Real Ventures’ New Fund Could be $100 Million, But Still Uncertain
PEHub this morning reported that Real Ventures is approaching its “first close of its third $100 million partnership,”…
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Cisco Canada To Invest $4 Billion in Ontario High Tech Workforce
In early September I wrote a feature for the Financial Post, basically trying to say that Cisco has a lot of money north of…
How Do the $150K BDC Convertible Notes Work?
Yesterday we covered a story about three startups from the Maritime provinces who received $150,000 in funding from the Business…
BDC Invests $150,000 into Three Maritime Startups
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) has invested $150,000 convertible notes into three startups that graduated from…
“It was long, tedious, and extremely stressful”: An Insider’s View Into Canadian EdTech Fundraising
My motivation for writing this piece was very simple. From the time I began to work with startups and fellow entrepreneurs,…
Quebec’s NovaCap Technologies Raises $250 million for Fourth Fund
Longueuil, Québec-based Novacap, one of Canada’s oldest private equity firms, has announced that it has secured $250 million…
BDC Invests $3 Million into New Seed-Stage Fund BrandProject
Toronto and New York-based investment fund BrandProject LP has secured $3 million in funding from the Business Development…
San Francisco’s Versant Ventures Makes Splash in Vancouver; $10 Million to Biotech Company
San Francisco and Menlo Park-based US venture capital firm Versant Ventures is “venturing” up north. The life sciences…
These Four Montrealers Are Going to Santiago For Startup Chile’s New Cohort
MissingLINK, a Montreal-based startup founded by four MBA grads, is headed to Santiago in November for seven months to participate…
Halifax’s STI Technologies Gets Huge $17 Million Private Equity Infusion
Halifax-based STI Technologies, a company that developed a card-based program connecting physicians, patients, pharmacy and…
Is Cisco Set to Pour $100 Million in Canadian Venture Capital Funds?
Earlier today I wrote for The Financial Post that Cisco is reportedly interested in entering Canada as a limited partner,…
Broadband TV Hits 1 Billion Monthly Visitors After $36 Million Boost
Broadband TV, a Vancouver-based media and technology company that helps businesses to monetize their fan uploaded Youtube content,…
$16 Million Life Sciences Centre to be Constructed in Laval
Servier Canada has announced it will be constructing a new $16.3 million Centre of Excellence in Clinical Research. The life…
International Startup Festival Plans to Take Elevator Events to Eight New Cities
Ever since Phil Telio and his crew at the International Startup Festival crammed a bunch of startups and investors in the CN…
Over Two-Dozen Canadians Applied for Hong Kong’s StartmeupHK
Over two-dozen Canadian entrepreneurs have applied to Hong Kong-based StartmeupHK Venture Programme, a four-day incubation…