seed stage VC @goldenventures focused on how technology is reshaping our world
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1/5 We’re excited to share that @GoldenVentures has closed its fifth fund, Golden Ventures V, at just over $100 Million USD. Read more here: bit.ly/3T82fTF
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Valavan and Vithu spent years inside @cerebras designing chips and the models that run on them.
They learned that the cost of running AI is actually a design choice, not a law of physics everyone just accepts... so they built Exstill around the opposite of how it's usually done. Instead of taking a GPU and squeezing a model onto it, they design the silicon and the model together, for the actual workload at hand.
The first product is Polyglot-DC1, a co-processor that sits beside a GPU. It runs the small models doing a request's real work, the ones drafting, screening, running agents, reasoning in real time. By their own benchmarks against NVIDIA's B300, it's 110x faster per token and uses 690x less energy. This means that agent turns that take seconds on a GPU take milliseconds here.
Big congrats to Val/Vithu on taking the plunge and the @GoldenVentures team is happy to be an early supporter.
The team is hiring, if you're interested please see details below!
We're coming out of stealth.
The limits of AI compute are inherited, not fundamental.
At Exstill, we're designing AI models and silicon together to push inference efficiency toward its limits.
Our first step: the frontier model's co-processor.
Founded by Valavan Manohararajah and Vithu Thangarasa (@vithursant19), we've been building toward this moment for a while, and we're excited to finally share what we've been working on.
We're just getting started.
Explore what we're building: exstill.ai
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60% of residents surveyed say Toronto is a worse place to live than four years ago
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Enough said. Choose wisely on October 26.
It is one of the most incredible own goals I have ever seen in politics. You have to watch the clips to believe them.
It's the culmination of two months of debates between @BradMBradford and @oliviachow when last night, mayor Olivia Chow revealed something so vital about her own leadership.
She said:
"At some point, you need to take a stand. You have to say this is what I believe in. Yes or No. It is tough, but that's what leadership is about."
Here is what Olivia Chow believes in, apparently.
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@BradMBradford just nails it! Toronto is an amazing city. But if you think there is nothing you should do to improve it or if you think it’s not patriotic to seek to improve it, then the problem is with you. Brad has the energy and drive to make Toronto an even better place!
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Xanadu has announced its second QROM breakthrough of the year, this time using "dense encoding", achieving up to a four-fold reduction in compute requirements compared to legacy industry approaches.
With this increase in algorithmic efficiency, Xanadu is actively reducing the size and cost of hardware required to run commercial quantum applications.
Learn more ⬇
xanadu.ai/blog/halving-the-c…
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toronto.citynews.ca/2026/10/… Immediately following the disastrous debates and Chris Alexander’s exit, Bradford has cut the lead over Chow to 4 points. It’s now becoming too close to call.
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Vote. Make your voice heard. It matters.
#EXCLUSIVE: With Chris Alexander no longer in the race to become Toronto’s next mayor, new polling exclusive to CityNews shows that Olivia Chow’s lead over Brad Bradford has narrowed to four points. bit.ly/4ATZ45X
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I’ve signed, and now you can too: CCI and a coalition of Canadian business leaders are asking Ottawa to make it more worthwhile to bet on Canadian companies. If you believe Canada should be a better place to bet on Canadian ambition, sign here: Bet-On-Canada.ca
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OPINION: A Better City Toronto endorses Brad Bradford for mayor
We've seen how our city has fared under Mayor Chow, and do not believe in her vision of continued decline. torontosun.com/opinion/colum…
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Canada just announced its new National Council on Artificial Intelligence.
I'm not one to carry water for the government but take a look at the people around the table:
• @professor_ajay — U of T professor; founder of Creative Destruction Lab and NextAI.
• @Yoshua_Bengio — Turing Award winner; pioneer of deep learning; founder of Mila.
• @FidlerSanja — co-founder & CEO of Veeda AI; former VP of AI Research at NVIDIA; co-founder of Vector Institute.
• @JohnGrisham — President & CEO of CPP Investments.
• @ghadfield — Johns Hopkins professor specializing in AI alignment, governance and law.
• @JordanJacobs10 — co-founder of Radical Ventures, Vector Institute and Layer 6 AI, which was acquired by TD.
• EricLamarre — MIT lecturer; former head of McKinsey Technology & AI in North America; co-author of Rewired.
• @vpisano_mila — President & CEO of Mila, one of the world’s major AI research institutes.
• Senator @tompitfield — founder of Data Sciences; technology entrepreneur and former Principal Secretary to PM Carney.
• Jody Thomas — former National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister and former Deputy Minister of National Defence.
• Louis Vachon — former CEO of National Bank; now Operating Partner at J.C. Flowers.
• Michelle @zatlyn — co-founder & President of Cloudflare.
• Patrick Pichette — former Google CFO; now CEO of Digital Transformation Canada.
That is a very high concentration of experience across frontier AI research, commercialization, capital, financial services, technology infrastructure, government and national security.
Great to see them all stepping up for Canada.
Prime Minister Carney launches new National Council on Artificial Intelligence: pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releas…
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Folks - we have a race and it’s tightening. Olivia Chow’s lead cut to 6% over Brad Bradford. Chris Alexander’s share of 8% more than the difference. With margin of error, it’s becoming too close to call. mainstreetresearch.ca/post/t…
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A legit rising star company in Toronto
Five years ago, as a computer science student at Waterloo, I was told the only way to build world-class products was to move to the US.
I ended up co-founding Float here in Toronto instead, and today we're growing our engineering team by more than 25% to rebuild Canada's financial infrastructure for Canadian businesses.
If you're an engineer who wants to build world-class products on home soil, I'd love to meet you. Our open roles are in the comments.
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Toronto, this is not an election we can let pass us by.
29 days. Mark your calendars: October 26. 🗳️
We need a huge voter turnout.
Every neighbourhood.
Every generation.
Every eligible voter.
Pay attention.
Get engaged.
And vote.
Complacency is not an option this year.
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We just killed Google Drive
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We just killed Dropbox
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couple neat things you can do on Space:
- extract files in the cloud
- work with 10TB on a mac with only 256GB
- compile an app
- have an agent edit a video or execute a complex task
- store/ retrieve artifacts instantly
all things that were never possible before on something like dropbox or gdrive
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introducing Space: the infinite filesystem
once mounted you can:
→ stream files to your laptop
→ work directly in the cloud (no downloads needed)
→ use your files natively with any app or agent
→ share a Space drive between all your computers and team
try it for yourself today
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Toronto is stuck.
Taxes are up. Transit is still late. Young people are leaving. Food bank use is soaring.
Toronto hasn’t come close to its potential.
I’ll freeze taxes in year one, demand value for every dollar, guarantee on-time transit or refund your fare, and work to make our city safer.
If you want to change the city, you have to vote to change the mayor on October 26th.
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downloading files isn’t cool
neither is waiting
don’t be the person slowing your team down – at San Francisco, CA
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No surprise.
Famously socialist Sweden, like every country in the developed world with universal health insurance (save one*) allows privately funded health care and private insurance, which relieves pressure from the state system.
* Canada is the one exception: the only country in the developed world that bans private insurance or payment for medically necessary services. We consistently rank in the top quartile of OECD countries for health expenditures as a share of of GDP, and the bottom quartile in outcomes like access to and wait times for diagnostic and surgical services.
Sweden consistently outperforms Canada on universal health care despite similar spending: new study
nationalpost.com/news/canada…
