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New Member Profile: Boast.AI
Photo: Boast.ai founders Alex Popa and Lloyed Lobo. Our series profiling CVCA’s new members continues—providing insight on invaluable organizations in our community. In this entry,… Read More
CVCA Announces Ottawa as Host City for the 2022 Annual Invest Canada Conference
Canada’s Capital Will Host Canada’s Private Capital Industry – May 25-27, 2022 Today, the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) announced Ottawa, Ontario… Read More
AWARD SPOTLIGHT: Evok Innovations & BDC Capital Winners of 2021 VC Deal of the Year for DarkVision
When DarkVision Technologies Inc. was started in 2013, its goal was to use the founders’ imaging expertise from the consumer packaging industry and pivot it… Read More
AWARD SPOTLIGHT: Novacap Winner of 2021 PE Deal of the Year for Intelerad Medical Systems
It was 2016, after years of courting Intelerad Medical Systems Inc., that Montreal-based PE firm Novacap finally secured an investment in the medical imaging software… Read More
AWARD SPOTLIGHT: Clairvest Winner of 2021 PE Global Dealmaker Award for County Waste of Virginia
It was after a successful exit together at a previous U.S. waste management company that Clairvest Group Inc. was invited to invest in County Waste… Read More
AWARD SPOTLIGHT: White Star Capital winner of 2021 VC Global Dealmaker Award for Freshly
White Star Capital founder Eric Martineau-Fortin remembers the first time he witnessed the scale at which meal-kit company Freshly was expanding. It was 2015 and… Read More
AWARD SPOTLIGHT: Kerri Golden, Information Venture Partners Winner of Inaugural Barry Gekiere Lifetime Legacy Award
Kerri Golden was preparing for semi-retirement in 2014 when VCs Dave Unsworth and Rob Antoniades asked her to help launch Toronto-based Information Venture Partners. After… Read More
AWARD SPOTLIGHT: Real Ventures Winner of 2021 VC Regional Impact Award for Central Canada for Vanilla Forums
It was at a Techstars Demo Day in Denver in 2009 where Real Ventures founding partner John Stokes came across Vanilla Forums, an online community… Read More
AWARD SPOTLIGHT: Lumira Ventures winner of 2021 VC Regional Impact Award for Western Canada for Zymeworks
Lumira Ventures prides itself on being a VC investor that backs promising early-stage health care and life sciences companies with the potential to dramatically improve… Read More
AWARD SPOTLIGHT: Imperial Capital Winner of the 2021 PE Regional Impact Award for VetStrategy
It was through a friend on his men’s hockey team that Imperial Capital’s Justin MacCormack first heard about VetStrategy, a chain of animal care clinics… Read More
VCs Share Their Upside
Photo: The Upside Foundation founders open the TSX. Courtesy: Upside Foundation. The Canadian tech community is in the midst of an… Read More
#IC21 Speaker Spotlight: Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, Offensive Lineman, Kansas City Chiefs and Canadian Medical Student
On Wednesday, June 9, Invest Canada ’21 is pleased to welcome featured speaker Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, Offensive Lineman for the Kansas City Chiefs and Canadian… Read More