Joshua Zaporzan
Venture Partner

B.Comm (Hons)

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Joshua Zaporzan is a skilled strategist, marketer, entrepreneur, and start-up enthusiast with a passion for building businesses, implementing change, and challenging the status quo. Joshua has 10+ years of experience defining new business strategies, launching new ventures, investing in new companies, working with other business owners, and delivering high operational impact as both a Founder, Owner, CEO, Coach, and Management Consultant.

As a passionate, creative, and resilient entrepreneur, Joshua has built, invested in, and led several successful new ventures across multiple industries. Joshua's biggest accomplishment to date has been the growth and acquisition of Longball Athletics, a Canadian golf & lifestyle apparel company with distribution throughout North America.

 

In 2020 Joshua began working as the Co-Founder & CEO of H2MB Inc., a company in the clean technology and renewable energy industry with the vision of, building Manitoba’s first green hydrogen production, storage, and distribution facility. In addition to his role as the CEO of H2MB, Joshua and his team at Audax Ventures work with entrepreneurs across a variety of industries helping to launch, grow and exit their businesses. Most recently, Joshua collaborated with Asteria Global to support and advise start-up entrepreneurs in the tech space abroad. The partnership of the two organizations has extended into the development and launch of Triact Digital, a software development company that is building the NextGen of technology. 

 

Joshua is the Chair and Board Member of the Young Associates and is a speaker to various groups of community leaders, university, and MBA students. Joshua has participated as a judge in various business plan and pitch competitions across Canada and is always looking for new opportunities to share his learned experiences with entrepreneurs.