# Matt Golden

> Matt Golden is a seed investor at Golden Ventures (Toronto) backing Software and Health Care. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Golden Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/golden-venture-partners)
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/matt-golden/0/31/1b4
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MattGoldenVP
- Website: https://x.com/MattGoldenVP

Matt Golden is a seed investor at Golden Ventures in Toronto focused on Software and Health Care. Matt Golden is the Founder and Managing Partner of Golden Ventures. An experienced entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Matt has focused on startups his entire career and has been engaged in all aspects of building and guiding disruptive companies from their very early stages.Matt was previously a partner at the BlackBerry Partners Fund and theDirector of New Ventures at Brightspark Ventures. As an investor, Matt has worked with a number of successful startups including Skip The Dishes (acquired by JustEat LSE: JE), Wattpad, Ritual, Top Hat, Tempo (acquired by Salesforce.com Nasdaq: CRM), SocialDeck (acquired by Google Nasdaq: GOOG) Nexage (acquired by Millennial Media Nasdaq: MM), and Yesware. From 2001-2008, Matt was a co-founder of Tira Wireless, a mobile games publisher and content deployment technology and services provider. As SVP sales, business and corporate development, Tira became a recognized industry leader and pioneer in both mobile games publishing and content deployment.Prior to entering the startup world, Matt was a lawyer for Osler, one of Canada’s premier law firms specializing in business technology, general corporate, financial services and mergers and acquisitions. He has a law / MBA degree from the University of Ottawa, and a BA in Economics from York University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 13% |
| Health Care | 2 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 13% |
| SaaS | 1 | 7% |
| Sales | 1 | 7% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 40% |
| Series A | 3 | 20% |
| Series B | 2 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NiaHealth | NiaHealth is a healthcare provider that specializes in blood testing, personalized health analytics, and fitness through an app. | $4.2M | Seed | Jun 26, 2025 |  |
| Barley | Barley is a compensation management software that makes it easy to structure, analyze, and manage compensation - and keep a pulse on changing salary trends in the market. Barley’s platform gives forward-thinking businesses the tools to make smart, consistent, and fair pay decisions and create an incredibly rewarding workplace. | $4M | Seed | Mar 08, 2023 |  |
| Forma.ai | Forma.ai is a collective data model-driven sales compensation solution. It enables businesses to design, implement, and optimize their sales compensation strategy on a single platform. Nabeil Alazzam founded Forma.ai in 2016. Its headquarters are in Toronto, and it has teams spread across Canada and the United States. | $45M | Series B | May 17, 2022 |  |
| Forma.ai | Forma.ai is a collective data model-driven sales compensation solution. It enables businesses to design, implement, and optimize their sales compensation strategy on a single platform. Nabeil Alazzam founded Forma.ai in 2016. Its headquarters are in Toronto, and it has teams spread across Canada and the United States. | $10M | Series A | Mar 11, 2021 |  |
| Forma.ai | Forma.ai is a collective data model-driven sales compensation solution. It enables businesses to design, implement, and optimize their sales compensation strategy on a single platform. Nabeil Alazzam founded Forma.ai in 2016. Its headquarters are in Toronto, and it has teams spread across Canada and the United States. | $3M | Seed | Feb 07, 2020 |  |
| Wattpad | Wattpad is a digital entertainment company providing an online social storytelling platform for original stories.The company utilizes the power of community and technology to enable the creation and distribution of content across a variety of formats. Its flagship app, Wattpad, is home to a community of more than 65 million people who spend over20 billion minutes a month engaged in original stories. Tap by Wattpad, the company’s second storytelling product, offers short, chat-based stories in over a dozen languages. Wattpad Studios co-produces stories for film, television, digital, and print, together with industry partners. Wattpad Brand Solutions offers a full suite of advertising products to help brands build deep engagement with Millennial and Gen Z consumers.It was established by Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2006. | $51M |  | Jan 17, 2018 |  |
| SkipTheDishes | SkipTheDishes is a North American technology company seamlessly connecting people to local restaurants and food couriers, making great food more accessible. Through the SkipTheDishes network, restaurants gain more business, food couriers earn extra income on their own schedule, and busy customers are able to gain time by ordering from hundreds oflocal restaurants and national chains that never offered delivery before. From the founding of our network in 2012 to our expansion to 20 cities, SkipTheDishes is advancing the future of food delivery. |  | Seed | Dec 14, 2016 |  |
| OMsignal | Omsignal manufactures bio-sensing clothing that connects to iPhones and iPads in real-time. Embedded sensors in the apparel monitor heart rate, breathing, and activity while the Omsignal app displays data in real-time on a mobile phone. OMsignal fits seamlessly into everyday life. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Montréal, Canada. | $10M | Series A | Jun 24, 2014 |  |
| Wattpad | Wattpad is a digital entertainment company providing an online social storytelling platform for original stories.The company utilizes the power of community and technology to enable the creation and distribution of content across a variety of formats. Its flagship app, Wattpad, is home to a community of more than 65 million people who spend over20 billion minutes a month engaged in original stories. Tap by Wattpad, the company’s second storytelling product, offers short, chat-based stories in over a dozen languages. Wattpad Studios co-produces stories for film, television, digital, and print, together with industry partners. Wattpad Brand Solutions offers a full suite of advertising products to help brands build deep engagement with Millennial and Gen Z consumers.It was established by Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2006. | $46M | Series C | Apr 08, 2014 |  |
| Guardly | Guardly designs and provides mobile safety solutions to help security teams better prepare for and respond to threats against people and key assets they protect. Guardly mobile safety apps available on Android, iPhone, Windows Phone and BlackBerry act as personal emergency phones that provide instant two-way communication with private security andauthorities. Guardly's mobile safety applications, indoor positioning system and mass notification technologies improve situational awareness by providing real-time indoor positioning / GPS data, caller identity and the nature of an incident — data otherwise not available to security operators. Guardly Command™ helps security operators monitor, manage and respond to real-time data, make more informed decisions and improve emergency response times by as much as 44 percent. Guardly is based in Toronto and is committed to improving emergency response and communication. | $1.5M | Seed | Jan 29, 2014 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Union Square Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/union-square-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Crosslink Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crosslink-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mistral Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mistral-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [OMERS Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/omers-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Real Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/real-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Golden Ventures

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We're here to support founders who are building the future. It is our job to take big risks on the world's most talented, driven and resilient founding teams who want to change the world.

5 contacts available at Golden Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ameet Shah | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ameet-shah-2 |
| Bert Amato | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bert-amato |
| Jamie Rosenblatt | Partner; Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jamie-rosenblatt |
| Matt Golden | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-golden |
| Nick Chen | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-chen-3 |

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## FAQ

### What does Matt Golden invest in?

Matt Golden invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Matt Golden last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Matt Golden closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 15 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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