A nice bit of news hit the Boston Business Journal earlier today: California tech firm Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) said Tuesday that it will acquire Littleton-based cloud networking firm BTI Systems. Terms of the...
Not the most novel of questions, but always timely, that one. There was plenty of teeth-knashing over the weekend, as some Canadian VCs and Angel Investors reacted to a piece in The Globe &...
News item: BCE and partners to acquire Q9 Networks for $1.1 billion (Hat Tip: Globe & Mail) If you’re a Canadian mutual fund portfolio manager, the name Q9 Networks will ring a bell; or...
News item: Amdocs to acquire Bridgewater for $8.20/share If you bought the Bridgewater (BWC:TSX) initial public offering at $5.50 in 2007, you’d have done just fine despite a very difficult domestic tech market climate...
With a beautiful day on the weather front, things are all set for our 4th annual Wellington Financial Charitable Foundation Golf Tournament Presented by ADP. The event is being held at Eagles Nest, just...
Thanks to the help of all of you, this space is usually first with the meaty news in Canada’s VC industry. Our post about the death of the proposed VenGrowth / Covington deal beat...
If my source is right, the proposed acquisition of VenGrowth by Covington Funds is dead. Given my affinity for the folks at Covington, GrowthWorks and VenGrowth, one can only have regret for the twists...
Is the venture model “broken”? Do venture returns really “suck”? Is there a “new way” to grow innovation companies? Can public servants do a better job of picking winners vs. losers than private sector...
You must all be completely tired of this space by now…. So, with that in mind, let me recommend a new blog to follow. It’s called www.techdisruptions.com, written by venture capitalist Peter Carrescia. Peter...
One of the funnier (irony alert) things I heard this year was that “there is too much venture capital” (see prior post “This is Roger Martin, reporting from Mars” Nov 25-08), which as a...
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