Posts tagged tech
Software M&A Deals in Challenging Markets

Covid-19 has had a dramatic impact on the overall markets and especially the venture capital and M&A markets. And while the market has bounced back significantly from recent lows, many clients are asking what this means for the private markets like M&A and raising VC capital. As such, we keep getting questions from various software companies on what is the best course in these challenging markets.

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Venture Capital’s Lure to Canadian Technology Companies

But what makes Canada a great country for investment? With the explosion of private capital availability in global capital markets over the last decade, Canadian technology companies have attracted venture capital investment at an annualized growth rate of 23% per year, far surpassing our southern neighbor’s growth rate of 15% over the same period.

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Canadian VC investments dramatically lag US....why?

While it's been encouraging to see some of the big Venture Capital (VC) investments into Canadian technology companies over the last few months, the headlines cover-up a much more alarming trend. If you look at dollar volume of VC investments as a % of the activity in the US, the trend has actually been in the opposite direction - i.e. there is less money being invested today in Canada as a % of the money that's being invested in the United States that there was in 2012.

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