Insights and News from the Leaders Fund Ecosystem

Funding

Vellum - Why We Invested

Vellum is helping teams move beyond GenAI prototypes by providing the end-to-end infrastructure needed to build and ship reliable, real-world applications.

July 10, 2025

Funding

Vellum - Why We Invested

July 10, 2025

News

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

June 24, 2025

Tales from the Trenches

The One Hiring Question Successful Founders Use

May 15, 2025

Tales from the Trenches

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

May 1, 2025

Tales from the Trenches

How Do We Boost Canada's Economic Prosperity?

April 24, 2025

Tales from the Trenches

Introducing "Tales from the Trenches"

April 22, 2025

Funding

Our Investment in Matia - The Unified DataOps Platform

October 31, 2024

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Our Investment in ToolPath - AI-Powered Machining Automation

September 17, 2024

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Our Investment in Ask-AI - The GenAI Enterprise Sidekick

January 10, 2024

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Our Investment in Upwind - Runtime Powered Cloud Security

September 5, 2023

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Qwak Raises $12M From Bessemer for MLOps Platform

March 1, 2023

Portfolio

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

December 7, 2022

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Our Investment in Ceretax - Putting Tax Calculation on Autopilot

August 10, 2022

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Our Investment in Qwak - The Machine Learning Engineering Platform

February 9, 2022

Portfolio

Our Investment in Toric - The Construction Analytics Platform

January 28, 2022

Thought Leadership

Year In Review - 2021

December 22, 2021

Funding

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

November 10, 2021

Portfolio

Leaders Fund In Review - Q2 2021

July 8, 2021

Funding

Drata Raises $25M Series A 6 Months After Seed

June 23, 2021

Portfolio

Reflections on Ada's Journey to $1.2B

May 7, 2021

Portfolio

Leaders Fund in Review - Q1 2021

April 29, 2021

Funding

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

January 14, 2021

Portfolio

Leaders Fund Year in Review

January 12, 2021

Portfolio

Lessons Learned From Our Investment in Kindred

December 22, 2020

Portfolio

Kindred.ai Acquired by Ocado for $262M

November 2, 2020

Thought Leadership

Reflections on Our Journey With Spot

July 14, 2020

Thought Leadership

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

September 17, 2019

News

Dave MacDonald Joins LFI as Venture Partner

February 11, 2019

Funding

Ada - Why We Invested

December 18, 2018

Funding

CrowdRiff - Why We Invested

October 4, 2018

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Spotinst - Why We Invested

August 29, 2018

Thought Leadership

The Next Wave of Computing - Cloud Thesis

May 15, 2018

Thought Leadership

A Systematic Approach to Reducing Churn

February 1, 2018

Thought Leadership

Why We're Excited for Atlanta in 2018

January 18, 2018

Thought Leadership

Here's What Happened in 2017

December 20, 2017

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CallRail - Why We Invested

September 28, 2017

Funding

Manifold - Why We Invested

September 21, 2017

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Top Hat - Why We Invested

June 14, 2017

Thought Leadership

Why Entrepreneurs Should (Occasionally) Think Like VCs

April 27, 2017

Go to Market Fit: Achieving Sustainable Growth

March 1, 2017

Thought Leadership

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

January 17, 2017

Thought Leadership

Toronto is Proving To Be a Hotbed For Machine Learning

November 1, 2016

Portfolio

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

October 26, 2016

Funding

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

October 19, 2016

Funding

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

July 12, 2016

Thought Leadership

LinkedIn: A Monetization Story

June 17, 2016

Funding

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

June 15, 2016

Funding

Influitive Raises $8.2M and Acquires IronArk

March 2, 2016

News

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

February 1, 2016

Portfolio

360 Incentives Raises $10 million in funding

January 28, 2016

News

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

January 23, 2016

News

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

January 14, 2016

Thought Leadership

The Transition from Operator to Investor

January 13, 2016

News

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

January 13, 2016