Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund based in Toronto, investing across North America. They support founders who are building the future and take big risks on talented, driven, and resilient founding teams.

Golden Ventures

Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America.

We’re here to support founders who are building the future. It is our job to take big risks on the world’s most talented, driven and resilient founding teams who want to change the world.

We believe technology is not an industry. It transcends conventional categories and touches every facet of life, improving the world as we know it. People will find new ways to make things simpler, faster, cheaper, and smarter.

It is for this reason that we invest across sectors, trusting a founder’s ability to teach us what is on the horizon and deliberately leverage our mentorship and diverse network to their advantage.

It is also why we focus exclusively on our superpower, the seed stage. While companies at seed stage might seem messy and imperfect to most, that’s our comfort zone. It’s where we can help you identify what matters — setting milestones and the necessary focus that will help you achieve product-market fit.

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Happy Tuesday, everyone! In this week's Golden Ventures Jobs of the Week, we are sharing all(!) of the 379(!!) open roles in the portfolio!

We have 66 #engineering roles, 21 #sales roles, 21 #marketing roles, and more! These roles are in Toronto, Calgary, San Francisco and beyond! If you are interested in a new role, take a look at our job board via the link below.

https://bit.ly/3MExqB4

#werehiring #startupjobs #techjobs #opentowork

This is THE only no-code game dev platform for web3 🤯
📝 Deploy smart contracts
🎴 Launch in-game marketplaces with enforced royalties
🎒 Customize wallets

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Thrilled to have led the investment in Terminal (YC S23)’s seed round. Connor Giles and Raghav Midha are exceptional people and talented entrepreneurs. It’s been a true privilege to get to know them over the past year.
 
Terminal is Plaid for telematics data in commercial trucking. Their unified API commodifies the heavy lifting of accessing trucking data by integrated with hundreds of different devices and systems.  Companies building insurance products, financial services and software for trucking can use their unified API to access GPS data, speeding data and other vehicle stats.
 
Since launching in May, Terminal has onboarded customers across the US, Canada, Mexico, Israel, and the UK. These customers are now using Terminal's API to sync their telematics data across thousands of trucks and commercial fleets.
 
This is an incredible opportunity and they are hiring! Check out open role here: https://lnkd.in/gF9M-QEW.

Last night, we hosted our sixth instalment of our Plated by Golden Ventures  Dinner Series.

We brought together the best and brightest Founders, CEOs, CMOs, and Senior Growth Leaders for a private dinner to discuss all things growth. The conversation was led by Meltem Kuran Berkowitz (Head of Growth at Deel), Praveen Arichandran (ex Tesla/Facebook) and moderated by Jack Chen (founder of SWIDIA).

Meltem reflected on her time at Deel (helping take it from $0 to $300m in ARR in just 3 years) and shared how early-stage startups should think about evolving growth strategies as their company matures.  

Praveen shared insights from his time Facebook (helping to build Internet.org) and how startups should not overlook referrals as a key catalyst to growth (he created one of successful referral programs ever at Tesla, so he would know!).

Thank you to everyone who joined us last night, and a special thanks to our sponsors: Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, MNP, and SickKids Foundation.

Looking forward to the next edition of Plated. (See you soon Vancouver!)

cc: Ameet Shah, Julia Baird, Matt Golden, Alison Kaizer, Nick Chen, Emma Cumuric, Bert Amato, Chad Bayne, Ryan Unruch, Jennifer Humphrey, Colin Hennigar, Sherrie James, Niyousha Nejatpour, Alex Smyth

Happy Tuesday, everyone! In this week's Golden Ventures Jobs of the Week, we highlight two new roles at Callia! Callia is a tech-enabled start-up disrupting flowers across Canada. They help you make more moments that matter. They're proudly Winnipeg-based, female-founded and 100% Canadian. 

Callia is hiring a Director of #Growth #Marketing and a PT / contract #Data #Scientist. If you're interested, please apply directly to Jaclyn Bulbuck at jaclyn@calliaflowers.com. Data Scientist details are below, and Growth details are attached via PDF! 

#startupjobs #marketingjobs #techjobs #startupcareers #werehiring 
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Data Scientist:
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Data Scientist to build out a machine learning tool to improve our inventory forecasting of flowers - a very perishable and seasonal product - so we have A) fewer stock-outs and B) less wastage. We are seeking someone who specializes in time series models, such as SARIMA and ARIMA. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in statistics and data analysis, with a focus on inventory forecasting. 
As a Data Scientist, you will be responsible for developing and implementing advanced statistical models for forecasting inventory levels and identifying trends and patterns in our data. You will work closely with our operations and supply chain teams to ensure that our inventory levels are optimized for maximum efficiency and profitability. 
Key Responsibilities: 
● Building and testing statistical models and ML models for inventory forecasting (ARIMA, SARIMA, etc) 
● Analyze large and complex data sets to identify trends and patterns that can be used to improve inventory forecasting 
● Work closely with the operations and supply chain teams to ensure that inventory levels are optimized for maximum efficiency and profitability 
● Communicate complex findings and recommendations in a clear manner to stakeholders 
Qualifications: 
● Master's or Ph.D. in a relevant field (e.g. statistics, data science, mathematics) 
● Strong background in statistics and data analysis, with a focus on time series models 
and inventory forecasting 
● Experience with programming languages such as R or Python 
● Strong analytical and problem-solving skills 
This is ideally an interim contractor or PT position, approx. 20 hrs / week from January - April 
Interested candidates are to reach out to Jaclyn (jaclyn@calliaflowers.com) with their CV and confirming availability for this type of work.

Great way to close out the year for the Wave Sports + Entertainment Originals team, with both New Heights and Podcast P in the Spotify Wrapped 2023 Top 10.

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Game over. The world’s only full-stack web3 games developer platform is here.
📝 Deploy smart contracts
🎒 Customize wallets
🎴 Launch in-game marketplaces

In minutes. Not months.
⭐ Lvl 1000 achieved

Give players the fastest and smoothest account creation in web3 history
Set up and customize smart contract wallets with account abstraction. It’s noncustodial, safe, robust and completely embeddable
💳 Choose your credit and debit options
💫 Customize the look and feel

Launch a custom in-game marketplace or host one in 60 seconds
💰 Automatically enforces royalties
🛒 Integrates with NFT checkout and Relayer for fast, safe transactions
🕹️ Looks & feels native to your game
🔖 Pushes & pulls listings from major marketplaces

Bring your existing contracts or deploy a new one, directly within Sequence Builder
💰 Set your royalties
⛓️ Choose your chain
🪙 721 or 1155 (authored by #Sequence)

Sequence Builder supports all EVMs, L2s, app chains, and subnets
🕹️ Turn on support for new chains with the flip of a switch
Our Relayer removes barriers with efficiency at your fingertips
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🏆 Win both users AND devs with highly efficient batched and parallelized transactions

Query data in real-time & serve it to players instantly
⏱️ The Sequence Indexer allows you to retrieve item metadata and account balances in an instant

Sequence Node Gateway has best-in-class 99.9% uptime so you and your players can always access the chain
⛓️ If one node goes down, you’re automatically switched

Building in web3 has never been easier.

Explore #SequenceBuilder on our blog 👇🏽  
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Happy Tuesday, everyone! In this week's Golden Ventures Jobs of the Week we highlight two roles from our portfolio company Passage! 

Passage's mission is to provide access to life-changing #educational and #career opportunities. Passage's platform empowers #immigrants and #international students by matching their talents with the most crucial workforce needs in their destination countries. They then work to provide financial solutions and connect them to the logistical support they need, facilitating their transformational journeys to study or work abroad.

Passage is hiring a Senior #Software #Engineer. The team that they have assembled thus far is very impressive (including IOI medalists, previous co-founders and C suites of successful startups.) They are looking for super-talented and #mission-driven Senior Software Engineers. They code in Python, Django, TypeScript, React, and React Native, and are open to adopting new technologies when needed.

They are also looking for a #Controller. This person will be pivotal in shaping their #finance department and will play a critical role in steering Passage towards achieving its financial and operational goals.

Apply via the links here: https://lnkd.in/gWS-eqFg

#startupjobs #startuphiring #techjobs #techcareers #hiringnow

Happy Tuesday, everyone! This week's Golden Ventures Jobs of the Week highlights an exciting technical role in the portfolio!

Terminal is searching for several #Toronto-based founding #engineers. Terminal is Plaid for Telematics in commercial #trucking. Companies building the next generation of insurance products, financial services and fleet software for trucking use our Universal API to access GPS data, speeding data and vehicle stats. 

They are a fast-growing, venture-backed startup supported by top investors including Y Combinator, Golden Ventures and Wayfinder Ventures. Their exceptionally talented team spans across San Francisco, Toronto, and Vancouver.

If you are interested in this role, apply here: https://lnkd.in/g3EsPDhX

#foundingengineer #techroles #techhiring #startupjobs #torontojobs

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