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Sarah Hickman

Angel Investors in Groups Achieve Investment Returns In Line with Other Types of Equity... - 0 views

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    The results of the largest study on the financial returns of angel investors in North America were released earlier this week by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Angel Capital Foundation. The study showed that angels affiliated with organized angel groups achieved an average of 27% internal rate of return on their investments. Overall, ".... [these] groups experienced exits that generated 2.6 times their invested capital in 3.5 years from investment to exit. This return compares favorably to that of other private equity investments, including those of early-stage venture capital." In addition to the study's findings on angel investment outcomes, best practices in angel investing were also identified. Areas linked to investment performance were: * due diligence time * industry expertise among investors * active participation by angels in the funded venture * follow-on investing (interestingly, the study found that " ... [i]n ventures where follow-on investments were made, nearly 70 percent of the exits occurred at a loss.")
Assunta Krehl

The View from Canada: Impact Investing 2.0 - Your Money, Your Way Blog - NextBillion.ne... - 0 views

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    Carmelina Macarino's shares her views on impact investing; it is an act of investing your money into projects that will have a positive social or environmental impact and getting a return for it. The Centre for Impact Investing held the Social Finance Forum at the MaRS Centre last month.
Assunta Krehl

Investing with a conscience - The Star - September 29, 2011 - 0 views

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    MaRS Discovery District announced  substantial funding support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation will be made available for the Centre for Impact Investing, to be housed at MaRS. As stated by Toronto Star reporter, John Terauds, "impact investing weighs the social goals and benefits of an investment alongside financial returns, usually over a long term."
Assunta Krehl

Private capital for public good: The power of impact investing - June 12, 2012 - 0 views

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    KPMG announced their commitment to strengthening the Canadian impact investing marketplace and driving social innovation as a founding partner of the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing (CII).
Melissa Hughes

Ontario startups receive $5.4 million from Investment Accelerator Fund - Yahoo! Finance... - 0 views

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    Twelve Ontario companies have received funding from MaRS' Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF), bringing the program's total investment in Ontario's emerging enterprises to $26.6 million in 57 companies since its inception.
Assunta Krehl

17muscles Changes Name to Axonify and Announces Significant Funding - Canada Newswire -... - 0 views

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    17muscles has changed it's name to Axonify. Axonify announced it has raised an initial round of funding. "The investment, led by Bridgescale Partners in Menlo Park, CA, with participation from the Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF) will be used by Axonify to fund product advancement, raise awareness about the company's offering and accelerate growth into new markets."
Assunta Krehl

MaRS to launch Centre for Impact Investing - The Globe and Mail - September 28, 2011 - 0 views

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    MaRS Discovery District announced  substantial funding support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation will be made available for the Centre for Impact Investing, to be housed at MaRS.
Assunta Krehl

Some good news in Canada's investment community, but there's a lot of bad too - Backbon... - 0 views

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    Mark Noonan and Bruce Chin from Deloitte Canada state, "Canadians must be willing to look at a wide set of reform options, and work to open our borders to foreign investment." In addition, John Ruffolo, the senior vice-president of knowledge investment at OMERS, who spoke at the Innovations Across Borders conference in March 2011 at the MaRS Centre states, "There are two types of investment. Straight common shares or very simple preferred shares. Every other complexity will be eliminated. This is focused on the upside, rather than downside protection."
Assunta Krehl

Intertainment Media Announces Investment in Independent Music Platform Tunezy, Inc - Ca... - 0 views

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    Intertainment Media Inc. announced 20% ownership investment in Tunezy, Inc.Tunezy, Inc is a MaRS client who has received over $30,000 worth of advisory services from MaRS.
Assunta Krehl

TMX Group confirms support for impact investing - Advisor.ca - December 14, 2011 - 0 views

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    Melissa Shin, Advisor.ca reporter states "Toronto is now home to the world's first non-U.S.-based hub for B Corporations, or companies that use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.   The hub will be hosted at the MaRS Discovery District as part of the Centre for Impact Investing, which officially launched December 13."
Assunta Krehl

New Kid - Advisor.ca - October 1, 2011 - 0 views

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    According to May Jeong, reporter of Advisor.ca, "impact investment-is being recognized as the newest asset class on the financial block." The Centre for Impact Investing is designed to be the hub for all thing in social finance.
Assunta Krehl

CNW Group | ONTARIO MINISTRY OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION | Ontario Investing In Science ... - 0 views

  • "This investment underscores the government's recognition that Ontario must continue to invest in its strong life sciences cluster. Now more than ever, innovative research and development is a key driver, reshaping the knowledge economy and creating prosperity for all Ontarians." Dr. John Evans, Chair, MaRS Discovery District
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    Ontario announced a new fund to attract and retain world-leading genomics researchers in the province.The $100-million Global Leadership Round in Genomics and Life Sciences will support globally-significant, collaborative research projects that are headquartered in Ontario. Dr. Evans is quoted stating that "the government must recognize that Ontario must invest in strong life science clusters."
Cathy Bogaart

How Angel Investing Is Different Than Venture Capital - 0 views

  • Ted Wang who has been working on an open source legal project called the Series Seed documents.
  • We have to give a big shout out to Ted: he nailed this. It’s exactly in step with our intention of letting entrepreneurs focus on building businesses in today’s environment, without having to follow old VC rules.
  • Start ups today don’t need to build a manufacturing plant (as DEC, the very first high-tech VC investment, did in 1957) to start a business
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    Ben Horowitz writes in Business Insider's War Room about an open source legal project, Series Seed documents from Ted Wang. He says that these are the kinds of legal docs that the new kind of investor needs to invest in the new kind of company, which generally doesn't require the VC funding structures of the past.
Tim T

The Korea Herald : The Nation's No.1 English Newspaper - 0 views

  • LG Group said yesterday that it would invest 15 trillion won ($13.35 billion) in facilities and research and development, the largest ever annual investment in the conglomerate's history.
  • The announcement on LG's aggressive investment target came after LG Group chairman Koo Bon-moo recently said that LG should become an innovative technology company that creates a higher level of customer value.
  • Out of the 11.3 trillion won facility investment fund, the group will allocate more than 3.5 trillion won in expanding LG Display's eighth-generation production line in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, to target a larger market share in large-sized TV screens, according to LG Group.
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  • Out of LG's 3.7 trillion won R&D investment, which is up 23 percent from 2009, LG Electronics will spend 2.1 trillion won on developing smart phones, next-generation mobile phones, "smart TVs," 3-D technology and renewable energy, the company said.
  • "In the R&D sector, they are boosting smart phone R&D because it is relatively weak," he said.
Cathy Bogaart

Monitor Institute - Investing for Social and environmental impact - 0 views

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    This report examines impact investing and how leaders could accelerate the industry's evolution and increase its ultimate impact in the world. It explores how impact investing has emerged and how it might evolve, including profiles of a wide range of impact investors. The report also provides a blueprint of initiatives to catalyze the industry.
Assunta Krehl

MaRS Awarded $1.3 Million By Rockefeller Foundation and J.W. McConnell Family Foundatio... - 1 views

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    MaRS Discovery District announced  substantial funding support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation will be made available for the Centre for Impact Investing, to be housed at MaRS.
Assunta Krehl

MaRS Awarded $1.3 Million By Rockefeller Foundation and J.W. McConnell Family Foundatio... - 0 views

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    MaRS Discovery District announced   substantial funding support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation will be made available for the Centre for Impact Investing, to be housed at MaRS.
Karen Schulman Dupuis

InGamer Secures Investment and Scores Rick Wolf as EVP - MarketWatch - 0 views

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    InGamer Fantasy Inc., an innovator in real-time second screen gaming for sports publishers, announced that it has secured investment from a group of strategic investors. The funding round will be used to enhance InGamer's product offering and expand sales & distribution in preparation for their US launch in September, 2012.
Assunta Krehl

Impact investing growing but more effort needed: report - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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    Tara Perkins, Globe and Mail reporter states "The Canadian Task Force on Social Finance says there is evidence that impact investing is growing as an asset class in this country.... more effort is require to make progress though." Ilse Treurnicht, the CEO of MaRS Discovery District is a member of the Task Force.
Assunta Krehl

Should government invest in private companies? - The Globe and Mail - November 11, 2011 - 0 views

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    Ivor Tossell, Globe and Mail reporter discusses debate regarding governments investment in private companies. MaRS Discovery helps entrepreneurs prosper and foster and promote Canadian innovation.
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