As Bay Street investment bankers closed the books on the Real Matters IPO roadshow, it was clear that many good decisions were made along the way. How else can one summarize a deal that was reportedly...
As one of our Fund IV portfolio companies markets its NYSE IPO with JP Morgan this week (see prior post “Wellington Financial portfolio co. Xactly files for NYSE IPO” May 19-15), another Fund IV...
News Report: SurveyMonkey Valued at US$2 billion as Some Investors Sell Shares Once upon a time, the only way a tech company could raise $250 million was via an Initial Public Offering. Then along...
The deals are there for Canadian technology companies and its broader ecosystem, that’s for sure. Kinaxis (KXS:TSX), Critical Control (CCZ:TSX), DIRTT (DRT:TSX) and Espial (ESP:TSX) have all raised equity via public offerings over the...
The media coverage of the pending TSX tech IPO onslaught has been intensive. And perhaps the recent attention shouldn’t come as a shock, since they missed the first wave of deals and all (see...
If you were at the Cantech Technology conference in Toronto yesterday, you would have heard OMERS Ventures CEO John Ruffolo refer to the fact that there were “five” Canadian tech firms approaching $100 million...
It has been just over two years since Rock Star fund manager Kevin O’Leary raised $186 million for his Yield Advantaged Convertible Debentures closed-end fund. At the time, convertibles were seen to be a...
It has been seven years since anyone publicly referred to software co. Eloqua as a “Toronto-based” tech company. Last Friday, Fortune’s Dan Primack let the world know that Eloqua’s planned NASDAQ IPO was ready...
Love it when a plan comes together. Sort of. The ownership transition has finally begun at Constellation Software (CSU:TSX), with a $100 million block trade deftly completed by TD Securities last Friday. My market...
Absence of any financial loss at Livent. Who knew? With the benefit parole, Ontario’s Court of Appeal thinks Garth Drabinsky should only go to jail for about 1 year and 6 months, now that...
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