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Our Team

We’re builders, thinkers, and doers — launching products that matter, breaking industries open, and turning bold ideas into funded realities.

Collectively, we have 100+ years of experience and driven over 36 successful exits and closed deals totaling more than $2 billion.

Rudy Rupak

Co-Founder, non-board member

  • Sold his first company to COREL (while in high school)
  • Created Millennium Software (PINC on NASDAQ),
  •  Founding CTO of American Apparel, founder of world largest medical tourism company
    PLANETHOSPITAL,(sold to Ranbaxy)
  • PredictiveChat (AI company sold to Ytel, resold to Allstate  in 2016)
  •   Shoppler (sold to Amazon)
Praveen Varshney

Co-Founder, non-board member

  • Mountain Province Diamonds (partnered with DeBeers, cash flowing still).
  • Axiom (Vancouver’s first ISP) (sold to Bell)
  • Little Kitchen Academy
  • Mogo (biggest fintech exit in canada)
  • Hempco Fibre(200m+ exit on TSX)
  • RentMoola
  • Thunderbird Gaming
Roderick McLean

Co-Founder, non-board member

  • Gateway Casinos (sold to Packer Group).
  • Created several construction-related companies in the Cayman Islands.
  • Career in the Cayman Islands focused on land development, construction, and corporate management.
Jason Butcher

Partner

  • Multi Exit Founder, seasoned advisor and Strategic investor.
  • Backing bold ideas in Payments, Fintech, AI, tokenization and Innovative projects.
  • Empowering founders to make positive change in the world.
  • Portfolio includes over 60+ AI companies such as Boardy.ai.
Uddeshya Agrawal

Partner

  • Predictivechat (sold to YTel, resold to AllState)
  • Desofy sold to Deso at $12M valuation
Charles Gadalla

Partner

  • CEO, VeriFiction building verified DeepFake video detection technology
  • Former Head of Product, Digital Experience at Pure Storage
  • GM at Commvault leading Applications, Virtualization, Big Data & File Systems
  • Board Member at CyberLucent; ex SAP, Microsoft, Google (predictive & enterprise analytics)
Swapnil Acharya

Partner

INTRODUCTION

We don’t just invest in companies, we build them.

Force Multiplier Venture Labs (FMVL) was started by several founders who have made great exits. Through our collective experience, we discovered a simple but powerful truth:we make better returns on the companies we create than the ones we simply invest in.

This realization is the foundation of our model. So, why not continue creating our own companies? We develop them to the stage where we validate product-market fit, find great management to run them for us, and spin them out into their own existence. This is why Force Multiplier Venture Labs was created.

We follow the principles of Exponential Organizations.

In physics, a force multiplier boosts the impact of energy already in motion.

That’s exactly what we do for ideas, startups, and systems that matter.

We believe this model is significantly better than traditional venture capital, and here’s why:

In physics, a force multiplier boosts the impact of energy already in motion.

That’s exactly what we do for ideas, startups, and systems that matter.

VCs are investors. We are builders.

The fundamental difference is that we build our own companies from the ground up and find management to run them.

We are not an accelerator that works on other people’s ideas; we are a venture lab that creates its own.

We focus on validation, not just funding.

Our process ensures a company has a proven concept and a strong foundation before it seeks to scale, creating more resilient and successful businesses.

Our success is based on a proven framework.

FMVL’s entire approach is built on utilizing and manifesting the OpenExO methodologies to create scalable, impactful organizations.

For our partners and investors, this means an opportunity to join a venture that has already been significantly de-risked and validated by a team with a history of success.

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Become a Force Multiplier

Invest as a general partner and let us, help launch your product. We will work with you from idea to execution and keep you in the loop along the way.

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Become a Limited Partner

Just invest capital into your project. We will run it for you with your capital using our FMVL/Exo methodology and help realize your vision and deliver returns

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We’re Your Company for Hire

Use our resources to fulfill a limited engagement (such as the marketing of your pet products and your longevity products) but not the whole process.

THE ADVANTAGE

We are your active co-founder and venture production partner.

We operate as a Venture Lab — an active co-founder and intensive production house. Instead of passively writing checks, we roll up our sleeves and work alongside you to de-risk, build, and scale faster.
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Venture Capital

Deploys capital before operational clarity

Limited execution control

Accepts high binary risk

Long, uncertain path to validation

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Traditional Founder & Next Start-up

Rebuilds infrastructure from scratch

Heavy capital burn while assembling teams

Faces long paths to validation

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Force Multiplier Model

Capital with shared infrastructure

Embedded execution support

Disciplined sign-out strategy to reduce early-stage friction

Dramatically improved capital efficiency