# Good News Ventures

> Good News Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 71 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 71
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mukhamedyarov/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/mkthappen
- Website: http://goodnewsventures.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsVenturesVC

Good News Ventures is a VC fund in Toronto focused on Software and Information Technology. At Good News Ventures, we invest in early stage technology companies founded by true grit entrepreneurs. We back passionate and determined founders as they develop their impressive ideas into prominent businesses. We admire those who embrace the risk and uncertainty and aren’t afraid to break with convention.We invest in all sectors including AI,IoT, big data, B2B, cloud/SaaS, mobile, marketplaces, finance, healthcare, applications, infrastructure, networking, security, space technology, storage.Our partners provide significant value in strategic advice and networking. We have put together exceptional roster of advisors who have various background and can help entrepreneurs take ideas from a concept to a business through mentorships and guidance.We focus on providing exceptional value for the founders and remarkable returns for investors. We evaluate risk vs rewards and ensure potential returns are in line with our investment philosophy.The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark—Michelangelo

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $376k–$4.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $146k–$2.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 19 | 27% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 15% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 11 | 15% |
| Machine Learning | 7 | 10% |
| Marketplace | 5 | 7% |

105 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 37 | 52% |
| Pre-Seed | 13 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 7% |
| Convertible Note | 4 | 6% |
| Series A | 3 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 32 | 45% |
| United States | 12 | 17% |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1% |
| Portugal | 1 | 1% |
| Singapore | 1 | 1% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Marat Mukhamedyarov | Founding partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marat-mukhamedyarov |
| Mohan Markandaier | Founding partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mohan-markandaier |
| Mona Kung | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mona-kung |
| James DeGreef | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-degreef |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reddio | Reddio is a technology company that builds infrastructure for the blockchain, to help developers adopt blockchain technologies with the world’s first easy-to-use Layer 2 zkRollup Agnostic APIs. Enabling developers embed Token or NFT (Non-fungible token) into their web, desktop and mobile applications with massive scalability and zero gas fee foroff-chain.Reddio has partnered with the leading layer 2 zkRollup provider Starkware to launch StarkEx APIs, with which you can have instant trading confirmation within second, high concurrent transactions up to 10k TPS, 0 gas fee as it’s done on layer 2 and the asset security derived from layer 1 Ethereum. Reddio is backed by top VCs such as Paradigm and Arena Holdings. |  | Series A | May 31, 2025 |  |
| Spiky.AI | Spiky.ai uses AI-based sentiment analysis to examine videos from online learnings/meetings in order to boost engagement. Founded in 2020 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. | $2.8M | Seed | Feb 25, 2025 |  |
| Pipeshift | Pipeshift is a modular orchestration platform for building with open-source AI components—embeddings, vector databases, LLMs, vision models, and audio models—across any cloud or on-premise. Enterprises get to deploy their AI workloads in production faster and more reliably. | $2.5M | Seed | Jan 23, 2025 |  |
| Pipeshift | Pipeshift is a modular orchestration platform for building with open-source AI components—embeddings, vector databases, LLMs, vision models, and audio models—across any cloud or on-premise. Enterprises get to deploy their AI workloads in production faster and more reliably. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jan 23, 2025 |  |
| Quanto | Quanto is an AI-powered bookkeeping and tax preparation platform designed to automate financial management for small businesses. By streamlining bookkeeping, tax compliance, and financial reporting, Quanto helps business owners save time, reduce errors, and gain real-time financial insights. Our mission is to empower entrepreneurs with seamless,automated financial solutions so they can focus on growing their businesses. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 08, 2024 |  |
| Reddio | Reddio is a technology company that builds infrastructure for the blockchain, to help developers adopt blockchain technologies with the world’s first easy-to-use Layer 2 zkRollup Agnostic APIs. Enabling developers embed Token or NFT (Non-fungible token) into their web, desktop and mobile applications with massive scalability and zero gas fee foroff-chain.Reddio has partnered with the leading layer 2 zkRollup provider Starkware to launch StarkEx APIs, with which you can have instant trading confirmation within second, high concurrent transactions up to 10k TPS, 0 gas fee as it’s done on layer 2 and the asset security derived from layer 1 Ethereum. Reddio is backed by top VCs such as Paradigm and Arena Holdings. |  | Seed | Nov 24, 2024 |  |
| Finery Markets | Finery Markets is a leading over-the-counter, multi-dealer electronic marketplace for institutional participants and a trading solutions provider for crypto markets. Serving clients since 2019, Finery Markets provides solutions throughout the whole trade lifecycle: - High-performance execution venue with deep institutional liquidity and firmquotes. - Price intelligence and pre-trade risk management tools. - Position management, risk controls, reporting tools and cost analysis, as well as flexible settlement based on a noncustodial model. - Single entry point to global liquidity providers via API and GUI. - Robust infrastructure: 99.99+% uptime and full automation.The Finery Markets platform is available as a white-label solution for prime brokers, OTC desks and exchanges that are willing to develop and expand a low-touch client business. |  | Seed | Oct 28, 2024 |  |
| Spiky.AI | Spiky.ai uses AI-based sentiment analysis to examine videos from online learnings/meetings in order to boost engagement. Founded in 2020 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. |  | Seed | Sep 01, 2024 |  |
| Pipeshift | Pipeshift is a modular orchestration platform for building with open-source AI components—embeddings, vector databases, LLMs, vision models, and audio models—across any cloud or on-premise. Enterprises get to deploy their AI workloads in production faster and more reliably. | $150K | Pre-Seed | Jul 17, 2024 |  |
| NodeOps | NodeOps offers AI-enabled infrastructure to Node Operators, speeding Web3 protocol development. | $5M | Seed | May 27, 2024 |  |

10 of 71 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
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- [Inovia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inovia-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Good News Ventures invest in?

Good News Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 71 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Good News Ventures's check size?

Good News Ventures typically joins rounds of $376k–$4.3M at Seed and $146k–$2.7M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Good News Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Good News Ventures?

Public channels for Good News Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Good News Ventures?

The team at Good News Ventures includes Marat Mukhamedyarov (Founding partner), Mohan Markandaier (Founding partner) and Mona Kung (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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