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Web3 funds open up as investor interest grows but ‘nascent’ risks loom
FILE PHOTO: A non-fungible token (NFT) displayed on the website of NFT marketplace OpenSea is seen through a magnifying glass, in this illustration picture taken February 28, 2022. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration
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U.S. regulatory scrutiny of ‘complex’ ETFs prompts fears of crackdown
A sign for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is seen outside the offices in New York's financial district July 22, 2015. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
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Contrary to popular belief, it’s millennials who most want to ‘work closely’ with advisors
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SEC seeks to bolster disclosure rules for private equity and hedge funds
FILE PHOTO: Signage is seen at the headquarters of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 12, 2021. Picture taken May 12, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo/File Photo
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Stack Capital aims to give average investors access to private equity
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Limited opportunities for investors to tap into surging venture capital market
Sophie Forest, of BrightSpark
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Global financial firms look to take a slice of soaring private capital industry
FILE PHOTO: A JPMorgan logo is seen in New York City, U.S., January 10, 2017. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith
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The premium paid for U.S. stocks faces a test
FILE - The New York Stock Exchange is seen in New York, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. Stocks are opening modestly higher on Wall Street, Thursday, May 20, 2021, putting the market on track to break a three-day losing streak. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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Stepping on the gas: Canadian online car selling platform Clutch secures $60-million to build national platform
Dan Park (left), CEO of Clutch, a Canadian startup that is an online marketplace for buying cars, is photographed with Stephen Seibel, COO and Founder, with their delivery flat-bed truck, in Toronto, on Fri., March, 19, 2021. (Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail)
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Canadian venture capital investments totalled $4.4-billion in 2020
A sign board in Toronto shows the closing number for the TSX on Thursday October 29, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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Patriotic Canadian venture capital firm Inovia raises $450-million to back domestic tech champions
Chris Arsenault (left), the founding partner of the venture capital firm iNovia, along with the new additions to the firm Patrick Pichette (right), former CFO of Google, and Dennis Kavelman (centre), former CFO of Blackberry, at the iNovia offices in Montreal on Monday, April 9, 2018. (Dario Ayala / The Globe and Mail)
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BrandProject, one of Canada’s most successful early-stage investors, raises first venture fund
Andrew Black, co-founder and chief executive officer of BrandProject, which invests in consumer-brand startups.
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Ottawa’s Mistral raising nearly $50-million fund to capitalize on post-COVID opportunities
Ottawa's skyline is seen along the Ottawa River July 21, 2015 in Ottawa. DAVE CHAN FOR THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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RBC taps into biotech surge, investing in new Lumira venture fund
The RBC Royal Bank of Canada logo is seen in Halifax on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. Fourth-quarter results at Royal Bank of Canada edged lower compared with a year ago and fell short of analysts' expectations. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Booming Canadian biotech sector on track for record year after raising $1-billion in venture capital so far in 2020
Universities have seen some of Canada’s most important discoveries.
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Alberta drilling veteran Kevin Krausert leaves Beaver Drilling to launch energy investment firm
Kevin Krausert, president and CEO of Beaver Drilling in Calgary, Alberta, April 28, 2020. Todd Korol/The Globe and Mail
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VC industry warns of ‘severely weakened’ innovation sector if Ottawa doesn’t back tech startups
Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association new CEO, Kim Furlong. handout photo
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Vancouver online course platform Thinkific raises $22-million on pandemic-fueled growth spurt
Greg Smith, CEO and co-founder of Thinkific, speaking at the company's headquarters.
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Zooming for dollars: Vancouver startup Klue Labs raises $15-million after online fundraising effort
The Vancouver city skyline is seen early in the morning, on Sept., 10, 2013.
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Toronto quantum computer startup Xanadu eyes $100-million funding after launching online service
***please use no smaller than three columns ***. Christian Weedbrook, founder of the quantum technologies company, Xanadu, listens in as Varun Vaidya, left, demonstrates the working principle of one of the building blocks of quantum computers, at their office in Toronto on Thursday, June 20, 2019. Tijana Martin/ The Globe and Mail
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Alberta launches new R&D incentives for innovation, tech a year after cuts
Several Skyscrapers of the Edmonton downtown at sunset, and Walterdale Bridge in the foreground, on July 7, 2018.
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Venture capital funding set to drop sharply for rest of 2020, industry association says
The futures market suggested U.S. stock markets would open higher today, a day after North American stock markets posted gains. Bay Street in Canada's financial district is shown in Toronto on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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The Globe’s stars and dogs for the week
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Canadian venture capital had its biggest year in 2019 since 2000
Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association new CEO, Kim Furlong. handout photo
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Nissan expected to pull out of venture fund with Renault in cost-cutting move: sources
FILE PHOTO: The logos of car manufacturers Renault and Nissan are seen in front of dealerships of the companies in Reims, France, July 9, 2019. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/File Photo
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Power Corp.’s Portag3 venture fund hires Canadian Silicon Valley star Chris O’Neill
Chris O’Neill, CEO of Evernote, at his standing desk in Redwood City, Calif., on June 19, 2018. O’Neill balances his work and personal lives through list making, regular exercise, getting a good night’s rest and devoting Saturdays to his children. (Jason LeCras/The New York Times)
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RBC hires OMERS Ventures managing partner Sid Paquette to lead new technology, innovation banking group
Sid Paquette.
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It’s time for Canada to nurture – and keep – its own tech unicorns
Elio Luongo and Sunil Mistry
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Georgian Partners closes Canada’s first private sector $1-billion+ venture capital fund
A group of Yukon First Nation leaders are meeting with bankers today in Toronto to try and convince them not to invest in energy development on the range of a vital caribou herd. Bank towers are shown from Bay Street in Toronto's financial district, on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrien Veczan
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Venture capitalists share their regrets in their ‘anti-portfolios’
Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, sits for a photograph at his office in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday October 30, 2015. DARRYL DYCK FOR THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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Sidewalk Labs courting local venture capitalists to back smart-city project on Toronto waterfront
Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Sidewalk Labs, walks to a scrum outside the Sidewalk Labs in Toronto on June 24, 2019. Sidewalk has been taking meetings with local venture capitalists and startups to help invest into a venture fund for local, early-stage companies focused on 'urban innovation.'
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Ottawa-backed Northleaf venture-capital fund closes at $300-million
Bank towers are shown from Bay Street in Toronto's financial district on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Subsidiaries of three more Canadian banks face potential class actions against trailing commissions paid to discount brokerages by mutual funds without providing the funds' investors any service of value, such as professional advice. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrien Veczan
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85 per cent of money invested in Canadian VC funds went to funds with no female partners: report
Lauren Robinson, a partner at Highline BETA and executive director at Female Funders, says access to capital remains a barrier for female entrepreneurs.
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Buoyed by surge in ‘megadeals,’ Canadian venture-capital activity up sharply across the board
Stuart Lombard, founder and chief executive of smat-thermostat maker ecobee Inc. is seen in Toronto in 2016. The company has brought in a pair of investments this year totalling $127-million.
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Report reveals staggering gender disparity in Canadian venture-capital firms
While the proportion of female partners at Canadian VC firms is twice that of the top 100 firms in the United States, it highlights the difficulty for women to access leadership positions in venture funds