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What does Golden Ventures invest in?
Golden Ventures invests most often at Series A and Seed (64% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Fintech, Restaurant and Media.
Golden Ventures highlights
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12 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series A and Seed: 64% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 5 rounds, median $5.0M
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1 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $400K – $2.0M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries A
- Sectors
- FintechRestaurantMedia
- Based in
- Toronto, Canada
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first78 appearances
- 2026
10 rounds
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- May
- May
- Feb
- Jan
- Jan
- 2025
12 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Feb
- 2024
10 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- Mar
- Feb
- 2023
11 rounds
- Oct
- Sept
- Jul
- Jul
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration2 named
ASAmeet ShahVice President of Golden Vp IV Inc.iForm ADV
MHMatthew H. GoldenPresident and Director of Golden Vp IV Inc.iForm ADV
We also hold 16 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$567Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Golden VP IV, Inc.
- SEC number
- CRD 310554
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in Golden Ventures's funds
- Funds
- 1
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: an LP list.
Cendana Capital1 fundFund Vintage Committed Golden Ventures - -
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 2 we have independently watched raise
FAQToronto Tech Week
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed1 in all
AppHeroBought by Fuse Powered Inc.UndisclosedDec 2013
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.