Bridgit discloses BDC Capital led $6.24M Series A
2019-03-18
Bridgit finally disclosed the closing of a $6.2 million Series A financing led by BDC Capital, three months later. Read More →
Cannabis financing Series 1: total funding surpasses $16B in 2018
2019-03-18
Cannabis and related companies raised $16 billion in 2018, 445% increase over 2017 and 2,117% over 2016. Read More →
Transparency at the expense of ‘looking good’?
2019-03-11
Integrity and truthfulness do pay; manufactured “looking good” does not helpRead More →
US investors’ “Midas Touch” in Canadian IPO performance
2019-03-10
Canadian VC/PE backed IPOs overwhelmingly underperformed against US VC/PE backed IPOs and VC backed IPO underperformed PE Backed IPOs, CPE Media Analytics report foundRead More →
Stikeman Elliott and Owen Bird leading law firms in exempt financing – CPE Media Leaderboard
2019-03-08
Owen Bird, BCF, Fasken, Osler, Northwest Law, McCarthy Tétrault, Blakes, DLA Piper (Canada), Burstall, TingleMerrett, Stikeman Elliott, Goodmans, Dentons Canada – leading exempt financing law firms in Jan 2019 Read More →
Pinnacle Wealth Brokers leads in exempt fees earned by EMDs – CPE Media Leaderboard
2019-03-06
Top 10 exempt fee earning EMDs: Pinnacle Wealth Brokers, Raintree, Tri View Capital, Westcourt Capital, Fisgard Asset, Ardenton Financial, Capital Street Group, Enoch Wealth, Waverley, Keira Capital Partners Read More →
RBC Dominion Securities leading investment dealer in exempt fees earned in January 2019
2019-03-03
RBC Dominion Securities Inc. led all investment dealers in exempt financing fees in January 2019Read More →
Last business day before Christmas, the busiest financing closing day
2019-01-01
The last business day before Christmas was the busiest financing closing day with the closing of 53, 86 and 75 financings respectively in 2016, 2017 and 2018.Read More →
Technology Metals weekly update
2018-01-21
Weekly summary of Canadian and international technology metals related financing and other newsRead More →
US VCs, International Corporate VCs primary backers of Canadian startups
2017-09-17
US VCs invested $439M, 2.7 times of the $162M invested by Canadian VCs. International CVCs invested $120M, ranking 3rd behind US VCs and Canadian VCs.Read More →
Foreign investors play ever important role in Canadian VC ecosystem
2017-09-13
Every VC dollar raised by Canadian companies, 55 cents from foreign sources with almost 40 cents from USA alone, only 45 cents from Canadian sources. Read More →
Canadian Venture Capital 2017 First Half Report
2017-09-11
CPE Media released its inaugural and ground-breaking report into venture capital (VC) activity in Canada for first half (H1) of 2017.Read More →
