This is a special blog post dedicated to Brazil’s venture capital firms. Before getting into the list, I want to make it clear that private equity investments are much stronger than venture capital investments. There may be four reasons for a small venture capital market … Read More →
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Canada’s Venture Capital Firms – December 2009
Thanks for Dan M., JS C., Mark E. and Tim T. for your suggestions! This is a complete list of all the VC firms in Canada. JS made a good suggestion of adding of which firms invested in the last 12 months. I will add … Read More →
Venture Capital Firms in Canada – November 2009
This is a complete list of all the VC firms in Canada. = A must see. = A firm dedicated mostly in early stage companies. VC firms only AVAC Ltd. Avrio Ventures Management Corp. Brightspark Capital Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) Venture Capital … Read More →
Private Equity Firms in Canada – November 2009
This is a complete list of all the Private Equity firms in Canada. = A firm dedicated more to Private Equity or late stage startups. = A mix firm with investment in VC and PE. PE and VC firms 32 Degrees Capital Aberdeen Gould Annapolis … Read More →
Related Companies and Services to Venture Capital and Private Equity in Canada
Other Firms Related to PE & VC industry (Some of these companies may be venture capital and private equity firms but they were also investing heavily in other areas in finance, such as asset management, etc.) AccuVal Associates, Incorporated Acorn Partners Merchant Bankers Adventity Inc. … Read More →
Twitter’s founder: Evan Williams
I became aware of Evan Williams from Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days. He had a great and very interesting story about how he founded Blogger and all the hardship he had with it. I think one of the most interesting point is … Read More →
Goldman Sachs’ DreamingWith BRICs: The Path to 2050
BRIC is an acronym which means the fast growing developing economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China. The BRIC concept was developed by Goldman Sachs’ Dreaming with BRICs: The Path to 2050 article. The article states that if these countries follow some of the … Read More →
Shrinking Venture Capital Market in Canada
The Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association released a report yesterday (May 12th) that the venture capital market continues to fall in the first quarter of 2009, continuing the shrinking trend from 2008. In the Canadian landscape, only $ 275 million … Read More →
A Presentation About Venture Capital from MIT OpenCourse
This is a very good and concise presentation about venture capital, the three phrases of venture capital investing, SBICSs and SSBICs (types of small business programs), state government initiatives, key challenges and best practices. Download the presentation here: http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/E8256F94-7B44-4E02-8511-7366DE6B20CA/0/class16_vc.pdf
Link: TheStartup, European Startups and Entrepreneurs
TheStartup is a blog about European startups and entrepreneurs, it is a quite new website and it looks promising. Some of the highlights in the website: European Founders Capital, a 20m fund for european tech startups yellowBird creates the first 360° immersive video theStartup … Read More →
Canada Venture Capital Industry Guide
This is a complete guide of all the most important resources about venture capital industry in Canada. It is a good way to start your research about VC industry if you are in Canada. What Venture Capital is? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_capital Associations, Networking and Groups … Read More →
Some interesting sites: 2009 April 12
Load Impact - check how well you website can handle heavy workload @ http://loadimpact.com/ Seedcamp – check an entrepreneur event where you can meet with a lot of interestign people with interesting ideas @ http://seedcamp.com/ Chocolate Cookies – I made some cookies today with this recipe @ http://www.joyofbaking.com/ChocolateCookies.html … Read More →
Google Homepage in Canada (Olympics), Brazil (Carnaval) and China (New Year)
Today is a special day for Google’s Doodle team. It had to create and publish three different doodles. Except in Brazil and China, Google is showing the Winter Olympics doodle. In Brazil, Google is showing a Carnaval doodle and in China, it is showing the … Read More →