Golden Venture Partners

Golden Ventures is a seed-stage and sector-agnostic venture capital fund
  • Golden Venture Partners
Overview of the Golden Venture Partners program:

Golden Ventures is a seed-stage and sector-agnostic venture capital fund. We are headquartered in Toronto and invest throughout North America. We're largely focused on businesses that use technology or the emergence of new platforms to disrupt the status quo. We've invested in everything from temporary tattoos, productivity tools for SMBs, mobile gaming studios and photonics-based quantum computing machines. In terms of business models, we've invested and developed expertise in consumer, SaaS, marketplaces, enterprise, and payments based businesses.

Benefits of the Golden Venture Partners program:
  • We target initial commitments of $500K - $2.5M for between 8-15% of a company, and we reserve capital to follow on into companies based on progress.
Eligibility criteria of the Golden Venture Partners program:
  • Team:
    • Product visionaries and strong technologist(s), with big ambition
    • Domain expertise and/or a strong rate of learning
    • Belief in the founding team's ability to attract high-quality talent required to build and scale the company
  • Market:
    • Large markets capable of delivering venture-size returns and/or emerging markets with significant growth potential
    • Founders display conviction and unique insights around the opportunity and 'why now?'
  • Product:
    • Offers significant improvement on existing solutions
    • Sufficient technological and/or business model innovation, with potential for long-term defensibility
  • Traction:
    • Potential for non-linear/scalable organic growth.
    • Early signs that show increasing growth velocity (customers, revenue, usage, etc).
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