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170 employees and growing we’re the Year in the Spirit of Winnipeg Awards, was listed as one of Canada’s Top Small
so appreciative of the team we & Medium Employers in March 2016, and ranked 6th on the 2016 Startup 50. Most
have and proud of what we have recently, Bold was named the recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year
accomplished as a company.” Award in June 2017 for the prairie region . These accomplishments are a few of many
other nominations and awards Bold has received in its short five years.
Bold has since moved from
its beginnings in one of the Joanne Gesell is the General Manager of Property Management for QuadReal Property
co-founders’ basements, to a Group and notes she is happy for the company’s many accomplishments so far.
couple of office spaces within the
founders’ hometown of Iles de “We are very excited for Bold. Their huge amount of growth within a short period of
Chens, to recently settling in at a time shows they are truly a made-in-Manitoba success story.”
26,000 sq. ft. building capable of Bold’s innovation isn’t slowing down and continues to create ecommerce
accommodating its many staffers. opportunities for Shopify and beyond, but their first app has remained consistently
The company is located at 50 Fultz vital for online merchants.
Boulevard, managed by QuadReal
Property Group. “We have a few very popular apps but I love the fact that Upsell remains one of the
most popular,” says Boisjoli. “The first app to change the way people built apps on
In addition to Shopify and Microsoft, Shopify and to this day is still in high demand by thousands of Shopify merchants.”
Bold’s clients include Cirque Du
Soleil, Wikipedia, Zippo, Tide, The
Ellen Show, Time Life, and the NFL,
just to name a few.
As happy as Bold’s clients are,
their staff is equally content.
Boisjoli notes it has been Bold’s
mission from the beginning to be a
great place to work.

“Our company culture is by far
our number one priority” he says.
“It started very naturally, the
founders all sat around a table
and asked each other what type of
company we wanted to build and
we all answered the same way: We
wanted to build a company that we Located at 50 Fultz Boulevard
all wanted to work for. It had to be
fun, it had to have cool perks and
everyone needed to feel valued.”

For Bold, that translated into a
unique office culture that now
includes catered lunches, benefits,
flex time, ping-pong, massage
chairs, virtual realty rooms,
foosball, beer on tap, Friday team
building events, and an arcade
– all with the intent of providing
employees a dynamic, creative
environment to do their best work.

And it’s proving to be quite
effective. In December 2014 the
company achieved Start-up of

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