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!

Portfolio, Version One

We’re excited to share that Pilot Protocol has launched from stealth with a $4.5M seed round, led by Version One Ventures, with participation from Precursor Ventures, Night Capital, Todd & Rahul’s Angel Fund, and angels Lenny Rachitsky and Ben Tossell. AI agents are the biggest shift in computing in years, but they’ve been built to […]