Venture capital firm

Golden Ventures

Toronto seed-stage venture fund run by former founders, investing in early technology companies across North America

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TrustList summary

Golden Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund in Toronto that invests across North America. Its partners have started, scaled, sold and sometimes failed at their own companies, and they say this shapes a hands-on approach. The firm was also a founding partner of Toronto Tech Week.

What Golden Ventures does

Seed investment: early funding for ambitious founding teams, with over 70 investments made.
Close involvement: partners work alongside portfolio teams and share setbacks as well as wins.
Follow-up support: the firm has returned to back founders it knew from earlier ventures.

Who it serves

The portfolio spans many fields. Examples on its site include Float, which builds business spend management software for Canadian finance teams, ResQ, a marketplace for restaurant repairs, BenchSci, which applies machine learning to pharmaceutical research, and Wattpad, a platform for sharing stories.

Key facts

Based in: Toronto, Canada
Investing region: North America
Stage: seed
Investments to date: over 70

Summary written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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Rankings

Golden Ventures is ranked on 3 TrustList rankings: #10 on 1, #28 on 1 and #39 on 1.

Every ranking orders its listings by their reviews, how complete the profile is and the Trust Score. Golden Ventures has no reviews yet and 3 of the 10 profile details we look for. Where no listing on a page has been reviewed, the order follows the profiles alone.

Venture capital firm · 3 rankings

#10of 20
Canada
It is the only one of the 20 here listing cybersecurity and for software.
Its profile: “- Based in: Toronto, Canada - Investing region: North America - Stage: seed - Investments to date: over 70 Golden Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund in Toronto that invests across North America.”
Of the 20 here, 4 also cover creative and 4 also cover SaaS; 3 also work in London and 3 also work in York.
Behind Bluesky Equities, ahead of GrowthWorks Capital.
#28of 51
Toronto
It is the only one of the 51 here listing pharmaceutical and one of 2 here listing gaming.
Its profile: “Golden Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund in Toronto that invests across North America.”
Of the 51 here, 8 also cover partners and 7 also cover growth stage; 18 also work in New York City and 14 also work in San Francisco.
Behind Geolo Capital, ahead of Greenhill Capital Partners.
#39of 79
Biotech investors
It is the only one of the top 65 here listing banking and one of 3 here listing learning.
Of the top 65 here, 22 also cover healthtech and 17 also cover science; 14 also work in Boston and 8 also work in Silicon Valley.
Behind Global Life Science Ventures, ahead of Google Ventures.