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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Friday, June 24, 2011
Celebrating Failure?
Courtesy of our summer legal intern crew, an interesting juxtaposition of three prominent Canadian newspapers’ focus on the startup experience in the Great White North. Interestingly, amid the global hype of “bubble next” with the rash of recent hot tech …
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Friday, June 24, 2011
LW on the WC
Thanks again to Martin Ertl from contractual.ly for hosting LaBarge Weinstein and our partner, James Smith, at Vancouver’s inaugural “Startup Supernova” this past week. Sharing the stage with startup-curmudgeon-with-a-heart-of-gold and GROWLabs founder Jason Bailey was a real highlight, and luckily …
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