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BlackBerry Partners Fund

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The BlackBerry Partners Fund is a $150 million venture investment fund that was established to deliver superior returns on the compelling investment opportunities present in the applications, services and supporting infrastructure for mobile platforms.

The BlackBerry Partners Fund is focused on investing in mobile commerce applications (payments, advertising, retailing, and banking), vertical and horizontal enterprise applications, location-based and location-aware applications and services (navigation and mapping), communications, social networking, media and entertainment, and lifestyle and personal productivity applications for the BlackBerry and other mobile platforms.

Research In Motion (RIM), RBC and Thomson Reuters are some of the investors in the fund.

Milestones

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  BlackBerry Partners Fund invested in Extreme Startups. (1/31/12)
  Posted 1/31/12 at 5:12am via techcrunch.com
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  BlackBerry Partners Fund invested in Catalog Spree. (11/17/11)
  Posted 11/17/11 at 8:58pm via finsmes.com
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  BlackBerry Partners Fund invested in mDialog. (9/28/11)
  Posted 9/28/11 at 5:11pm via techcrunch.com
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  BlackBerry Partners Fund invested in Fuse Powered. (5/19/11)
  Posted 5/20/11 at 8:08pm via fusepowered.com
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  BlackBerry Partners Fund invested in Digby. (4/18/11)
  Posted 4/18/11 at 2:22pm via dmwmedia.com
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  BlackBerry Partners Fund invested in Payfone. (4/13/11)
  Posted 4/13/11 at 5:38am via finsmes.com
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  BlackBerry Partners Fund invested in Neuralitic Systems. (1/31/11)
  Posted 1/31/11 at 7:58pm via finsmes.com
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  BlackBerry Partners Fund invested in Viewdle. (10/5/10)
  Posted 10/5/10 at 5:01am via techcrunch.com
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  BlackBerry Partners Fund invested in Appia. (8/23/10)
  Posted 8/22/10 at 7:38pm via techcrunch.com
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  BlackBerry Partners Fund invested in Payfone. (8/2/10)
  Posted 8/2/10 at 8:21am via wsj.com
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  BlackBerry Partners Fund invested in Xobni. (4/15/10)
  Posted 4/15/10 at 7:18pm via techcrunch.com
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  BlackBerry Partners Fund invested in WorldMate. (10/29/08)
  Posted 8/24/09 at 10:51pm via worldmate.com
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  BlackBerry Partners Fund invested in SocialDeck. (8/20/09)
  Posted 8/20/09 at 10:58am via socialdeck.com
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  BlackBerry Partners Fund invested in Digby. (10/28/08)
  Posted 3/9/09 at 9:26pm via venturebeat.com
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  BlackBerry Partners Fund invested in Xobni. (3/25/09)
  Posted 3/25/09 at 5:25am via venturebeat.com
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  BlackBerry Partners Fund invested in Buzzd. (10/29/08)
  Posted 3/11/09 at 2:44pm via fiercewireless.com

Investments

Videos

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1. Aepona Raises $10M (finsmes.com) [edit]
2. Extreme Startups Launches Accelerator With $7 Million In Funding From Top Canadian VCs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Catalog Spree Raises $6.1M in Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
4. mDialog Raises $5 Million From BlackBerry Partners Fund (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. BlackBerry Partners Fund Leads $2 Million Seed Investment in Fuse Powered Inc. (fusepowered.com) [edit]
6. Mobile Commerce Firm Digby Lands $8 Million (dmwmedia.com) [edit]
7. Payfone Closes $19M Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
8. Neuralitic Systems Closes $8M Series B Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
9. Facial Recognition Tech Startup Viewdle Raises $10 Million From Best Buy, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Apple Vet Makes First Venture Bet On Mobile-Pay Start-Up Payfone (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
12. Khosla And RRE Lead $16.2 Million Series C In Xobni (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. Announcing financing + release of Shake & Spell for BlackBerry (socialdeck.com) [edit]
14. Email startup Xobni leaves beta, raises $3.2M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
15. Neuralitic Systems Raises Additional Funding from Blackberry Partners Fund - BBPF's US$3 million, combined with earlier contributions by Vertex Venture Capital, BDC Venture Capital and GO Capital Fund, L.P., brings total investment raised to US$10 million (earthtimes.org) [edit]
16. WorldMate® Raises $8 Million in Series C Funding Round Led by BlackBerry Partners Fund (worldmate.com) [edit]
17. BlackBerry Partners Fund Announces funding for buzzd, Digby and WorldMate (fiercewireless.com) [edit]
18. BlackBerry Partners Fund announces first three outside investments (venturebeat.com) [edit]