By all accounts, deal making in Canada’s venture capital market was red hot in 2014. Earlier this month, the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA) issued a report that said 379 financing rounds were closed by Canadian companies last year, raising $1.9 billion. This week,… Read More
Canadian tech has a “new class of maturing businesses” as Globe and Mail technology reporter Shane Dingman puts it, and those businesses attracted nearly $2 billion from Canadian VC’s in 2014*. One addition for the Globe’s list of companies that received financing is Yaletown portfolio company Cooledge Lighting which secured… Read More
The Financial Post article by Danny Bradbury captures it well: “Things are looking up for venture capital funding in the tech industry but in the middle [of a venture’s development from startup to exit] is a chasm that needs more cash input.” Yaletown shares the perspective offered by Tom Houston… Read More
In it’s ongoing review of Canada’s VC market, Thomson Reuters has ranked Yaletown Venture Partners as the most active private independent VC for the first three quarters of 2014 – a ranking Yaletown held all of 2013. Canada’s Venture Capital Market in Q3 2014 report prepared by Thomson Reuters… Read More
The CFA Vancouver Society – an organization of financial analysts – has launched an initiative called The Future of Finance to create positive change in the financial industry. Part of that initiative is to provide quarterly publications on the BC Investment Outlook. This month, Yaletown was asked to lend our… Read More
Yaletown led or participated in three financings since our last update in August. Cooledge Lighting, Elastic Path and Columbia Green technologies all closed rounds. There was also a key CFO hire at Tasktop and many new strategic partnerships announced across our portfolio. Read the web version of… Read More
We hear great questions daily from investors, entrepreneurs, our limited partners and the media. To help get the word out we offer these answers to comment inquiries. Give them a read and by all means share your own questions. Where does Yaletown’s capital come from? Yaletown’s capital comes from pension… Read More
How might the Internet of Things enable energy efficiency? That’s the topic Yaletown partner Salil Munjal will moderate at the Banff Venture Forum on September 25, as part of the conference’s sustainable technology series. Salil will challenge four veteran energy technology investors to explore and debate how the Internet of… Read More
Tasktop Technologies, developer of an integration technology designed to improve software productivity, has raised $11 million in a Series A financing round. The deal was led by U.S. venture capital firm Austin Ventures and joined by Canadian firm Yaletown Venture Partners. Yaletown also committed to Tasktop’s seed-stage funding in… Read More
Canadian venture capital firm Yaletown Venture Partners has closed a Series C financing of Endurance Wind Power Inc. The value of the equity investment was not disclosed. Based in Surrey, British Columbia, Endurance is manufacturer of advanced small wind turbines, designed specifically for distributed wind power applications. The Series C… Read More