Dad to teenage daughters, runner, beer miler, and collector of trivia. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @QueensEngineer grad. Debt advisor to tech companies. Armentum Partners.
Joined February 2011
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May 16
Hey @united, when do you think the wifi will work on the SFO-EWR / EWR-SFO route? It has not worked on any of the 8 flights I've taken this year.
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May 23
Thanks for the (lack of reply) @united . I would have figured you at least have a bot handling simple questions like these. Disappointing.
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May 16
Why is Toronto Tech Week the same week as the @cvca Conference in Halifax? Someone wasn't paying attention, there.
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May 14
For years, @avarma has been one of the most important people in Toronto tech without many outside the ecosystem fully understanding why.
He helped build Xtreme Labs. Autonomic sold to Ford. Xtreme’s story even brushes up against Tinder.
He has been described as “sort of the king of Toronto.” Others put it more bluntly: “What people don’t realize is that he was carrying Toronto and KW tech on his back.”
Now, with Mantle, he is building again.
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Apr 28
It's been an interesting quarter in private credit. We share our observations and thoughts on the growth and venture debt technology markets.
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We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.
The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: pewresearch.org/religion/202…
ALT Chart showing in many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good.
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Feb 25
Slap Shot was released 49 years ago today…
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Jan 29
Here, we share our observations and thoughts on the enterprise value lending and venture debt technology markets. Enjoy!
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14 Oct 2025
Our thoughts on the enterprise value and venture debt lending markets for technology businesses for the past quarter. We remain quite active, having closed over $3.2 billion in debt commitments for clients through Q3 2025.
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31 Jul 2025
Records Fall at Beer Mile World Classic in Lisbon. Summary and race videos here:
beermile.com/community/news/…
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15 Jul 2025
We share our thoughts on the current state of the enterprise value and venture debt markets for technology businesses. Enjoy!
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29 Apr 2025
Our observations from Q1 and thoughts as we look ahead in 2025 for the enterprise value and venture debt technology market. Enjoy!
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24 Apr 2025
CA just became the 4th largest economy in the WORLD.
In 2023, we contributed $83 billion to the fed govt.
Texas? Took $71 billion.
71% of America's economic output comes from dem areas-- places with longer lifespans, higher wages, & lower murder rates.
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19 Apr 2025
Trump had a lot of support when he campaigned for fair trade. I mean, you tax me 20% I tax you 20%. Fair game.
He has since lost plenty of support from the people that donated to him. Fixing trade deficit is so fking stupid. Watch this clip of Jeffery Sachs that went viral.
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30 Jan 2025
We share our enterprise value and venture debt technology market observations and thoughts on Q4 2024 and looking ahead to 2025. Enjoy!
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1 Jan 2025
Stitched together glimpses of my 2024. Thank you, 2024 and cheers to 2025!
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22 Oct 2024
Some of our thoughts and observations on the enterprise value and venture debt markets for technology companies from Q3. Enjoy!
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