Toasting the Creative Destruction Lab
I don’t want to startle you, but I’m a bit giddy about the UofT’s Creative Destruction Lab. I had the opportunity to sit through a complete day of CDL sessions last month, and couldn’t...
Category: Technology
Canaccord Genuity's Enterprise Software Team: "What worked – and didn’t – and what this means for 2017"
Back in the day, I’d share plenty of sell-side research with you from time-to-time. I’m not sure why that stopped, but with the NASDAQ at all-time highs, there’s no time like the present to...
Metamarkets Secures US$14.25 Million in Growth Capital Led by Wellington Financial, Doubles Run Rate in 2016
Metamarkets, the leader in interactive analytics for programmatic marketing, has just announced a new growth capital facility with Wellington Financial LP. San Francisco-based Metamarkets is backed by Khosla Ventures, Data Collective, IA Ventures, Village Ventures,...
Canadian tech IPO market remains AWOL, despite impressive 5 yr. outperformance of TSX Information Technology Index
Pitchbook has just reported that the U.S. I.P.O. window is wide open, but Canadian investors shouldn’t expect any spillover for the foreseeable future. Not that there aren’t companies to take public; it’s that the demand...
Good Technology to acquire Toronto's FixMo
The details are few at this point, but Good Technologies has just provided a hint via their S-1 filing that they’ve entered into an agreement to acquire Toronto-based FixMo. You may recall that FixMo...
New $40M equity round for Real Matters sets stage for big things
There aren’t many Canadian entrepreneurs who are trying to build a billion dollar company. Fewer still, I’d argue, who will state that goal publicly. Jason Smith, the CEO of Real Matters, is one of...
Congrats to our Deloitte Fast 50 / Fast 500 winners
One of our team’s key business pleasures is the ringside seat we have as entrepreneurs realize on their dreams. Although there are plenty of ways to define success as a funder of innovation companies,...
Fresh out of the IPO gate, Halogen doesn't dissappoint
One of the key pieces of advice for any Canadian tech entrepreneur considering an initial public offering over the next 12 months is this: make sure the business is set up to perform well...
Blackberry Q10 v2.0 software upgrade a good start
The timing was all too delicious. Blackberry’s (BBRY:Q, BB:TSX) software engineers released the Q10’s 2.0 software update around the same time that the company’s Board of Directors concluded that the best course of action...
Is Vision Critical up next on the IPO parade?
In our business, you know you’ve chosen well when I-bankers call you up to talk about one of your portfolio companies. Vancouver-based Vision Critical, which we first financed seven years ago this month, started...
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