Tech Funding Transactions for the Month of March 2015

During the month of March 64 funding deals took place within Canada. Some of the most notable transactions were from SDTC that committed $23.7 million in funding to 10 cleantech startups and Quickplay, an Ontario startup that raised $57 million from Madison Dearborn Partners, Orix Ventures and Diffe ...

Tech Funding Transactions for the Month of February 2015

During the month of February 46 funding deals took place within Canada. Some of the most notable transactions were from TriWest Capital Partners who closed their fifth fund (Fund V) with commitments totalling $500 million and AppDirect, a Quebec startup that raised $50 million in Series D funding le ...

Tech Funding Transactions for the Month of January 2015

Canada started the New Year quite well with 35 deals in one month. Some of the most noteable transactions are from CTI Life Sciences that closed an initial $134M for its 2nd venture capital fund and D-wave Systems, a BC startup that was able to raise $29M to accelerate development of its quantum har ...

CVCA Report: Venture Capital Market Activity

The Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association has released their 2014 report on the Venture Capital Market in Canada. 2014 was a worthy year for Canadian companies as 379 venture capital deals were made totalling $1.9 billion. In addition, there were 296 private equity deals with $41.2 ...

Growing broke: how computer systems companies thrive with decreasing profits

Industry Canada (IC) has a great SME benchmarking tool (available here: http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/pp-pp.nsf/eng/home?Open&src=mm2). With this tool you can easily compare over 20 key operating metrics about your business to those of similar Canadian businesses. You can compare metrics such ...