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Blaney McMurtry Welcomes New Partner - PR Newswire (press release)

Blaney McMurtry Welcomes New Partner
PR Newswire (press release)
He is regularly involved in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital transactions, shareholder agreements and disagreements, start-ups and providing strategic corporate advice for small, medium and large corporations. He represents landlords and ...

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The Morning Leverage: Romney ‘The Rodney Dangerfield of American Politics’ - Wall Street Journal (bl

The Morning Leverage: Romney 'The Rodney Dangerfield of American Politics'
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Hillary Canada Voters are already stepping out to the polls to determine whether or not Mitt Romney will take home the Republican nomination. A mixed blessing for the rest of the buyout community, we're sure, as that seems to ensure at least another ...

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Encourage Canada’s young entrepreneurs to reach potential - Regina Leader-Post

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Encourage Canada's young entrepreneurs to reach potential
Regina Leader-Post
By Jean-Rene Haldé, Financial Post March 6, 2012 I n my role at the Business Development Bank of Canada, I meet lots of young entrepreneurs in every part of the country. When I ask why they're in business, the reply invariably is that they love the ...
Encourage Canada's young entrepreneurs to reach full potentialFinancial Post
Young Canadian entrepreneurs have until April 8 to compete for $100000 BDC ...Canada NewsWire (press release)

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Virdia Moves Into Mississippi To Turn Wood Chips Into Sugars - Forbes

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Virdia Moves Into Mississippi To Turn Wood Chips Into Sugars
Forbes
Aside from Virdia, companies that work in this field also include Pennsylvania-based Renmatix, which is backed by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, Comet Biorefining in Canada and BlueFire Renewables in California. Virdia was founded in 2007 to ...

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Encourage Canada’s young entrepreneurs to reach potential - Victoria Times Colonist

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Encourage Canada's young entrepreneurs to reach potential
Victoria Times Colonist
Jean-René Halde, is president and chief executive of Business Development Bank of Canada (bdc.ca). BDC offers financing, venture capital and consulting services to 29000 small and mid-sized companies.
Encourage Canada's young entrepreneurs to reach full potentialFinancial Post
Young Canadian entrepreneurs have until April 8 to compete for $100000 BDC ...Canada NewsWire (press release)

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CEBIT 2012 opens with Google on ‘managing trust’ - ITWorld Canada

CEBIT 2012 opens with Google on 'managing trust'
ITWorld Canada
Shane Schick is the Editor-in-Chief of IT World Canada. Follow him at Twitter.com/shaneschick, Facebook.com/Shane.Schick.Media or myi.tw/ShaneSchickGoogle. Broadband wireless technologies will help bring the next five billion users to the Internet, ...

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Canadian Immigration Minister outlines plans for immigration system overhaul - Workpermit.com

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Canadian Immigration Minister outlines plans for immigration system overhaul
Workpermit.com
He added that Canada needed to do a better job of attracting entrepreneurs, noting that in the US, half of the top 50 venture-capital backed companies were founded by immigrants. Additionally, he promised to reduce the backlog in the immigration system ...
A new immigration point system for Canada starts in 2012Hamilton Spectator
Minister Kenney Outlines Vision of a Fast and Flexible Immigration SystemMarketWatch (press release)

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Warburg Pincus Hires Francesco Granata To Identify Healthcare Deals - Wall Street Journal

Warburg Pincus Hires Francesco Granata To Identify Healthcare Deals
Wall Street Journal
Prior to that he worked for Schering-Plough as group vice president and president for the company's European and Canadian regions. Warburg Pincus invests in buyouts, growth capital and venture capital across a range of sectors.

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Nasty Gal wins $9m funding from London’s Index Ventures to finance expansion - InternetRetailing.net

Nasty Gal wins $9m funding from London's Index Ventures to finance expansion
InternetRetailing.net
Online retailer Nasty Gal has won $9m (£5.67m) investment from the UK venture capital business Index Ventures, joining a portfolio that also includes ASOS, Net-a-Porter and Etsy. The funding, which gives Index' Growth Fund a minority stake in the ...

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YEA’s focus turns to innovative projects - National Post

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YEA's focus turns to innovative projects
National Post
In my role at the Business Development Bank of Canada, I meet lots of young entrepreneurs in every part of the country. When I ask why they're in business, the reply invariably is that they love the freedom of being their own boss and they want to make ...
Encourage Canada's young entrepreneurs to reach full potentialFinancial Post
Young Canadian entrepreneurs have until April 8 to compete for $100000 BDC ...Canada NewsWire (press release)

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Coral CEA makes big funding splash - Globe and Mail

Globe and Mail

Coral CEA makes big funding splash
Globe and Mail
With too few Canadian institutions allocating money for venture capital, the federal government and a growing number of provinces are filling the void because they believe supporting startups will drive economic growth and development.

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A new immigration point system for Canada starts in 2012 - Hamilton Spectator

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A new immigration point system for Canada starts in 2012
Hamilton Spectator
“In the United States, half of the top 50 venture-capital backed companies are founded by immigrants. We do not nearly do as well in Canada. We must do a better job attracting entrepreneurs and investors to Canada,” he said.
Faster, more responsive immigration system needed in Canada, says ministerExpat Forum
Employers could bump up prospects in immigration overhaulCTV.ca

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Adaptivity™ Closes Second $3 Million in Equity Financing - Bradenton Herald

Adaptivity™ Closes Second $3 Million in Equity Financing
Bradenton Herald
By Adaptivity CHARLOTTE, NC, March 1, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ -- Adaptivity, The IT Blueprint Company™, which provides an intelligent IT blueprinting software suite, announced today that it closed the second $3.0 million tranche of Series B venture ...
Adaptivity Raises $3MPrivate Equity Hub (press release)

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Who gets the money: ‘aggressive, hungry and paranoid’ - Globe and Mail

Globe and Mail

Who gets the money: 'aggressive, hungry and paranoid'
Globe and Mail
The problem is that there aren't enough of those kinds of entrepreneurs in Canada. At the same time, Mr. Arsenault said there is a misconception about venture capital, particularly the type of entrepreneurs who should be attracting it.

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A new immigration point system for Canada starts in 2012 - Toronto Star

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A new immigration point system for Canada starts in 2012
Toronto Star
“In the United States, half of the top 50 venture-capital backed companies are founded by immigrants. We do not nearly do as well in Canada. We must do a better job attracting entrepreneurs and investors to Canada,” he said.
Minister Kenney Outlines Vision of a Fast and Flexible Immigration SystemMarketWatch (press release)
Employers could bump up prospects in immigration overhaulCTV.ca

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The Canadian-born, U.S.-headquartered MDC Partners has acquired a majority stake in Capital C and Kenna, two Toronto-area agencies.

GigPark announced on August 24th, that they had been purchased by the Yellow Pages. Hey Noah, congratulations to you and the team there.

The Ontario government is doing something truly unique and laudable says John Albright of JLA Ventures. Last week Ontario's Ministry of Research and Innovation announced a new $205-million fund to help stimulate the province's early-stage ventures.

According to a University of Laval Professor, Canada's Labour Sponsor Funds kill innovation rather than create it. Read the press release here.

MediaScrape lands new venture round of $3.2 million. Chris Dingle has been appointed President and Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Dingle was the founding CTO of 24/7 Real Media which sold recently to WPP for $637 million.

University Technologies International (UTI) - IGNITE - announces the closing of two first-round financings for two IGNITE companies, Profero Energy Inc. and Circle Cardiovascular Imaging Inc.

Kleer Inc. based in California but with a plant in Ottawa landed a $28 million round for its wireless audio product development.

The Ottawa Citizen ran this story a few days ago. We've been saying this for years now. When will the public sector make it easier for investment in the province's tech sector?

Rick Nathan of the Canadian Venture Capital Association has an optimistic view of the current credit crunch.

MSBi Capital announces the addition of two new partners François Gauvin and John Elton.

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