The No Cap Newsletter (026)
A biweekly newsletter by the RippleX Fellowship covering key program insights and updates, industry news/events, fellow spotlights, and internships/jobs.
🌊 About the RippleX Fellowship
The RippleX Fellowship is a remote 12-week program powered by Ripple Ventures that connects students across North America, providing them with valuable coaching, resources, and networking opportunities to enhance their skills and knowledge in startup building and venture capital.
Learn more about our program at our RippleX Fellowship website!
Are you a student or first-time founder building in the B2B SaaS space? Check out our RippleX Fellow Fund!
Enroll in our free, public, online course here.
Interested in being featured in the No Cap Newsletter? Looking to share exciting news? Please reach out to Isabelle at isabelle@rippleventures.com or Katie at katie@rippleventures.com.
👀 Upcoming Events
💻 Ripple Ventures: AI Founder Get-Together with Braden Ream @ Voiceflow
Calling all AI founders in Toronto! Join us for an intimate founder get-together on July 14, 2023 ✨
We're excited to bring the AI community together and foster opportunities for tech leaders in the city to mingle over pizza + drinks 🤩
We will also be featuring one of our portfolio founders, Braden Ream, CEO of Voiceflow, in a fireside discussion about generative AI tools & how to build and sell into enterprises at scale 🚀
Secure your spot here 👉 https://lu.ma/rippleaifounders and we'll see you there!
🚀 Collision 2023 Recap
Our entire Ripple Ventures team attended Collision 2023! It was four days of jam-packed events, two of which featured our very own partners 🙌
We enjoyed meeting new founders, investors, and RippleX fellows — and we loved catching up with familiar faces. Keep scrolling to see pics of our team with some Cohort 14 fellows! 👀
🌱 Seeds of opportunity: Exploring the Canadian seed VC landscape [Hosted by AWS]
On June 27th, our Partner, Dominic Lau, spoke in an expert panel providing an in-depth analysis of the current state of the Canadian seed VC landscape. The panel highlighted key investment sectors, emerging technologies, and noteworthy funding patterns.
PS. Dom gave the RippleX Fellowship a shoutout at the panel! We love our RippleX community 🫶
💡 Workforce layoffs: Big tech’s loss is another industry’s gain
On June 29th, our Managing Partner, Matt Cohen, shared his thoughts about the future of work trends in a fireside chat. With a representative from The Globe and Mail, he discussed how big tech layoffs and hiring freezes are providing a host of other industries with top talent.
📸 Ripple Team and RippleX Fellows at Collision
In the pictures below, members of the Ripple team featured include our Associate, Naz Thakkar; our Analyst, Katie Ko; and our Summer Analyst, Isabelle Gan. The Cohort 14 RippleX fellows featured include Laurence Liang, William Wang, Valeria Vazquez, and Divine Adekanmbi.
🤗 Stay in Touch
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Instagram ➡️ We launched our Instagram page this summer! Give us a follow and stay in touch with us there: @ripplexfellowship 🤩
Email ➡️ Have questions about this edition of the No Cap Newsletter? Please reach out to Isabelle at isabelle@rippleventures.com or Katie at katie@rippleventures.com 🙌