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Lizzie Hnatiuk is Analyst and AI Lead at Pender Ventures, where she leads the firm’s AI initiatives and supports early-stage deal sourcing, evaluation and portfolio company engagement. She brings a hands-on technical background, having designed and built custom LLM applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems and data pipelines across fintech, marketing and engineering.
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Before Pender, Lizzie was a Venture Associate at an evergreen, donation-based seed fund, while also developing AI course content for Udacity’s AI for Trading program. Earlier in her career, she worked in quantitative research, building AI trading systems from scratch at a fintech startup. She holds a Master of Management from UBC’s Sauder School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Systems from UBC, where she was a Chancellor’s Scholar.
