Why Did Bay Street’s Altas Partners Invest in a Grenada University?
byCanadian 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
byOMERS 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
byA 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?
byI’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
byHere’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
byThere’s a mafia brewing in Montreal, involving several notable figures. They made names for themselves during their careers,…