There aren’t many teams that have had repeated success building up and selling valuable tech companies in Canada together. So when John Seminerio, Paul Terry and Adam Lorant embarked on their latest venture, Vancouver-based data security company PHEMI, they had little trouble lining up financial backers. “Hands-down, our investment was… Read More
Vancouver’s technology community is recognized as a top 20 ecosystem North America globally. Yaletown, headquartered in the middle of it, is as avid supporter of the local community. Next week, Vancouver Startup Week begins focusing on growth and scaling up. Yaletown is providing its expertise in emerging-growth stage companies by… Read More
There were two significant acquisitions in the Yaletown portfolio this quarter. One acquisition we can publicize: Illumina acquired GenoLogics, the life science management software company in our portfolio. Yaletown also participated in a significant round of funding for big data player, PHEMI last month, and congratulated several portfolio companies… Read More
VANCOUVER, BC – PHEMI, the company delivering security, privacy, and governance insights through the promise of big data, today announced it has raised a $12.2 million round of venture financing to expand the commercialization phase of the company. Secured by a combination of new and existing investors, the financing was… Read More
Bit Stew to expand commercial horizons with GE-led $17.2 mln funding. On May 12, Bit Stew Systems, the Vancouver-based provider of data integration and management solutions to utilities, closed a Series B financing to bring its technology to a broader range of customers, including energy businesses. Read More
VANCOUVER, B.C. – Bit Stew Systems, a leader in Software Defined Operations for the Industrial Internet, today announced that it has raised an additional $17.2 million1 in a Series B funding round. The investment round, led by GE Ventures, includes existing investors Cisco Investments and Yaletown Venture Partners, and brings… Read More
Vancouver, BC — Canada has a lot of technology talent: it’s a hub for innovative game design and clean tech ventures, for example. It has its share of smart software companies, but when it comes to helping them all grow, it needs help. In Canada, venture capital firms invested $1.9bn… Read More
VC activity in 2014 reached a twelve-year high with over $2.3 billion invested according to Thomson Reuters’ annual review of Canada’s Venture Capital Market. In the report, Yaletown ranked as Canada’s most active private independent VC for 2014, a rank the firm also achieved in 2013. Read the… Read More
In this article originally published by the CFA Society Vancouver, Yaletown’s Eric Bukovinsky takes a look at shifts and emerging gaps in Canada’s VC industry. Investor interest is returning to the industry but lost in the headlines are the major structural changes that have taken place. The venture capital industry… Read More
Globe and Mail technology reporter, Shane Dingman, interviewed industry players about the outlook for venture capital in Canadian tech in 2015. Yaletown and others observe that blockbuster deals may be masking a capital crunch for tech ventures in growth stage past startup and pre-exit. As Dingman notes, “ ..a serious lack… Read More