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Leaders Fund

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Leaders Fund is an evergreen venture fund investing in enterprise software companies.

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founded date

01.01.2016

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Private

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The Toronto-based venture capital firm was founded in 2016 by a team of experienced operators who have successfully founded and scaled multiple enterprise software companies. Leaders Fund invests in early stage companies that take advantage of the shift to cloud, mobile, and machine learning in the enterprise software sector. The firm's flexible structure allows for creative partnerships with other investors while ensuring alignment with portfolio companies on deal structure, growth strategy, and long-term goals. Leaders Fund seeks to invest in fast-growing enterprise software companies run by tenacious entrepreneurs.
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Date 
name 
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type 
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Gideon Hayden
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Gideon Hayden

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Steve DeBacco
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Steve DeBacco

Stephen DeBacco is a Managing Partner with Leaders Fund. Headquartered in Atlanta and Toronto, Leaders Fund is an evergreen venture capital fund focused on investing in SaaS companies selling solutions to businesses. DeBacco has over 25 years of experience as an early-stage/founding executive team member at several extremely successful companies including Ariba, Workbrain and Rypple. His demonstrated operating expertise building and optimizing global sales and business development organizations contributed to rapid growth and profitable liquidity events on five separate occasions including public offerings for Ariba and Workbrain and corporate acquisitions for Workbrain, Empathica, Rypple and APT. DeBacco, as part of the Leaders Fund team, is now combining his deep operating expertise with financial capital investment to help innovative companies realize their full potential.

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Employee Profiles
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David MacDonald

David MacDonald

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Steve DeBacco

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Gideon Hayden

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Co-Founder & Partner

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Founder & Managing Partner

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