Tank Talks By Ripple Ventures

Matt Cohen

Booking Overview

A weekly interview-led startup and venture podcast focused on investing, building, and operating companies, typically featuring prominent founders, investors, and senior technology executives from the Canadian startup ecosystem. Credible pitches include venture capitalists, scaled startup founders, and senior operators with expertise in artificial intelligence, fintech, hard tech, or defense technology; booking difficulty is high because recent guests include recognizable leaders from Shopify, Version One, Neo Financial, Opendoor, and major investment firms.

Metrics

Episodes: 333

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Male

Location: Canada

Contact Information

tanktalks@substack.com

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Host

Matt Cohen - Founder and Managing Partner at Ripple Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on startups.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Prominent venture capitalists, founders who have built or scaled technology companies, and senior executives or technical leaders from notable startups and established technology companies.
Required Achievements:  
Founded or scaled a notable startup, Led engineering, product, or operations at a major technology company, Invested in or advised high-growth startups, Built companies or products in artificial intelligence, fintech, hard tech, or defense technology

Recent Guest Discussions

Mark Maybank - Canadian Defense Technology, Dual-use Companies, Defense Investing, Procurement, And Scaling Sovereign-interest Businesses.

Devin Galloway - Canadian Defense Technology, Dual-use Startups, Venture Funding, Government Procurement, And The Series A Capital Gap.

Eliot Pence - Sovereign Canadian Defense Technology, Artificial Intelligence, And Arctic-focused Innovation.

Fahd Ananta - Startup Turnarounds, Operating Velocity, And Company Building.

Andrew Chau - Fintech, Challenging Canada's Banking Oligopoly, And Building Financial Services Companies.

Recent Topics

Venture Capital, Startups, Investing, Entrepreneurship, Technology

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Tank Talks By Ripple Ventures
:

The 4.3 Trillion Dollar Problem: Why Venture’s Liquidity Crisis Is Here to Stay with John Rikhtegar and Peter Walker

July 13, 2026

In this special episode of Tank Talks, recorded live during Toronto Tech Week at Moomoo Canada’s flagship store in Yorkville, Matt Cohen sits down with two of venture’s sharpest data and investment minds for an unfiltered conversation on the state of private markets.Peter Walker, Senior Director of Insights at Carta, brings the hard numbers from 60,000+ companies and 3,000+ US venture funds, revealing the stark reality behind valuation markups, unicorn deterioration, and the widening dispersi...

Arctic Edge Panel: Defence Tech, Dual-Use, and the Future of Canadian Innovation

July 02, 2026

Canada is entering one of the most important moments in its innovation history. As global tensions rise and national security becomes a growing priority, founders, investors, and governments are being forced to rethink how Canadian defence technology is built, funded, and scaled.In this special episode of Tank Talks, host Matt Cohen steps into the guest seat as part of a live panel recording from the Arctic Edge event, held during Toronto Tech Week on May 26th, 2026. Against the backdrop of e...

Toronto Tech Week and the New Era of Canadian Startup Ambition

June 26, 2026

In this special episode of Tank Talks, Matt Cohen brings listeners inside Toronto Tech Week with a live podcast studio recorded at the Toronto Homecoming event. This episode captures a fast-moving snapshot of the Canadian tech ecosystem through candid conversations with Boris Wertz of Version One, Lawrence Mandel and Farhan Thawar of Shopify, Ben Vinegar of Modem, Andrew Chau of Neo Financial, Fahd Ananta of Opendoor, and Eliot Pence of Dominion Dynamics. Across venture capital, AI-native eng...

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