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Later today, we’re inviting more Canadians to invest and become co-owners of Gander. Yup. We’re doing it again. Complete with bonus shares and all. It’s part of a bigger raise, but we’re keeping… | Ben Waldman
Later today, we’re inviting more Canadians to invest and become co-owners of Gander. Yup. We’re doing it again. Complete with bonus shares and all. It’s part of a bigger raise, but we’re keeping room for regular Canadians to own a piece of the thing they’re helping build. The first time around, we welcomed in 2,517 Canadian co-owners, and raised over C$2M. We’ve grown Gander to over 66,000 members since our launch in July, and folks from every coast are posting, connecting and doing all of things people do on social media. But without the blind outrage. And our community investors are a big reason we got here. It’s huge. Especially when it comes to getting a big, ambitious, and unconventional idea off the ground. Like a lot of startups, we’re plenty hopeful that Canada’s latest efforts to encourage investment will help more big Canadian ideas get funded. There’s certainly no shortage of those. But, as BetaKit reported, just five funds accounted for 83% of all the money raised by Canadian venture capital funds in 2025. Yes… FIVE. I’ve had bigger group chats. Are we talking to angels and impact funds? Mais oui. See “big and ambitious”, above. That said, community ownership is what makes us tick, and shows just how much Canadians want this. For us, it’s meant that everyday folks have not only bought in with dollars, but they’ve helped us build. They’ve invited friends, reported bugs, suggested features and told us what we’ve got wrong. Sometimes in a surprising (and at times painful) amount of detail. So now we have a vision for what’s next. Not just refining Gander’s app experience and features... expanding on Groups, News, Local, and giving creators tools to build community... but deploying national-scale sovereign infrastructure that’s connected to the open social web. All without giving up Canadian governance. And we’re ready for more Canadians to own this big, ambitious, and unconventional thing with us. Link is in the comments, and questions when you have them (ideally via FrontFundr). We’re happy to answer. If you’re Canadian, care about where social is going, and want to see Canada own it’s digital future, we’d love to have you along for the ride as a co-owner. Hope to have you with us. — P.S. Every creative bone in my body wants to leave this post as it is, but our lawyers would slap me silly if I didn’t add: Investing in exempt market securities is risky. Please refer to our FrontFundr page and the offering document for this opportunity. Link in the comments.
'We don't want to be here, we have to be here': 100K strike for climate action in Vancouver | CBC News
Protesters too young to vote made their voices heard by skipping school and gathering outside Vancouver City Hall on Friday to demand adults get serious about protecting their futures.
Gander: The Social Media You Want, Built for Canada
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Budget delivers major tax break for entrepreneurs, investors similar to Silicon Valley incentive
New Canada Growth Incentive would exempt first $15-million that founders, staff, investors of certain private companies make when they sell shares
Why does Canada not have more pre-seed funds writing first cheques? | Boris Mann posted on the topic | LinkedIn
Why does Canada not have more preseed funds writing first cheques? It’s (I think) a recognized fact that this is the case. Is it because we are so close to the US ecosystem that the massive number of preseed funds there effectively cherry picks our top founders? I have heard that Canadian pre-seed has the opposite problem. They have to wade through a lot of inbound in Canada (many low quality), but themselves have such small funds they deploy very little. I have been thinking about what I did at Full Stack. The ecosystem was smaller then. There was no institutional preseed. 9 deals in 6 months made me one of the top investors in Canada. I say that not to boast, but show how low the bar was (is?). I modeled smaller cheques with much higher velocity during the pandemic with Venture Scouts. Recently talked to Jesse Rodgers who is thinking something similar. The model I have in mind would be - across Canada - scouts in every community (diverse young people) - 10k - 25k lead cheques - don’t need to wait for a lead, we say yes first - scouts check the hygiene - legal setup, founders reverse vesting etc - syndicate every deal 50 - 100 deals annually? One of the experiments here is if one can find and execute on this many. Not all would be venture track, so slightly different IndieVC style deal terms might be needed. Overhead is massive compared to capital deployed. Not enough AUM for management fees to pay for much. What do you think? Let’s build ;) | 37 comments on LinkedIn
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Donating another $20 million to Public First Action
Anthropic is contributing an additional $20 million to Public First Action, bringing our total support to $40 million.
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How much can we earn in retirement without paying federal income taxes? - Early Retirement Now
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Shopify CEO endorses idea to give more votes to wealthy Canadians | CBC News
The billionaire CEO of one of Canada's largest companies has come under fire for endorsing stripping voting rights from some and giving more votes to the ultra wealthy. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke replied positively to a post on X suggesting a system of "weighted voting proportional to the amount of income tax you pay," from no votes for people who don't pay income tax to five votes for anyone paying $500,000 or more.
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'Feminist' Canada has workplace gender gap worth $150bn, says report
Despite Justin Trudeau’s efforts to stress his country’s female-friendly credentials, a new report has identified a ‘substantial gender gap’ in its workplaces. Is Canada’s feminist image too good to be true?
