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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

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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

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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

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

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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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EDF : launches Electranova Capital, an investment fund for energy start-ups … - 4-traders

EDF : launches Electranova Capital, an investment fund for energy start-ups ...
4-traders
EDF joined forces with Idinvest Partners, a well-known expert when it comes to funding SMEs, to create a venture capital fund called Electranova Capital. The aim of this fund, endowed with a minimum investment capacity of €60 million, is to encourage ...

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EDF : EDF launches Electranova Capital, an investment fund for energy start … - 4-traders

EDF : EDF launches Electranova Capital, an investment fund for energy start ...
4-traders
EDF joined forces with Idinvest Partners, a well-known expert when it comes to funding SMEs, to create a venture capital fund called Electranova Capital. The aim of this fund, endowed with a minimum investment capacity of €60 million, is to encourage ...

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Permjot Valia in SA: where entrepreneurial angels fear to tread - Daily Maverick

Daily Maverick
Permjot Valia in SA: where entrepreneurial angels fear to tread
Daily Maverick
South Africa is a tough place for people who are looking for angel or venture capital funding. The market is small and uncompetitive, but this needs to change if we want to grow the vibrant entrepreneurial sector that is so crucial to local economic ...

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Angel investing the fuel for Canada’s economic engine - National Post

National Post
Angel investing the fuel for Canada's economic engine
National Post
Beyond these new centres, the bulk of funding for innovative Canadian minds lies in the public sphere where provincial and federal programs have been established to provide enterprise with tax credits, grants or venture capital to help buffer the cost ...

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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.

Celtic House Venture Partners of K-W invested in Dublin-based RedMere last week.

Rogers Media and CTVglobemedia Inc. announce that Rogers Broadcasting will acquire certain Canadian conventional and specialty television services from CTVglobemedia Inc.

Emerald Technology Ventures announces it closed its second cleantech focused venture fund with commitments of CA$210 million.

Cytochroma announces it secured $3 million in new funding from the Canadian Medical Discoveries Fund Inc. (CMDF) and University Medical Discoveries Inc. (UMDI).

Argon Venture Partners announces the opening of U.S. and Canada offices in Calgary, Alberta, and Silicon Valley, California.

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