New signs of life in Canadian venture-backed exits
In his 2019 Canadian venture and startup predictions, OMERS Ventures Managing Partner Jim Orlando laments the lack of big exits of VC-backed tech companies in 2018. The market in Canada appears to be doing a better job on this front this year. Exit activity since January has included some major acquisitions as well as the return of VC-backed IPOs after a nearly two-year hiatus. Perhaps the highest profile of these events was the $276 million TSX IPO of Lightspeed, a Montréal retail and restaurant POS and e-commerce solution, closed in March.
6 June 2019•1 min read
