Innovator Idol, the tenth and final installment of the “Growing Your Business” breakfast sessions presented by the Research Innovation Commercialization (RIC) Centre and Ontario Centre for Environmental Technology Advancement (OCETA), was held this week at the University of Toronto, Mississauga Campus. The event was inspired by the popular television show American [...]
Mindfirst President, Henry Vehovec, will speak at the bioFinance conference being held at Toronto Marriott Eaton Centre, April 28-30, 2009. Mr. Vehovec is scheduled to speak during the session titled “Alternate Sources of Capital” at 9:00 am on April 30. A full program agenda may be obtained by clicking on the following link bioFinance [...]
Toronto’s Cleantech Angel Network (CAN) will be launching their inaugural event on April 22, 2009. James Black, CAN’s Group Administrator, informed Mindfirst that a short list slate of candidate companies has been identified and qualified angel investors are being invited to participate. Formation of the group was supported by National Angel Capital Organization (NACO), the [...]
Noank Media Inc. successfully demonstrated their proprietary digital media exchange platform at meetings in Beijing and Hong Kong in late 2007 and early 2008. The platform was developed as a solution to the world’s illegal P2P file sharing problems. Conceived originally by Prof. Terry Fisher of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, [...]
Earlier this week Mindfirst President Henry Vehovec participated in the 13th round Investment Committee meetings for Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC). Mr. Vehovec has been a member of the Investment Committee since the founding of SDTC in 2001. To date, SDTC’s SD Tech Fund™ has completed twelve funding rounds, committing $342 million to 144 clean [...]
At the 2008 National Angel Summit held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 15 – 17, the National Angel Organization (NAO) changed its name to National Angel Capital Organization (NACO). The name change was prompted by the growing recognition of the term “angel capital” to describe the early stage class of finance and investing practised by [...]
