Thanks for inviting me onto the @BNNBloomberg show today @JonErlichman to discuss everything happening in the venture capital markets these days and how Canada and our entrepreneurs are playing a vital role in creating the next great tech leaders!

Awesome to join @TurnerNovak on @ThePeelPod 🙏

This was fun! 🎙️ Shooting @fnthawar and many other amazing @TankTalkPodcast episodes this week at the @TOtechweek #homecoming event - presented by @deel Subscribe to know when episodes drop soon - tanktalks.substack.com/

This is going to be a good one! @mattybcohen @EliotPence @TankTalkPodcast

Today, we’re excited to announce our $7.2M seed round alongside a strategic collaboration with @PacBio! At Blank Bio, we help pharma make more informed decisions in clinical trials by capturing the biology that makes each patient’s tumour unique. We do this by training RNA foundation models to learn the patterns that shape disease progression and how patients respond to treatment. In our collaboration with @PacBio, we will generate long-read, bulk RNA-sequencing data from patient tumour samples across multiple indications. This dataset will be used to further train and evaluate our models. Our models are currently focused on two main applications. First, we predict how a patient’s disease is likely to progress over time from their molecular profile. Through the FDA-recommended approach of covariate adjustment, these RNA prognostic scores can help clinical development teams design trials that reach statistical power with fewer patients. Second, we’re working to help pharma teams understand biological differences between patients so they can identify who is most likely to respond to a given therapy. We are thankful to @definevc, @LeonisCapital, Nova Threshold, @ripple_ventures, @SignalFire, @ycombinator, and other investors for being early supporters in our vision. This financing will support the continued development of our foundation models, expanded collaborations with pharma, and growing our patient-level datasets. Read the press release: blank.bio/seed-announcement Read the blog from the team: blank.bio/accelerate-clinica… Learn more about Blank Bio: blank.bio

Hot take segment with @TurnerNovak on @ThePeelPod at @joinallocate Beyond Summit in Park City, UT. Short, opinionated, spicy. Stay tuned.

New @TankTalkPodcast 🇨🇦 @ruffoloj and I break down Mark Carney's $25B Canada Strong Fund: serious sovereign wealth vehicle or political fund? Plus @cohere / @aleph, @XanaduAI, @SpaceX / @cursor_ai , @Meta layoffs, and @thomabravo's Medallia wipeout. Watch & Listen Now - rippleventures.com/tanktalks

New @TankTalkPodcast 🇨🇦 @ruffoloj and I break down Mark Carney's $25B Canada Strong Fund: serious sovereign wealth vehicle or political fund? Plus @cohere / @aleph, @XanaduAI, @SpaceX / @cursor_ai , @Meta layoffs, and @thomabravo's Medallia wipeout. Watch & Listen Now - rippleventures.com/tanktalks

New site, new era at @ripple_ventures This past quarter we backed founders across AI infra, AI for science, deep tech, and AI-native services. Full write-up fresh look: rippleventures.com

The first LP I ever pitched asked how much cash I had in my bank account before he'd listen to the fund deck. He was testing one thing: would I play the long game. Full conversation with @avarma on Mantle Mondays 👇

Big day for our portco @urunml - officially out of stealth. The bottleneck in generative AI has moved from intelligence per token to tokens per second. uRun is building the inference cloud for the interactive era — video, avatars, and world models that hold session state and stay alive between turns. The team has done this before: @keeganmccallum3 scaled video inference to a million users in 4 days at Luma, Sean Kane co-authored Docker: Up & Running and built New Relic's container platform, and @mattkrzus spent years at AWS compiling models for Just Walk Out and Panorama. If you're a research team, game studio, or product team building real-time generative experiences, join the waitlist. Proud to be early.