The Dominion List: A $600 Billion Accounting of Canada's Brain Drain to Silicon Valley

The Dominion List, a new database compiled by VC Antoine Nivard, quantifies a crisis that's long been whispered about in Toronto coffee shops and Vancouver pitch meetings: 552 Canadian-founded companies worth 53 unicorns have raised over $600 billion USD south of the border. Names like Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI), Garrett Camp (Uber), and Michelle Zatlyn (Cloudflare) appear on the roster — brilliant founders who built empires in San Francisco instead of Toronto. The list,...