One month after announcing their fund LOI Venture has unveiled their first close of LOI Venture Fund I. LOI Venture was launched by Hootsuite co-founder Ryan Holmes and New Avenue Capital founder Manny Padda. LOI Venture invests solely in the brightest entrepreneurs in Canada under 30, with a high percentage of them coming out of League […]
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Ryan Holmes’ LOI Venture Invests In Employee Engagement Platform WFHomie
Ryan Holmes’ new venture fund has made its first investment. LOI Venture, a collaboration between Holmes and New Avenue Capital’s Manny Padda, has led a USD $1.5 million seed round in WFHomie, an employee engagement and distributed team culture platform. LOI Venture invests solely in early-stage startups who enrol in League of Innovators programs. Both […]
Ryan Holmes Teams Up With Manny Padda To Launch Venture Fund
In 2017, Hootsuite co-founder Ryan Holmes launched League of Innovators because there was a shortage of mentorship for young entrepreneurs. Today, Holmes is teaming up with fellow Vancouver angel Manny Padda to announce a $20 million venture fund called LOI Venture to address the shortage of capital for founders under 30. There was a shortage […]
Hootsuite To IPO Before End Of Year?
According to BetaKit, Vancouver-born Hootsuite is finalizing its preparations to go public on the Toronto Stock Exchange before the end of the year. Sources with direct knowledge of the company’s plans, who asked to remain anonymous as they are not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed to BetaKit that Hootsuite hopes to IPO on the TSX […]
Hootsuite Is Shutting Down The Entire Company For A Full Week
The pandemic reminded us all how important mental health is. In 2020, as the pandemic surged across the globe, everyone went home. In-person interactions were cancelled, each to be replaced by a digital counterpart. But with increased time spent in hyper-digital spheres, we also saw a rise in depression, anxiety, loneliness, and uncertainty. Vancouver’s Hootsuite […]
BBTV Adds Dragon Michele Romanow & Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes To Board
Today newly publicly-traded BBTV provided a corporate update which included the announcement of three new directors to their Board. As part of its preparation for their initial public offering, the Vancouver-born company appointed three new directors to its Board, Marcel Reichart, formerly of Bertelsmann Investments, Michele Romanow, CBC Dragon and co-founder of Clearbanc, and Ryan […]
Ryan Holmes Shares Lessons from a Unicorn at Tech Vancouver
Tech Vancouver helps the city’s technologists expand their knowledge and network in the community. Every month a set of highly curated leaders & innovators come together to share their expertise & experiences through panels and presentations. Next month Tech Vancouver’s topic is “Lessons from a Unicorn” with Ryan Holmes, co-founder of Hootsuite, discussing how to […]