Victoria’s Tiny Capital has invested in Palo Alto’s AeroPress, makers of the AeroPress® coffee maker, which was created by inventor and engineer Alan Adler. Adler will continue to be involved and retains a minority ownership stake in the business. The AeroPress coffee maker has enjoyed rave reviews and a passionate following from coffee lovers globally […]
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Victoria’s Defined Raises $2.5 Million Round From Version One & Tiny Capital
Victoria’s Defined has closed a $2.5 million seed round from a group of investors that includes B.C.’s Version One Ventures, Tiny Capital, and angel Rasool Rayani. Also participating in the round were Compound, Capital6 Eagle, Kamunting Street Capital, Mark Cuban, Inflection Ventures, Portico Ventures, and Balaji Srinivasan. Defined is a data platform for the open […]
Former Daily Hive Editor-in-Chief Farhan Mohamed Launches Community News Network
Canada’s online media landscape is about to get interesting. Daily Hive’s former Editor-in-Chief Farhan Mohamed has teamed up with tech entrepreneur Andrew Wilkinson to launch Overstory Media Group (OMG), a new media company that wants to breathe life into the media industry and it’s targeting local communities. Wilkinson is the Co-founder of Tiny, a Victoria-based […]
Tiny Capital Is Taking WeCommerce Public
Victoria’s WeCommerce is going public. The holding company controlled by Tiny Capital‘s Andrew Wilkinson announced today that they have closed a qualifying transaction that will result in a reverse takeover of Brachium Capital Corp. Upon completion of the transaction, the company’s incumbent board of directors will resign and a new board will be formed consisting […]
Tiny Capital’s Andrew Wilkinson On Building Business Without The Pain
Each day, we see a flashy new company being celebrated for raising millions in funding. But what we often don’t see is the messy cap tables, the years of “rise and grind”, the endless quest for profitability, and in many cases, the eventual collapse of even the best teams. But it doesn’t always have to […]
Tiny Capital Acquires Open Source Platform Meteor From Apollo
Victoria’s Tiny Capital has acquired Meteor, a popular open source app and development platform overseen by San Francisco’s Apollo. Using a single codebase, Meteor’s JavaScript App Platform radically simplifies coding for developers building reactive, multi-device experiences for servers, browsers, and mobile devices. “I’m grateful to welcome the Tiny team as the new corporate stewards of the […]
Tiny Acquires Top Shopify Partner Pixel Union From Teligence Capital
Victoria’s Tiny Capital has re-acquired a majority stake in Pixel Union, a leading partner in the Shopify ecosystem. Tiny Capital sold a majority stake in Pixel Union to Teligence Capital in 2014. So, this week’s announcement is a bit of a homecoming. Pixel Union started out building themes for Tumblr in 2008, but after witnessing the growth […]
Tiny Capital Targets Shopify Partner Ecosystem With WeCommerce
Victoria’s Tiny Capital has created an new e-commerce company focused on acquiring businesses within the Shopify partner ecosystem. WeCommerce will operates a portfolio of companies focused on delivering products and services within the Shopify e-commerce ecosystem. Pixel Union will join Out of The Sandbox, Yopify, and Supple in the growing portfolio. Shopify partners revenues exceeded […]