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Dateline: New York City For all of the impressive big cap stories at this year’s fabulous RBC Capital Markets Technology, Media and Telecom annual conference, some the buzz is definitely centred around...
View ArticleMajor traction in the U.S. market
Going where the fish are. For the better part of the last year, our team has been spreading the word about Wellington Financial in the key American VC markets. Armed with a strong 10-year track record,...
View ArticleMass confusion in ventureland
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...
View ArticleMcKinsey charts minor adjustments for BDC’s VC division
Clear as the nose on your face. That has to be one of the true joys of a management consulting assignment from time to time. The answer is obvious from the moment you arrive on the scene. But for an...
View ArticleFoursquare becoming a marketers’ dream
I know that the New York Times is concerned about a private company technology bubble in Silicon Valley, but the U.S. VC industry has climbed a wall of worry over the past few years, and I don’t...
View ArticleNice to be first with the VC news
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 the actual formal...
View ArticleWhy the U.S. VC market loves True Growth Capital
Dateline: Boston I happened across a blog post by Sarah Tavel of Bessemer Venture Partners, and it pretty much outlined why the U.S. venture market has responded so well to Wellington’s non-amortizing...
View ArticleTough to deny Romney’s role as a true VC
It might not be a campaign of revisionist history, but today’s peHUB report about the VC industry allegedly trying to keep its distance from Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is worth...
View ArticleMurray gives Ontario Grits their “Innovation” candidate
Now that their membership drive is over, the focus of the Ontario Liberal Party will be on which leadership candidate has the right stuff to replace Premier Dalton McGuinty. You could lean different...
View ArticleMurray pays the price for Ontario government’s $500M MaRS scandal
There were plenty of casualties in the recent Provincial election; some deserved and some not. This post tries to give you some background on one of them. It has been about two months since it came to...
View ArticlePE Hub article on Wellington Financial Fund V
You can find the original article here. Wellington Financial, a Toronto-based specialty finance firm, has raised nearly all of its target of $300 million for its fifth innovation-focused private debt...
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