Who doesn’t love it when a plan comes together?! Tony Ma, a 3rd year HBA student at Western University’s Ivey Business School, is the second recipient of the Wellington Financial LP Award in Technology Evaluation and Analysis....
Let’s see how big the waves from this news will be (or not). For years now, audiences at venture capital conferences have sat there while Limited Partner panelists have advised that Canadian venture capital...
One of these days, the investing prowess of the surviving Labour-sponsored Investment Fund teams will get some deserved recognition (see prior post “The great LSIF myth” July 2-08). At least if there’s any justice...
Going where the fish are. For the better part of the last year, our team has been spreading the word about Wellington Financial in the key American VC markets. Armed with a strong 10-year...
Change is afoot in the Canadian venture capital landscape. It has just been four weeks since I penned the “The creative destruction of Canada’s VC industry” post, and here we are. The creative part...
Dateline: Ottawa Have you ever attended an industry conference and wanted to ask a pithy question, but didn’t for fear of a negative reaction from the panelists or audience regarding your “too true” question/statement?...
I have great news for everyone in the Innovation Economy ecosystem. Tomorrow afternoon, a five person delegation from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association will be meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper...
How do you sum up the Province of Ontario’s venture capital situation in the space of 300 seconds? Around noon on Monday, representatives of the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association will be...
The 14 year decline in venture capital funding for Canadian-based innovation companies continues, with the 2009 3rd quarter VC funding stats as bleak as people expected. What to do? Although the Canadian Venture Capital...
The Quebec City Conference (see prior post “The bang of the VC buck” October 21-09) was useful on many levels, but it served as a great catch basin for what I’ll call the “most...
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