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| Mar 12, 2024 | Celebrating Diversity and Achievement in Canada’s Private Capital Industry | In an industry often characterized by its fast pace and competitive nature, it’s essential to take a moment to celebrate achievements and progress, especially when it comes to diversity and inclusion. The Canadian Venture Capital and Privat... |
| Feb 8, 2024 | Third edition of The 50: A Guide to the Canadian Venture Capital Ecosystem | Toronto, ON –The Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA), in partnership with the Government of Canada’s Trade Commissioner Service (TCS), is pleased to announce the launch of the third edition of The 50: A Guide to t... |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Канадский венчур не чувствует кризиса | Венчурный рынок Канады в отличие от США, где тучи сгущаются, показывает хорошие результаты. По данным Канадской ассоциации венчурного капитала и прямых инвестиций (CVCA), в третьем квартале 2022 года было совершено 144 сделки на сумму 896 м... |
| Dec 11, 2022 | There are a lot of reasons to be excited about Canada’s venture market | Canada’s venture market isn’t immune from the global market downturn, but unlike the U.S. — where everything seems increasingly bleak — there are quite a few bright spots in Canada’s ecosystem this year.
Data from the Canadian Venture Capit... |
| Nov 30, 2022 | Nailing your pitch: how to adapt to the tight tech market | With 2021 setting records for capital investment in B.C., recent underwhelming data from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) should be taken with a grain of salt – and a healthy dollop of expert advice.
On the... |
| Aug 21, 2022 | 💸 58 deals and $807M, so far | Last week, the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) released investment data for the first half of 2022. The province took in $807 million over 58 deals in the first half of the fiscal year — down from $1.83 billio... |
| Jun 23, 2022 | CVCA Report Shows the Need for EDI Tracking Across the Innovation Ecosystem | Investment Analyst |
| Oct 3, 2021 | 🦄 Another week, another unicorn | Good morning everyone! Do you know what day it is? It’s New Ventures BC (NVBC) Competition Awards Ceremony Eve. That’s right, tomorrow night we find out who will take the top spot in the 21st edition of the annual competition. It started wi... |
| Sep 15, 2021 | New Brunswick Ranks 6th Most Active Province in Venture Capital Investments | Director of Investments |
| Sep 5, 2021 | And then there were 10... | Happy Long Weekend—AKA Billions is back weekend. What’s that? You’ve never seen it? You’ve never heard of the critically-acclaimed Showtime series? Well then, you’re welcome.
With that out of the way, I’d like to say hello to the new subscr... |
| Jul 8, 2021 | Celebrating Canada’s venture sector | A week ago, Canadians, border to border, celebrated or reflected on Canada Day. We hope your day was filled with maple syrup, Tim Hortons, and passionate discussions about the National Hockey League series. We wanted to highlight why Canada... |
| Jun 6, 2021 | These innovators are stepping up to combat COVID and climate change | The Sunday Briefing | Good morning and welcome to the new Vancouver Tech Journal subscribers reading this Sunday. Make sure to stay engaged all week by connecting with us on Twitter, LinkedIn and the 1,100+ member Vancouver Tech club on the Clubhouse iOS/Android... |
| May 30, 2021 | When capital, talent and ideas collide | The Sunday Briefing | Good morning and welcome to the new Vancouver Tech Journal subscribers reading this Sunday. Make sure to stay engaged all week by connecting with us on Twitter, LinkedIn and the 1,000+ member Vancouver Tech club on the Clubhouse iOS/Android... |
| May 25, 2021 | With $2.7B invested, Q1 is top quarter ever for Canadian VC investment | Q1 2021 was the strongest quarter on record for VC investment with $2.7 billion invested over 175 deals in the first three months. According to a report by the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA):
There were 16 ... |
| Apr 7, 2021 | Cheatsheet: CVCA spotlights 12 Vancouver VC firms with $2.2 billion in assets | Despite a pandemic, VC investment in 2020 was the second-highest ever, according to the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA), with $4.4 billion CAD invested across 509 deals in Canada, second only to 2019.
“The s... |
| Apr 1, 2021 | Three Prairies-based startups close seed rounds, raising combined $2.45 million | During the last week, Winnipeg’s Callia Flowers, Saskatoon’s Rivercity Innovations, and Regina’s BrewNinja raised fresh financing to fuel their growth.
In separate seed rounds, the three early-stage tech startups have raised a combined $2.4... |
| Mar 28, 2021 | Just how big is Microsoft's investment in Vancouver talent? | The Sunday Briefing | Good afternoon and welcome to our new subscribers. Stay engaged all week by connecting with us on Twitter, LinkedIn and the Vancouver Tech club on the Clubhouse app.
If you’re not already on Clubhouse but want to be, please get in touch for... |
| Mar 24, 2021 | Venture Capital Investment into Alberta Technology Companies Doubles in 2020 | CVCA 2020 Year in Review shows VC investment in Alberta rose 100% last year |
| Jun 4, 2019 | BDC looks to “double down” on industrial tech with $250 million venture fund | BDC Capital has launched a $250 million Industrial Innovation Venture Fund to invest in tech companies and entrepreneurs working in agriculture, foodtech, resource extraction, and advanced manufacturing.
“Industrial sectors tend to be slow ... |
| Jan 7, 2019 | Kim Furlong Joins Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association as CEO | Kim Furlong
Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA), the Canada’s professional association for the venture capital and private equity industry, appointed Kim Furlong as Chief Executive Officer.
After a decade in the c... |
| Aug 23, 2018 | CVCA report: Later-stage companies received 54 percent of total dollars invested in H1 2018 | The Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) has released its report on Canadian venture capital and private equity activity for the first half of 2018.
CVCA said it verified completed equity or quasi-equity VC deals o... |
| Mar 8, 2018 | CVCA announces Calgary as host city for 2018 annual conference | Calgary, Alberta to host Canada’s premier private capital conference June 5-8, 2018 |
| Jun 12, 2017 | Whitney Rockley Named New Chair of Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association | Whitney Rockley, Co-founder and Managing Partner of McRock Capital, a venture capital fund manager focused exclusively on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), is the incoming Chair of the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity A... |
| Jun 7, 2017 | Yaletown Partners gagnante du prix de la Transaction de l’année décerné par la CVCA | Le prix souligne l’impact de mise à l’échelle de l’entreprise sur l’innovateur en matière d’intelligence artificielle et d’Internet des objets, Bit Stew Systems
Vancouver, C.-B. – Le 7 juin 2017 : La Canadian Venture Capital & Private E... |
| Jun 7, 2017 | Yaletown Partners wins Deal of the Year Award from CVCA | Award recognizes firm’s scale-up impact on Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things innovator, Bit Stew Systems
Vancouver, BC – June 7, 2017: The Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA) today announced the fir... |
| Jun 7, 2017 | CVCA announces 2017 Deal of the Year and Community Leadership Award recipients | Montreal, QC – The Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA) announced winners of its annual Deal of the Year awards during its 2017 annual conference, Invest Canada ’17 (hosted in conjunction with Réseau Capital), in... |
| Apr 5, 2017 | Yaletown Newsletter – Roundtable Report and Top Exit of 2016 | In it’s Market Overview for 2016, the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association reported the Top Exit of the last year was GE Digital’s acquisition of Bit Stew Systems, an IIoT company with significant cleantech impact.
In Feb... |
| Oct 6, 2016 | La recherche menée par Yaletown Partners souligne les écarts en matière d’investissement dans le secteur technologique au Canada | Vancouver, Colombie-Britannique – Yaletown Partners a publié aujourd’hui la version française de son étude détaillée sur l’activité de financement au Canada révélant d’importants écarts concernant le capital disponible pour les entreprises ... |
| Jul 28, 2016 | Agrium Invests in Finistere Fund II Ahead of Final Close Mooted for End of Year | Agriculture products company Agrium has invested in Finistere Ventures‘ second agriculture technology fund (FVII).
Agrium is the latest large agribusiness to tap into the agtech venture capital scene and joins the likes of Bayer, DuPont, Mo... |
| Jul 6, 2016 | Yaletown Partners Research Highlights Canada’s Opportunity to Enhance Technology Growth by Closing Investment Gaps | Vancouver, BC – Yaletown Partners today released a detailed study on Canada’s financing activity, which reveals significant gaps in capital available for the country’s technology companies. Access to capital, talent and markets are the thre... |
| May 18, 2016 | Canada, Venture Capital Investment Breaks Record in Q1 2016 | Record-breaking quarter for Canadian VC investment activity, which nearly doubles 2015 results in Q1, according to the report by CVCA.
Venture capital investment – at $838m – nearly doubled the amount in the same quarter of 2015 with the in... |
| Mar 29, 2016 | Canadian IIoT startups reborn in wake of oil crash | The fast-growing Canadian Internet of Things (IoT) market is poised to exceed USD$4.9 billion by 2018. However, if Canadian industrial IoT (IIoT) is to aspire to such lofty heights, the industry must navigate several challenges – like a low... |
| Feb 23, 2016 | Bit Stew Among Top 50 Technology Investments of 2015 as Yaletown Works to Close Canada’s Emerging-Growth Financing Gap | Yaletown Partners remains one of Canada’s most active private independent VC firms and our investment in Bit Stew Systems ranked as one of the top 50 deals of the year according to the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Associati... |
| Feb 23, 2016 | Canada, Venture Capital and Private Equity Activity Grows in 2015 | Canadian private capital continued to grow in 2015.
According to the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association’s (CVCA) private capital market activity report, venture capital investments and fundraising increased substantia... |
| Feb 22, 2016 | Report: Canadian VC investment reaches $2.3 billion in 2015, VC exit values reach record highs | According to the Canadian Venture Capital Association, Canadian venture capital investments showed strong growth, and VC exits hit historic highs.
In 2015, 536 deals captured $2.3 billion — an increase of 24 and 12 percent respectively. At ... |
| Nov 13, 2015 | CVCA report: VC investment in first nine months of 2015 already surpasses last year’s total | In a report examining the first nine months of 2015, The Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA) announced that VC deals completed in Canada totalled $1.6 billion — a 31 percent increase in deal volume over the same... |
| Jul 29, 2015 | CVCA: H1 2015 saw $939 million in completed VC deals | Hot on the heels of Thompson Reuters’ report, the CVCA has released its own H1 2015 results for venture capital in Canada. Coming in both pleasing slide and infographic formats, the CVCA says that H1 2015 saw 244 venture capital completed d... |
| Mar 18, 2015 | Canada’s startup scene makes a polite pop, but still awaits its big bang | Vancouver, BC — Canada has a lot of technology talent: it’s a hub for innovative game design and clean tech ventures, for example. It has its share of smart software companies, but when it comes to helping them all grow, it needs help.
In C... |
| Feb 4, 2015 | CVCA: $1.9B in Canadian VC investments in 2014 | The Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA) has released its 2014 report on investment in Canada. The report states that there was a total of 379 venture capital deals in Canada in 2014, with the amount of disclosed... |
| Jan 14, 2015 | Yaletown ranks as Canada’s most active VC firm first 9 months 2014: Q3 report by Thomson Reuters for CVCA | In it’s ongoing review of Canada’s VC market, Thomson Reuters has ranked Yaletown Venture Partners as the most active private independent VC for the first three quarters of 2014 – a ranking Yaletown held all of 2013.
Canada’s Venture Capita... |
| May 26, 2014 | Yaletown Venture Partners ranked as #1 Most Active VC in Canada in independent review of 2013 Canadian Private Equity market | Yaletown Venture Partners was identified as the most active VC in Canada in 2013, by Thomson Reuters in an independent review of Canadian private equity market conducted for the CVCA (Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Associatio... |
| May 8, 2013 | How Ontario plans to become the world’s top technology hub | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Canadians: humble, mild, polite, with a global re... |
| May 8, 2013 | How Ontario plans to become the world’s top technology hub | Canadians: humble, mild, polite, with a global reputation for being non-aggressive.
Except, of course, at a hockey game. And, increasingly, in Ontario, where startups, government, industry, universities, angels, and venture capitalists are ... |
| May 19, 2010 | The future of venture capital | Views on building a culture of entrepreneurial venture capital
A few weeks ago I was invited by Rob Hyndman to post some of my views on the topic of: The Future of Venture Capital in Canada, as part of a series of posts at The Mark – Canada... |
| Канада запустила визовую программу для стартаперов | 1 апреля 2013 года Канада запустила новую визовую программу, предназначенную для стартап предпринимателей (Start-Up Visa). Программа является уникальной в своем роде и будет действовать в течение 5 лет, за год планируется выдавать 2750 виз.... |
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| Canadian Government Funding Supports Innovation in Waterloo Region | Communitech Corporation is receiving a Canadian government funding for small business contribution of up to $6.4 million through FedDev Ontario’s Technology Development Program to construct two next-generation satellites. Members of Parliam... |
| Канада предложит стартаперам визы | Агентство по гражданству и иммиграции Канады совместно с канадской Ассоциацией венчурного капитала одобрили внедрение так называемых Start-Up Visa - виз, предназначенных для желающих открыть собственный бизнес в Канаде. По мнению властей та... |
| Looking for Follow-On Funding? NAO Angel Network Call for Companies | Pitch at Our Next Ontario’s Follow-On Investment Forum
Network of Angel Organizations – Ontario (NAO-Ontario) is now accepting applications from small businesses and start-ups that have received previous rounds of investment for an opportun... |
| Canadian Government Funding: Investing in Business Innovation (IBI) | The aim of the Investing in Business Innovation (IBI) is for stimulating and leveraging private sector investments to serve the development and late-stage commercialization challenges of start-up businesses. This government funding for busi... |
