CIX Announces Speakers for Upcoming Toronto and Montreal ‘Mixers’
The Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) has announced its speakers for its Toronto and Montreal “mixers.” Taking…
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iNovia’s Shawn Abbott Explains the Epic #icebucketchallenge Video
Here at GROW Conference in Whistler we had a chance to speak with iNovia Capital investor Shawn Abbott about his team’s…
OMERS Ventures CEO John Ruffolo takes top spot in ‘Canada’s 50 Most Powerful Business People’ list
Canadian Business has released its annual “Canada’s 50 Most Powerful Business People” and outlines the “dealmakers,…
#Icebucketchallenge: OMERS Ventures Calls Out Real Ventures, iNovia and Georgian Partners
Update: iNovia Capital has responded to OMERS Ventures’ challenge in outrageous fashion. Read more below I’ll assume…
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…
Hootsuite, Shopify, BuildDirect and Others To Go Public?
A new Bloomberg report that quote’s OMERS Ventures’ John Ruffalo is saying that several Canadian technology companies…
OMERS’ OneEleven Launches as “Canada’s First Community for Data-Driven Entrepreneurs”
When we covered the Series 401 event last week at the OneEleven space, we hadn’t heard too much about the new space,…
Ottawa’s Ranovus Secures $11 Million in Funding From BDC, OMERS and More
Ranovus Inc., a Ottawa and San Jose-based leading provider of multi-terabit interconnect solutions for Data Center and communications…
HootSuite raises $165 million in Largest Deal Ever in Canadian Venture Capital History
In what is Canada’s biggest venture capital investment for a software company ever, social media dashboard HootSuite has…
Pressly Raises $1.5M to Help Publishers & Marketers Build HTML5 Mobile Sites
Today Toronto-based Pressly, a platform that lets media companies and content marketers create HTML5 mobile versions of their…
360 Incentives Adds $7.65M To Scale Channel Marketing & Incentives Platform
Today Whitby, ON-based 360 Incentives, an on-demand incentives management services provider for manufacturers, announced that…
Hopper Raises $12M Led By OMERS Ventures to Make Sense of Travel Data
Cambridge-based travel startup Hopper announced today that it has raised another $12 million in funding, bringing its pre-launch…
OMERS Ventures Invests $20M in HootSuite
Today Toronto-based OMERS Ventures announced that it would be investing $20 million in Vancouver-based HootSuite, by way…