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Firms / Golden Ventures
Golden Ventures
Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.
corporate parent: Lelo, Inc.
Importance
46
elevated
Active deployment
55
elevated
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
69
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
21
moderate
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- unknown
- Office address
- unknown
- Business phone
- 647-339-1667adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- http://golden.ventures
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- private fund adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 26, 2024
- Private funds reported
- 6 (6 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $508Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- Owners on Schedule A
- Lelo, Inc. (Shareholder Of Golden Vp V Inc.), D; The Shah Collective Inc. (Shareholder Of Golden Vp V Inc.), C
- business email
- info@golden.venturesgolden.venturespublished by the subject
- business phone
- 647-339-1667adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
103 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- ai, enterprise software, fintech, marketplaces, hardware, defense
- Stages
- pre seed, seed, series a
- Geography
- canada, north america
- Check size
- $500,000 to $3.0M stated by the firm
“Initial cheques between $500K-$3M”
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation
series a 100%
Stage at first entry
series a 100%
Sectors
unknown 96%Other Technology 2%Other 1%Other Energy 1%
lead rate 0%follow-on rate 0%new logos, 12 months 103
Funds and vehicles
6 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Venture Partners Fund V, LP | Fund | 2024 adv first reported | Early deployment | $103M Mar 26, 2024 | 35 | $0 | Dec 14, 2023 |
| Golden Ventures Opportunities Fund II, LP | Opportunity fund | 2023 adv first reported | Active deployment | $38.5M Mar 26, 2024 | 27 | $0 | Apr 5, 2022 |
| Golden Venture Partners Fund II, LP | Fund | 2015 form d first sale | Harvest | $120M Mar 26, 2024 | 24 | $1.4M of $1.4M | Jun 26, 2015 |
| Golden Venture Partners Fund III, LP | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $124M Mar 26, 2024 | 47 | $0 | Feb 14, 2018 |
| Golden Venture Partners Fund IV, LP | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $97.3M Mar 26, 2024 | 49 | $0 of $80.0M | Jul 7, 2020 |
| Golden Ventures Opportunities Fund, LP | Opportunity fund | unknown | Unknown | $25.9M Mar 26, 2024 | 25 | $0 of $20.0M | Jul 10, 2020 |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
12 current, 0 departed
Vincent Xue
AnalystAnalyst
Toronto Tech Week
AssociateInvestment Team
Ameet Shah
General partnerGeneral Partner
Matt Golden
Managing partnerFounder and Managing Partner
Alison Kaizer
Operating partnerPartner, Talent
Jamie Rosenblatt
PartnerPartner
Nick Chen
Partnerpartner
Julia Konefal
Platform and operationsHead of Platform & Operations
Mark Lahn
Platform and operationsHead of Finance
Matthew Golden
PrincipalPresident And Director Of Golden Vp V Inc. · since Dec 1, 2023
Bert Amato
Venture partnerVenture Partner
Ameet Shah
Vice presidentVice President Of Golden Vp V Inc. · since Dec 1, 2023
Investments on record
103 edges, 102 companies, 0 partner-attributed
“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.
Co-investors
40 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
Bullpen Management, LLC 2 shared · recurringSJW Investments, LLC 2 shared · recurringEmergence Equity Management, Inc 2 shared · recurringFirstmark Capital, LLC 2 shared · recurringMaple VC 2 shared · recurringIlluminate Financial 2 shared · recurringOmers Ventures Management Inc. 1 shared · one timeGreat Oaks Management Company LLC 1 shared · one timeRA Capital Management, LP 1 shared · one timeLumos Capital Group 1 shared · one timeTreeo Vc Manco, LLC 1 shared · one timeCRV, LLC 1 shared · one timeGateway Capital Partners, LLC 1 shared · one timeIndex Ventures Sa 1 shared · one timeHwvp Management Company, L.L.C. 1 shared · one timeActivant Capital Group LLC 1 shared · one timeMotley Fool Ventures 1 shared · one timeInnovation Endeavors: Reimagining the technical frontier 1 shared · one timeMaveron LLC 1 shared · one timeAmerican Family Ventures 1 shared · one timeLeap Forward Ventures, LLC 1 shared · one timeTAU Ventures, LLC 1 shared · one timeGreatpoint Investment Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeHack Vc Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeBlue Collective, LLC 1 shared · one timeRiverwalk Capital 1 shared · one timeNEW Voices Advisors, LLC 1 shared · one timeCompound Advisors, LLC 1 shared · one timeUrban Innovation Management LLC 1 shared · one timeLerer Hippeau Ventures Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeA-Star Partners, LLC 1 shared · one timeKonvoy 1 shared · one timeRipple Manager Inc. 1 shared · one timeDiversis Capital 1 shared · one timeVenrex Investment Management LLP 1 shared · one timeAleph 1 shared · one timeInterplay Ventures Early Stage Management LLC 1 shared · one timeComeback Capital Advisors, LLC 1 shared · one timeAsset Management Ventures, LLC 1 shared · one timeDistributed Ventures 1 shared · one time
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
9 dated events
- Sep 16, 2026Powered By People no longer listed on Golden Ventures's portfolio pageRemoved from portfolio pagePortfolioInferencePowered By PeopleVenture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages)
- Sep 16, 2026Hypercomply no longer listed on Golden Ventures's portfolio pageRemoved from portfolio pagePortfolioInferenceHypercomplyVenture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages)
- Mar 26, 2024Golden Venture Partners Fund V, LP first reported on Form ADV by Golden Ventures (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $102,620,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactGolden Venture Partners Fund V, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 27, 2023Golden Ventures Opportunities Fund II, LP first reported on Form ADV by Golden Ventures (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $40,286,322Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactGolden Ventures Opportunities Fund II, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Sep 8, 2020Golden Ventures first filed Form ADV (ERA)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Sep 8, 2020Golden Ventures Opportunities Fund, LP first reported on Form ADV by Golden Ventures (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $16,910,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactGolden Ventures Opportunities Fund, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Sep 8, 2020Golden Venture Partners Fund III, LP first reported on Form ADV by Golden Ventures (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $56,046,576Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactGolden Venture Partners Fund III, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Sep 8, 2020Golden Venture Partners Fund II, LP first reported on Form ADV by Golden Ventures (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $58,415,453Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactGolden Venture Partners Fund II, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Sep 8, 2020Golden Venture Partners Fund IV, LP first reported on Form ADV by Golden Ventures (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $75,095,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactGolden Venture Partners Fund IV, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Corporate venture (probable, 80%, cls-1)corporate parent: Lelo, Inc.
Evidence
36 observations from 2 sources