Gideon Hayden

Gideon is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Leaders Fund, where he works with Upwind, Ada, Drata, Toric, Qwak, CrowdRiff and Spot. He focuses on investing early stage in cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and ML/AI.

He co-founded his first company, Tradyo, immediately after graduating from McGill University, and sold it to Torstar, a leading Canadian media company at the time..

Gideon went on to join OMERS Ventures, where he worked on over a dozen transactions, including high growth SaaS software startups Shopify Hootsuite, 360 Insights, and Jobber. He was also part of the founding team of OneEleven, an accelerator for data-driven post-seed companies in Toronto. During his time at OMERS Ventures, Gideon served as a board observer at 360 Insights, Klipfolio and OneEleven.