Hans has been a personal and professional investor in BC’s tech industry for over 25 years. He co-founded Yaletown Partners in 2001 and Yaletown now manages over $500 million of institutional capital across multiple venture funds with offices across Canada. He has over half a dozen $200M+ exits under his belt and is responsible for Yaletown’s investments in Circle Cardiovascular Imaging, Innerspace, Cooledge Lighting, Redlen Technologies and Nanoprecise. Over the past 20 years Hans has played a key role in the formation, financing or exiting of over fifty high growth companies in over one hundred equity financing rounds, including Circle’s sale to Thoma Bravo (2022), Tasktop’s sale to Planview (2022), Bitstew’s sale to General Electric (2016) and the sale of Daiya Foods to Otsuka Pharmaceuticals (2017).
Hans is a former Chair of the Board of the Canadian Venture Capital Association and served as a member of the Executive Committee of the CVCA for 6 years and on the CVCA’s Board of Directors from 2016 to 2025. Prior to co-founding Yaletown Hans practiced commercial litigation with a leading national firm. He obtained his BA and JD degrees from UBC after serving as a judicial law clerk at the British Columbia Court of Appeal.