News
Innovation Policy and Innovation DNA…
November 4, 2011
Over the past year, the Canadian government has turned to Open Text’s Tom Jenkins and his committee to transform perennial hand-wringing into some plan of action for more effective research […]
Scraping and scrapping…
November 4, 2011
On the heels of some big data scraper and indexer acquisitions in Canada and elsewhere over the past year (think Radian6 and PostRank, among others), the British Columbia Supreme Court’s […]
How ‘Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On The Farmville…
November 4, 2011
Nora Bayes couldn’t have trumpeted the triumph of social gaming any better. Shedding the “really? no, seriously?” doubters over the past five years, venture investors are turning over rocks around […]
Sterling Partners Acquires MOSAID Technologies for $590 Million
October 28, 2011
Sterling Partners, an industry-leading private equity firm with $5 billion in assets under management, announced that it has entered into an arrangement agreement with MOSAID Technologies under which Sterling Partners will acquire […]
B.C. Case Adds to the Rules of Robotics
October 19, 2011
The B.C. Supreme Court recently decided a case that will be of interest to various Internet-based businesses. In particular, the case will be relevant for companies that provide Internet search […]
LW sponsors GrowLab incubator in Vancouver
September 22, 2011
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 […]
Wattpad Raises Series A Round of Financing
September 14, 2011
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 […]
GestureTek Acquired by QualComm
September 6, 2011
Another in our series of summer deal catch-ups, congrats to Mark Burton, Francis MacDougall and team on acquisition by QualComm.
TribeHR Raises $1M from Matrix Partners
September 6, 2011
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.
LW in Van-City @ GROW et al
September 6, 2011
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 […]
