Fading 2023 VC performance underscores Canadian tech’s “vulnerability,” BDC reports
Down rounds rose from seven percent in 2022 to 31 percent last year.
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Conexus Venture Capital launches its second $30-million fund to back Saskatchewan tech startups
Conexus Credit Union reaffirms commitment to local VC with another $15-million.
Gradient Ventures’ Darian Shirazi on where AI value will accrue
A wide-angle view on the state of AI from the VC firm backing Lambda and CentML.
Q1 Canadian VC funding posts mixed results as PE market rebounds, CVCA reports
Pre-seed, seed-stage VC funding declines as late-stage investment continues descent.
Report: Canadian corporate venture capital funding is dismal compared to the United States
Six percent of Canada’s largest companies participated in a deal compared to 40 percent in the US.
OSC introduces new initiatives to boost capital access for angel investors and startups
Regulator enacts new dealer registration exemptions for angel investor groups, early-stage companies.
How Simple Ventures plans to fill a gap in Canadian entrepreneurship
Rachel Zimmer discusses the power of geographical arbitrage and the current impediments to Canadian entrepreneurship.
What’s in #Budget2024 for Canadian tech?
All eyes in Canadian tech are on AI, open banking, cleantech, and… taxes?
Business leaders urge feds to require public pension funds to invest at home
Feds’ proposal to encourage more domestic investment risks compromising funds’ mandates, detractors say.
Define Capital closes $20 million to acquire and nurture profitable niche software companies
New Toronto private equity fund aims to follow in Constellation’s footsteps.
Cohere’s Aidan Gomez talks scaling AI for enterprise, Vinod Khosla explores risk-taking at CIX Summit 2024
Opening night covered AI adoption, risk-taking in venture capital, and bipedal robots.
Ontario Budget 2024 tops up existing funds and innovation centres, allocates funding to healthtech procurement
Province hints that the OSC is developing new rules to support angel investors.
CDPQ’S $250-million Equity 25³ Fund is done after only four investments
Diversity-focused fund’s architect left in December to launch his own $150-million fund.
One year later, what filled the hole SVB left in Canadian tech lending?
Venture debt lending has slowed but ex-SVB talent has spread across Canada’s innovation banking practices.
Monadical launches Developer Capital to fund early-stage AI startups with help from its team of software devs
Montréal investment corp. has closed $2.5 million CAD, backing Unified.to and Rithmik.