Sentences with phrase «omers ventures»

OMERS ventures into ETFs.

Not exact matches

OMERS and Insight Venture Partners, for example, led a $ 100 - million investment in Shopify in 2013, which turned heads at the time.

«You can't just sit back and enjoy the moment you have,» says John Ruffolo, CEO of OMERS Ventures, the venture arm one of Canada's leading pension funds.

Since then, however, Lau thinks financing prospects in Canada have improved, in part thanks to OMERS Ventures, a venture capital arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System that was set up late last year.

Bessemer Venture Partners controls 30 % of Shopify, while OMERS Ventures — which seems to invest in every worthy Canadian tech company these days — has a 6 % stake.

«There's lots of positive momentum,» he says, pointing as well to the recent $ 80 - million venture capital investment by OMERS Ventures and the American venture fund New Enterprise Associates in Desire2Learn, a global provider of online education platforms, based in Kitchener, Ont.

Qasim Mohammad (@qasimamohammad) is a Toronto - based venture capitalist, and a member of the investment team at OMERS Ventures.

In an ecosystem that needs more venture capital, OMERS is investing significantly.

«If what we as a nation are going to focus on is pulling stuff out of the ground, selling it to the world and then buying back the finished goods, I can tell you from a prosperity perspective which way we're going, and it's not up,» says John Ruffolo, head of the venture capital arm of OMERS.

OMERS Ventures is the venture capital investment arm of OMERS, one of Canada's largest pension funds with nearly $ 61 billion in net assets.

With this investment, Jeff Leiberman, Manager Director at Insight Venture Partners, Ryan Sweeney, Managing Partner at Accel Partners, and John Ruffolo, Chief Executive Officer of OMERS Ventures have joined HootSuite's Board of Directors.

This year's Venture North sponsors include BDC Capital, Donaldson and James, Globalive Capital, Ideaboost, CFC, iGan Partners, MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, OMERS Ventures, Real Ventures, Ryerson Futures, TMX, The Working Group, and the Province of Ontario.

John Ruffalo, CEO of OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of the Ontario Municipal Employee Retirement System, and one of Canada's leading pension funds, recently stated: «I believe that the technology community knows how good Canada is as a hotbed of technology.

MaRS client Wave Accounting Inc., creators of free online accounting software for small businesses, has announced the closing of its seed round of financing, led by OMERS through INKEF Capital, the venture capital investment alliance of pension funds OMERS (Canada) and ABP (the Netherlands).

Mr. Ruffolo is the Chief Executive Officer of OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of OMERS, one of Canada's leading pension funds.

William is the General Partner at Virtual Capital Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund, and currently on the Board of Directors of OB1, the OpenBazaar open source protocol that is pioneering decentralized peer - to - peer commerce, a Board Advisor to the Ethereum Foundation, a member of OMERS Ventures Board of Advisors, an Advisory Board member to the Coin Center and Bloq, and founder of Startup Management.

The Toronto - based company has received over $ 67 million in funding from Khosla Ventures, Union Square Ventures, OMERS Ventures, W Media Ventures, and Golden Venture Partners, and has attracted such famous authors as Margaret Atwood.

After more than a decade of going it alone, Canadian online learning company Desire2Learn is accepting its first round of venture funding — $ 80 million from New Enterprise Associates and the venture arm of OMERS, one of Canada's biggest pension funds.

The latest round was led by OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of a large Canadian pension - fund manager, and included August Capital as well as previous backers Khosla Ventures, Union Square and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang.