BUILD IT.BACK IT.TELL IT.
We help tough tech companies get built and backed.
We help brands and creators tell their story in video.
Two divisions with one belief: help clients deliver on their promise.
Yvan’s career in tech, consulting, and advertising started in 1989.
His work in tech includes several leadership roles, consulting, angel investing, and community leadership as one of the founding members of Communitech in the Region of Waterloo. He’s worked in machine vision, medtech (including Mitra Imaging, where he led the growth and sale for over $300M), and AI, including currently the Executive Chair and investor of Primal, a patent rich deep tech AI company.
Yvan also ran an ad agency for a decade and learned how to help companies tell their stories.
Linivan continues to deliver to clients who are building their tech firms (via Linivan Advisory Group) and clients who need to tell their stories in videos (via Fat Goose Media).
LINIVAN
ADVISORY GROUP
Yvan has been working in tough tech since 1989 in areas like machine vision, medical imaging, healthcare informatics, and AI. In 2013 Linivan Advisory Group was formed to continue these efforts and build a team to make an even greater impact.
Our objective is simple: help build a stronger, more successful tough tech ecosystem in Canada. We do this by working with all the players in that ecosystem.
FOR COMPANIES
Creating and growing a tough tech company is challenging. We've been doing this for a few decades now, and we work on a project by project basis or longer term as fractional executives on your team.
- Assessing product market fit
- Engaging with customers
- Raising funding
- Implementing an IP strategy, and more
FOR INVESTORS
Tough tech companies and markets are complex. Our experience and knowledge help you navigate this complexity through our expert analysis and due diligence process.
- Reduce the risk in new investment decisions
- Assess existing investments
- Where it fits, we recommend opportunities
YOU FILM.
WE CUT.
Post production for creators and brands who want their edits to feel like something worth sharing.
Fat Goose grew out of close to ten years running an ad agency. We learned that the message only works when people stay long enough to hear it. Today that attention lives on video, and more of it gets made every day. So we built a team that does one thing well: turning raw footage into stories people watch to the end.
Speed and clean audio are the baseline. How a video feels, and whether people stay to the end, is the job.
YouTubers, podcasters and short form creators.
Extra editors for when client work stacks up. The same people every time.
About to hire an editor? Get editing, colour and audio from a full team instead of one person.
Upload your footage and a short brief.
Story first. Pacing, colour and sound, built scene by scene.
Review, ask for changes, go live. Two revision rounds included.
THE PEOPLE IN THE TIMELINE
Zach edits with a focus on storytelling and pacing, adapting to each client’s style, and brings clear communication and on-time delivery to every project.
Grace edits for the feeling. She's always chasing that moment in a film or story that gives you the chills. Behind the scenes, she's organized, flexible, and easy to work with.
Fifteen minutes. No pitch. Just your footage and what you want it to do.