The Daily Real

May 17th, 2012

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    CIX Announces Top 20 Innovators

    By Mark MacLeodNovember 10, 2011

    The Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) announced their top 20 most innovative company list today. This is an annual showcase of the top tech companies in Canada. Three of those companies are part of the Real family: Massive Damage  Recoset  Vanilla [...]

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    48 Hours in the Valley: Deadline to apply

    By Mark MacLeodOctober 28, 2011

    The deadline to apply for the next IT session of 48 Hours in the Valley is this Sunday, October 30. If you have not heard about this before, this is a regular event put on by our friends at C100 [...]

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    A Year of Real Ventures

    By Mark MacLeodOctober 26, 2011

    We closed our fund a year ago this week. So far it has been an amazing ride. We have met lots of great entrepreneurs and are more excited than ever about what we are doing. We thought it would be [...]

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    Our latest investment: iget.it

    By Mark MacLeodOctober 20, 2011

    We are very pleased to announce our latest investment: iget.it.  iget.it is an online-group buying club with a twist: They personally curate and hand pick the best products and experiences in a wide variety of categories. Imagine if Wallpaper Magazine [...]

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    Our newest investment: Massive Damage

    By Mark MacLeodOctober 3, 2011

    Toronto’s Massive Damage announced it’s angel round last week. We have been following Ken and Garry for some time and have been really excited by their track record and what they have done so far with Please Stay Calm their [...]

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    Our latest investment: Caristix

    By Mark MacLeodSeptember 20, 2011

    We are pleased to announce our latest investment: Caristix. Quebec-City based Cartistix is a healthcare IT startup that is transforming data interoperability and transfer for hospitals and other partners in the healthcare ecosystem. To run their businesses, these organizations have [...]

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    Rewardli launches and announces funding

    By Mark MacLeodSeptember 13, 2011

    Our portfolio company Rewardli had some big news today at Techcrunch Disrupt. First, it announced an oversubscribed funding round that included ourselves, 500 Startups, Kima Ventures and some amazing angels (Peter Bordes, Maneesh Arora, Hector Hulian, Jay Weintraub, Kerim Baran [...]

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    Clarity of Vision

    By Mark MacLeodSeptember 2, 2011

    I was traveling with one of my partners (John) yesterday. When you get out of the office with team members you often end up having great conversations that would never happen during the usual office hustle. Yesterday we found ourselves [...]