Sometimes, good things don’t have to end
There’s a saying that “All good things must come to an end,” but perhaps that’s not always the case. Over the past 17 years, I’ve had the good fortune to turn a hobby into...
Category: Venture Lending
Wellington Financial Opens New York Office
Although we did our first financing for a NY-based company over seven years ago, we’ve finally got around to adding a fourth North American office in that great city. According to PwC MoneyTree Report™ data,...
Recapping a busy 2016
As everyone tries to get their email inbaskets down to a manageable level, I thought I’d take this opportunity to review our firm’s 2016. Although we committed more capital than any other time in...
Comparing Growth Capital to amortizing Venture Debt
For more than 15 years, our firm has been providing non-amortizing growth capital to innovation companies. The financing structure was unique to the sector when we first introduced it; as far as we were...
"Access to Late Stage Capital" is not Canada's key innovation hurdle
The drums are beating, and members of the venture capital ecosystem recognize the sound. During the global financial crisis, Jean-René Halde, the recently retired activist CEO of the Business Development Bank of Canada, convinced a naive...
86% of Institutional Investors “satisfied” with their Private Debt funds: Preqin
It can’t be too hard to figure out how institutions are feeling right now about their portfolio of hedge funds, given the H1 2016 performance numbers of some of the highest profile U.S. managers:...
San Jose's Xactly delivers an exacting case study for our Growth Capital structure
News report: Xactly Corp. (NASDAQ:XTLY) Issues Q1 Earnings Results, Beats Estimates By $0.06 EPS If there ever was an exacting case study for the benefits of Wellington Financial’s True Growth Capital, San Jose’s Xactly...
Increased Q1 2016 VC deployment masks drop in Canadian deals
Just as one starts to feel good about the state of the Canadian venture capital ecosystem (see prior post “Flaherty’s VCAP doing its thing with new IVP and iNovia fund announcements” Jan. 27-16), you...
FDI an important Canadian leverage point in upcoming White House Summit
U.S. Gov’t Report: Foreign Direct Investment continues to be a key economic driver for the United States As officials prepare Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s briefing books for his State Visit to Washington later...
Wellington portfolio companies feature again in 2015 Deloitte Fast 50
I’m a bit slow on the reporting here following a long, long trip abroad. Apologies about that. The 2015 Deloitte Fast 50 list features several of our Fund III and IV portfolio companies: –...
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