Neilda Pacquing Gagné

A CEO from one of our portfolio companies shared this with their team. I’m re-sharing it with their permission, because it resonated and reflects what all founders and CEOs should be communicating. -- We are living through a period of compounding change. And in moments like this, the biggest risk is no longer making the wrong decision. It is moving too slowly while the world moves around you. There are two paths. We can play defense: - Protect what we have - Optimize what works - Wait for clarity It feels safe. It isn’t. Or we can play offense: - Learn faster than the environment changes - Use new tools to solve old problems in better ways - And create entirely new strategies and businesses That’s where the opportunity is. Challenge yourself to do things faster and better than you have ever attempted. Stay uncomfortable. Stay on the front foot.

You can now enable Claude to use your computer to complete tasks. It opens your apps, navigates your browser, fills in spreadsheets—anything you'd do sitting at your desk. Research preview in Claude Cowork and Claude Code, macOS only.

Ever wonder how a team of a few manages a community of over 1,500 people? @NeildaLikeZelda took the stage at Tech Thursday to share exactly how AGIV runs on AI. She demoed Oat Milk, our custom Discord chatbot powered by Claude, live. Watch the full video on YouTube. youtube.com/watch?v=z_18nt…

I packaged up the "autoresearch" project into a new self-contained minimal repo if people would like to play over the weekend. It's basically nanochat LLM training core stripped down to a single-GPU, one file version of ~630 lines of code, then: - the human iterates on the prompt (.md) - the AI agent iterates on the training code (.py) The goal is to engineer your agents to make the fastest research progress indefinitely and without any of your own involvement. In the image, every dot is a complete LLM training run that lasts exactly 5 minutes. The agent works in an autonomous loop on a git feature branch and accumulates git commits to the training script as it finds better settings (of lower validation loss by the end) of the neural network architecture, the optimizer, all the hyperparameters, etc. You can imagine comparing the research progress of different prompts, different agents, etc. github.com/karpathy/autor… Part code, part sci-fi, and a pinch of psychosis :)

@SofiGu1 @haithehuman We can definitely help with that! 😄

@NeildaLikeZelda @haithehuman some interest here in replicating this for Toronto 👀

I'm officially [soft] launching: The Starter Guide to NYC for Tech Enthusiasts 🤠 On this Notion page, I wanted to create a community space to consolidate and share resources I've been collecting over the years about the tech community in NYC (with some special SF appearances). What you'll find: 1. Top tech people to follow 2. Cool tech communities to join 3. My favorite coffee shops to co-work ➡️ lnkd.in/eyUT5XCu ⬅️

Builders Sunday at @Shopify is LIVE! @AGIVentures was present and the energy was unreal. We brought boba tea because great builders deserve great fuel. It runs every Sunday in March from 12 to 5 PM. New spots drop every Wednesday at 12 PM ET for the following Sunday.

AI agents are making leaders of us all (including juniors) and most people are not ready for this promotion.

@jane_maguire @Shopify Thanks so much for helping us make it happen! Looking forward to next time!

safe to say the first #BuilderSundays at @Shopify Ottawa was a success. lots of really cool demos too!

@NotionHQ what is this??? …it looks like a KKK hood and calling it a “wizard” makes it even worse! 😬😱

Coming soon to everyone.

@haithehuman Building anything is hard in general. I love how we can at least make the process ofeasier for others (or try to) while making it fun in the process with our @AGIVentures community!

instead of riding politicians' coat tails and bandwaggon-ing politics, we provide real value to enterprises and mid-markets, build agents and harnesses (because we're real builders), and put money where our mouth is (15% revenue back to the community). works out pretty well.

After hearing feedback from Canadian founders in our network, we’ve decided to add Canada back to our list of accepted countries of incorporation. Going forward, YC will once again invest in US, Canada, Cayman, and Singapore corporations. ycombinator.com/blog/adding-ca…

Think in years. Ship this weekend. What are you shipping this weekend? 🚀

We wrapped up the "Situation Dashboard" Hackathon at our Hacker House last weekend, powered by @tavilyai x @claudeai. People showed up ready to build 🏗️ Checkout the winning projects below!

@tetsuoai @garrytan We definitely see them at @AgiVentures!

In YC’s 20 year history Canadian startups that reincorporated in the US have 2x the avg valuation of those that didn’t. And the ones at Unicorn or near it all reincorporated in Delaware I love Canada (born in Winnipeg). But don't let that get in the way of making a huge startup.

@haithehuman @claudeai @AgiVentures Too much for me right now 🥲

@NeildaLikeZelda @claudeai @AgiVentures 120 bucks a month and its yours lollll

Please @claudeai give me access 😫🙏 I need help planning, running, and sharing about our @AgiVentures hackathons and events.

If you didn’t ship it, it never happened We’re hosting our first hackathon of 2026 at our new hacker house! 🇨🇦 Powered by @BackboardIO Ship, Merge and walk away with prizes. Apply here: luma.com/ja2lt6zy

This is a month-long, in-person build sprint for AI builders, indie hackers, and founders who want to ship something real. Not content. Not networking fluff. Just execution + great people to build alongside. Builders apply. Mentors / speakers / sponsors welcome. 👉 notion.so/AGI-Ventures-C…

Last call 🚨 Pop-Up Hacker House (Ottawa, Jan) Serious AI builders. Focused build time. Weekly demos. Shipping by end of month. Applications close tonight.