==John Stokes is the co-Founder and Managing Partner of Real Ventures and the co-Founder and Board Chair of the OSMO Foundation.== --- ## About: - Raised in the UK and New Zealand, but adopted by Montréal in 2007, John Stokes is the co-founder and Managing Partner of early-stage venture capital firm Real Ventures, a lead actor and major catalyzer of Canada’s startup ecosystem. - In his role, he has led investments into companies such as Sonder, Breather, Transit App, Dcbel and Unsplash and, in 2018, _L’actualité_ named him as one of the “100 most influential people in Quebec.” - John was also recognized by the _Montreal Gazette_ as one of the “24 Quebecers we love” for his contributions to Montréal’s entrepreneurship renaissance.  - In addition to co-founding Real Ventures, he is co-founder of the OSMO Foundation, the entrepreneurship focused not-for-profit that acquired Notman House and St Margaret’s Hospital and turned them into a vibrant startup campus. - In 2022, John started the “Survive the Drive” founder meetup event series that introduced the concept of a re-imagined startup ecosystem, with growth and development of founders, rather than of technology or capital, at its core.  --- ### Links: - Company: www.realventures.com - Foundation: https://notman.org/en/osmo - Survive the Drive: https://notman.org/events/survive-the-drive --- ### Social: - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnstokes - Twitter: https://twitter.com/iamjohnstokes --- ### Focus: #venturecapital #consciouscapitalism #metacrisis #leadership #innerdevelopment #bildung #consciousness #ecosystems #sustainablility #wisdom