Where to from here?
As much as a blog is a thankless task, I am aware that a small handful of otherwise sane folks claimed to be disappointed when I shelved my virtual pen with the acquisition of...
Time to chart my next Adventure
With the fifth anniversary of CIBC’s acquisition of Wellington Financial now in the rear-view mirror, I’ve decided that it’s the appropriate time to chart my next adventure. The opportunity I’ve had has been as...
Sometimes, good things don’t have to end
There’s a saying that “All good things must come to an end,” but perhaps that’s not always the case. Over the past 17 years, I’ve had the good fortune to turn a hobby into...
Toasting the Creative Destruction Lab
I don’t want to startle you, but I’m a bit giddy about the UofT’s Creative Destruction Lab. I had the opportunity to sit through a complete day of CDL sessions last month, and couldn’t...
CIBC Equity Research: The Epic Rise Of Bitcoin; But What About The Supply?
With Bitcoin blowing through $10,000, I thought I would share this interesting report from Stephanie Price and Varun Choyah of the CIBC Software & Services Institutional Equity Research team. I certainly don’t mean to make...
Toronto's tech buzz is awesome, but results are what will ultimately matter
By any measure, Canada’s venture capital market, and the ecosystem as a whole, appears to be on fire. I can’t think of a time over my 10+ years of blogging when I might have said that,...
Snap Inc. acquires Fund V portfolio co. Metamarkets
We’ve had a busy run of late on the portfolio M&A front. Aquisio, RiskVision, and now San Francisco-based Metamarkets. Metamarkets provides an AI-based big data SaaS platform, delivering an analytics dashboard for programmatic ad...
Web.com acquires Montreal-based Fund V portfolio co. Acquisio
More acquisition news hit the wire last evening. This time it was Acquisio, a Montreal-based Wellington Financial Fund V portfolio co., announcing its tie-up with Web.com, of Jacksonville, Florida. Here’s the release: “Acquisio makes available to small...
Resolver acquires Fund IV portfolio co. RiskVision
It’s not every day that a Canadian-backed firm acquires one of our California-based portfolio companies. As becomes more apparent as the years go by, Canada and the USA have become one market. The acquisition of...
Wellington Financial Provides US$4 Million in Growth Capital to Agilence
The deals have come in all sizes this year, whether or not we’ve been able to announce them! This week’s growth capital financing came in the form of a US$4 million commitment for Agilence...
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