We paid $150k for loom.com after closing our Series A. How we acquired that domain is still one of the company’s wildest stories.

Who's heading to SF on Sept 10th for the live recording of the Acquired Podcast show with Mark Zuckerberg? We're planning a pre-lunch social with founders/VCs. Drop us a line if you're interested in joining: [email protected] Huge props to Ben Gilbert + David Rosenthal for making this happen.

Cancel your lunch plans next Thursday. Because Darian Shirazi Allison Pickens Vivek Sodera and Nick Candito ⚡️🤓 are joining on stage as judges for Kernal Dealroom's next pitch event. And it's gonna be a doozie and a half. Snag a seat: kern.al/event/amazing-…

Missing the sunshine? We've got some news that'll brighten your day. We've *just invested* in Rainbo founded by Tonya Papanikolov 🍄 - Vegan, Non-GMO, Made in Canada - Featured in Forbes, NYT, Vanity Fair - 1,000+ 5-star reviews Look up Rainbo to see what all the hype's about

Breaking News: The Bee Savior Has Arrived! And your friends at LOI Venture *just invested* in them 🐝 Quorum Earth, part of IndieBio New York’s Class 9, is creating quite the buzz with their groundbreaking bio-pesticide. Learn more by DM'ing Chris Kantrowitz...

Holler at us if you're in town for INBOUND 👋

When I talk to students they often think that if they want to start a startup one day they should be learning about economics or finance. I tell them they should instead be learning how to build things. Building is the root.

Move over Jacob Peralta. There's a new face in town. And we just invested in him. Meet, Zach Eikenberry, founder of Hook Security🪝 Hook's partnered with over 650 customers, achieved $2M+ ARR and trained more than 150,000 employees. Welcome to the LOI mafia, Zach.

Congrats to Roy, Alexey and the Unified.to team on securing the $1.1M round. Welcome to the Loiventure portco fam 🍾

We're teaming up with BetaKit to giveaway 5 free tickets to their Vancouver Town Hall event with Jack Newton and a few other powerhouses. It's taking place Oct 22nd @ 5pm. Wanna try your luck to win? Just Follow BetaKit and Loiventure and tag 1 friend below to enter.

The main heroes of Black Friday: entrepreneurs

The word is out. Manny Padda and Ryan Holmes wanna cut a few more checks before year end. Think you got what it takes? Send in a pitch to [email protected]. And if it's good enough we'll intro you to the GPs for a meeting. Sound fair?

Being a founder is lonely. Forward this to a young entrepreneur you believe in. And if they don’t have enough people in their corner, encourage them to apply to @loiaccelerator's Labs Batch 14 by Feb 2nd: bit.ly/3Claiak

A founder asked me how he could develop thicker skin - more immunity to criticism. Any advice here for him?

Know a founder or VC in town for Toronto Tech Week? we're hosting a fun run & coffee meetup tomorrow with adidas and would love toee s them. almost 200 people have signed up. sign up here and bring a friend. we leave at 8AM sharp: lu.ma/nxoqxxcj

morning run & coffee at House 831. there’s some killer founders out here.

Big ups to our Operations Manager, Elaina, for passing her 1 year anniversary with Loiventure. Thanks for all you do behind the scenes.

GPT-5 is the smartest model we've ever done, but the main thing we pushed for is real-world utility and mass accessibility/affordability. we can release much, much smarter models, and we will, but this is something a billion+ people will benefit from. (most of the world has

BC Founders Day has assembled quite the line-up. You Gonna be there?