MAY 5, 2027 • VANCOUVER CONVENTION CENTRE WEST
Presenting The TechExit.io Experience
Canada’s Value Creation Conference.
Value creation is a discipline. An acquisition is just one outcome.
Build for value from year one, and the options multiply. The same company built to be worth buying can raise, acquire, or keep going.
TechExit.io is for tech founders who want to build real enterprise value and keep the power to choose what comes next.
Whether your strategy is to absorb competitors, secure capital on your own terms, or execute a premium exit, the discipline is the same.
Clean financials. Unit Economics. Defensible product. Team depth.
The foundational work that makes a company real before anyone makes an offer. At TechExit.io, we sharpen all four whether you’re early, growing, or scaling.
Valuation drivers. Deal terms. Diligence realities.
Why two similar companies get very different valuations. AQ is a competency. Canadian founders have been building it at TechExit.io since 2017.
Relationships with operators, capital partners, and acquirers.
Optionality isn’t indecision. It’s leverage. TechExit.io is for founders who plan the moves that maximize value, not the deals accepted when options run out.
“How do we mitigate the risk if there is the potential of clients leaving… how do you mitigate that downside?”
Frequently Asked Questions
TechExit.io Vancouver 2027 is in May 2027 at the Vancouver Convention Centre West. The event runs as a one-day conference with keynotes, practitioner panels, case studies, and operator sessions. The Convention Centre West is on the downtown waterfront, walking distance from major hotels and 25 minutes from YVR. Date confirms in fall 2026.
Vancouver is Canada’s Pacific gateway and home to $8B+ in realized tech exits. Clio reached US$3B with a US$900M Series F. Copperleaf sold to IFS for C$1B in January 2024. Carbon Engineering went to Occidental for US$1.1B. Galvanize went to Diligent for US$1B. Vancouver is the only Canadian tech hub in Pacific time, 2.5 hours by air to Amazon and Microsoft headquarters.
TechExit.io Vancouver attendees are West Coast tech founders (Series A and beyond, $1M to $50M+ ARR), climate tech and cleantech founders, operators from companies like Clio, Hootsuite, Trulioo, Article, Visier, plus capital partners from Pacific-time funds and US West Coast acquirers. Cross-border activity is high: many attendees are in Vancouver but transact with US or Asia-Pacific buyers.
Vancouver tech exits route differently than the rest of Canada. Cross-border M&A with US West Coast strategic buyers is more common (proximity to Amazon and Microsoft). Climate tech and cleantech are over-indexed (Carbon Engineering, Svante, General Fusion). The city runs on 98% clean hydro, which matters for AI infrastructure decisions. Engineering salaries trail San Francisco by roughly 25 to 30%, which keeps acquisition math attractive.
Web Summit Vancouver covers product, growth, and the broad tech ecosystem with 20,000+ attendees. TechExit.io Vancouver covers how Canadian tech companies are built, valued, and transacted, with several hundred founders and capital partners in the room. Many Vancouver tech leaders attend both: Web Summit for breadth, TechExit.io for the value-creation and capital conversations.
TechExit.io gives you access to the resources, relationships, and information from leaders who’ve done it before. That’s where so much of the value comes from.
The value at TechExit.io is hearing on the ground stories from founders who have sold their companies and being surrounded by a network of people who know the upsides and downsides of selling a company.
What I like about this event is the experience of sharing behind-the-scene stories that you wouldn’t be able to Google or read in the news. People are sharing their stories very authentically and transparently.
What TechExit.io does so well is offer a smorgasbord of insights for people looking to build a valuable business.
Hearing the war stories, the struggles, the pain, and the wins from fellow entrepreneurs is incredibly valuable. That’s what makes places like TechExit.io so powerful. You get real collective wisdom
TechExit.io is the only conference in Canada that brings buyers and sellers together for candid conversations about the good, the bad, and the ugly of acquisitions
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