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Archive for October 10th, 2006

Early stage venture – dead or alive?

10 October 2006

Consider these conflicting pieces of news.
1. Sevin Rosen has decided to pass on raising a new fund see link.
2. Sequoia is the sole VC backer in YouTube, and may have made 43x their US$11.5MM investment…all in less than 19 months see link.

3. One Canadian-based fund of fund manager, with $150MM for “Venture [...]

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Redline launches on AIM

10 October 2006

I hear that Redline has launched their AIM offering. If there’s a Canadian tech firm that has the growth profile needed to succeed with AIM investors, its Redline. Redline Communications is a Wimax story, providing advanced broadband wireless access and backhaul solutions.
They presented at the CVF a year or two ago but [...]

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