This article is part of a new series, CVCA Quarterly Exclusive, written and published by the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. This series provides an analysis of the CVCA’s most recently published VC & PE Canadian Market Overview through expert commentary and perspectives. The recently released H1 2017 VC & PE Canadian Market Overview noted

This article is part of a new series, CVCA Quarterly Exclusive, written and published by the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. This series provides an analysis of the CVCA’s most recently published VC & PE Canadian Market Overview through expert commentary and perspectives. Last year was undoubtedly a huge year for venture capital investment activity

Strong VC Investment Pace Continues with Revival in Exits After Long Hiatus; Huge Quarter for PE and a Breakout Year for Exits VC investment sees $1.6B invested over 260 deals with 21 exits totaling $900M in the first half of 2017. PE investment sees $13.9B invested over 277 deals with 80 exits in H1 2017;

Quark Venture’s Partner & CEO weighs in on the future of AI and its role in the healthcare vertical There’s been plenty of media coverage lately about artificial intelligence. Most reporting has been generated through the vastly different views of people like Elon Musk the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink, and Mark Zuckerberg, the

The CVCA was proud to award Yaletown Partners with the 2017 Venture Capital Deal of the Year Award on June 7th, during the Invest Canada ’17 conference in Montreal. Yaletown Partners is a Vancouver-headquartered firm that invests in emerging-growth technology companies in Canada. Yaletown invested CAD $7.5 million in BitStew Systems, and realized proceeds of

The CVCA was proud to award Clairvest Group with the 2017 Private Equity Deal of the Year Award on June 7th, during the Invest Canada ’17 conference in Montreal. Clairvest Group is a Toronto-based private equity management firm, which selects industries or segments within industries where there is an opportunity to create substantial equity value, generated CAD $125.3 million from

Convening at a table in Toronto’s OneEleven­, North America’s largest innovation Hub, the CVCA and Anna Mackenzie, Front-End Developer, Nudge.ai, are discussing some of the interesting startups in the Silicon Valley-esque shared offices. OneEleven may be the workspace for companies like 360insights, Nudge and Hockeystick; but some of the folks working here are doing extraordinary

First proposed in the 2016 fall economic statement, Canada’s new infrastructure bank is a tool to help the federal government allocate $35 billion towards new, major infrastructure projects that will contribute to the country’s long-term economic growth while mobilizing additional investment from the private sector. Of this allocation, $15 billion will come from federal funds

On July 20th, Quebec-based Novacap Management announced the closing of its latest technology, media and telecommunications private equity fund, Novacap TMT V. Not only did Novacap successfully close the fund, the firm surpassed the target size of the fund by 40 per cent; motivated by demand from new and existing investors. Pascal Tremblay, President and

Venture capital activity in Canada continues to hum along at a steadily increasing pace. Based on preliminary data sourced from CVCA InfoBase, $1.6B was disbursed over 260 deals in H1 2017, which is almost equal to the pace for the same time last year. The top 10 VC deals in H1 totaled $665M—40% of total