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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

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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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Announcing Your Disrupt NYC Finals Judges: Chien, Wilson, Arrington, Botha … - TechCrunch

TechCrunch
Announcing Your Disrupt NYC Finals Judges: Chien, Wilson, Arrington, Botha ...
TechCrunch
Arrington worked in an operational role at a Carlyle backed startup in London, founded and ran two companies in Canada (Zip.ca and Pool.com), was COO to a Kleiner-backed company called Razorgator, and consulted to other companies, including Verisign.

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Learn More About One of the Largest Venture Capital Exits in Canada in a Decade - Techvibes (blog)

Learn More About One of the Largest Venture Capital Exits in Canada in a Decade
Techvibes (blog)
In 2011, while contemplating an IPO, the company accepted an acquisition offer from IBM that is regarded as one of the largest venture capital exits in Canada in a decade. How did Q1 Labs leverage technology developed at a university to become a global ...

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Gust Wins 2012 SIIA CODiE Award for Best Collaboration/Social Networking Solution - San Francisco Ch

Gust Wins 2012 SIIA CODiE Award for Best Collaboration/Social Networking Solution
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Gust is endorsed by the world's leading business angel and venture capital associations, and powers over 750 investment organizations in 65 countries. More than 180000 start-ups have already used the platform to connect and collaborate with over 40000 ...

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Government of Canada Supports Angel Investors in Southern Ontario - Marketwire (press release)

Government of Canada Supports Angel Investors in Southern Ontario
Marketwire (press release)
"Individually and in groups Angel investors fund at least $1.9 billion a year in Canada, complementing the $871 million invested by venture capital in early-stage companies." Created in 2009, FedDev Ontario supports the southern Ontario economy by ...

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Virtual Expert Clinics (VEC), a leader in online software for guiding special needs programs, receives $1.5 million in a third round of venture capital financing.

Ventures West announces Kenneth Galbraith joined the firm as Venture Partner

B.C. companies attracted the greatest increase in venture capital investment in all of Canada last year -- Ontario falls behind as Canada's economic core moves west.

Wellington Financial provides $5 million financing for SimEx!Iwerks. The $5 million debenture financing will provide the capital SimEx!Iwerks requires to pursue additional attraction co-ventures.

JumpTV (AIM:JTV) (TSX:JTV) announces a proposed public offering of common shares in each of the provinces of Canada. Canaccord Capital Corporation and Morgan Stanley Canada Limited are the joint bookrunners of the underwriting.

CI Financial Income Fund ("CI") announces a take-over bid for all of the outstanding shares of Rockwater Capital Corporation ("Rockwater"), and Rockwater has agreed to support the offer. The offer will be made at an offer price of $7.65 per Rockwater share.


Four Seasons Hotels Inc. announces it will implement the previously announced proposal to take Four Seasons private at a price of US$82.00 cash per Limited Voting Share. The transaction values the Four Seasons at US $3.8 billion.

US VCs are stepping in where Canadian investors fear to tread according to the Ottawa Business Journal. In other words, they are eating our lunch.

Absolute Software of Vancouver landed a big contract with Dell for its laptop theft security solution.

The French Chamber of Commerce in Canada presents the third edition of the Venture Capital Forum Canada-France February 12-13, 2007 at the Hotel Ritz Carlton.

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