croxon, and will continue on March 24 with NC alumna and former RW&CO president Lora Tisi. Justin Williams, dean, Business, Hospitality, Tourism and Sport, noted that the featured speakers will come from a cross-section of backgrounds, but all will present on the theme of entrepreneurship – often, highlighting cross-cutting themes such as diversity, inclusion, indigenization or...
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