Entrepreneurship

Techvibes.com, the network of local technology blogs, just released their first Canada Start-up Index. The methodology to determine the index is by no means scientific but the list still provides a really good overview of the Canadian start-up scene. The performance of the W Media Ventures portfolio companies (2 among the top 3, 5 among […]

Techvibes.com, the network of local technology blogs, just released their first Canada Start-up Index. The methodology to determine the index is by no means scientific but the list still provides a really good overview of the Canadian start-up scene. The performance of the W Media Ventures portfolio companies (2 among the top 3, 5 among the top 100) made us pretty happy: Suite101 and AbeBooks secured the #2 and #3 spots, Nexopia came in at #12, Techvibes at #37, TeamPages at #99 and Indochino at #103. And congrats to the overall winner, Metrolyrics from Vancouver!

Update: Techvibes also just released a Canada start-up index based on Comscore data – helped Nexopia jump from #12 spot to #2 spot!

Crypto / Blockchain, Portfolio, Version One

We’re excited to announce our investment in Loon, a Canadian company building the country’s first regulated digital dollar. Version One led Loon’s $3M pre-seed round, alongside Garage Capital and a group of strategic Canadian angel investors. Loon is on a mission to create trusted, transparent payment infrastructure for Canada’s digital economy — starting with CADC, […]