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Websiteventureswest.com
Phone(604) 688-9495
Emailinfo@ventureswest...
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Vancouver
Suite 400
999 West Hastings St.
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6C 2W2, CAN
Toronto
Suite 1200
20 Adelaide St. East
Toronto, Ontario, M5C 2T6, CAN

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Ventures West

Ventures West is one of Canada’s largest privately owned venture capital companies. In addition to providing capital, they contribute a wealth of resources to each investment.

With 10 professional technology investment managers, and one of the most productive Entrepreneur-In-Residence programs in Canada, the Ventures West team has over 120 years of technology venture investing and hands-on operating experience.

Ventures West has a unique set of capabilities - a long and successful track record in venture capital investing, management depth, extensive contacts in North American technology, financial, and venture capital industries, and the ability to form investor syndicates.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Aquinox Pharmaceuticals 4/13Series C$18M5
Spectra7 Microsystems 8/12Venture Round$11M3
Alder Biopharmaceuticals 4/12Series D$38M7
Celator Pharmaceuticals 9/10Series D$20M7
Aquinox Pharmaceuticals 6/10Series B$25M4
SWITCH Materials 1/10Series B$7.5M4
Fresco Microchip 10/09Venture Round$10M2
QuickPlay Media 7/09Series D$12M4
Zeugma Systems 3/09Series C$9M7
Fresco Microchip 1/08Series B$14.3M2
Viigo 12/07Series AC$6.4M1
Zeugma Systems 12/07Series B$22.5M6
SiXtron Advanced Materials 11/07Series A$10.9M4
QuickPlay Media 9/07Series C$15M4
Presidio Pharmaceuticals 8/07Series B$26M5
Neltura Technology 4/07Series B$9M3
EQO 4/07Series B$9M3
RapidMind 4/07Venture Round$8.86M3
Serveron 3/07Venture Round$5M7
Osprey Pharmaceuticals USA 1/07Venture Round$5.92M5
BelAir Networks 10/06Series D$21.4M8
Dabble DB 6/06Series A1
MacroGenics 5/06Series C$45M11
Marqui 2/06Series B$7.5M2
Serveron 1/06Series F$3M7
Avokia 1/06Series B$6.43M4
QuIC Financial Technologies 1/06Series B$10M4
Fresco Microchip 7/05Series A$14.7M2
Double-Take Software Canada 1/05Series A$11.3M3

Videos

Sources

  1. Aquinox Pharmaceuticals Completes US $18 million Series C Financing (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
  2. Spectra7 Microsystems Closes $11 Million Round (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
  3. Alder BioPharmaceuticals Inc. Closes $38 Million Series D Financing to Accelerate Clinical Development of its Pipeline of Antibody Therapeutics (prnewswire.com) [edit]
  4. CELATOR® PHARMACEUTICALS RAISES $20 MILLION IN SERIES D FINANCING (celatorpharma.com) [edit]
  5. Aquinox Pharmaceuticals completes US $25 million Series B financing (aqxpharma.com) [edit]
  6. Canada, SWITCH Materials Raises C$7.5M in Series B Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
  7. FRESCO MICROCHIP ANNOUNCES CLOSING OF $10 MILLION IN FINANCING (frescomicrochip.com) [edit]
  8. QuickPlay Media raises $12 million for mobile video (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  9. Zeugma Announces $9 Million Series C Funding;Total Funding Approaches $50 Million (fundedlocal.com) [edit]
  10. Fresco Mirochip Secures Funding (redcanary.ca) [edit]
  11. Viigo Secures First Round of Venture Capital Financing (news.viigo.com) [edit]
  12. Zeugma Systems raises $22.5M for next-gen broadband (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  13. SiXtron raises CDN $10M for thin film solar cell coatings (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  14. QuickPlay Media, mobile video delivery co., raises $15M more. (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  15. Presidio Pharmaceuticals Closes $26 Million Series B Financing (presidiopharma.com) [edit]
  16. EQO Communications Secures US$9 Million in Series B Funding (prnewswire.co.uk) [edit]
  17. EQO Gets $9 Million Series B (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  18. EDGAR [edit]
  19. Investors give Serveron $5M (portland.bizjournals.com) [edit]
  20. EDGAR [edit]
  21. BelAir Networks Announces $21.4 Million in Series D Funding (belairnetworks.com) [edit]
  22. blog.dabbledb.com [edit]
  23. MacroGenics Raises $45M in Series C Financing - Company to Advance Monoclonal Antibody Clinical Programs (macrogenics.com) [edit]
  24. Well-publicized Marqui lands $7.5 million (bizjournals.com) [edit]
  25. EDGAR [edit]
  26. EDGAR [edit]
  27. QuIC Financial Technologies, Inc. completes US$10 million financing led by JMI Equity Increasing Market Demand Accelerates Growth for Financial Risk Management Provider (quic.com) [edit]
  28. Fresco Microchip Secures US$14.7 Million in Funding (frescomicrochip.com) [edit]
  29. EDGAR [edit]
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