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Matt Golden reposted thisMatt Golden reposted thisToronto Tech Week reminded me why I love this city. Over the past week, I had the chance to spend time with founders, investors, operators, and builders who are shaping what's next. The energy was impossible to miss. Some highlights: Speaking on a panel with Krista Skalde-Roy from Inovia Capital about what AI means for the future of talent and how it's changing the way we work. Going to Homecoming and feeling prouder than ever to be a Torontonian. Geeking out with Christine Song, Lorena Scott, Jenny do Forno, Elana Ostrega and Benji Lightstone over some of the apps I've been building. Meeting an incredible group of people at the latest 5 to 9 Society dinner and hearing stories from founders and leaders across the ecosystem. Attending the Boardy party, packed to the brim in one of the coolest venues in the city. Having dinner with Sophie Lemieux and Jay Berard, where a conversation about vibe coding somehow turned into a three hour deep dive on the future of building. Meeting Jason Butcher's crew and learning from some of the most interesting founders building right now. Attending The Shortlist NY event with Boardy, Andrew D'Souza and Andrew Yeung and seeing some of the best founders in the ecosystem all in one room. (Shoutout Ruslan Nikolaev!) Catching up with Michele Romanow on the latest and greatest projects she's working on (plural, as always). And, of course, hosting our Golden Ventures gathering and spending time with my incredible team and the founders I have the privilege of working with every day. The curiosity. The ambition. The willingness to share ideas, make introductions, and help each other build. With more than 600 events across the week, Toronto felt alive, optimistic, and full of possibility. If Toronto Tech Week is a preview of what's ahead, the future of this ecosystem is incredibly bright. Already looking forward to next year! #TorontoTechWeek #TorontoTech #AI #Startups #VentureCapital #Founders #Innovation #BuildInCanada #TechCommunity #GoldenVentures
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Matt Golden reposted thisMatt Golden reposted thisHello, hello, and happy Tuesday! In this week's Golden Ventures Jobs of the Week, we're zooming in on five of the 10 open risk roles across the portfolio, anchored by a brand-new senior seat at Shakepay. 🛡️ Risk roles don't usually get the spotlight, but the function is having a real moment: in crypto, in retail credit, in SMB lending, and even in autonomous driving. Here's where the work is happening across the portfolio right now. Shakepay | Risk Operations Lead (Remote, Canada) Build and run the risk ops function at one of Canada's most loved bitcoin platforms. New senior seat with real scope: fraud, AML, transaction monitoring, the whole stack. Direct line into leadership. 🪙 Neo Financial | Senior Director, Credit Risk and Lending (Calgary or Toronto) Own credit risk strategy at one of Canada's biggest consumer fintech stories. Senior leadership seat, real P&L influence, and the chance to shape lending decisions across millions of customers. 💳 Clearco | Principal Underwriter, SMB Risk (Remote, Canada or US) Lead underwriting at one of the original revenue-based finance platforms for SMBs. Deep credit chops, comfort with messy data, builder mindset. The kind of seat where one good call moves the whole portfolio. 📊 Waabi | Senior Safety Engineer, Collision Risk (San Francisco) Risk thinking applied to autonomy. Help quantify and reduce collision risk for one of the most ambitious self-driving programs out there. A rare crossover for risk talent who want to work on physical systems. 🚛 ether.fi | DeFi Risk Engineer (New York) Build risk infrastructure for one of the largest liquid restaking protocols on Ethereum. For someone fluent in DeFi mechanics who wants to operate at the frontier of crypto risk. ⛓️ Five of the ten landed here. The other five are at the link below. 👉 https://bit.ly/4uZPaMc #JobsOfTheWeek #GoldenVentures #NowHiring #StartupJobs #VentureCapital #Risk #Fintech #CreditRisk #Underwriting #DeFi #Fraud #RiskJobs
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Matt Golden reposted thisMatt Golden reposted thisLong one today, worth it if this is your world. 👇 Everyone is building their own version of everything at work. Every team has its own prompts, its own workflows, its own interpretation of “how we use AI.” It works in the moment, but it doesn’t scale. You start to see duplication everywhere, inconsistent outputs, fragmented data, a slow drift in brand voice or decision logic. In a lot of ways, enterprise AI right now looks like SMB tinkering, just at a much larger scale. Most of the ecosystem is still focused on creation: tools to build with AI, no-code layers, custom GPTs for every use case. But I don’t think the next big company wins by helping people create more. My bet is it wins by consolidating and standardizing what’s already been created. Because once every team has built their own version of things, a new problem surfaces. Nothing connects, nothing compounds, and no one is quite sure what the “best” version actually is. To me, the opportunity starts to look like aggregation, then optimization, then governance. Almost like GitHub, but for AI behaviors. Or Figma libraries, but for prompts and workflows. A system of record for how AI actually operates inside a company. 🗂️ Some pieces of this exist already. Prompt libraries save things but don’t enforce consistency. Orchestration layers route between models but don’t solve for shared logic. Copilots are powerful but siloed. They all accelerate building. None of them help organizations converge. If every sales rep builds their own outreach tool, who’s testing across all of them, finding what works, and rolling it up for the whole team? Right now, nobody. 🤔 And this is a genuinely hard problem. Every custom workflow reflects how a team thinks, what inputs they trust, what tradeoffs they’re making. There’s a real tension between flexibility and guardrails. Lock things down too much and teams won’t adopt it. Don’t lock them down and you’re back to chaos. My guess is this doesn’t start as a broad horizontal platform. It probably wedges into a specific domain first, brand voice, sales workflows, or customer support, then expands outward. What I keep coming back to is this: companies are generating a lot of AI output right now. Very little of it compounds. There’s no shared memory layer, no way to turn experimentation into something durable. I don’t think we need more creation. I think we need coordination, convergence, and a way to turn local optimization into institutional capability. That’s where I think the next wave gets built. 🌊 Shoutout to Vanessa Piacente for the conversation that sparked this one. #AI #EnterpriseAI #FutureOfWork #Startups #TechTrends #ProductStrategy #Innovation
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Matt Golden reposted thisMatt Golden reposted thisHello, hello and happy Tuesday! 👋 In this week's Golden Ventures Jobs of the week, we're highlighting some of the 35+ seed-stage roles open across the Golden Ventures portfolio right now. Here are five worth a closer look. 🌱 Seed is where the canvas is biggest: small teams, real ownership, and the chance to shape the company you join. A mix of engineering, product, sales, and hardware leadership. Tempo (YC S23) | Software Engineer, LLMs & AI Agents (In-Person, Toronto) Build production AI agents at a Toronto seed team moving fast. Heavy LLM work, real product, in-person energy. 🤖 Dominion Dynamics | Director of Hardware (Ottawa) Lead the hardware org at a Canadian defense tech company building mission-critical systems. Big mandate, real ownership. 🛠️ The Nmbr Company | Product Management Co-op (Hybrid, Toronto) Co-op PM seat at a Toronto fintech building Canada's embedded payroll API. Ex-Humi founders, real ground-floor exposure. 💼 Terminal (YC S23) | Founding Account Executive (Toronto) First sales hire at a YC-backed telematics company building the API layer for trucking and fleet software. Build the playbook from zero. 📞 evolo.ai | Staff AI-Native Frontend Engineer (Toronto) Define the frontend craft at an AI-native seed team where shipping speed and design taste both matter. 🎨 These five jumped out, but there are 39 seed roles open across the portfolio. Full list at the link. 👉 https://bit.ly/42wyhwD #JobsOfTheWeek #GoldenVentures #NowHiring #StartupJobs #VentureCapital #SeedStage #EarlyStage #FoundingTeam #CanadaTech #TorontoTech
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Matt Golden reposted thisMatt Golden reposted thisCanada is a global quantum leader, but our position isn't guaranteed. In a new op-ed for the Financial Post, Xanadu Founder and CEO Christian Weedbrook warns that losing this lead could cost the Canadian economy billions. But there are ways to ensure that Canada captures the value of what it builds. It’s time to double down on homegrown innovation. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gWwjNEZpQuantum computing is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Canada. Here's how we can grow the industry at homeQuantum computing is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Canada. Here's how we can grow the industry at home
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Matt Golden reposted thisMatt Golden reposted thisGet in, loser. We’re going to Toronto 🇨🇦 A few weeks ago, Mell and I brought a little slice of Canada to San Francisco. We rented an LED truck, drove it around the city, and turned it into a rolling invite to Toronto Tech Week. Because Canadians are everywhere. Building category-defining companies. Shaping global industries. And yes, starring in your favourite movies. Toronto Tech Week is our moment to bring that energy together in one place. And we just crossed 400+ events on the calendar 👀 400+ opportunities to step into a room, meet the people behind the ideas, and be part of what’s being built here. If you haven’t planned your schedule yet, now’s the time 👉🏼 torontotechweek.com And if you’re thinking about hosting, take this as your sign. You bring a unique perspective and a chance to build the room you actually want to be in. See you in Toronto! May 25-29. #torontotechweek #ttw #ttw2026 #canadiantech CC: Rachel MacPhail, Ameet Shah, Satish Kanwar, Jingkai (Jack) Chen
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Matt Golden reposted thisMatt Golden reposted thisWe started Neo Financial because we believed Canadians deserved better from their financial products. Every product we launch is a test of that belief. Today's is the United Airlines MileagePlus Neo World Elite Mastercard. What I'm personally excited about: ➡️ Free checked bag, priority boarding, DragonPass, NEXUS credit. ➡️ Access to the Star Alliance network, so miles earned work on any global airline that's a part of Star Alliance ➡️ Earning on everyday spend, on top of access to our thousands of merchant partners to earn extra miles. ➡️ First in Canada: a World Elite travel card accessible to Canadians who are still building their credit. Every dollar you spend should be moving you ahead in your finances. That's what we're building at Neo. More details here: https://lnkd.in/gyHjih-A Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/g46Azv4T
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Matt Golden reposted thisMatt Golden reposted this🌟The doors may have been narrower, but they are wider today because of her. Love the B-roll clip with Formula One legend Niki Lauda. 🏎️ Thanks to Sara Bentham and the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA) for capturing the celebration and the tribute to Whitney Rockley C.M. Senia Rapisarda, LL.M, CIM Matt Golden Michelle McBane Rick Nathan Amy Olah Peter van der Velden Lyne Jacques Constance Griffin Lily Lam, MBA, MSc Nancy Ewings Harry Zarek Mark McQueen Robert Rosen
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Matt Golden reposted thisMatt Golden reposted thisHello, hello and happy Tuesday! 👋 Over 170 new roles were posted across the Golden Ventures portfolio in the last month. Here are four #fintech ones worth a closer look. 💳 Canadian fintech is having a moment, and these teams are right in the middle of it. A mix of RevOps, sales, GTM, and design, across Toronto and remote. Float | Head of Revenue Operations (Hybrid, Toronto) Own the full RevOps stack at one of Canada's fastest-scaling business finance platforms. Real ownership, big canvas. 📈 Neo Financial | Team Lead, Eglinton Square (Toronto) Lead a frontline sales team at one of Canada's biggest consumer fintech stories. Perfect for a coach-first people leader. 💳 Cybrid | Account Executive, Spanish Fluency Required (Remote, Florida) Drive LATAM expansion for an Open API payment orchestration platform. Full-cycle sales into financial infrastructure buyers. 💸 Shakepay | Staff Product Designer (Remote, Canada) Shape the consumer product at Canada's bitcoin-native fintech, where design craft is taken seriously. 🎨 Whether you're into infrastructure, sales, or design, these teams want to hear from you. Find these and all 170+ other open roles across the portfolio at the link below. 👉 https://bit.ly/4sK6ovK #JobsOfTheWeek #GoldenVentures #NowHiring #StartupJobs #VentureCapital #Fintech #FinancialServices #Payments #RevOps #CanadaTechJobs at Golden Ventures Companies | Golden VenturesJobs at Golden Ventures Companies | Golden Ventures
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Matt Golden liked thisMatt Golden liked thisThis is very simple. Lets not talk about events beyond our borders. Talk to Canadians and assure them that every Canadian deserves the same rights protections and freedoms under our law. Canadian values are at stake - and I hope our PM makes it clear to Canadians that violence against any of us is a threat to all of us.NP View: What Jewish Canadians need to hear from Mark CarneyNP View: What Jewish Canadians need to hear from Mark Carney
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Matt Golden liked thisMatt Golden liked thisWhat's the fire that drives you to build something better right here in Canada? Still replaying the energy and insights from Toronto Tech Week Homecoming event, including the panel on "Playing to Win" with Rob Khazzam, Neo Financial's Andrew Chau, REBEL's Emily Hosie, and Boardy's Andrew D'Souza. You can watch the replay here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eVzhKbr7
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Matt Golden liked thisMatt Golden liked thisLast week, Christian Weedbrook, Founder and CEO of Xanadu, took the stage at the Creative Destruction Lab's Super Session to reflect on what it takes to scale a deep-tech company from startup to a public market debut on the TSX and NASDAQ. According to Christian, surviving the deep-tech grind doesn't just come down to physics — it comes down to human resilience. “You can't stop someone who's not going to give up when it's based on the foundation of learning and enjoying what they're doing.” Thank you CDL and Sonia Sennik for the great conversation!
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Matt Golden liked thisMatt Golden liked thisToronto Tech Week reminded me why I love this city. Over the past week, I had the chance to spend time with founders, investors, operators, and builders who are shaping what's next. The energy was impossible to miss. Some highlights: Speaking on a panel with Krista Skalde-Roy from Inovia Capital about what AI means for the future of talent and how it's changing the way we work. Going to Homecoming and feeling prouder than ever to be a Torontonian. Geeking out with Christine Song, Lorena Scott, Jenny do Forno, Elana Ostrega and Benji Lightstone over some of the apps I've been building. Meeting an incredible group of people at the latest 5 to 9 Society dinner and hearing stories from founders and leaders across the ecosystem. Attending the Boardy party, packed to the brim in one of the coolest venues in the city. Having dinner with Sophie Lemieux and Jay Berard, where a conversation about vibe coding somehow turned into a three hour deep dive on the future of building. Meeting Jason Butcher's crew and learning from some of the most interesting founders building right now. Attending The Shortlist NY event with Boardy, Andrew D'Souza and Andrew Yeung and seeing some of the best founders in the ecosystem all in one room. (Shoutout Ruslan Nikolaev!) Catching up with Michele Romanow on the latest and greatest projects she's working on (plural, as always). And, of course, hosting our Golden Ventures gathering and spending time with my incredible team and the founders I have the privilege of working with every day. The curiosity. The ambition. The willingness to share ideas, make introductions, and help each other build. With more than 600 events across the week, Toronto felt alive, optimistic, and full of possibility. If Toronto Tech Week is a preview of what's ahead, the future of this ecosystem is incredibly bright. Already looking forward to next year! #TorontoTechWeek #TorontoTech #AI #Startups #VentureCapital #Founders #Innovation #BuildInCanada #TechCommunity #GoldenVentures
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Matt Golden liked thisCanada doesn’t have a lack of viable businesses. We have an architecture problem. Matthew Mendelsohn hits the nail on the head here. The bottleneck in Canadian productivity isn't a lack of entrepreneurial talent or viable ideas. It’s an over-reliance on a single, rigid financial operating model. Traditional legacy institutions are built on monolithic tech stacks and physical branches. That legacy overhead forces them to build narrow, one-size-fits-all underwriting boxes. If a business doesn’t fit cleanly inside that box, they’re structurally excluded. True competition in financial services isn't about opening more physical branches or tweaking marketing copy. It’s about building a completely different infrastructure. When you don't have true competition like in the majority of developed nations, you end up with high costs and people/businesses who are cut out. By running a unified financial ecosystem on a modern, proprietary tech stack, you eliminate that rigid legacy overhead. You can look at real-time cash flow, behavioral data, and actual value creation rather than just backward-looking checkboxes. We need more platforms built to fit the modern Canadian economy that is more inclusive.Matt Golden liked thisCanada’s big banks do almost all business lending in Canada, but there are certain kinds of viable enterprises that the banks are not structurally designed to serve. Liquidity rules, capital regulation and shareholder expectations shape their lending decisions. Large swaths of the economy are structurally excluded from what the big banks are designed to finance. Canada is in the midst of a long overdue conversation about capital and investment – catalyzing them, attracting them, scaling them. That conversation must include how to better finance local Canadian SMEs. Social Capital Partners released a short paper on this yesterday by our brilliant colleague Michelle Arnold. She outlines the many viable enterprises that are not well-served by our existing financing infrastructure: non-profits, co-ops, social enterprises, small businesses, rural and remote businesses, enterprises that pursue mission and purpose while sacrificing some returns, those seeking small loans, businesses started by those with weak credit histories, businesses that build value through intangible assets, those pursuing non-traditional business models, and those requiring flexible terms or pursuing unfamiliar succession models (like transitions to employee ownership). Many viable enterprises are left out and cannot get financing -- not because they're bad bets but simply because they don't fit the operating model of a big, publicly traded, deposit-funded bank. It is often enterprises that are delivering value beyond financial returns – social, environmental, community – that don’t fit the banks’ model. Other countries have figured out how to overcome the structural limitations of big-bank financing by looking outside the banks. They intentionally cultivate more diverse financing ecosystems: community banks, public banks, community finance institutions, impact lenders, local loan funds, and credit unions. Canada has most of these, but not at the scale that exists in other countries (particularly outside Quebec). As Canadian policy makers and business leaders talk about capital and investment gaps, it is useful to remember that these problems are downstream from a financing architecture that lacks diversity and is overly dependent on one model. Canada needs to intentionally build more diverse institutions with different mandates and goals to serve different kinds of enterprises. https://lnkd.in/ewfJFNwmBuilt to Exclude: Why Canada’s enterprises need a different kind of financingBuilt to Exclude: Why Canada’s enterprises need a different kind of financing
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Matt Golden liked thisMatt Golden liked thisWhen we built Float's transaction coding agent, we made a deliberate choice that goes against the grain of most AI products being shipped right now. We optimized for accuracy above everything else. Finance is not a domain where you can vibe your way to the right answer. Every GL code, every tax classification has downstream consequences on your books, your reporting, and your compliance. Getting it wrong at scale is worse than not automating at all. So we set a high bar. Our agent delivers over 90% overall accuracy and outperforms best-in-class models like Claude Opus 4.6 by 30% on transaction coding specifically. Getting there required training on the specific patterns and logic of Canadian business finance, not just general intelligence. But the hardest product decision we made had nothing to do with getting the model to say yes. It was teaching it when to say nothing at all. An agent that guesses confidently on every transaction erodes trust fast. Knowing when to abstain is what separates a useful tool from a liability. The second thing we learned: finance teams do not trust black boxes. So we built the reasoning layer, the ability to see exactly how the model arrived at its conclusion, into the product from the start. It has become one of the features customers talk about most. Not because it is flashy, but because it makes the agent feel accountable. The result: customers using the agent are now automating over 70% of their GL and tax coding. Something that used to take hours happens in minutes. That is what real AI leverage looks like in finance. Not a chatbot on top of your data. A precision tool that earns the right to automate your most tedious work by being right, showing its work, and knowing its limits.
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Matt Golden liked thisMatt Golden liked thisNot quite all of Canada’s early-stage deep tech VCs… but close enough for one great photo! Great discussion on all the deep tech stuff shaping the future at Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA) Invest Canada ’26 in Halifax! cc Jenny Yang Jonathan Saari Jaime Christian Duncan Stewart Charles Lespérance
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AI Funding News
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ClickHouse has raised $400 million in a Series D funding round and acquired AI observability startup Langfuse. The funding round was led by Dragoneer and included participation from GIC, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, T. Rowe Price, and WCM Investment Management. This comes after a year where ClickHouse's annualized recurring revenue increased by over 250%. Langfuse, which ClickHouse acquired, provides an open-source tool for monitoring large language models, and its software is already using ClickHouse's database for storing telemetry data. ClickHouse plans to enhance the integration between its database and Langfuse's tool, aiming to make its database more competitive for AI application developers. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gcEiuBXR 📰 Subscribe to the weekly AI Funding News Newsletter: https://lnkd.in/enH99b34 #ai #artificialintelligence #ainews #aifunding
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Mathieu Teisseire
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The most patient capital on earth doesn’t come from Wall Street or the City of London. It comes from Canada 🇨🇦 Being in Montreal and Toronto this week has been a useful reminder of how Canadian institutional investors have led the way in building long-term capital allocation approach, with outstanding results! For more than 3 decades, Canadian pension plans, and sovereign funds, have made a defining choice: internalising expertise and investing with 30–50 year horizons. Today, the Maple Eight represent over CAD 2.4 trillion c.(€ 1.7tn). What is now evolving is geography📍 Canadian institutional investors remain overweighted to North America, but they are currently, steadily, increasing their European exposure. On the back of geopolitical turbulences, the European equation is increasingly hard to overlook: with more reasonable entry multiples (typically 8–10x EBITDA versus 12–14x in the US) and tangible operational upside, European mid market companies create superior value of investors. Less storytelling, more execution, Europe turn is coming! Eurazeo François Lacoste Nicolas Nedelec James Gorman Elvina K.
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Yohann Braizat, MBA
Material Change Institute • 3K followers
Product–market fit has a twin: capital–cycle fit. In a market where the Top 5 funds capture 80%+ of capital and most dry powder is locked in reserves, knowing when to buy time and compound proof becomes a core competency. If you’re building or backing in Canada, this report is worth a careful read 👇
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Jason Robertson
Nimbus Synergies • 3K followers
Investors keep saying "we want more traction." But nobody tells you what that actually means. And the bar has moved. Quietly. Quickly. Significantly. AI has made it cheaper and faster to build, which means investors now expect stronger proof, earlier. The days of "we'll figure out revenue later" are over. Today I'm so excited to join Landon, Aaron, and Meredith on the stage at Vancouver Startup Week to talk candidly about what fundable traction looks like right now, across stages and sectors. If you're a founder trying to raise in this market, come with your questions. #VSW2026 #VanStartupWeek #HealthTech #VentureCapital #EarlyStage #Innovation #Entrepreneurship
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AI Tech Supports
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Qualitate is stepping into the spotlight with a $7M Seed round to transform how primary research is conducted, led by IA Ventures and Crew Capital, with backing from angel investors including Tony Berkman, Travis May, Matt Levin, alongside advisors Alex Zukin and Brian Lichtenberger. Led by founder and CEO Sagar Kadakia, Qualitate is building an #AI-native intelligence platform designed to streamline and enhance primary research workflows for investment and strategy teams. At the core of its offering is an AI moderator that manages the full research lifecycle—from study design and expert sourcing to live interview moderation and automated insight generation—delivering real-time, high-quality intelligence. With fresh capital, Qualitate plans to expand operations and accelerate product development, positioning itself to redefine how organizations gather and act on expert insights in an increasingly data-driven world. Jeff Capobianco CTO & Head of Applied AI Sam Parl VP, Engineering Erroll Davis VP, Product Rahul Loney Director, Applied AI & Data Engineering Tyler Fein Director, Research & TMT Intelligence Natalie Lamorena Director, Data & Information Strategy Michael Ganian, CFA Director, Fintech Intelligence @Mark Langan Director, GTM Engineering & Enablement @Luis Frey Director, Enterprise Sales Jocelyn Buckley Lead, Product Designer Isabelle Lowe Director, Insights #AI #MarketResearch #PrimaryResearch #GenerativeAI #StartupFunding #SeedFunding #VentureCapital #Innovation
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Lyne Landry, ICD.D
AgeTech Capital • 5K followers
🇨🇦🚀 Big news for the Canadian startup ecosystem Y Combinator just announced that they’re once again welcoming Canadian startups into the program a powerful signal for founders building world-class companies north of the border. At AgeTech Capital, we’ve seen firsthand how access to global platforms, top-tier networks, and ambitious peers can accelerate outcomes. One of our portfolio companies, LifestyleRx, is a YC graduate, and the experience played a meaningful role in sharpening their go-to-market strategy and scaling ambitions. Canada has exceptional founders, deep technical talent, and increasingly global ambition. Opening doors like this matters not just for individual startups, but for the strength and visibility of our entire ecosystem. Excited for the next cohort of Canadian founders who will take this opportunity and run with it. 🔥 cc: Alan MacIntosh, Bruce B. Simpson, Sarah Thomas, Jeremie Azan, Khang Nghi C., Tina Nguyen #YCombinator #CanadianStartups #VentureCapital #AgeTech #Founders #StartupEcosystem #ProudInvestor
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Tech Funding News
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📈 tem raised $75 million in an oversubscribed Series B round led by Lightspeed, and Paul Murphy will join the board. Other investors include Hitachi Ventures, Voyager Ventures, Schroders Capital, AlbionVC, Atomico, and Allianz, bringing total funding to $94 million. Learn more 👉 https://lnkd.in/gync4zdX Joe McDonald Jason Stocks Bartlomiej Szostek Ross Mackay Ariane Gaetani Jemma Wong #ai #climatetech #uktech #funding #innovation #investment #energytech #vcfunding #techstartups
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Nucleate Florida
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Doug Nissinoff is a General Partner at Intelligence Ventures, an AI-focused healthcare venture capital firm, where he invests in pre-seed and seed-stage startups and advises over 25 companies across the life sciences and technology space. In this quick interview at Bio on the Bay this March, hosted by Nucleate Florida 🎤, he shares valuable insights on biotech investing, what he looks for in early-stage companies, and how Intelligence Ventures is approaching the intersection of AI and healthcare 🤖🧬 Great perspectives for anyone building or investing in the life sciences space—especially at the earliest stages 🚀 #Biotech #AIHealthcare #VentureCapital #LifeSciences #Startups #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #HealthcareInnovation #Nucleate #BioOnTheBay #PreSeed #SeedStage #MedTech #DrugDevelopment #FutureOfHealth
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💡Michael Quatrini
Capital Q Ventures Inc. • 23K followers
The Full-Stack Venture Capital BDC model, led by Capital Q Ventures Inc. in our flagship fund CAPQ BDC Inc., is purpose-built to meet institutional investors and portfolio companies where they need us in the capital stack. This structure aligns seamlessly with the Total Portfolio Approach (TPA) that CalPERS is already implementing. It seems CalPERS has moved beyond mere discussions. Under the leadership of CIO Stephen Gilmore, the board has been guided through educational sessions, defined a comprehensive risk framework, and is now moving toward the operational launch of TPA. TPA enables decision-making that prioritizes portfolio-wide impact over rigid asset-class allocations. It emphasizes dynamic capital deployment based on marginal value—an approach mirrored in how CAPQ BDC Inc. dynamically allocates capital across venture capital, private credit, and private equity to deliver a multi-asset total return for our fund investors and co-investors in our portfolio companies. https://lnkd.in/eMkTjAgg
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ScopeSys
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We're excited to announce that ScopeSys has closed a CA$1.5M seed financing round! This funding backed by @UBC Venture Funds, @Hextwo Capital, WUTIF Capital (VCC) Inc. VentureUs, @Xavaav capital, and a fantastic group of angel investors across Canada and the US marks a major milestone for the UBC spin-out company. Proceeds will accelerate the commercial launch of our benchtop analytical instrument and consumable, bringing high-resolution, single-particle analytics into routine drug discovery and development workflows. Genetic medicines are growing in complexity. Developers need tools that go beyond conventional ensemble measurements with tools that reveal drug loading, molecular arrangement, subpopulation heterogeneity, and particle behavior at the individual particle level. That's exactly what we're building at ScopeSys. We're grateful to our investors, partners, and the incredible ScopeSys team for getting us here. And we're just getting started. Follow us ScopeSys for more news and updates. Look for the link to the press release in the comments below.
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Pierre Paffenhoff
Fonds de solidarité FTQ • 4K followers
Hardtech & deeptech founders 🚀 — this is one of those rare forums where you’re pitching to investors who get it 💡 Whether you’re actively raising 💰 or simply want to practice your pitch 🎯 with a hardtech‑savvy audience, this is a strong opportunity to get real feedback and build the right relationships 🤝
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Hormone-tracking startup Eli Health has raised $12M in Series A funding to advance its platform. The round was led by BDC Capital, with participation from Muse Capital, TELUS Global Ventures (TGV), Foreground Capital, and Accelia Capital. Erin B. | Axios https://lnkd.in/ey_kM-Eh #HealthTech
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Top Down Ventures Closes $28 Million Founders Fund I: Top Down Ventures, the Vancouver-based venture capital firm focused on software and AI companies serving the Managed Service Provider market, has announced the final close of its Founders Fund I at $28 million, surpassing its original $25 million target. The post Top Down Ventures Closes $28 Million Founders Fund I appeared first on Pulse 2.0.
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Domenic Del Vecchio
Panache Ventures • 6K followers
There are many reports analyzing the state of early stage funding in Canada - a helpful lens in understanding the supply side of Canada's innovation landscape. At Panache Ventures, we've also spent time building a robust dataset looking at YoY and QoQ startup formation in Canada, a demand-side indicator of what to expect in the coming 12-24 months. 🚀 This year's report, our second edition, looks at the latest trends across provinces, the role AI is increasingly playing in startup creation, and the make-up of our Canadian founder pool that is increasingly global. 🇨🇦 Proud to collaborate with my colleagues Prashant Matta and Inshaal Qadir on this data-driven thought leadership piece. Shoutout to Alessia Priolo on our team for packaging these insights into a cool consumable report ➡️ Read the full report below DM me if you'd like to learn more and discuss! Founders - let's keep building #startups #startupformation #canada #tech
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Lauren Robinson
The51 • 4K followers
Last month, The51 hosted our Vancouver Summit, where I had the honour of moderating a panel on the future of health, longevity, and wealth - foundational systems that shape how we live, earn, and build ownership over time. A few themes stood out: • Longevity is an economic issue, not just a health one. Women live longer, but spend ~25% more of their lives in poor health. That gap quietly shapes participation, earnings, and long-term wealth creation. Designing for health span is designing for compounding. • Financial systems lag real life. By 2030, women will control nearly half of Canada’s wealth, yet venture and private markets are still largely structured for a past economy. This gap is inefficient. • Alignment is alpha. When health, values, and capital are designed together, rather than optimized in isolation, decision-making improves, capital flows differently, and wealth becomes more durable across generations. At The51, we’re building new capital architecture, activating women as investors, owners, and builders. Our next stop is Toronto, my hometown and the place where many of these capital conversations converge. On March 5th, we’re convening founders, LPs, institutional investors, and corporate leaders to help design the next chapter of Canada’s economy and to spotlight the opportunities emerging across venture and private markets. Speakers include: → Lucy Hargreaves (Build Canada) → Gillian Riley (former CEO, Tangerine) → Olivia Steedman (Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan) → Manpreet Deol (Inovia Capital) → Lisa Melchior (Vertu Capital) → and many more. If you’re deploying capital, raising it, or building for scale, this is a room worth being in. Join us! https://lnkd.in/gnFXAUm2 (Code: XX-COMMUNITY) Looking forward to reconnecting with old friends and meeting new faces while we're in town. Shelley Kuipers, Courtney Dragani, Judy Fairburn, Alice Reimer, Colleen Moorehead, Natasha Tosirisuk, Emily Smiley, Kulwant Duhra, Briannaa Hewstan, Iva Kubickova, Rachel Bodor, Emily McBride, Arielle Land, Jen Davies.
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Matt McDonnell
Stellifi VC • 2K followers
Stellifi Portfolio Spotlight (Series #6): ResiDesk Next in our Stellifi Ventures portfolio spotlight series is ResiDesk, an AI-native communications platform built to transform resident engagement and operational intelligence in the real estate industry. Who They Are ResiDesk helps property management teams and owners harness resident communication data — through a human in the loop SMS interface — and turn it into actionable insights. Instead of treating communication as a cost center, ResiDesk surfaces trends, behaviors, and patterns that help teams improve resident satisfaction, anticipate needs, sign more leases and drive smarter operational decisions. Who They Serve ResiDesk is designed for: - Property managers and leasing teams seeking faster and more meaningful engagement. - Asset and portfolio managers wanting real-time visibility into resident sentiment and property level issues. - Teams looking to integrate communication intelligence with existing systems What They Offer - ResiDesk provides a modern messaging and insights platform that: - Enables real-time resident and prospect communication that feels personal and immediate. - Turns conversation data into operational signals — helping teams identify churn risk, service issues, and sentiment trends. - Integrates seamlessly with property management systems, simplifying workflow and adoption. - Delivers proactive insights that elevate decision-making across leasing, service, and community management. Rather than relying on traditional portals or slow email threads, ResiDesk brings conversations front and center — helping teams act with clarity and speed. Customer Perspective “ResiDesk Insights highlighted response times, satisfaction trends, and risk scores that helped our leadership answer critical questions — moving our team forward on community management and improving renewals.” — Shant’a Johnson, Director of Family and Community Vitality, Maiker Housing Partners If you’re interested in ResiDesk and would like to learn more or get connected, please reach out to me directly. Stellifi VC ResiDesk https://lnkd.in/gdCrT294
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ZPONZ
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THE EXPERT EDGE BY ZPONZ: Expert in Venture Capital Teri Kirk is Founder and CEO of The Funding Portal Inc. (Fundingportal) where she has overseen the growth of North America's leading platform for companies seeking improved access to funding, including government incentives, capital and financing markets. #ZPONZ #GetPaidForExpertise #MonetizeYourSkills #VentureCapital
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Hugo Sykes
MGMT Capital • 4K followers
Some hustle news from the venture capital sector 🚀: In an exhilarating week for venture funding, notable strides were made across the tech landscape. Moonvalley, a Toronto-based startup that assists filmmakers in creating AI-powered cinematic clips, successfully raised $84M in a round led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to $154M. Meanwhile, Spacelift from Redwood City secured $51M to bolster its cloud automation platform, supported by lead investor Five Elms Capital. In Europe, Tandem Health from Stockholm raised $50M for its AI-driven medical documentation solutions, championed by Kinnevik. On the hardware frontier, Helical Fusion in Tokyo gained $15M to push forward its ambitious carbon-free electricity reactors, emphasizing clean energy. And in the U.S., Zip Security, aimed at simplifying cybersecurity for smaller businesses, locked in $13.5M, showcasing a growing focus on protecting digital infrastructures. Beyond the startups, Meta made waves by acquiring Play AI, furthering its push to harness cutting-edge voice technology to enhance virtual experiences. Amidst this sea of innovation, the U.S. Department of Defense granted substantial AI development contracts totaling $200M to giants like Google and OpenAI, indicating a deepening integration of AI into national security frameworks. The venture capital scene is indeed buzzing with activity, and these investments underline the relentless drive toward technological advancement 🌐💡. Stay tuned for more breakthroughs! #VentureCapital #Innovation #AI #TechNews
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