A pre-seed and seed stage venture capital firm backing exceptional Canadian founders in the US and Canada.
Joined March 2023
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Mar 30
Last week we hosted a Hiring Social in Waterloo ahead of @socraticainfo weekend.
200 engineers, 4 YC-backed portfolio companies, one room.
Waterloo produces some of the best engineering talent in the world, and we wanted to help bridge the gap. More to come 🚀
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Northside Ventures retweeted
Apr 9
Today we’re releasing Waypoint-1.5.
An update to our real-time diffusion world model designed to run interactively on consumer hardware.
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Mar 30
Last week we hosted a Hiring Social in Waterloo ahead of @socraticainfo weekend.
200 engineers, 4 YC-backed portfolio companies, one room.
Waterloo produces some of the best engineering talent in the world, and we wanted to help bridge the gap. More to come 🚀
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Mar 30
thank you to @waterloovg for co-hosting, and to @jrodgers @j4shah for the space at @TheBarnWaterloo
and to the founders who came out → @gilesconnor @adhityaa @JaiRelan & josh
finally big up to @demireren_ @AlexMcIsaac333 @NaomiWalch for making it all happen 🙌
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Mar 19
Jai is flying in from SF for this. If that doesn't tell you how serious this room is, we don't know what will.
Last few spots left for tomorrow🏔️
@socraticainfo
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Mar 12
Cartage (YC S24) is building Wilson — an AI logistics coordinator that autonomously handles carrier coordination, tracking, and customer updates for manufacturers and distributors.
cartage.ai needs senior engineers (3 years experience) in-person at the San Francisco or Vancouver offices. Open roles require experience building agentic AI systems, full-stack production systems, and enterprise integrations (ERPs, TMSs, Slack/Teams).
Meet CTO Josh Lampen at our Hiring Social in Waterloo on March 20th👇
Feb 26
If you're in Waterloo for @socraticainfo weekend, come early.
We're bringing in 4 exceptional portfolio companies backed by @ycombinator, and they're hiring 🪿
Whether you're a senior engineer or looking for an internship, this is your shot!
luma.com/psehtf33
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Terminal (YC S23) is hiring senior engineers (3 and 6 years experience) - come meet Co-founder and CTO @gilesconnor at our Hiring Social in Waterloo on March 20th! Only select candidates will be accepted.
@withterminal is building the 'Plaid for telematics data': a universal API connecting commercial trucking fleets, insurers, and fintechs to GPS, vehicle, and driver data across dozens of ELD providers.
Open roles require experience in TB-to-PB data pipelines, Kafka/Flink, lake-house architectures, and distributed systems. Java AWS stack, in-person Toronto team.
🔗Apply via Luma link in comments!
Feb 26
If you're in Waterloo for @socraticainfo weekend, come early.
We're bringing in 4 exceptional portfolio companies backed by @ycombinator, and they're hiring 🪿
Whether you're a senior engineer or looking for an internship, this is your shot!
luma.com/psehtf33
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Feb 26
If you're in Waterloo for @socraticainfo weekend, come early.
We're bringing in 4 exceptional portfolio companies backed by @ycombinator, and they're hiring 🪿
Whether you're a senior engineer or looking for an internship, this is your shot!
luma.com/psehtf33
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Feb 26
Excited to partner with @gilesconnor at @withterminal
(YC S23), @adhityaa at @subtrace_dev (YC W25), @JaiRelan at relling.co (YC S25), and Josh Lampen at cartage.ai (YC S24) to make this happen!
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Feb 20
Set deadlines you're not sure you can hit.
A 5-year timeline → brain never gets urgent.
A 2-year deadline with 50% odds → forces ruthless prioritization.
Your schedule expands to fill whatever window you give it.
via @collision x @dwarkesh_sp's Cheeky Pint
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Northside Ventures retweeted
Feb 19
We’ll be in SF next month for GDC and GTC, and we are bringing a new demo with us 👀
If you care about world models, real-time systems, or the weird edge cases that only show up when you try to run this stuff live, let’s grab time while we’re in town.
We want to see what you come up with
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Feb 10
Congrats to the @_hex_security team, @zer0day, @hzzzaifa and @menace_codes on their launch!
Continuous, agent-driven security is quickly becoming necessary as attacks move to AI-speed.
Proud to be early supporters at @NorthsideVC_
Feb 10
.@_hex_security is building AI agents that hack your systems before real attackers do.
In weeks, their agents uncovered critical flaws at dozens of unicorns, earning over $250K in bounties. Hex already protects companies processing billions in transactions and millions of user records.
Congrats @zer0day, @menace_codes, and @hzzzaifa on the launch!
ycombinator.com/launches/POq…
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Jan 20
Local-first, real-time world models open up a different class of interactive AI.
Congrats to @lcastricato and Shahb on Waypoint-1! Proud to support this early at @NorthsideVC_
Jan 20
Today, we’re releasing a research preview of our real-time, local-first world model built for interactive, playable AI-worlds
60fps, locally run, all on consumer-grade hardware.
Come take a look ⬇️
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Northside Ventures retweeted
Jan 20
Congrats @lcastricato and Shahb on launching @overworld_ai model Waypoint-1! @NorthsideVC_ is proud to be an early supporter!
Jan 20
Today, we’re releasing a research preview of our real-time, local-first world model built for interactive, playable AI-worlds
60fps, locally run, all on consumer-grade hardware.
Come take a look ⬇️
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Jan 16
Congrats to new @NorthsideVC_ portfolio company Canada Rocket Company on their launch!
Building sovereign launch capability for Canada, repatriating top-tier aerospace talent, and closing a $6.2M all-Canadian seed round🚀
linkedin.com/posts/hugh-koli…
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Jan 13
Congrats to Northside portfolio company @veritree_ and @demsley on the @Manulife partnership!
This brings verified data, transparency, and scale to how forests get restored and tracked🌱
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Northside Ventures retweeted
2026 is about showing up more in person and spending time with founders.
We’re planning more dinners, Socratica Symposium, Toronto Tech Week, and other small, high-signal gatherings across Toronto, Waterloo, and beyond.
This @wlootechweek workshop recap was just the beginning.
We’ve been quiet here for a while, but 2025 was our most active year since founding.
We screened nearly 5,000 companies, met 500 founders, invested $3M across 12 Canadian-founded teams, grew the firm, and launched our Scout Program.
Full recap here: northsideventures.medium.com…
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Our GP, @AlexMcIsaac333, shared his 2026 predictions on where AI and technology are heading and how we think about investing.
Agents in production, rising infrastructure spend, physical-world AI, and changing org structures 📈
Full write-up linked below. northsideventures.medium.com…
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