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Venture philanthropy risky but rewarding - Denver Post

Venture philanthropy risky but rewarding
Denver Post
By Bruce DeBoskey Venture capital takes financial capital and expertise and provides it to high-potential, high-risk, startup businesses. Venture philanthropy uses the same approach and applies it to philanthropic donations in the nonprofit or social ...

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Exempt market a dragons’ den - Winnipeg Free Press

Exempt market a dragons' den
Winnipeg Free Press
"Venture capital accounts for 21 per cent of GDP in the US," says Sheldon Stier, president of Winnipeg-based Hatch Alternative Investments. Canada's market for venture capital and private equity is a more diminutive creature. "Canada's a small-scale ...

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StreamingMedia.com Industry Announcements - StreamingMedia.com (press release)

StreamingMedia.com Industry Announcements
StreamingMedia.com (press release)
Venture capital firm MK Capital led the round with participation from YouTube co-founder Steve Chen and Google product management director Benjamin Ling. Other DramaFever investors include Stubhub founder Jeff Fluhr, GraphEffect president Stephano Kim, ...

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March IPOs hit five-year high in US - Financial News

Financial News
March IPOs hit five-year high in US
Financial News
Carlyle Group and Canada's Onex were the private equity owners of Allison, whose shares ended yesterday only just above the issue price at $23.19. The other two deals that started trading yesterday also came from financial sponsors. Venture capital ...

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I’m with Brian Topp: The NDP can win as social democrats - rabble.ca

I'm with Brian Topp: The NDP can win as social democrats
rabble.ca
By Justin Ling It was the socially conscious- and environmentally-sound venture capital re-investment fund that really sealed the deal for me. I had already been on the Brian Topp bandwagon for a while, but this clinched it. Any politician that has the ...

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Push on to relax rules around crowdfunding - Globe and Mail

Globe and Mail
Push on to relax rules around crowdfunding
Globe and Mail
The problem is that venture capital has been significantly harder to find in Canada in the past decade. “There has been a long downhill slide…or the past 11 years,” says Richard Remillard, executive director of Canada's Venture Capital & Private ...

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IPO sets software firm NexJ on path to profit - Reuters

IPO sets software firm NexJ on path to profit
Reuters
While Canadian technology companies have struggled to raise funds and win decent valuations in recent years, NexJ has raised some C$70 million over the last two years via a private placement with institutional investors in 2010 and last year's initial ...

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The Week Ahead: First Investments for Russia Direct Investment Fund - Private Equity Hub (press rele

The Week Ahead: First Investments for Russia Direct Investment Fund
Private Equity Hub (press release)
The week kicks off with the first day of the three day Venture Capital Forum Canada hosted by the French Chamber of Commerce in Canada. The forum takes place at the Hôtel Intercontinental Montréal. Prominent speakers over the three days include ...

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US giants gobbling up Canadian technology startups - Financial Post

Financial Post
US giants gobbling up Canadian technology startups
Financial Post
Thanks to a less robust venture capital industry, Canadian startups are getting snapped up before they reach their full potential, goes the most common criticism, meaning the innovations and jobs which might have remained in Canada often end up abroad.

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Paul Harvey Joins Stifel Nicolaus Weisel’s European Technology Investment … - MarketWatch (press r

Paul Harvey Joins Stifel Nicolaus Weisel's European Technology Investment ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Paul's extensive private equity and venture capital relationships in Europe and the US are a great asset to our Technology effort, particularly in Europe, where we see significant opportunity," commented Thom Weisel, Co-Chairman of Stifel Financial.

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Survey Says: Investors Looking To Up The Ante With PE - Wall Street Journal (blog)

Survey Says: Investors Looking To Up The Ante With PE
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Hillary Canada Private equity and venture capital continue to attract attention from institutional investors, with two-fifths of investors planning to increase exposure to the asset class over the next 12 to 18 months, according to the Commonfund ...

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Mullin: Move over Wall St; mid-market coming through - International Financing Review

Mullin: Move over Wall St; mid-market coming through
International Financing Review
... bank Hawkpoint Partners from Collins Stewart, in a deal that values Hawkpoint at almost US$400m, is the latest in an impressive string of deals that has catapulted the former Canadian venture capital firm into a completely different league.

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North America is out of touch with ‘Ideas Economy’ - CTV.ca

North America is out of touch with 'Ideas Economy'
CTV.ca
JT: High-risk loans and venture capital for startups are severely lacking here, which impairs companies' commitment to innovation, according to a recent report by the Conference Board of Canada. How can countries ensure this is not the case?

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Canada 3.0 sets agenda, names speakers - The Beacon Herald

Canada 3.0 sets agenda, names speakers
The Beacon Herald
To speed up Canada's digital economy there are plenty of topics to debate including usage-based billing and net neutrality, what entrepreneurs can do to gain better access to venture capital and strategies for developing the country's innovation talent ...

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Zemsky “bullish’ on WNY, summit told - Buffalo News

Zemsky "bullish' on WNY, summit told
Buffalo News
Kathleen C. Hochul, D-Amherst, also sees some shortcomings that need to be addressed, including a shortage of venture capital for promising new businesses and a need for stronger ties between companies and local colleges. Those issues were among many ...

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Debra Galant publishes baristanet something she calls "hyperlocal" publishing. To find out more how newspapers are being disintermediated, read her essay at Pressthink

Is there a technology investment upturn in the wind for 2006? Scott Taylor of the Ottawa Business Journal thinks so.

The Liberal Party promised new investments in "Canada's 21st century economy..."

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