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Mergers & Acquisitions / Venture Lending

January 19, 2018

 by mmcqueen · Published January 19, 2018

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...

Technology / Venture Capital

January 5, 2018

 by mmcqueen · Published January 5, 2018

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...

Capital Markets

December 1, 2017

 by mmcqueen · Published December 1, 2017

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...

BDC / Boston / New York / Politics / Venture Capital / Waterloo

November 20, 2017

 by mmcqueen · Published November 20, 2017 · Last modified January 5, 2018

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,...

California / Mergers & Acquisitions / New York / Portfolio

November 14, 2017

 by mmcqueen · Published November 14, 2017 · Last modified January 5, 2018

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...

Blog / Mergers & Acquisitions / Montreal / Portfolio

November 2, 2017

 by mmcqueen · Published November 2, 2017 · Last modified January 5, 2018

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...

California / Mergers & Acquisitions / Portfolio

October 31, 2017

 by mmcqueen · Published October 31, 2017

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...

Portfolio

August 15, 2017

 by mmcqueen · Published August 15, 2017

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...

Boston / California / Menlo Park / PR and Media Coverage / Venture Lending

July 17, 2017

 by mmcqueen · Published July 17, 2017

Wellington Financial Opens New York Office

Although we did our first financing for a NY-based company over seven years ago, we’ve finally got around to adding a fourth North American office in that great city. According to PwC MoneyTree Report™ data,...

Boston / Mergers & Acquisitions / United Kingdom

June 12, 2017

 by mmcqueen · Published June 12, 2017

Wellington Financial Provides US$24 Million Debt Financing Commitment to Contract Management Software Company Exari

We are delighted to announce our largest commitment yet: a US$24 million financing to Boston-based Exari, the leading provider of enterprise contract management software.  We partnered with Beacon Equity Partners, a private equity firm...

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