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CheckMyBudget Participates in Startup Global Science & Technology Roundtable

In November 2025, the CheckMyBudget team took part in a Science & Technology Industry Roundtable hosted via Luma as part of the Startup Global 2025 programming. The session brought together founders and ecosystem partners from across Canada to discuss how tech-driven companies can move from local traction to global markets.

The format was highly interactive: participants shared real experiences of building and scaling startups, explored challenges around international expansion, and discussed how to leverage Canada’s support ecosystem to grow faster and more sustainably.

Key Takeaways for CheckMyBudget

Think global from day one – even digital-first products benefit from a clear export and market expansion strategy.
Partnerships with organizations in the startup ecosystem can significantly reduce the risk and complexity of entering new markets.
Roundtables like this are not only educational but also an important source of peer feedback and high-value networking.
Conversations with other founders confirmed the relevance of CheckMyBudget’s mission: helping households make smarter spending decisions using data and financial automation.

Participating in this roundtable helped our team refine our long-term vision and better understand how CheckMyBudget can position itself within Canada’s broader science, technology, and innovation landscape as we prepare for future growth.

CheckMyBudget Joins Startup Canada’s Equal Slice 2025 Webinar

In November 2025, the CheckMyBudget team took part in “Navigating the Support Ecosystem”, the closing webinar of Startup Canada’s Equal Slice 2025 program. The session brought together founders from equity-seeking communities and ecosystem partners to discuss how underrepresented entrepreneurs can better access resources, funding, and mentorship across Canada.

For CheckMyBudget, a newcomer-founded fintech focused on helping Canadian households make smarter spending decisions, this was an important opportunity to better understand how inclusion and access shape the national startup landscape.

Key Themes and Takeaways

Navigating the ecosystem
The webinar highlighted how various national and regional programs, accelerators, and community organizations work together to support early-stage founders from equity-seeking groups. Knowing where to go and who to ask is often as important as the product itself.
DEI as a strategic priority
Diversity, equity, and inclusion were presented not only as values, but as core drivers of innovation. Building solutions that reflect the realities of different communities leads to more relevant products and more resilient businesses.
Support beyond funding
Mentorship, peer networks, and founder communities were emphasized as critical forms of support—especially for first-time and immigrant founders learning to navigate the Canadian market.
Alignment with CheckMyBudget’s mission
The discussion reinforced our commitment to ensuring that CheckMyBudget serves a diverse cross-section of Canadian households, making financial tools and insights more accessible regardless of background or income level.

We are grateful to Startup Canada and the Equal Slice partners for creating an inclusive platform where founders can learn, connect, and grow. Sessions like this help us shape CheckMyBudget not only as a fintech product, but as part of a more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem in Canada.

CheckMyBudget Participates in Luma SME Roundtable

Earlier this week the CheckMyBudget team took part in a roundtable discussion hosted by Luma, Export Development Canada bringing together founders and professionals from across Canada’s small and medium-sized business (SME) sector, particularly those involved in consumer goods and retail sales.

The event provided an opportunity to present the CheckMyBudget concept, engage directly with entrepreneurs and business owners, and gain valuable feedback from potential future partners in the retail and consumer market.

Key Takeaways:

The consumer goods and retail community in Canada is increasingly open to fintech collaboration that helps customers make smarter spending decisions.
Building early partnerships with SMEs is key to creating a scalable and impactful ecosystem.
Live pitching sessions offer powerful insights into how the market perceives innovation and customer value.
Direct interaction with business owners helps refine the real-world applicability of fintech solutions.

According to CheckMyBudget founder Ivan Reznichenko,

“This roundtable was an invaluable experience. It not only helped us test our message in front of real market participants but also opened doors for future collaboration with businesses that serve the same customers we aim to empower.”

We extend our thanks to Luma & Export Development Canada for hosting such an engaging and collaborative event that connects startups and the broader SME community across Canada.

CheckMyBudget Team Attends Statistics Canada Data Workshop

On October 23, 2025, the CheckMyBudget team participated in a practical workshop hosted by Amanda Colina, Data Ambassador at Statistics Canada’s Engagement and Data Services Division, and organized by the York Entrepreneurship Development Institute (YEDI).

The session — “Is Your Business Strategy Data-Driven?” — explored how Canadian entrepreneurs can effectively access and apply national statistics for smarter decision-making.

Key Topics:

Navigating and using the Statistics Canada data portal
Applying demographic, industry, and household spending data to business planning
Turning complex datasets into practical insights for strategy development

Why This Matters for CheckMyBudget:

For a fintech startup focused on helping Canadian households optimize their spending, understanding real economic trends is essential. The workshop provided actionable tools for analyzing consumer behaviour, inflation patterns, and retail market shifts — insights that directly support CheckMyBudget’s mission to make financial management more data-driven and accessible.

We extend our thanks to Amanda Colina and Statistics Canada for sharing their expertise, and to YEDI for organizing this valuable learning opportunity.

CheckMyBudget Participates in BDC Small Business Week 2025

On October 22, 2025, the CheckMyBudget team took part in a live webinar organized by the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) as part of Small Business Week 2025 — a nationwide initiative dedicated to celebrating and supporting entrepreneurship in Canada.

The session featured a moderator and several Canadian entrepreneurs, who shared their real-life experiences of building and scaling startups in the current economic environment. The conversation offered an authentic look at the challenges and opportunities faced by founders across industries — from early growth to sustainability.

Key Takeaways:

The Canadian startup ecosystem continues to evolve, emphasizing collaboration and shared learning.
Entrepreneurs across sectors face similar challenges — maintaining growth while balancing innovation and stability.
Participating in live discussions and networking events provides founders with valuable insights, peer feedback, and connections that help strengthen business strategies.
Authenticity, adaptability, and long-term vision remain essential to success in today’s fast-changing market.

As CheckMyBudget prepares for its next phase of growth, events like BDC Small Business Week play a crucial role in deepening our understanding of the Canadian entrepreneurial landscape and fostering meaningful connections within the community.

CheckMyBudget Featured in Inspire Business Blog: “The Rise of Financial Automation”

In October 2025, CheckMyBudget co-founders Ivan Reznichenko and Kirill Kulikov were featured in their second international media interview, published by Inspire Business Blog.

The article — “CheckMyBudget and the Rise of Financial Automation: How Economic Pressure Is Reshaping Consumer Tools” — explores how shifting economic realities are changing consumer behavior and highlights CheckMyBudget’s mission to make smart, data-driven financial management accessible to everyone.

Key Themes from the Interview:

How global economic pressure is driving demand for better financial tools
Why automation and data analytics are central to the future of personal finance
How CheckMyBudget helps users optimize spending without reducing quality of life
The startup’s vision for expanding its AI-powered platform in Canada and beyond

This media feature marks an important step in CheckMyBudget’s journey toward global visibility and validation within the fintech ecosystem. We’re proud to share our vision for empowering users to make confident, informed financial decisions through innovation and simplicity.

CheckMyBudget Team Attends “How to Build a Compelling Exit Strategy for Investors”

Recently the CheckMyBudget team participated in an insightful session hosted by Fundable Startups, led by Sam Wong — a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and founder of Band of Angels, with multiple successful exits.

The workshop addressed a critical but often overlooked aspect of fundraising: creating a credible exit strategy that inspires investor confidence.

Key Topics Discussed:

Why investors only realize returns at exit — and why founders must clearly articulate this path.
The importance of showing comparable company exits to make projections realistic.
How timing, valuation, and key metrics influence exit opportunities.
A live demonstration of Fundable Startups’ exit analysis tool, designed to help founders structure a compelling exit story.

Why It Matters for CheckMyBudget:

As we prepare for growth and future fundraising in Canada, understanding how to communicate long-term value to investors is essential. The strategies and tools shared during this session will play a key role in shaping our pitch materials and financial planning.

We extend our thanks to Sam Wong and Fundable Startups for delivering practical, data-driven insights that benefit early-stage founders.

CheckMyBudget Team Joins “10 Secrets to Repeatable and Scalable Sales” Workshop

In August 2025, our team participated in a strategic workshop titled “10 Secrets to Repeatable and Scalable Sales,” hosted by startup experts Brandy Old and Craig Elias. The session focused on practical approaches to building predictable and scalable revenue systems for early-stage startups.

This one-hour session addressed a common challenge for founders:
How can startups turn early traction into a repeatable growth engine without wasting months on trial-and-error?

Key Topics Covered:

Why traditional sales tactics don’t work for early-stage startups
How to think about traction, timing, and targeting from day one
An introduction to the Traction Canvas — a structured framework for sales strategy
Common pitfalls founders face when scaling too soon
A preview of the upcoming five-week Sales Mastery Series

Why This Matters for CheckMyBudget:

As we prepare to launch and scale in the Canadian market, these insights are helping us design a customer acquisition process that is both repeatable and efficient. Our focus is on sustainable growth, built on systems rather than guesswork.

We’re grateful for the actionable takeaways provided by Brandy and Craig, and we look forward to applying these principles as we continue building a strong foundation for CheckMyBudget.

Key Learnings from Airtable’s “Omni & Field Agents” Webinar

In July 2025, the chkmybudget.com team participated in an in-depth webinar hosted by Airtable, introducing their new features: Omni and Field Agents. These tools are designed to help companies automate, scale, and manage operational complexity without requiring traditional development resources.

As a fintech startup building intelligent receipt analysis and savings recommendations for Canadian consumers, we’re always exploring scalable and flexible infrastructure for our MVP — and this session was full of relevant insights.

The webinar showcased six real-world challenges and demonstrated how Airtable’s new features solved each of them with smart workflows and embedded AI.

Key Use Cases That Inspired Us:

Event Management
Creating personalized event flows in minutes, not weeks — a model for future partner onboarding or in-app promos.
Campaign Content Generation
Turning unstructured inputs into campaign-ready assets — inspiring for auto-generating deals and merchant copy.
Brand Checker
Using AI to validate large sets of assets for consistency — a useful model for ensuring UX and tone alignment across app modules.
Asset Localization
Scaling content in multiple languages instantly — especially relevant for Canada’s bilingual market.
Call Transcript Analysis
Extracting insights and trends from raw conversations — an approach we may apply to user support and feedback.
Document-to-System Conversion
Turning static files (e.g. receipts or merchant catalogs) into live, structured databases — exactly what chkmybudget is built to do.

We’ll be exploring ways to incorporate Airtable into our internal toolchain as our project continues to grow and move toward productization.

Team Update: Exploring Advanced Revenue Strategies with Crowe LLP

On July 15, 2025, the founder of chkmybudget.com attended an expert-led webinar organized by Crowe LLP, titled “Driving Revenue Excellence and Unlocking Business Value.” This session was part of our ongoing effort to explore scalable technologies and best practices that can enhance the value we deliver to our users.

As a fintech startup focused on smart receipt scanning and lifestyle-conscious spending optimization, we are constantly seeking innovative frameworks to streamline our product’s architecture and revenue model. The webinar provided a deep dive into Salesforce-integrated solutions like CPQ, Revenue Intelligence, and Agentforce, which are designed to simplify the lead-to-cash cycle using AI and intelligent automation.

We were particularly inspired by the presenters — Dena Moore, Derek Vargas, Nicole Elvers (Crowe LLP) and Samuel Bratsztejn (DealHub) — who shared practical insights on aligning strategy, operations, and technology for sustainable growth.

We look forward to evaluating some of these tools and methodologies in our product roadmap, and exploring future collaboration opportunities as we continue to adapt our fintech offering to Canadian and North American market realities.

Moving into the public eye

Here are the pages of our startup project on some popular startup registries:

https://www.f6s.com/chckmybudget
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/checkmybudget

Interview with CEOs

The founders of CheckMyBudget recently gave a joint interview to a prominent UK internet portal. Find out everything you've always wanted to know about our startup at the link below

Building better household budget for Canadians

We recently participated in networking event - online workshop as part of the Financial Literacy Campaign by WORLD SYSTEM BUILDER , where we shared tips and resources for helping to build Better Financial Foundation. It was very valuable to get an assessment of colleagues on the Canadian specifics of personal finance and savings.

Main keypoints are:

Increase Cash Flow

It's not how much you earn, but how much you keep.

Debt Management

Understand, control and reduce your debt.

Building a Strong Financial Foundation

Like building a house, we must build it from the ground up. Proper Protection

Determine how much you need and which is best for you.

Building Wealth

Learn how to build wealth and grow your money.

Asset Accumulation

How investments and other related vehicles work.

Retirement Strategies

"Hope" isn't a strategy. Properly understand your retirement.

Wealth Preservation

Learn how to preserve your wealth for generations to come.

Our team plans in the future to work with World System Builder to promote our startup and help Canadians build a better household budget.

Celebrate New Year with useful tool

Wrapping up the year with plans to be more efficient in spending wisely!

A new year is coming up, which means it's time to sum up and think about making our budget more sustainable and efficient next year. We, the development team, care about your well-being and are ready to share with you a valuable gift - a link to a service that will help you in planning for early retirement and gaining financial independence.

Saving your family budget is an important and responsible step towards financial stability. And our app we're working on will help you do that in the future. With its AI driven assistance, you will be able to more consciously distribute your income, plan your family budget and keep track of your financial goals.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today! Join us and start building your financial success now. Check it out in our LinkedIn

Start Up Teaming

This Saturday, November 30th, our team had the amazing opportunity to participate in Startup Teaming event by Startup Agile Group (https://lnkd.in/euYetYS6), where we Met and Teamed up with people who are looking to build a Startup success team or who are keen to join one. For us it is important to find more specilists in AI and App design, this community is experienced in IT startuping. We were able to build up a network of useful contacts.

About entrepreneur supporting organizations

It is truly wonderful and inspiring (after attending their General Info Session event online) that Canada is providing entrepreneurs with such assistance in realizing their bold ideas.

Looking forward for the opportunity to start cooperating with them.

What is doomspending and how to fight it

People spend money to relieve stress. However, this is not a solution to the problem, which only leads to its aggravation. Economic, political instability, work-related anxiety do not pass without a trace for a person. The body is looking for all sorts of ways to reduce the negative impact on the nervous system: someone uncontrollably scroll the news feed, others are being relieved by alcohol, and some - spend money as if it were the last time.

Forbes Daily Briefing: Duolingo’s Billionaire Founder Is All In On AI

It is a very impressive and inspiring example of the use of Artificial Intelligence in applications for private users. Although this is a language learning app, the CheckMyBudget team is confident that the future of personal finance accounting apps is also in AI and high personalization for users.

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