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 →
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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 →
How is the Canadian venture capital industry going compared to the US?
People in the venture capital industry know that the VC industry is not going well in Canada. That is why it is even more important to know the situation in a quatitative point of view. The SME Financing Data Initiative is a government website that publishes … Read More →
Recipe for a Silicon Valley: Entrepreneurs
I’ve just read news from Revista Exame, a prestigious Brazilian weekly magazine, which talks about the new generation of entrepreneurs in Brazil. According to it, there are 10 million of Brazilian entrepreneurs and the new generation of entrepreneurs are creating companies because they believe they … Read More →
Entrepreneurial Finance – Horizon Communications Corporation (A)
My last post from the Entrepreneurial Finance course is here. Today, I want to share my summary of the Horizon Communications Corporation (A) case study. This document basically shows the industry background of telecommunication in the 90′s. Basically, it highlights the Telecommunications Act of 1996 … Read More →
Entrepreneurial Finance – Centex Telemanagement, Inc.
I’ve started studying the Entrepreneurial Finance at MIT OpenCourseWare by myself a month ago. I wrote my first post about the first case study here (Technical Data Corporation Business Plan). Until now, I think the selection of the case studies are awesome. It presents many … Read More →
An Unlikely Marriage: Koenigsegg and Saab
I’ve been following many news related to the GM’s sale of Saab to Koenigsegg and I’m very curious about the outcome of this situation. I searched Google to see if there was any news of small companies buying big companies and I couldn’t find any … Read More →
Super Angels and VCs
The importance of this article is the visibility it gives to the venture capital industry and specially in this economic downturn. I recommend reading it. Read more here: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_22/b4133044585602.htm
Entrepreneurial Finance – Technical Data Corporation Business Plan
The Technical Data Corporation Business Plan is the first case study from the Entrepreneurial Finance course from MIT OpenCourseWare. It is a business plan prepared by Jeffrey P. Parker in late 1980. The case describes that Technical Data wants to raise $100,000 before the end … Read More →
MIT OpenCourseWare – Entrepreneurial Finance
There is an amazing course for people seeking to work in the private equity, venture capital industry and entrepreneurship. The Entrepreneurial Finance is an open course that focus on the finance of start-up ventures. It addresses some of the important questions such as: - how much … Read More →
New Valuation for Facebook
Wow, this is increadible. Facebook is receiving $ 200 million for 1.96%! To calculate the post valuation, we just need to do this: X = post-valuation X = 200 million / 0.0196 = 10 204 million = $ 10 billion roughly. Amazing how this company … Read More →
What is Private Equity?
Private Equity in London? Private equity is a medium to long-term finance (10 years). Private equity firms provide money to companies in exchange of equity and control. Venture capital funds are a type of private equity investment. The main specialty of a VC firm is … Read More →
Differences Between Venture Capital and Private Equity
In a academic view, we could define venture capital as those firms that invest in early stage startups and private equity are firms that invest in later stage companies or public companies. However, both have the same investment style. They invest in companies in exchange … Read More →
PCCW Case: Difficult Valuation
A lot of people who invested in PCCW during that time are losing significant amount of money now. Moreover, a lot of investors do not understand why the company shares declined during all these years, if the company is still doing well and … Read More →
Zynga gets another $180 million, expect more game addicts on Facebook
Zynga is the company responsible for all those spam like games, such as FarmVille or MafiaWars. All these games are targeted to Facebook and they make money by showing advertisements. All these social type of games target the very basic human emotion of achievement. Most … Read More →