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...
As I looked around at the hundreds of people enjoying the patio of Toronto’s Richmond-Adelaide Centre last night, I couldn’t help but think of former OMERS CEO Michael Nobrega. The OMERS Ventures and OneEleven-sponsored...
The news is finally out about the latest Shopify financing round, and it speaks to the reality that with money comes momentum. Momentum for the company. Momentum for the ecosystem. As much as the...
For fear that the Business Development Bank of Canada hasn’t tasked their management consulting team at McKinsey with stakeholder meetings in relation to the “BDC Venture Capital” strategic review currently underway (see prior post...
On the heels of the breaking news post of last week (“Edgestone VC team wins big backing from OVCF” April 2-09), the Ontario Venture Capital Fund has now formally confirmed that it has committed...
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