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HootSuite wants to anchor Vancouver area tech boom - Canada.com

HootSuite wants to anchor Vancouver area tech boom
Canada.com
In March, the company received $20 million in investments from OMERS Ventures, the venture capital arm of an Ontario pension fund, which marked one of the largest Canadian venture transactions in a decade. Then earlier this month, TechCrunch, ...

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Thyssenkrupp Sells U.S. Foundry Business - Recycling Today

Thyssenkrupp Sells U.S. Foundry Business
Recycling Today
Germany-based ThyssenKrupp AG has announced the sale of ThyssenKrupp Waupaca Inc., its US foundry business, to an affiliate of the venture capital firm KPS Capital Partners, New York City. ThyssenKrupp Waupaca is billed as “the largest independent iron ...

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Québec-based funds key to outstanding fundraising growth in the first quarter … - Canada NewsWire

Québec-based funds key to outstanding fundraising growth in the first quarter ...
Canada NewsWire (press release)
MONTREAL, May 17, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - Canadian fundraising more than doubled in the first quarter (Q1) of 2012, reaching $742 million, with Québec accounting for 41% of overall new commitments in this period, or $305 million. Meanwhile, venture capital ...
Investment in Quebec growth firms falls 63%Montreal Gazette

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Vancouver’s social media star HootSuite: $1-billion or bust - Globe and Mail

Globe and Mail

Vancouver's social media star HootSuite: $1-billion or bust
Globe and Mail
In March, the company received $20-million in investments from OMERS Ventures, the venture capital arm of an Ontario pension fund, which marked one of the largest Canadian venture transactions in a decade. Then earlier this month, TechCrunch, ...

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HootSuite at centre of Vancouver-area tech boom - Canada.com

HootSuite at centre of Vancouver-area tech boom
Canada.com
In March, the company received $20 million in investments from OMERS Ventures, the venture capital arm of an Ontario pension fund, which marked one of the largest Canadian venture transactions in a decade. Then earlier this month, TechCrunch, ...

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Wave Accounting Secures USD $12 Million in Series B Funding - MarketWatch (press release)

Wave Accounting Secures USD $12 Million in Series B Funding
MarketWatch (press release)
About OMERS VenturesOMERS Ventures is the venture capital investment arm of OMERS, one of Canada's largest pension funds with over $55 billion in net assets. As both an institutional angel investor and a later-stage investor, OMERS Ventures is looking ...

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HootSuite wants to anchor Vancouver area tech boom - Canada.com

HootSuite wants to anchor Vancouver area tech boom
Canada.com
In March, the company received $20 million in investments from OMERS Ventures, the venture capital arm of an Ontario pension fund, which marked one of the largest Canadian venture transactions in a decade. Then earlier this month, TechCrunch, ...

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Social media success story HootSuite wants to anchor Vancouver area tech boom - CanadianBusiness.com

Social media success story HootSuite wants to anchor Vancouver area tech boom
CanadianBusiness.com
In March, the company received $20 million in investments from OMERS Ventures, the venture capital arm of an Ontario pension fund, which marked one of the largest Canadian venture transactions in a decade. Then earlier this month, TechCrunch, ...

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GlaxoSmithKline looks to lead biotech revival in Quebec - Montreal Gazette

GlaxoSmithKline looks to lead biotech revival in Quebec
Montreal Gazette
“GSK Canada's Innovation Fund program is aimed primarily at the proof-of-concept level and it has come just as the outlook for Quebec and Canada biotech is beginning to pick up and venture capital is cautiously investing again,” said Sav DiPasquale, ...

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Canada’s Pensions Are Looking Strong: Can They Keep It Up? - Private Equity Hub (press release)

Canada's Pensions Are Looking Strong: Can They Keep It Up?
Private Equity Hub (press release)
Though likely not news to some readers, others of you who might be as clueless about Canadian pensions as I am might find the conversation interesting. (Hope so, anyway.) It's been edited for length. Canadians do not heart venture capital.

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Cash shortage sending Canadian digital startups south - CBC.ca

CBC.ca

Cash shortage sending Canadian digital startups south
CBC.ca
But last year the amount of venture capital invested in Canada did increase, to $1.5 billion. Even so, that's still well down from the $2.1 billion invested in 2007, according to Canada's Venture Capital and Private Equity Association.

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Meet The First 5 Companies To Join Toronto Incubator Extreme Startups - TechCrunch

Meet The First 5 Companies To Join Toronto Incubator Extreme Startups
TechCrunch
The Canadian startup incubator scene has taken off lately, with startup accelerators popping up around the country. One of the latest to appear is Toronto-based Extreme Startups. The accelerator, which was officially announced in January, ...

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In conversation: Michael Kranish - Macleans.ca

Macleans.ca

In conversation: Michael Kranish
Macleans.ca
One of their sons, Miles P. Romney, married a girl named Hannah Hood Hill, who had been born in Canada—near Toronto. She became the first of Miles P. Romney's five wives and is Mitt's great-grandmother. When polygamy was banned in the US, ...

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Who stands to make the most money from Facebook’s IPO - Globe and Mail

Globe and Mail

Who stands to make the most money from Facebook's IPO
Globe and Mail
Greylock Partners, Silicon Valley venture capital firm and affiliates. Reid Hoffman, on Sept. 29, 2007, co-founder of LinkedIn Corp. and affiliates. Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs and affiliates, investment bank and one of the IPO's ...

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World’s Largest Business Mentoring Event Sets Guinness Record at Ontario … - Sacramento Bee

Canada NewsWire

World's Largest Business Mentoring Event Sets Guinness Record at Ontario ...
Sacramento Bee
By Ontario Centres of Excellence TORONTO, May 15, 2012 /CNW/ - 328 of the brightest minds in Canada speed-networked their way to setting the newest Guinness World Record in the Most People Attending a Business Speed Networking Event - Single Venue ...
328 mentors and entrepreneurs reunite to set speed-networking Guinness World ...National Post

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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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