The Daily Real

May 17th, 2012

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    Our latest investment: Get Me Listed

    By Mark MacLeodMay 1, 2012

    We are very pleased to announce our latest investment: Get Me Listed (GML). The next big playground online is in local – connecting consumers with local businesses and driving local commerce. Location-based marketing is no longer about just buying a Yellow [...]

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    Save the Date : AccelerateMTL 2012 May 23rd

    By Stephanie SahebApril 4, 2012

    An event not to be missed  ! The C100, BDC Venture Capital, KPMG ,iNovia Capital and Real Ventures have collaborated to bring the Montreal tech entrepreneur community a major event about the “What” and the “How” of building successful tech companies at high speed. [...]

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    Investing is a team sport

    By Mark MacLeodMarch 23, 2012

    We’re finalizing our 2011 Annual Report to our Limited Partners (the nice folks that gave us capital to invest) this week. In that recap, we thought it would be useful to share who we have co-invested with. We strongly believe [...]

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    Real Ventures heading to NYC

    By Mark MacLeodFebruary 22, 2012

    Canada has searched wide and far for its best startups to send to General Assembly, and the land of Canucks has finally settled on six companies — three of whom are part of the Real Ventures portfolio. Big congrats to: Buyosphere [...]

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    Our latest investment: Engagio

    By Mark MacLeodFebruary 15, 2012

    We are very pleased to announce our latest investment: Engagio. Engagio is like gmail for all the social conversations you have on the web. The company is founded by serial entrepreneur William Mougayar, founder of Equentia. William is a prolific [...]

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    Canadian Startup Awards

    By Mark MacLeodJanuary 20, 2012

    A big thank you to everyone who voted Real Ventures VC of the year in the 1st annual Canadian Startup awards. If you’re an investor you judge investors by their returns. But if you’re an entrepreneur then you just want [...]

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    Our latest investment: Buyosphere

    By Mark MacLeodJanuary 6, 2012

    We are very pleased to announce our latest investment: Buyosphere. We are big fans of e-commerce at Real and Buyosphere has the potential to be a big e-commerce enabler.  Today’s online shopper is faced with almost limitless choices but severely [...]

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    Our latest investment: Unbounce

    By Mark MacLeodDecember 1, 2011

    We are very pleased to announce our latest investment: Unbounce. If you market online (and who doesn’t?), chances are you’ve heard of them. Unbounce has built the leading SaaS platform for creating, publishing and optimizing landing pages. We are joined [...]