Tank Talks By Ripple Ventures

Sergey shares his evolution from a startup operator to venture capitalist and how his experience shaped him as an investor.

Sergey grew up in Israel and we talk about why Israel’s startup ecosystem ha…

The new year brings new news to discuss with John Ruffolo and Matt Cohen.

In this episode, we discuss:

(00:28) CEO and CRO Changes in Startups and Scale-ups(02:02) Exploration of 'founder flight' in…

Today we're diving into the world of ProductLed growth and user onboarding strategies with our special guest, Adam Jarczyn, Senior Director of Product Digital Health at PC Health and a valued Venture…

With 2023 coming to a close, we thought it would be nice to reflect on the year’s trends with John Ruffolo.

Doing the news breakdowns this year it’s been apparent that AI, ML, and ChatGPT have dominat…

The journey to Product Market Fit (PMF) and the common pitfalls for first-time founders are abundant, and finding a trusted guide to help you on your startup journey can be just as difficult. Our gue…

Capital formation, aka fundraising, is the unglamorous side of venture capital. Building a strategy and executing it is the reality for both emerging managers and established brands. Our guest today …

Once platforms for connection and communication, social media now often serves as a battleground for digital deception, with algorithms sometimes amplifying extremist content, including jihadi propag…

John Ruffolo and Matt Cohen convene an emergency news rundown to discuss the recent OpenAI news.

(00:22) OpenAI's Board’s surprise ousting of CEO Sam Altman(01:07) Impact on investors like Microsoft…

There’s a term of art in the business world—dogfooding. It means if you’re going to propose a solution, you should use that same solution to help better understand problems the end user may encounter…

On Today’s episode, we dive into the world of Family Office Investing with Ronald Shon from REDDS Capital.

We talked about to him the beginnings of his family's real estate empire, the Shon Group, whi…

As the Canadian Tech scene expands, we often are aided by Canadians abroad who have gained experience and expertise in various aspects of startup life and culture. Our guest today is Andre Charoo, Fo…

The grass is always greener, as the saying goes, and when our guest today saw the opportunity to build his lawncare empire and launch GreenPal, a lawncare marketplace he jumped in with both feet and …

There are moments that can make your day-to-day life come to a halt. What happened in Israel on 10/7 is the sort of public tragedy that stops the normal course of life, it also creates an impact of d…

Fintech regulations around the world can vary wildly, but here in Canada, they can be particularly onerous. Today someone who is no stranger to redefining and working through the complexing of Canadi…

We welcome Prashant Matta, General Partner at Panache Ventures.

We look back at Prashant's time at OMERS Ventures, how his approach to investing and working with founders has evolved, and the lessons …

This week we have a titan of Private Equity and Real Estate in Canada, Jon Love the Founder and CEO of KingSett Capital.

Jon shares some incredible stories from his early years of running Oxford Prope…

We are big fans of coaching as a way to make career (and life) progress. Having a seasoned third party helping guide you through big decisions and day-to-day processes can be an invaluable edge in bu…

Building a career is a series of choices, outcomes of those choices, and then reacting to those outcomes. Sometimes a small choice can have an outsized return, sometimes the reaction to an outcome ca…

Liquidity for investing in Venture Capital has been a recurring topic lately. Outsized rewards from investing in early-stage companies come when you hold until an IPO or other liquidity event. But li…

John is back! And here’s the news that he and Matt discussed:

(00:21) The loss of Damien Steel at OMERS(03:38) Who will fill the void left by OMERS(05:06) Tiger Global’s mysterious liquidity memo(0…