Yaletown Partners is thrilled to announce that Kevin Collins and Alex Clark, the co-founding team of Vancouver-Based Bit Stew recently acquired by GE Digital, and Barry Yates, former CEO of Monexa acquired by NetSuite in 2015, have joined Yaletown as Special Limited Partners. SLPs are close strategic advisors to Yaletown’s… Read More
Vancouver, BC – Tasktop, the leader in Software Lifecycle Integration, today announced that it has raised $11.3 million in second round funding led by AVX Partners, with participation from existing investors Austin Ventures and Yaletown Partners. Funding will be directed primarily towards the go-to-market development, marketing and… Read More
In it’s Market Overview for 2016, the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association reported the Top Exit of the last year was GE Digital’s acquisition of Bit Stew Systems, an IIoT company with significant cleantech impact. In February, the TMX-backed Advancing Innovation Roundtable released… Read More
If you’re one of the IoT, ICT or CleanTech technology businesses signed up to pitch in the Investment Showcase at BC Tech Summit, we look forward to meeting you. Yaletown Partners is a sponsor of #BCTECH Summit – the largest technology conference in British Columbia coming… Read More
Globe and Mail reports on roundtable recommendations to close growth funding gap. Canadian growth companies face a $4-billion funding shortfall compared with U.S. rivals that should be filled by tapping the country’s pension plans, banks and insurers, according to a study due to be released Tuesday… Read More
Today the TMX Group released the Advancing Innovation Roundtable report on how to increase access to growth capital for Canadian innovation economy companies as they progress beyond the seed and startup stages. “The Roundtable recommendations are a call to action, primarily to the investment sector, to… Read More
Happy New Year everyone. Here’s a heads up on key developments coming in early 2017 and some highlights of our busy final quarter last year. PitchBook ranked Bit Stew as the Top VC-backed Exit of 2016. Yaletown Partners, the first and largest investor in Bit Stew Systems, was… Read More
PitchBook, the industry’s leading resource for information about global VC, PE and M&A activity, has ranked Bit Stew as the top VC-Backed Canadian Exit of 2016. Yaletown Partners was Bit Stew’s first and largest investor. In November 2016, Yaletown was rewarded for its emerging growth investment into Canada’s Industrial Internet… Read More
Yaletown Partners joined the B.C. government and tech community yesterday in a celebration event for Bit Stew, one that highlighted that the #BCTECH Strategy to improve access to capital is paying off as B.C. Tech companies are taking advantage of the Province’s venture capital programs to reach new levels of… Read More
Yaletown’s General Partner, Salil Munjal, has joined the board of the BC Innovation Council (BCIC) to help encourage the development and application of advanced or innovative technologies to meet the needs of industry in BC. “I’m honoured to be invited to join BCIC and… Read More