We kicked off the year with an awesome @ripplexfellow Social where we brought together our current fellows/ alumni and other diverse founders in their network! Special thank you to everyone who attended & the team at @RBCx for supporting what we do!

More on the fellow fund here: https://t.co/tUJAKUESpQ

We are thrilled to introduce WaiveTheWait as our second portfolio company of our Fellow Fund at Ripple Ventures! WaiveTheWait empowers clinics to optimize and automate patient communication to save doctors and clinic staff precious time. Read more here:

Ripple is proud to be a driving force in the ecosystem when it comes to community building and sparking energy in Toronto and abroad. We'll have more events in the future, so sign up here if you want to be notified:

Last night, we hosted two amazing events to wrap up the year with the Ripple Ventures community in Toronto. More below >>> Shoutouts to our amazing sponsors for the night: @cartainc @rbcx @scotiabank

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The @ripplexfellow is recruiting for its next cohort! Apply to the fellowship here: Check out our testimonials here: https://t.co/kLr8Yyxl1b Applications are due Nov 25th, 2022 at 11:59PM EST https://t.co/ku549pV5VG

Our Investment in Artemis: Artemis is a data infrastructure company that empowers startups and mid-size businesses to manage their data stack faster, cheaper, and easier than ever before. We led Artemis’ first financing round with Front Row Ventures, and some incredible angels.

The Fellow Fund: Through this initiative, we will be investing $25–50K checks into student-led and first-time founders building across our verticals of interest at Ripple Ventures. Founders that we back do not have to be formally a part of the fellowship.

Today, we're launching the Fellow Fund at the @ripplexfellow and announcing our first investment under this initiative, @artemis_data founded by @joshfgray_ and @williamxyshi Fellow Fund: Investment in Artemis: https://t.co/lWiMcDNB3I More below: https://t.co/BpptZ07cOV

🎉 We’re incredibly proud to share that our very first investment in Fund I @oncall_health has been acquired by @Qualifacts As the first investor to lead both the Pre-Seed and Seed rounds we couldn’t have asked for a better outcome for the entire team

Check out our newest thematic research piece on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Measurement & Insights Tooling written by @naz_thakkar on the @ripple_ventures team! Read it here:

🌊 Excited to share our partnership between the @ripplexfellow program and @rbcx to provide education and mentorship to young entrepreneurs! We are also announcing the launch of our Fellow Fund which will invest $25k-$50k in student-led companies 🤝 https://t.co/iqypgPyKmb

🎉We’re pleased to introduce @katiekola_smile and @godwinhschan to the Ripple Ventures team! Katie and Godwin were both recent graduates of our @ripplexfellow program and both bring a refreshing enthusiasm for startups and VC. Feel free to say 👋

🌊 Ripple Retreat 2022 🌊 Our team disconnected and reconnected with each other this weekend for our annual offsite. It’s so important for us to spend quality time together with the people we work with. @mattybcohen @_dominiclau @naz_thakkar @tchowd_ Whose coming next year?

🎉 We are excited to announce the promotion of @_dominiclau to Partner at Ripple Ventures! 🎉 Dom joined Ripple as we held the first close on Fund I and from day one, he worked endlessly to help build Ripple into a well-respected VC Fund! Congrats Dom!

Amazing initiative by the team @VoiceflowHQ 🙏

Our Managing Partner @mattybcohen shares the hard truth with @TechCrunch on why founders should ask investors for a flat round in these markets!

5/ If you are a founder or investor building in any relevant categories and want to share notes and discuss, please reach out to our team here: . You can follow us here: https://t.co/PAgfUqURsa.

2/ Market map @VisualStudio @Replit @pycharm @HardhatHQ @trufflesuite @BrownieEth @radicle @OpenZeppelin @EthereumRemix

1/ Check out our newest edition of the @ripple_ventures thematic research series: Opportunities in Web3 Development Environments Read more here:

I just uploaded “Maeve Summer One Year” to #Vimeo:

Welcoming @naz_thakkar to the @ripple_ventures team as a full-time Associate! We first met Naz through the @ripplexfellow program in January 2021 and have been working together since. Yesterday, we welcomed her to the Toronto VC community!

6/ If you are a founder or investor building in any relevant categories and want to share notes and discuss, please reach out to our team here: . You can follow us here: https://t.co/PAgfUqURsa

1/ We're excited to share the first post of our thematic research blog series on categories that we’re actively investing in. This week, we're covering Data Versioning tools. https://t.co/aq0doqwPHT

Customer onboarding: @onboardio

Project management: @ZenHubHQ

Analytics: @googleanalytics @mixpanel

Marketing: @Mailchimp @HubSpot

Design: @figma @tailwindcss

Web/mobile frameworks: @vuejs @reactjs

Microservices/backend: @BuildableHQ

Auth: @auth0

Hosting: @Firebase and @supabase

Just published our new blog post on the top tech tools that startups should know and build with: We cover: 1) hosting 2) auth 3) microservices/backend 4) web/mobile 5) design 6) marketing/crm 7) analytics 8) project mgmt 9) customer onboarding https://t.co/jjBlsMjqWS

The power of our fellowship network is just getting started. Already seeing founders raise over $50m+ combined. Next up $500mm!!!

1/ We're excited to share the last part of our web2 vs web3 blog series, comparing @Spotify with the @AudiusProject! Read more here:

Thanks for sharing! What she said 👇

Congrats to the @Wisedocsai team on bringing Doug Markham on as COO. Doug is a Seasoned Insurance Industry Expert and will add tremendous value to the entire team.

Check out this article written by our own @mattybcohen Sharing 3 Things VCs Should Do To Protect Founders’ Mental Health! #Mentalhealth #MentalHealthMatters #founders #startup

Why the need for @viamirror in web 3 when we have the @Medium in web 2? Our “Web 2 vs Web 3” breaks down the similarities, differences, and impact of similar technologies across Web 2 and Web 3.

The @ripplexfellow program is now recruiting for the spring 2022 cohort! See below for more details:

With $4.1 million in new capital and a much bigger vision, the team at @Wisedocsai is already expanding into the US insurance industry with recently announced partnerships with @massmutual & @PlugandPlayTC Insurtech. We are happy to lead this new round of funding! #insurtech

Today we’ll explore naming systems across Web 2 and Web 3, more specifically ENS and DNS. This is blog post #1 in our new “Web 2 vs Web 3” series where the team breaks down the similarities, differences, and impact of technologies across Web 2 and Web 3

1/ Just released our newest post explaining need for @ensdomains in web 3 when we have the Domain Name System in web 2? Read more here: https://t.co/ZuNG53zl5Y

🧑‍💻Calling all #Web3 builders!👩‍💻 @BuildableHQ is the best place to start building using over thousands of their templates. Check it out or msg @_moekatib and @spataroinc to get setup!