I’ve attended a number of venture-related events recently and will be hosting the Ontario Venture Summit next week. After numerous face-to-face meetings, presentations and panel discussions with investors and strategic partners, I’m more convinced than ever that investment is on its way back, slow and steady. We’re seeing more activity out of angels and late ...

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Here in Ottawa, the typical summer slowdown did not take place this year. Despite the capital markets fluctuating and the general lack of venture capital, a number of the companies we work with were actively raising and closing, on investments over the course of the summer. In addition to the funding, these companies were also ...

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The hunt for some of Canada’s most investable companies has begun again and I’m heading West to begin my search in earnest. I’ll be meeting with two of our partners, Alberta Enterprise Corporation, and some of the regional representatives of the Industrial Research Assistance Program (or NRC - IRAP) to talk about where these companies might be found in Western Canada.

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The Canadian federal government tabled their budget for 2010 and sent a clear message to international investors that Canada is clearly open for business. In the budget, the government removed the Section 116 tax barrier, a barrier that has prevented Canadian emerging technology companies from obtaining international investment dollars to be truly globally competitive. A ...

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It was good to see a local start-up getting some well-deserved media attention with Jim Bagnall’s recent profile of  IPeak Network’s CEO Martin Horne in Saturday’s Ottawa Citizen. Under Martin’s leadership, IPeak is poised for growth. IPeak is a great Ottawa example of a company that started with a good technical idea and a desire ...

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