I am Ruffolo-ing feathers again
Featuring former OMERS VC honcho John Ruffolo, now of Maverix Private Equity and drive-by smears of Jim Balsillie and Slippery Som.
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Tech/VC
24 postsJanet Bannister is de-risking entrepreneurship
Janet Bannister has a new $22m VC fund with a novel twist.
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Teachers’ Olivia Steedman’s crypto fiasco
Much has already been said about Teachers investing in crypto flameout FTX, but none of it was by the Michelangelo of Schadenfreude, so here we go.
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Clearco chaos: founders contribute $8m to keep company afloat
Clearco has raised $23.4m on the d-low.
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The Caisse's crypto fiasco
Please note that I want to occasionally write about topics of interest to Montreal people. (I usually focus on Bay
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I don't care for John Ruffolo
The "tech ecosystem" won't be pleased with this one. Or will they?
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Move over Anthony Lacavera, Canada has a new telecom messiah
OXIO is trying to disrupt Bell and Rogers at providing Internet service.
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Bill Ackman and Tim McElvaine back Andrew Wilkinson
A lunch with Bill Ackman paid off for Andrew Wilkinson, a mogul in his own right.
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VC returns suck even more than I thought
Andreessen Horowitz performance is not as high as you would think.
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John Phillips and Shopify - the biggest angel score in Canadian history
Meet Canada's newest billionaire.
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Philip Fayer of Nuvei - Move over Mike Katchen, there's a new king of fintech - with unicorn status
A financing last week minted Canada’s first fintech unicorn. Nuvei, a Montreal
based payments processor, raised US $270 million
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Andrew Wilkinson of Tiny Capital, the Charlie Munger of Tech
So Bill Ackman is holding a Buffett-type lunch auction. Ackman is essentially a Buffett clone, except that he has an
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