Canadian Startup News, FundingAugust 25, 2014<November 18, 2019 Why Did Bay Street’s Altas Partners Invest in a Grenada University? by BetaKit Canadian private equity firms are often no strangers to highly-valued tech startups when considered where to spend their capital.…
Canadian Startup NewsAugust 5, 2014<August 5, 2014 OMERS Ventures Looks for These Three Attributes When Investing Into a Startup by Ian Hardy OMERS Ventures, the investment arm of pension fund OMERS, has a core focus in the technology, media, telecommunications, clean…
Canadian Startup News, FeatureJuly 17, 2014<July 17, 2014 BDC Exec Argues for More ‘Catalytic Partner Financing’ Rather Than Just VC Money by Joseph Czikk A Business Development of Canada (BDC) executive has taken to the Globe and Mail to argue for the case of “catalytic…
Feature, PartnershipsJune 2, 2014<June 3, 2014 Social Media Etiquette: Where Is the Line Between Inappropriate and Plain Boring? by Joseph Czikk I’m not too big on writing about how people should behave on social media (mainly because I routinely act like a crazy…
Canadian Startup News, FeatureMay 26, 2014<May 26, 2014 Maritimes Angel Investor Has “A Bias to Writing a Cheque” During Pitches by Joseph Czikk Here’s something we don’t hear everyday: a St. John’s, Newfoundland-based angel investor named Jo Mark Zurel…
Canadian Startup News, Changes, Feature, FundingSeptember 3, 2013<September 4, 2013 A New Kind of Mafia in Montreal? How a Culture of Startup CEOs are Playing the Angel Game by Joseph Czikk There’s a mafia brewing in Montreal, involving several notable figures. They made names for themselves during their careers,…