Northside Ventures

A pre-seed and seed stage venture capital firm backing exceptional Canadian founders in the US and Canada.

[Northside Ventures @NorthsideVC_]

Last week we hosted a Hiring Social in Waterloo ahead of @socraticainfo weekend.

200+ engineers, 4 YC-backed portfolio companies, one room.

Waterloo produces some of the best engineering talent in the world, and we wanted to help bridge the gap. More to come 🚀

[Overworld @overworld_ai]

Today we’re releasing Waypoint-1.5.

An update to our real-time diffusion world model designed to run interactively on consumer hardware.

[Northside Ventures @NorthsideVC_]

thank you to @waterloovg for co-hosting, and to @jrodgers + @j4shah for the space at @TheBarnWaterloo

and to the founders who came out → @gilesconnor @adhityaa @JaiRelan & josh

finally big up to @demireren_ @AlexMcIsaac333 @NaomiWalch for making it all happen 🙌

[Northside Ventures @NorthsideVC_]

Last week we hosted a Hiring Social in Waterloo ahead of @socraticainfo weekend.

200+ engineers, 4 YC-backed portfolio companies, one room.

Waterloo produces some of the best engineering talent in the world, and we wanted to help bridge the gap. More to come 🚀

[Northside Ventures @NorthsideVC_]

The @socraticainfo team did not disappoint.

View was incredible from up here 🧡

[Northside Ventures @NorthsideVC_]

Jai is flying in from SF for this. If that doesn't tell you how serious this room is, we don't know what will.

Last few spots left for tomorrow🏔️

@socraticainfo

[Jai Relan @JaiRelan]

https://t.co/6Vm7aVaAHd

w/ @AlexMcIsaac333, @NaomiWalch (@NorthsideVC_)

[Northside Ventures @NorthsideVC_]

Cartage (YC S24) is building Wilson — an AI logistics coordinator that autonomously handles carrier coordination, tracking, and customer updates for manufacturers and distributors.

https://t.co/8wrBjVY3No needs senior engineers (3+ years experience) in-person at the San Francisco or Vancouver offices. Open roles require experience building agentic AI systems, full-stack production systems, and enterprise integrations (ERPs, TMSs, Slack/Teams).

Meet CTO Josh Lampen at our Hiring Social in Waterloo on March 20th👇

[Northside Ventures @NorthsideVC_]

If you're in Waterloo for @socraticainfo weekend, come early.

We're bringing in 4 exceptional portfolio companies backed by @ycombinator, and they're hiring 🪿

Whether you're a senior engineer or looking for an internship, this is your shot!

https://t.co/1n0ixGvHYF

[Northside Ventures @NorthsideVC_]

@gilesconnor @withterminal https://t.co/1n0ixGvHYF

[Northside Ventures @NorthsideVC_]

Terminal (YC S23) is hiring senior engineers (3+ and 6+ years experience) - come meet Co-founder and CTO @gilesconnor at our Hiring Social in Waterloo on March 20th! Only select candidates will be accepted.

@withterminal is building the 'Plaid for telematics data': a universal API connecting commercial trucking fleets, insurers, and fintechs to GPS, vehicle, and driver data across dozens of ELD providers.

Open roles require experience in TB-to-PB data pipelines, Kafka/Flink, lake-house architectures, and distributed systems. Java + AWS stack, in-person Toronto team.

🔗Apply via Luma link in comments!

[Northside Ventures @NorthsideVC_]

If you're in Waterloo for @socraticainfo weekend, come early.

We're bringing in 4 exceptional portfolio companies backed by @ycombinator, and they're hiring 🪿

Whether you're a senior engineer or looking for an internship, this is your shot!

https://t.co/1n0ixGvHYF

[Northside Ventures @NorthsideVC_]

Excited to partner with @gilesconnor at @withterminal
(YC S23), @adhityaa at @subtrace_dev (YC W25), @JaiRelan at https://t.co/lIEWl5qFhz (YC S25), and Josh Lampen at https://t.co/NWvXx424cs (YC S24) to make this happen!

[Northside Ventures @NorthsideVC_]

If you're in Waterloo for @socraticainfo weekend, come early.

We're bringing in 4 exceptional portfolio companies backed by @ycombinator, and they're hiring 🪿

Whether you're a senior engineer or looking for an internship, this is your shot!

https://t.co/1n0ixGvHYF

[Northside Ventures @NorthsideVC_]

Set deadlines you're not sure you can hit.

A 5-year timeline → brain never gets urgent.
A 2-year deadline with 50% odds → forces ruthless prioritization.

Your schedule expands to fill whatever window you give it.

via @collision x @dwarkesh_sp's Cheeky Pint

[Northside Ventures @NorthsideVC_]

@demireren_ @owengretzinger @boardyai @whosjunaidd @Wealthsimple @emtalas @stanforcreators @muhibwqr @_neiloy Go Toronto!

[Overworld @overworld_ai]

We’ll be in SF next month for GDC and GTC, and we are bringing a new demo with us 👀

If you care about world models, real-time systems, or the weird edge cases that only show up when you try to run this stuff live, let’s grab time while we’re in town.

We want to see what you come up with

[Northside Ventures @NorthsideVC_]

Congrats to the @_hex_security team, @zer0day, @hzzzaifa and @menace_codes on their launch!

Continuous, agent-driven security is quickly becoming necessary as attacks move to AI-speed.

Proud to be early supporters at @NorthsideVC_

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

.@_hex_security is building AI agents that hack your systems before real attackers do.

In weeks, their agents uncovered critical flaws at dozens of unicorns, earning over $250K in bounties. Hex already protects companies processing billions in transactions and millions of user records.

Congrats @zer0day, @menace_codes, and @hzzzaifa on the launch!

https://t.co/To8F4TQ3Hn

[Northside Ventures @NorthsideVC_]

Local-first, real-time world models open up a different class of interactive AI.

Congrats to @lcastricato and Shahb on Waypoint-1! Proud to support this early at @NorthsideVC_

[Overworld @overworld_ai]

Today, we’re releasing a research preview of our real-time, local-first world model built for interactive, playable AI-worlds

60fps, locally run, all on consumer-grade hardware.

Come take a look ⬇️

[Alex McIsaac @AlexMcIsaac333]

Congrats @lcastricato and Shahb on launching @overworld_ai model Waypoint-1! @NorthsideVC_ is proud to be an early supporter!

[Northside Ventures @NorthsideVC_]

Congrats to new @NorthsideVC_ portfolio company Canada Rocket Company on their launch!

Building sovereign launch capability for Canada, repatriating top-tier aerospace talent, and closing a $6.2M all-Canadian seed round🚀

https://t.co/dy2WGby3LQ

[Northside Ventures @NorthsideVC_]

Congrats to Northside portfolio company @veritree_ and @demsley on the @Manulife partnership!

This brings verified data, transparency, and scale to how forests get restored and tracked🌱

https://t.co/CftnBgCWf7

[Northside Ventures @NorthsideVC_]

2026 is about showing up more in person and spending time with founders.

We’re planning more dinners, Socratica Symposium, Toronto Tech Week, and other small, high-signal gatherings across Toronto, Waterloo, and beyond.

This @wlootechweek workshop recap was just the beginning.