Private Equity
NexusCrowd, a Toronto-based equity crowdfunding platform, recently announced that it has received its Exempt Market Dealer license from the Ontario Securities Commission, allowing it to provide accredited investors the opportunity to co-invest alongside venture capital firms in Canadian VC deals.
2 min read · 17 August 2015
OMERS Ventures has closed its second venture fund at $260 million. Fund II's limited partners include BMO Financial Group and Cisco Investments. The pool will focus on Canadian tech companies.
2 min read · 17 August 2015
OMERS Ventures has closed its second venture fund at $260 million. Fund II's limited partners include BMO Financial Group and Cisco Investments. The pool will focus on Canadian tech companies.
2 min read · 17 August 2015
Allegis Capital has added two new venture partners as the firm continues its shift to an all-cyber security investor.
2 min read · 17 August 2015
The additions brings the number of venture partners at the firm to eight
2 min read · 17 August 2015
TechnoCap I LP has distributed 1.86 million shares of Kinaxis Inc. to HarbourVest Partners VII - Venture Partnership Fund L.P. ("HV VII"), a fund-of-funds controlled by HarbourVest. The distribution was made in connection with the wind-up and distribution of TechnoCap assets to its GP and LPs on Aug. 14. HV VII saw its ownership in TechnoCap fall to about 7.8 percent from 97.5 percent following the distribution. TechnoCap is a Canadian venture capital fund. Following the distribution, HarbourVest will own about 14.4 percent of Kinaxis, an Ottawa-based provider of supply-chain management software.
3 min read · 17 August 2015
F50 has teamed up with Garage Technology Ventures to launch a new venture fund F50 Garage Venture Fund II. The vehicle will focus on "brilliant emerging technology companies that have the potential to have a significant global impact on their target sectors."
3 min read · 13 August 2015
Bill Taranto has revved up Merck’s venture program, expanding it to growth equity. He now looks to go abroad and earlier.
3 min read · 13 August 2015
VCs say the city, with its booming economy and young population, is underserved in the way of investors
5 min read · 13 August 2015
Morgan Flager of Silverton Partners says the Texas capital is the ideal locale to bootstrap a startup
4 min read · 12 August 2015
