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Frank Poon

Co-founder, Venue

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Frank Poon is a co-founder of Venue, the Toronto company that built Venue.live, a platform for company all-hands meetings, webinars and AMAs. BetaKit named Poon among Venue's co-founders when it went through Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch, and TechCrunch reported in August 2022 that Venue had raised a US$4 million seed round led by Accel.

Frank hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Frank co-founded Venue, which appears in 1 talk in the archive.

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Did Frank Poon co-found Venue?

Yes. A TechCrunch article published August 17, 2022 says Jason Goldlist co-founded the company with Frank Poon. A BetaKit article published March 30, 2022 lists Danilo Cabello, Jason Goldlist, Pei Li and Frank Poon as the co-founders who created Venue.live in 2020.

What did Venue build while Poon was a co-founder?

TechCrunch reported on August 17, 2022 that Venue had spent about two years in private beta, first bootstrapped and then in Y Combinator's Winter 2022 cohort, and had hosted more than five million minutes of meetings. It raised US$4 million led by Accel, with the CEOs of Slack, Remote and Squarespace investing.

Is Frank Poon still at Venue?

Not established. Y Combinator's company page for Venue.ink, checked September 24, 2026, lists Jason Goldlist and Danilo Cabello as active founders and does not list Poon, though it shows Poon as the author of Venue's June 30, 2022 YC launch post. No public source read confirms what Poon does today.

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