In the first half of 2024, venture capital investments totalled nearly $3.6 billion across almost 300 deals, as blood slowly returns to a pale Canada. Despite the lowest deal volume since 2020, average deal size continues to grow, reflecting investors’ focus on companies with proven track records and strong fundamentals, according to the CVCA’s H1 […]
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B.C. Maintains Healthy Investment Levels as VC Deals Dip in Canada
Venture capital dealings in Canada within the first quarter of 2024 rendered a “mixed landscape,” a new report finds. Investments totalled $1.3 billion across 128 deals, according to the latest “VC & PE Canadian Market Overviews” from the Canadian Venture Capital Association. Investment levels matched the year-ago quarter, but the report noted a 28% decline […]
After Slow Start to 2023, VC in BC Returns to ‘Pre-Pandemic Momentum’
A B.C. company building a scalable, fault-tolerant, and unified quantum computing platform secured in November US$100 million. Photonic’s capital hailed from a variety of contributors, including the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, the National Security Strategic Investment Fund in the UK, Inovia Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, and Microsoft. The sizeable round of fundraising is a marked […]
Osler Venture Capital Report Points to ‘Growth, Renewal, Resilience,’ for BC Startups in 2023
Founded in 1862, Osler integrates traditional law practices with emerging technology from its offices in Vancouver and beyond. This week, the national law firm released its second-annual tech financings report. This year’s edition combed through more than 300 technology-based venture capital equity financings to deliver a range of information and insight into Canada’s ecosystem. The […]
BC Attracts Third-Most Investment in Q3 as Seed-Stage Startups See Most Deals
$900 million of venture capital dollars were invested across 144 deals in the third quarter of 2022, bringing the year-to-date total above $7 billion invested across more than 500 deals as investment “continues to normalize to pre-pandemic levels,” according to the latest quarterly report from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. “Canada’s VC […]