Why Did Bay Street’s Altas Partners Invest in a Grenada University?
Canadian private equity firms are often no strangers to highly-valued tech startups when considered where to spend their capital.…
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OMERS Ventures Looks for These Three Attributes When Investing Into a Startup
OMERS Ventures, the investment arm of pension fund OMERS, has a core focus in the technology, media, telecommunications, clean…
BDC Exec Argues for More ‘Catalytic Partner Financing’ Rather Than Just VC Money
A Business Development of Canada (BDC) executive has taken to the Globe and Mail to argue for the case of “catalytic…
Social Media Etiquette: Where Is the Line Between Inappropriate and Plain Boring?
I’m not too big on writing about how people should behave on social media (mainly because I routinely act like a crazy…
Maritimes Angel Investor Has “A Bias to Writing a Cheque” During Pitches
Here’s something we don’t hear everyday: a St. John’s, Newfoundland-based angel investor named Jo Mark Zurel…
A New Kind of Mafia in Montreal? How a Culture of Startup CEOs are Playing the Angel Game
There’s a mafia brewing in Montreal, involving several notable figures. They made names for themselves during their careers,…