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End of a phenomenal week with Figment in Florida. Excited to help build and grow #web3 while working with some of the brightest minds in the space…
End of a phenomenal week with Figment in Florida. Excited to help build and grow #web3 while working with some of the brightest minds in the space…
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I’m proud to be leading the TLA this year and building on the hard work and successes of our past president, Michael White. Read the attached article…
I’m proud to be leading the TLA this year and building on the hard work and successes of our past president, Michael White. Read the attached article…
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After almost 12 years, today is my last day at LinkedIn. As I reflect on what we set out to do and what we accomplished as a company during that…
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Well, that escalated quickly 😲 We just closed our series A at Ramp Network ! It's a big milestone for us, but it also means huge responsibility. I…
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Murray Simser
Would you move your startup for $10+ million benefit + 50% ish cap gains tax to the 🇺🇲? I did it before, why not again? #SiliconValley "Budget capital gains changes are a tipping point for Canadian #startups: survey." MaRS Discovery District, Communitech, Invest Ottawa survey of #Entrepreneurs and Founders. Canada is a great place to incubate companies with a huge quantity of early stage private and public capital and terrific policy support. So why go anywhere else as a founder once you have incubated in such a great place for entrepreneurs? #capitalgains, capital gains, capital gains. That's what this video is about. Thank you to Krista Jones and Christine Bomé and all my friends at MaRS DD for leading from the front. This survey gave me hope that Canada will once more be able to be an innovation champion. Please read the survey! https://lnkd.in/gqMm6yu7
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Jordan Steiner
Canadian Founders Shouldn’t need to leave Canada. We need to fix our system. 🍁 Last week I was catching up with a founder from Canada. She had just returned from spending 3 months in SF. She said it was insane how the entire ecosystem there is built to incubate and launch startups but then also support them for the entire lifecycle through Series A and beyond. In Canada we’re ok at getting companies started but then we have little support beyond that and we ultimately lose them to the valley. Her suggestion was to take all the money the Canadian government is throwing at our tech sector, and instead use it to send our Founders to SF for 3 months for a Founder crash course. As a Canadian, hearing that is super depressing but also accurate. My roadmap at Developer Capital is to find and fund great Canadian companies in the pre-seed and seed round, but then get them into the US for their Series A. Why? Valuations are better, risk appetites are sharper and it will help your sales when breaking into the US market. How can we as a country support them and encourage them to stay in Canada? The Challenge: Canada’s Startup Ecosystem is Broken 💔 If we don’t want to lose our brightest founders to the US, we need to re-evaluate our approach. We need to provide the SF experience right here at home. Here’s what we can do: ⚫ Access to capital. Yeah, im sure you’ve heard this before. Pre-seed doesn’t exist in Canada. Developer Capital is trying to change that but we’re only one firm. There needs to be more deal flow sharing amongst the pre-seed and seed stage funds. This one’s on us in the VC community. We can do better. We can share our deals. We can get out in the world more and meet Founders. Rather than waiting for others to validate our own opinions we can lead rounds and be first money in. ⚫ Ecosystem support. It’s pretty nuts the difference this one makes. When a company comes out of SF they instantly have access to a network of 1000’s of early adopter companies to go out and buy their product. And the VCs who invest ask all their Portcos to take a deep look at buying these great new products. Incestuous? Yes but it works, and gets these start ups to millions in ARR fairly quickly. ⚫ The right infrastructure: Accelerators and incubators sometimes get a bad rap, but the good ones do the job of acting like a bootcamp to get your company launched, understand how to get financed, and then how to iterate until you find product market fit. Canada needs to up its game and come out with a couple of AAA accelerators. If McGill is the “Harvard of the North” why can’t Canada have a “YC of the North”? I’m not pretending to have all the solutions. This is clearly a “hard problem to solve”. But as a proud Canadian I know we can do better and I want to be able for our best companies to stay here forever (whatup Shopify). We have the talent and the ideas; now we need the infrastructure and the networks to match. Let's make Canada a powerhouse! 🍁 🚀
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Alexander Rocket
Just had to share this gem from Collision Conf in #Toronto. Among the #startups and VCs, I spotted a guy with a shirt saying, "Ask me about my CAC." Naturally, I asked. Sebastian Fallenbüchl, BASc., the wearer, shot back, "My CAC is getting lower as you just approached me." Genius. Seb’s witty remark was more than just a laugh — it was a reminder that business is about people. Metrics like CAC are crucial, but so are the connections and conversations that drive them down. Takeaway? Be #approachable. Humor and humanity can make all the difference. Thanks for the insight and the laugh, Seb. Here’s to more moments like these! #Networking #BusinessInsights
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eAgree Inc.
As the wise Forest Gump once mused, "Marketing is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get." 🍫 🤷🏼♂️ eAgree Inc.’s journey with eAgree.ca to combat fraud and cybercrime by revolutionizing electronic agreements with digital signatures and escrow payments is as unpredictable as a Canadian winter these days! 🌨️ ☔️ 🌞 Founding a startup in the Great White North is challenging and with the marketing, it's a wild ride – sometimes a meme goes viral and we're swimming in sales, other times, we're left wondering if our ads are lost in a snowdrift. ❄️ So, what's the secret sauce? 🤷🏼♂️ We’re interested to see what marketing successes have been achieved by startups in Canada! 🇨🇦💪 I’m excited to see what we find along this journey! #smallbusiness #giveback #makingadifference #digitaltransformation #canadianinnovation #leadership #mindsetchange #supply #supplychain #procurement #procurementleaders #strategicsourcing #sourcing #logistics #management #business #linkedin #saving #supply #thinking #technology #tech #techcommunity #tech4good #techforgood #cleantech #sustainability #sustainability #startup #startups #startuplife #leadership #thankyou #timeconscious #buy #sell #ollow #followus #canada #canadians #sales #marketing
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BB Inventions
🔐With the emerging complexities of Québec's Law 25, your business needs a reliable tool to help you meet legal standards and safeguard your digital information. DataLok can provide you with cutting-edge technology in response to this changing landscape. Why DataLok is the right choice: ✅ Our AI technology quickly spots irregularities and can predict abnormal user behaviors around sensitive data, helping prevent issues before they arise. ✅ It is a cost-effective solution that keeps your budget in check while maintaining high security standards. ✅ Our platform can act as an advanced breach management tool, preparing you to handle any confidentiality incidents in a time and cost-effective manner. With DataLok, securing your data is straightforward and smart. It should be seen as an essential to enhance your business’s resilience in today’s evolving digital world (Law 25). 🌐 Learn more about how DataLok can fortify your data security by visiting our website. https://lnkd.in/enQXag7B #DataLok #Cybersecurity #Compliance #Law25 #QuébecBusiness #DataSecurity
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Did you miss one of our big announcements last week? Armis acquired Silk Security, our second acquisition this year! Armis’ Co-Founders, Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael, sat down with Lynn Doan of Bloomberg News to discuss the acquisition and what it means for Armis and our customers. Read now: https://ow.ly/WvwT50RpYcA #Armis #Cybersecurity #Security #Acquisition #BloombergNews
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Giuseppe Stuto
Next one up, Glide! In an attempt to demystify some of the non-obvious elements we found when we first met the founders of our fastest growing portfolio companies at 186 Ventures, here is the third edition of the "idiosyncratic phenomenon". This highlight will be on Gautam A., Sameer Kapur, and Vishnu Chakroborty and their journey building Glide to bring world class, unparalleled enterprise grade infrastructure to the much overlooked market of credit unions and community banks-- some of the most important financial institutions across virtually every community in the US. Since we invested in their Winter, 2021 seed round, the company has built an incredible technology stack and has outpaced revenue projections by multiple orders of magnitude. This story is a *fantastic* reminder that it takes time to build incredible product and technology; the Glide story is a quintessential example of this startup proverb, in almost every regard. https://lnkd.in/e8b32CR2
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Rafael Brown
The AI hype bubble is almost over. When investors refused to fund new AI startups because they know they’re going to fail, then the AI hype bubble is starting to fail. Even the most clueless, Investors now know that this is a bubble waiting to burst like the metaverse bubble and the dotcom bubble. And nobody wants to be left, holding the back on this bubble. The era of free money iis over with interest rates sky high. When big tech companies are losing money on AI and the bigger AI startups are demonstrating that they are all dead and struggling to even have revenue, then no one is interested in funding, smaller AI startups that they don’t believe will be profitable anytime soon. People aren’t waiting for an AI unicorn to break out. They are waiting for Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and similar to start buying distressed AI startups. Collapsing companies and minimal paths to profitability doesn’t help a space that was already overhyped. Don’t forget in all this mess that the unfortunate reality is that engagement and retention don’t match installs and downloads. What I mean by this is the most basic of mobile tracking were ignored. You don’t judge success in the mobile market based on downloads or installs, but rather based on retention and engagement. What this means is, it’s not actually impressive for OpenAI to get to 100 million users quickly if 2% of them retain. The question is not how many people signed up for a free account. The question is how many monthly active users and daily active users do AI startups like OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Stability, and others have. And how many are paying customers? And what we are finding is that retention is in low single digits. The reality is that AI startups are getting users the way that mobile free to play did. And they haven’t found a way to actually make money on that. Don’t ask an AI startup how many users signed up. Ask them how many DAUs and MAUs they have. Ask them what their ARPDAU is. What you will find is that every number is low. AI startups have no idea how to do monetization, and they don’t have regular active users in any volume. What this points to is that they’re all going to fold or get bought.
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Alt Venture Capital Corporation
🚀 Exciting Update on a Canadian startup Qohash, it has just secured significant funding to drive its groundbreaking innovation in AI data security. With $17.4 million in Series B funding, this company is poised to make a profound impact on the cybersecurity landscape💡 🌟Qohash specializes in AI data security solutions. Their mission is to protect sensitive information and revolutionize data security worldwide. With the rise of high-profile data breaches, Qohash emerged to address critical vulnerabilities and provide organizations with the tools they need to safeguard their data effectively📊 🎉Qohash's innovative technology automates data discovery and risk management, empowering organizations to take control of their data and mitigate risks efficiently. 🤖 💰The recent funding is a testament to Qohash's potential to drive meaningful change in the cybersecurity industry. As they continue to innovate and enhance data security, they are poised to make a significant impact on businesses and individuals worldwide. We wish Qohash continued success as they pioneer advancements in AI data security and shape the future of cybersecurity!🔒 📩 Keep in touch with us to stay updated on more exciting developments in the tech startup and the world of venture capital!🌐 #TechInnovation #DataSecurity #Cybersecurity #StayTuned #Canada #Startup #fundingnews #TechNews #Investing #Qohash #ALTVC #Venturecapital
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Try more things. Fail more often. Learn faster. Burn brighter. Plant more gardens. Launch more startups. Make more babies. Build more community. Help others do the same. This is effective opportunism. Pronoia & Purpose. E/opp is a better meme than Hiis. Just as inspiring, but more secular. Gender neutral vs. male-coded. More conjectural, less prophetic. E/opp is building & growing your mind & body. Building & growing startups. Building & growing families & communities. Effective Opportunism.
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Derek Schlicker
🚀 The technology gold rush is over, and a new era of leaner startups has begun. LLMs are disrupting how startups leverage the capital markets, allowing founders to do more with less. DK Burnaby, HCS, GPHR and I are watching this happen in real time and have some thoughts about how this impacts back office organizations. ✨ Key highlights include: * How AI is dropping the costs of starting and running a business * The end of endless VC rounds and the rise of revenue-driven scaling * The evolving role of mid-stage financing and its implications for startups and VCs * The impact this is all having on the lean startup's strategy on Ops and Finance * Strategies like outsourcing, near/off-shore hiring, and fractional senior level talent to maximize efficiency and minimize costs Read the first article in a new series from myself & DK, and learn how you can apply these strategies to your own company. Check it out --> https://lnkd.in/gCurY_ui #fractionalCFO #FractionalExecutives #LeanStartups #Outsourcing
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Preston Troutt
This is John Fish: He has ~1M on YouTube & a massive book club. He skipped traditional VC and took investment in himself. --- Meet John Fish At 10, he was already coding his first app. By 16, he was working as an engineering intern at Shopify. For college he went to Harvard. But he wants to try to become the #1 creator on BookTube. Here's why that's an interesting decision: --- John has a serious love for reading. One that he's managed to parlay into a large (and growing) online business empire. It all started with his YouTube channel, which has almost attracted enough book lovers to earn him that coveted gold play button. (~1M subscribers) --- From there, he branched out into physical products by launching a notebook that is part journal, part daily planner. This helped him form a stronger connection with his audience and served as his first source of repeat revenue. --- Now, he's working on a SaaS app called Bookshelved. It helps users... • Discover new titles • Track their progress • Save and categorize their best insights • Connect with other avid readers It also has a paid book club, which is his first source of subscription revenue. --- All that hard work eventually caught the attention of Slow Ventures. They've been writing checks from $500,000 up to $2 million for 5% of the entire financial output of that individual creator over the next 30 years. They recently wrote a check to John to help accelerate growth across his entire enterprise. --- Here are 5 reasons why... 1. A Sizable (and Growing) Distribution Channel John has grown his YouTube channel to almost 1M subscribers and uses this for awareness and distribution. 2. Defensible Differentiation John doesn’t just review books, he dives deep into their themes using an analytical, yet approachable style that appeals to a wide audience. 3. Business Acumen John uses his tech background to run data analysis that helps him understand his audience better than anyone else. This helps him optimize his content strategy and diversify his revenue sources by layering on in-demand physical products and software tools. 4. An Emerging Market 34% of Gen Z readers are finding their next title on YouTube. John has a strong foothold in an expanding market whose purchasing power is growing. 5. A Clear Path Forward Most importantly, John has a compelling plan for the money. He'll add features to Bookshelved and scale his content which benefits the entire enterprise. --- His story is a powerful example of how creators can leverage their creative talent to build successful businesses and this is exactly what we are building towards with my company Crowdsurf. With Crowdsurf, creators can raise up to $5 million from accredited and unaccredited investors in exchange for a small percentage of their future revenue and IP. And anyone can invest for just $50. If you're interested check out the website in my bio and follow Preston Troutt for more creator and startup highlights.
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Neeraj Kumar
CBC Quoted me from my interview with them 5 yrs ago about SIM Swap scam. For anyone to go through this is truly a nightmare. I believe that Telecommunications companies and the CRTC need to do more to curb this scam. Someone having access to your phone number can lead to consequences worse than identity theft. With access to your 2FA, scammers can not only wipe off your money as happened in this case but knowing that your personal data is exposed can haunt you for years. The regulatory framework needs to evolve to treat access to Phone Number/SIMs at the same or even higher level of standards as financial and government institutions handle identities. In the meantime, Telcos should take the initiative to put stringent controls in place to avoid this from happening. #SIMSwapScam #TelecomRegulations #IdentityTheftPrevention
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Veritas Media
Check out my blog post https://wix.to/HCztGvd Canadian AI startup Cohere has raised $450 million from returning investors like Nvidia and Salesforce, along with new backers including Cisco and PSP Investments. This marks the first tranche of its ongoing fundraising efforts, aiming for a $5 billion valuation. The funding elevates Cohere’s value from $2.2 billion last June. Specializing in generative AI with a focus on data privacy, Cohere achieved $35 million in annualized revenue by March, up from $13 million last year. Competing with OpenAI and Anthropic, Cohere benefits from Canada's $2.4 billion investment in AI research, despite a cooling in early-stage AI funding. #VeritasMedia #AI #Startup #Cohere #Funding #Nvidia #Salesforce #TechInvestment #GenerativeAI #DataPrivacy #CanadianTech #VentureCapital
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Scott Hartley
Peter Walker at Carta has excellent statistics on the path from pre-seed to Series A, and the the brutal roughly 1/6 conversion rates. So how do you navigate this gauntlet as you build and scale? My co-founder Jenny Fielding’s outline below on stage at Collision Conf in Toronto. Key 🔑 take aways include: 💰 Start process early, when you have more runway than you think you need 🌊 Build a large pipeline of targeted investors in the right stage and sector 🏃🏽♀️ This is a marathon not a sprint, so communication cadence matters. You raise money over years and months. Not weeks. 📢 Generate “surround sound” with your investors by getting their portfolio companies and respected peers to back channel and sing 🎶 your praises. 💪🏽 Fight on, you got this! cc Everywhere Ventures, Eileen, Conor and panelists Jonathan, Karen
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