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Who is Matt Golden?
The founder and managing partner of Golden Ventures, a Toronto seed fund he started in 2011. He was previously a partner at the BlackBerry Partners Fund and director of new ventures at Brightspark, and from 2001 co-founded the mobile games publisher Tira Wireless.
What does Golden Ventures invest in?
Seed-stage software across North America, with roughly 60 percent of the capital going to the Toronto–Kitchener–Waterloo corridor and the rest to US hubs. Portfolio companies include ApplyBoard, Avidbots, BenchSci, Faire, Float, Neo Financial, Shakepay, Waabi and Xanadu.
What did Matt Golden do at TechTO?
During Toronto Tech Week in June 2025 he sat down with Brad Feld on the TechTO Together stage for an hour on Feld's book Give First, on mentorship, and on building in Canada — a conversation in which Feld, asked to name the next breakout tech ecosystem, answered “Toronto”.