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Golden Ventures

Golden Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Toronto, Canada, founded in 2011 by former founders and operators who back bold, early-stage entrepreneurial teams across North America. The firm is sector agnostic and invests at the pre-seed, seed, and seed+ stages with typical initial checks of roughly $500K to $3M, having made over 100 investments including Wattpad, BenchSci, Float, ResQ, and Neo Financial. It was surfaced in the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of Foundry Group. As a venture-capital firm rather than an API provider, it publishes no developer or API surface; this profile captures firm identity and domain security posture.

Golden Ventures is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Venture Capital, Seed Stage, Startups, and Investment.

Golden Ventures’ developer surface includes engineering blog and 2 more developer resources.

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7.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 7.2/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Golden Ventures Domain Security

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Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

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Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
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 Blog
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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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name: Golden Ventures
description: Golden Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Toronto, Canada, founded in 2011 by former founders
  and operators who back bold, early-stage entrepreneurial teams across North America. The firm is sector agnostic and invests
  at the pre-seed, seed, and seed+ stages with typical initial checks of roughly $500K to $3M, having made over 100 investments
  including Wattpad, BenchSci, Float, ResQ, and Neo Financial. It was surfaced in the API Evangelist network as a portfolio
  company of Foundry Group. As a venture-capital firm rather than an API provider, it publishes no developer or API surface;
  this profile captures firm identity and domain security posture.
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tags:
- Company
- Venture Capital
- Seed Stage
- Startups
- Investment
- Pre-Seed
- Toronto
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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- type: Blog
  name: Golden Ventures News
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