@mattybcohen and I are very excited to announce that @ripple_ventures Fund IV is now live, anchored by Northleaf Capital Partners, RBC / RBCx, and one of Canada's largest private conglomerates. The firm I walked into and the firm we run today are not the same one, and every bit of that change has been in the right direction. Sharper focus, bigger swings, and higher standards for ourselves. Fund IV marks the start of a new arc for Ripple, and we already have ten companies in the portfolio. Three things are guiding this fund: - Following the brightest founders into the most ambitious things being built. - Investing with conviction in the earliest stages (pre-product and pre-traction). - Supporting sovereign capabilities with frontier technologies. Welcoming the newest portfolio companies out of this fund: Canada Rocket Company (soveriegn launch capability) North Vector Dynamics (full-stack air defence systems) Terranox AI (AI uranium exploration) Valen (AI to improve drugs) Green Abundance (plant engineering) uRun iInfrastructure for the interactive era) Silmo (AI for the backoffice) Blackletter (building a new type of law firm) Asset (embedded AI accounting) Daedal (diagnostics infrastructure for fusion reactors) To the founders we have not met yet: if you are building with this level of ambition, we'd love to partner with you. cc: @katiekola_smile @jayhyucklee Read more here: linkedin.com/pulse/ripple-ve…