Amazing team doing amazing things 🙌 #fastgrants

Look for the Helpers 🇨🇦 Conquer COVID-19 🇨🇦 thestar.com/opinion/star-c…

What’s the weather in Ottawa this Saturday? Sunny and 18C, with a high chance of viral ass-kicking (the virus being the kickee not the kicker, to be clear). 🇨🇦 Conquer COVID-19 🇨🇦 Hayley Wickenheiser Ian Black

Ottawa scientists turn attention to COVID-19 vaccine with help from 'fast grant', via Ottawa Citizen Life changing impact. ⁦Fiona McKean⁩ ⁦tobi lutke⁩ ottawacitizen.com/news/local-new…

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Fast Grants puts the pedal to the metal for COVID-19 #research: read about four University Health Network projects that were awarded. Thanks to Thistledown Foundation for supporting these grants! Congratulations to Drs. Brian Raught, Ewan Goligher, Kevin Kain, Steven Friedman >> bit.ly/2L5ZRZU

Timothy Girard @ColinRCooke The #ATTACC RCT out of University Health Network UHN Research Temerty Medicine partnered with remap-cap (COVID) will determine the benefit of anticoagulation in short order - enrolling in Canada, US, Brazil, Mexico, UK, funded by Thistledown Foundation Peter Munk Cardiac Centre supported by Professor Susan R Kahn CanVECTOR Network

Wow!!! 6268 in less than 8 weeks! Thank you to all the innovators and makers! We are very grateful for your dedication and commitment to protecting health care providers. Algonquin College Hacking Health Ottawa Thistledown Foundation OttawamakesPPE.com

An important paper by three Fast Grant awardees.

This is the 1st delivery from a procured order of PPE from $1M donated to @conquerCOVID19 by Ottawa-based @thistledownfnd. #ConquerCOVID19 #StrongerTogether #ThankYou

New Fast Grants funded research out of Boston University: "The discovery of NFkB’s role in this deadly cascade makes it a promising target for new therapeutics that could tamp down its activity early on after infection with the novel coronavirus." merct.us/2G49iu6

Super excited to announce the launch of a new Primer on Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) cdrprimer.org (1/9)

Today #GeneralFusion is pleased to announce new investment from Thistledown Capital – a firm established by Shopify founder Tobias Lütke. Together, we are working towards a common goal: accelerating clean technology for a greener tomorrow: generalfusion.com/2021/01/shopif… #fusionenergy

Great to see tylercowen and Patrick Collison's work with fast grants getting mentioned in the Economist's briefing ($) on organisations that are bringing innovative methods into R&D funding (in this case a lot of speed) economist.com/briefing/2021/…

So excited to be partnering with Research Corporation for Science Advancement and Thistledown Foundation to support early career researchers working on cutting-edge technologies to reduce carbon emissions.

The prolonged pandemic has depleted local organizations. To help address the gap tobi lutke and I are donating $750k to United Way East Ontario, @OttawaFoodBank and Ottawa Community Foundation to support Ottawa’s COVID-19 response. We’re not out of the woods yet but there’s hope on the horizon. Let’s do this 💪

We need to vaccinate as many people as possible, as fast as possible, and everywhere. @GAVI through COVAX will get it done in ~100 countries. Fiona McKean and I are donating $5m to push things forward. Thank you Gates Foundation for generously matching it.

Congratulations CarbonCure Technologies 🎉🎉

A little more than a year after Fast Grants launched, Patrick Hsu, tylercowen, and I wrote a piece about how it worked and what we learned: future.a16z.com/what-we-learne….