Toronto’s Train Fitness has secured $2.5 million USD in funding led by Relay Ventures to make logging workouts less of an exercise in data entry. I spoke to CEO Andrew Just about the crowded workout-tracking app market and what sets Train apart. #CDNtech betakit.com/train-fitness-…

"Me: How many pushups can you do? Andrew: 150. Me: Holy Crap. Andrew: If I do 150 pushups, will you invest. Me: Yes." He hit 113, we still invested. betakit.com/train-fitness-…

All broad advice is bad.

I wholeheartedly agree with Josh Wolfe. @jason’s advice may be sound for an average investor, but this industry is built on outliers. Outlier investors work at (or create) outlier funds and find ways to invest in outlier founders. Intellectual curiosity, deep competitive drive

Led by Relay Ventures and VTS VPs, Toronto-based pre-seed fund Gambit Partners believes it can take some of the risk out of early-stage investing by leaning on its #CDNtech operator LPs and existing networks. #VC betakit.com/gambit-partner…

Our LPs are the raw materials for the product we sell to founders. Thanks for believing in us! Excited to share Gambit's story! 🇨🇦🚀 Thanks for the feature BetaKit Josh Scott betakit.com/gambit-partner…

Led by Simon Sokol (Simon Sokol) of Relay Ventures and Chris Krzyzanowski of VTS, Toronto-based Gambit Partners believes it can take some of the risk out of early-stage tech investing by leaning on its #CDNtech operator LPs and existing networks. #VC betakit.com/gambit-partner…

Need to know how Harry Stebbings decided on "holy moly, moolah in the coolah" 🤣

Was talking to an operator friend about this today. Many partners at large funds don’t even show up until the company’s proven it’s worth their time, which is all about value relative to fund size. Funny thing is at that point help is much less wanted/needed…

News: more than 200 venture capital firms have signed a public statement in support of Israel and its tech ecosystem. I spoke to Harry Valner, the U.S.-based startup investor who led the effort since Monday night. forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…

Appreciate the shoutout for Mantle from Chamath Palihapitiya during the All In Football Show this week. Working to improve the lives of Founders!

Southern Ontario (Toronto/Ottawa/Waterloo) is the biggest sleeper corridor in the History of Computation. Pioneered: first internet search engine (OpenText), compilers (Watcom), Elliptic Curve Cryptography (Certicom), GPUs (ATI), smart phones (RIM/Blackberry), Optical Networking

🚨Big News: TCG secured US$5M in seed funding led by Relay Ventures! With a new Board of Directors and strategic investments, we’re taking curling to the next level. Get ready for a revamped Grand Slam of Curling starting Oct 1st.🥌 READ MORE: thegrandslamofcurling.com/media-release/… #Curling #GSOC

🏈🤝🥌 NFL talent Jared Allen, George Kittle, and TJ Hockenson are bringing fresh energy to curling through investments in The Curling Group and the Grand Slam of Curling. Read how TCG is modernizing the sport and growing its global audience: thescore.com/wolym/news/315… #Curling

From Fortune's Term Sheet newsletter: Circle delivered the “the best first day pop for a $1 billion IPO in our records. That’s quite an achievement,” Kennedy said. Achievement for who?!? Hmmmm I wonder why companies are staying private longer🤔 Bill Gurley

My next mission: supporting the next generation of Game Changers. Yes, I'm back building in the venture space. And I couldn't be more pumped or excited for the future Game Changers Ventures #vc linkedin.com/pulse/my-next-…

It’s time for sponsorship to go the way of programmatic advertising - there’s no need for the manual matchmaking that dominates the industry today. Much as I believed that almost all ad buying would begin to resemble quantitative trading back in 2009 (note: The Trade Desk), I

Goodbye Toronto 🇨🇦 So excited to have officially moved to New York 🇺🇸 to partner with Roger Ehrenberg and Ethan Ehrenberg to build Game Changers Ventures! To all sports, media & entertainment tech founders, don't hesitate to reach out. PS GO JAYS

High conviction, concentrated seed investing focused on sports, entertainment, live experiences and the technologies that power them. We’re building something special Game Changers Ventures and are looking for a (potentially final?) member of the team to join us! Roger Ehrenberg

February tech podcast quality has been absurd. Joshua Kushner (Invest Like the Best) Bill Gurley (Tetragrammaton) Andrew Reed (Dialectic with Jackson Dahl) benahorowitz.eth (Invest Like the Best) Elon Musk (Dwarkesh Patel) Jimmy Iovine (David Senra) Benchmark Peter Fenton Eric Vishria Chetan Puttagunta Everett Randle