News report: Opposition to private investment in infrastructure ‘stupid’: Adam Vaughan Toronto Mayor John Tory likes to joke that “no good deed goes unpunished.” I’d like to think that if you live long enough, your...
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,...
BNN Business News Network invited our Vancouver-based Fund III portfolio company Vision Critical to come on Business Day with Catherine Murray. Vision Critical CEO Scott Miller gave viewers a taste of what the company...
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...
It’s not all just charities and BNN appearances here at Wellington Financial. We also find time to put meaningful growth capital into the hands of talented management teams. Our most recent financing was an...
The economy and stock market may be topsy turvey, but large corporates still need to know what is going on within their customer base. Thus the need for Enterprise Feedback Management firms, such as...
CEOs with prior wins seem to have a high chance of repeating their successes. I know that we’ve crowed about Vision Critical’s success in the past (see prior posts “Six of the Deloitte Technology...
It seems like 100 years ago since the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board had its sights on taking BCE Inc. (BCE:TSX) private. You may recall, at the time, there was thought that Telus (T:TSX)...
If you know Vancouver’s Jim Fletcher, he gets into the detail of topics and isn’t afraid of speaking his mind. For that, and other reasons, he’s very popular in these quarters. When Jim’s not...
My spies tell me that two of Wellington Financial’s Fund III portfolio companies have earned some excellent visibility at the Vancouver Olympics. Simex has a 4-D exhibit in the Ontario Pavillion, and wherever Vision...
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