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BlackBerry Partners Fund

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The BlackBerry Partners Fund is a $150 million venture investment fund co-managed by JLA Ventures and RBC Venture Partners. The BlackBerry Partners Fund aims to invest in applications and services that run on the BlackBerry platform, but investments are not restricted to the platform.

Research In Motion (RIM), RBC (the bank itself not RBC Venture Partners) and Thomson Reuters are investors in the fund.

Milestones

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Investments

Videos

Sources

1. Announcing financing + release of Shake & Spell for BlackBerry (socialdeck.com) [edit]
2. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
3. 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]
4. WorldMate® Raises $8 Million in Series C Funding Round Led by BlackBerry Partners Fund (worldmate.com) [edit]
5. BlackBerry Partners Fund Announces funding for buzzd, Digby and WorldMate (fiercewireless.com) [edit]
6. BlackBerry Partners Fund announces first three outside investments (venturebeat.com) [edit]