Monthly Archives: September 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
LW sponsors GrowLab incubator in Vancouver
Exciting things are happening out in Vancouver for start-up companies. A group of well-known angels has paired up with three Canadian VC firms to form a new incubator known as “Growlab”. The first cohort of five startups was announced in …
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Wattpad Raises Series A
Congrats to Wattpad founders Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen on the completion of a their recent Series A round, with a terrific investment syndicate including New York’s Union Square Ventures and Toronto’s Golden Venture Partners, among others. The guys have …
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Tuesday, September 06, 2011
LW in Van-City @ GROW et al
Our partners Mike Dunleavy and James Smith had the great pleasure in mid-August to attend a week long startup blitz in Vancouver, starting with LW-sponsored events at the GROWLab facility and the pre-GROW conference Bootup’s Launchpad event, and culminating in …
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Tuesday, September 06, 2011
GestureTek Acquired by QualComm
Another in our series of summer deal catch-ups, congrats to Mark Burton, Francis MacDougall and team on acquisition by QualComm.
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Tuesday, September 06, 2011
TribeHR Raises $1M from Matrix Partners
Just catching up on some deal announcements over the course of the summer, including Waterloo-based TribeHR’s completion of its seed round financing with Boston’s Matrix Partners.
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