Katie Fasken and Erica Publow led August Capital officially launched to connect exceptional private investment managers with trusted network of Canadian institutional capital. Continue Reading
Salil Munjal, Brad Johns and Hans Knapp led Yaletown Partners closed Yaletown Innovation Growth II at $200M hard-cap, representing a 50% from Yaletown Innovation Growth. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP acted as legal counsel. Continue Reading
Anton Umnov led Helika secured $4M seed funding led by Diagram Ventures with participation from Fenbushi Capital, Sfermion, Big Brain Holdings, Builder Capital and Sparkle Ventures. Ken Nguyen from Diagram Ventures, Marc-Antoine Ross joined Helika board. Continue Reading
Jafar Owainati and William Mainguy founded Barley secured $4M seed funding led by Golden Ventures with participation from Union Capital, an investor collective that includes technology leaders at Facebook, Google, Shopify and Uber. Continue Reading
Shriya Gupta and Purva Gupta founded Daily Blends secured US $2M seed financing led by Hustle Fund and 2048 Ventures. Continue Reading
Evertz Technologies Limited proposed to acquire Haivision Systems at $4.5 per share for approximately $131M or $118M from founder Miroslav (Mirko) Wicha, Thomas O. Hecht and other shareholders. Continue Reading
Infineon Technologies to acquire GaN Systems for US $830M from investors, Chrysalix Venture Capital, Cycle Capital Management, BMW i Ventures, SPARX Group, Fidelity Investments, Vitesco Technologies, BDC Capital, Tsing Capital, RockPort Capital, Export Development Canada (EDC), and others. Continue Reading
Dr. Clarissa Desjardins founded Congruence Therapeutics secured US $10M Series A add-on led by BDC Capital with participation from Amplitude Ventures, Fonds de solidarité FTQ, OrbiMed, Investissement Quebec (IQ), SilverArc, and others.Continue Reading
Mark Skapinker and Sophie Forest led Brightspark Ventures held initial accredited investor closing for Brightspark Canadian Opportunities Fund IIContinue Reading
Daimler Truck AG’s Torc Robotics to acquire Algolux from Allan Benchetrit led management shareholders and GM Ventures, Generation Ventures, Drive Capital, Forté Ventures, Real Ventures, Intact Ventures, Alumni Ventures Group, Playground Ventures. Continue Reading
Luna Yu founded Genecis Bioindustries Inc. secured additional Series A funding from Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund. Continue Reading
Brent S. Belzberg led TorQuest Partners held initial close for TorQuest Partners Fund VI with $500M in committed capital to main Canadian fund.
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Northleaf Capital Partners final closed Northleaf Private Equity Investors VIII with more than US $675M in total committed capital, exceeding original target of US $600M. 73 Canadian investors committed CDN $314M. Continue Reading
Luis Romero led Equisoft secures $125M new funding led by Investissement Québec ($70M) with participation from principal shareholders, Export Development Canada (EDC) and Fondaction. RBC Capital Markets served as exclusive financial advisor to Equisoft. Continue Reading
GFL Environmental Inc. and HPS Investment Partners backed Green Infrastructure Partners Inc. to acquire Aecon’s roadbuilding, aggregates and materials businesses in Ontario for $235M in cash.Continue Reading
Calin Rovinescu, former CEO of Air Canada, joined Novacap and CDPQ backed and Ken Harris led Plusgrade board of directors and became an investor.Continue Reading
LKQ to acquire Uni-Select Inc. for CDN $48 per share for total enterprise value of CDN $2.8B from EdgePoint Investment Group Inc., Birch Hill Equity Partners Management Inc., and other shareholders. Continue Reading
