Meryeme Lahmami

Principal, Pender Ventures

Meryeme is currently principal at Pender Ventures where she focuses on B2B Software and health-tech investments.

Before joining Pender, Meryeme most recently worked at BDC Capital’s Women In Tech Venture Fund where she led investments for multiple early-stage / growth companies across Biotech, enterprise software and digital health. Prior to BDC Capital, Meryeme was at Medteq where she solely focused on early-stage investments in digital health, diagnostics and medical device companies.

After obtaining an MBA from Laval University, Meryeme started her career as a consultant in bio-based products and wearables before she co-founded a venture-backed health-tech startup building a contactless vital signs monitoring platform, where she oversaw product, operations and business development.

Meryeme is active in the startup community and is a mentor at Front Row Ventures, Next AI and other Montreal-based incubators and accelerators.