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BDC commits $72.5m to KensingtonBusiness Development Bank of Canada has backed Kensington Venture Fund III.
Whitecap Venture Partners raises $140mThe Toronto-based venture capital firm has closed its fifth early stage venture fund.
Canada’s Whitecastle seals $150m food exitThe firm will sell Protenergy to TreeHouse Foods alongside Kensington Capital Partners and BMO Capital Partners.
- Down on Dell(2)
Some in the industry are sceptical that Silver Lake can generate a private equity-style return in a typical private equity timeframe with a company as challenged as Dell.
- Down on Dell
Some in the industry are sceptical that Silver Lake can generate a private equity-style return in a typical private equity timeframe with a company as challenged as Dell.
- Cordiant hires veteran fundraiser
Graeme Johnson will lead investor relations activities for the emerging markets investment firm.
- OMERS invests C$50m in Canadian wireless
The Canadian pension’s private equity group has agreed to back BMV Holdings, which was launched by a private equity consortium following a wireless spectrum auction last summer.
- Canadian PE firms strike deal with open-pit miner KMC
Fund of funds manager Kensington has committed C$1.9m to a 60-year-old Canadian oil sands mining company as part of a consortium including Calgary private equity firm TriWest.
- US drives Canadian buyout and VC markets
Deals in Canadian PE and VC markets were driven by US investors in 2007, creating ‘serious concern’ over the strength of the domestic Canadian market, according to the CVCA.
- Novacap closes two funds totaling C$565
The Montreal-based private equity and venture capital firm says its closure of two sector-specific funds is Quebec’s largest private equity initiative to date.