@HighlineBeta

We work with ambitious corporations to co-invest in and build early-stage startups.

Toronto, Ontario
Joined July 2016
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💡From idea to impact. At @TOtechweek , we sat down with @nigeldacosta , Managing Director at @HighlineBeta , to break down the venture studio model: ✅ Build in-house until it’s ready ✅ Pair with founders & funding ✅ Focus on profitable, real-world businesses fast It’s all about lowering risk & raising success. 🎥 Watch here:👇 #VentureStudio #Innovation #MNEE
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Loved hosting everyone and looking forward to more
Yesterday @HighlineBeta Ethereum Frontier event, @dimabuterin & @nigeldacosta, highlighted @ethereum's origin and evolution & Highline Beta ETH - a new studio backing Canadian founders building real-world ETH solutions. Cheers 2 Highline Beta for leading & making the move.
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great energy, loved the event
📸 We loved @HighlineBeta's The Ethereum Frontier at @TOtechweek! 😍 Great convos, plenty of food, an open bar 🍸and insights from @dimabuterin (AKA "The Grandfather of Ethereum"), @coinbase's Country Director @lucmatheson & more. Congrats to @nigeldacosta and the entire Highline Beta team. Here’s a look at the energy! 🇨🇦👇
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📸 We loved @HighlineBeta's The Ethereum Frontier at @TOtechweek! 😍 Great convos, plenty of food, an open bar 🍸and insights from @dimabuterin (AKA "The Grandfather of Ethereum"), @coinbase's Country Director @lucmatheson & more. Congrats to @nigeldacosta and the entire Highline Beta team. Here’s a look at the energy! 🇨🇦👇
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💫Highlights from The Ethereum Frontier event by @HighlineBeta at @TOtechweek! Fireside wisdom from @dimabuterin 😎, real convos, great food, and better vibes. 😍 Here’s how it all went down 👇 @nigeldacosta
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Ten years ago, founders avoided CVCs for fear of misaligned incentives. Today, the best CVCs operate exactly like traditional VCs—just with a sharper industry edge.
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The evolution of CVCs has been driven by: — The need for real returns. — A more founder-friendly approach—no more exclusivity clauses or rights of first refusal. — A shift from single-LP CVCs to multi-LP models—creating alignment across industries.
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The best VCs, corporate or not, are the ones who actually help. The rest are just capital.
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Dan Reed came on Beyond the Core this week to talk about how startups fall into two camps: disruptors and enablers.
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Disruptors aim to compete with incumbents, often by building more efficient, tech-driven alternatives. Enablers, on the other hand, sell into the industry, embedding new solutions into existing infrastructure. Which side do you think has the bigger opportunity right now?
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🎉LAUNCH DAY! We’re so excited to release our new podcast and content series, Beyond The Core. Here’s what it’s all about: [THREAD 👇
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Then, sharing our learnings through a variety of formats, including a weekly podcast (audio and video), daily short-form video clips here on LinkedIn, and a weekly newsletter and blog distilling the key takeaways.
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If you want to provide a great user experience w/ insurance, you need to hide all of the complexity. Users don’t want complexities, they want a streamlined experience, and to do this you need data - read more about what @byosko has to say about this here: buff.ly/3qdsf48
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Head of Venture Strategy, Erik Garbin sees top-performing insurers turning existing data into strategic insights. He discusses today’s cutting-edge tools that give insurers the opp to make sense of unstructured data, & shares 3 key principles: buff.ly/43ri8Yf
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