Insights and News from the Leaders Fund Ecosystem

How Great Investors Show Up

Sustainability as Wealth Creation

When Canadian Founders Leave, We Lose More than Talent

We're at Risk of Losing Our Founders

Why We Need to Eliminate Cap Gains for Canadian Startups

How Important is GTM for Companies Building AI-native Solutions?

Vellum - Why We Invested

Toronto Tech Week 2025: How to Raise VC Financing in Any Market

Characteristics of Founders Who Get VC Funding

What We Miss When We Glorify the Dropout Story

The Kids Are Alright (and They’re Building AI Startups)

Canada's Real VC Problem Isn't Money

The One Hiring Question Successful Founders Use

Great Teams Can't Save Bad Markets

Forget “Elbows Up,” Tech Must Stay “Heads Down”

How Do We Boost Canada's Economic Prosperity?

Introducing "Tales from the Trenches"

The Pitfalls of "Big Company Mode"

Our Investment in Matia - The Unified DataOps Platform

Our Investment in ToolPath - AI-Powered Machining Automation

Our Investment in Ask-AI - The GenAI Enterprise Sidekick

Our Investment in Upwind - Runtime Powered Cloud Security

Qwak Raises $12M From Bessemer for MLOps Platform

Drata Raises $200M Series C at $2B Valuation

Our Investment in Ceretax - Putting Tax Calculation on Autopilot

Our Investment in Qwak - The Machine Learning Engineering Platform

Our Investment in Toric - The Construction Analytics Platform

Year In Review - 2021

Our Investment in Threekit - The Visual Commerce Platform for 3D/AR

Leaders Fund In Review - Q2 2021

Drata Raises $25M Series A 6 Months After Seed

Reflections on Ada's Journey to $1.2B

Leaders Fund in Review - Q1 2021

It's Time Software Companies Take Data Privacy Seriously - Why We Invested in Drata

Leaders Fund Year in Review

Lessons Learned From Our Investment in Kindred

Kindred.ai Acquired by Ocado for $262M

Reflections on Our Journey With Spot

One problem. One year. One nation. One Million Dollars. The Leaders Prize. Solving the Fake News Problem.

Dave MacDonald Joins LFI as Venture Partner

Ada - Why We Invested

CrowdRiff - Why We Invested

Spotinst - Why We Invested

The Next Wave of Computing - Cloud Thesis

A Systematic Approach to Reducing Churn

Why We're Excited for Atlanta in 2018

Here's What Happened in 2017

CallRail - Why We Invested

Manifold - Why We Invested

Top Hat - Why We Invested

Why Entrepreneurs Should (Occasionally) Think Like VCs

Go to Market Fit: Achieving Sustainable Growth

The 3 Things That Matter When Raising Money: Engagement, Momentum and Storytelling.

Toronto is Proving To Be a Hotbed For Machine Learning

Dyn DNS DDoS likely the work of script kiddies, says Flashpoint

360insights Raises $30 million to Fuel Global Growth of Channel Success Platform

Flashpoint Expands into Business Risk Intelligence (BRI), Raises $10M in Funding

LinkedIn: A Monetization Story

Zaius Raises $8 Million to Fuel Explosive B2C CRM Customer Growth

Influitive Raises $8.2M and Acquires IronArk

Old money, new tech: Seymour Schulich bets on VC fund

360 Incentives Raises $10 million in funding

New venture capital fund hopes to make Toronto the next Silicon Valley

Enterprise Founders Take Note: A New $100 Million Fund Just For You

The Transition from Operator to Investor

MEET THE CANADIANS SPEARHEADING THE $100 MILLION ENTERPRISE SAAS-FOCUSED LEADERS FUND