Nick Chen

Pillar is a unified AI security platform that enables organizations to build and run secure AI software by proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating security risks across the entire AI lifecycle. By embedding robust security foundations from development through runtime, Pillar accelerates AI initiatives while effectively managing critical business risks. With capabilities like AI fingerprinting, asset inventory, tailored adversarial testing, and adaptive guardrails, Pillar streamlines compliance, prevents data breaches, and empowers teams to ship AI-powered applications and agents with confidence.

Viggle is powered by JST-1, the first video-3d foundation model with actual physics understanding. We lead in achieving controllability, character consistency, and real-time performance in AI video generation.

EtherFi is a decentralized non-custodial ETH staking protocol. It is the only staking protocol that allows stakers to retain control of their keys while delegating validator operations to node operators.

DefenseStorm ensures cyber risk readiness with a comprehensive system, including cybersecurity, compliance, and fraud. The only system specifically built for banking, it accounts for all the daunting challenges, regulations, and technology requirements you face as a financial institution. Our intelligent data engine, GRID, delivers real-time access, analysis, and action on all your critical threat data. Our Threat Ready Active Compliance (TRAC) team enables co-managed support 24x7x365, providing the support and expertise you need. Together, we will help you get ahead of the storm of threats. Offices locations: Alpharetta, Georgia - Corporate Headquarters Seattle, Washington - Research & Development Center Wilmington, North Carolina - Business Development Center

DISCO provides a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies ediscovery, legal document review, legal hold and case management for enterprises, law firms, legal services providers, and governments. Our scalable, integrated solution enables legal departments to easily collect, process, and review enterprise data that is relevant or potentially relevant to legal matters.

TrackTik was founded in 2013 with the mission to build better software so our clients can run smarter businesses. 7 years later, TrackTik's Security Workforce Management solution helps security organisations connect frontline, back office, management, and clients to drive operational efficiency, offer insights, and provide added value. TrackTik helps security professionals harness the power of data to glean insight and drive decisions which is key to building a security strategy that works. Headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with offices in the United Kingdom and Europe, TrackTik provides a comprehensive suite of solutions to help security service companies follow the progression of guards, reduce manual tasks, lower costs, and demonstrate value. https://www.tracktik.com/

Stratifyd’s Connected Intelligence solution bridges the gap between insights and outcomes through a powerful engine that unifies all structured and unstructured data sources, surfaces hidden themes, and provides actionable intel. Unlike competing solutions, Stratifyd leverages augmented intelligence to apply unsupervised rules to analysis, enabling users to identify the “unknown unknowns” buried within their data. Fortune 500 companies worldwide turn to Stratifyd to optimize medical insights, customer intelligence, brand management, and contact center, product, and employee experiences.

RiskIQ is the leader in attack surface management, providing the most comprehensive discovery, intelligence, and mitigation of threats associated with an organization’s digital presence. With more than 75 percent of attacks originating outside the firewall, RiskIQ allows enterprises to gain unified insight and control over web, social and mobile exposures. Trusted by thousands of security analysts, RiskIQ’s platform combines advanced internet data reconnaissance and analytics to expedite investigations, understand digital attack surfaces, assess risk, and take action to protect the business, brand, and customers. Based in San Francisco, the company is a subsidiary of Microsoft. To learn more about RiskIQ, visit www.riskiq.com.

The world’s most engaging customer communities are powered by Influitive. Our easy-to-use platform combines industry-leading customer advocacy tools, expert services, and training with intelligent automation, gamification, and personalization features that drive extreme engagement and customer growth at scale—while minimizing administrative effort and time to value. Customer advocates create and share enriching content that sparks peer-to-peer interactions, leading to authentic, positive customer experiences and greater levels of advocacy. Influitive works with customer-driven digital businesses, including nine of the top ten largest global software companies. Leading brands such as Cisco, Adobe, ADP, and IBM trust Influitive to help foster collaboration, build trust, and deepen relationships with customers for top-line growth and bottom-line profits.

Pillar is a unified AI security platform that enables organizations to build and run secure AI software by proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating security risks across the entire AI lifecycle. By embedding robust security foundations from development through runtime, Pillar accelerates AI initiatives while effectively managing critical business risks. With capabilities like AI fingerprinting, asset inventory, tailored adversarial testing, and adaptive guardrails, Pillar streamlines compliance, prevents data breaches, and empowers teams to ship AI-powered applications and agents with confidence.

Viggle is powered by JST-1, the first video-3d foundation model with actual physics understanding. We lead in achieving controllability, character consistency, and real-time performance in AI video generation.

EtherFi is a decentralized non-custodial ETH staking protocol. It is the only staking protocol that allows stakers to retain control of their keys while delegating validator operations to node operators.

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. We believe technology is not an industry. It transcends conventional categories and touches every facet of life, improving the world as we know it. People will find new ways to make things simpler, faster, cheaper, and smarter. It is for this reason that we invest across sectors, trusting a founder’s ability to teach us what is on the horizon and deliberately leverage our mentorship and diverse network to their advantage. It is also why we focus exclusively on our superpower, the seed stage. While companies at seed stage might seem messy and imperfect to most, that’s our comfort zone. It’s where we can help you identify what matters — setting milestones and the necessary focus that will help you achieve product-market fit.