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2 exits, 3 new portfolio companies, 2 follow-on investments, 8 new colleagues, and an in-person AGM and CEO Summit!
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2 New Portfolio Companies, 2 Follow-on Rounds, 1 Additional Exit, 1 New Executive Advisor and a Generative AI White Paper!
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2018 Inovia CEO Annual Summits: Canada, Connection, and the Powers of Scale
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2018 Year in Review
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A “new normal” is looming as markets act and react to COVID-19
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A Light Bulb Goes Off: How EnPowered Is Changing the Dynamics of the Energy Industry for Everyone’s Benefit
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A New Fund and a Long-Term View During Chaotic Times
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Accelerating AI with Computational Storage
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Agile city
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AI, Data, Teams and Innovation
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AlayaCare Poised for Growth at a Pivotal Moment in Home Healthcare
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AppDirect’s 10-Year Overnight Success Story
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Augmenting cloud platforms to increase control and security
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Back in Business: How ResQ is Helping the Rapidly Rebounding Restaurant Industry
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Backing the World’s Largest eCommerce Investor: Our Continued Support of Clearco’s Mission to Empower Founders with Equitable Access to Capital
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Beyond Buzzwords: Exploring Cybersecurity Trends Pre-RSA 2024
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Beyond the Cart: Commerce Enablement
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Beyond the Cart: Key Shopify Developments
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Beyond the Cart: Perspectives on Tech-Enabled Marketplaces
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Beyond the Cart: Post-Purchase Thesis
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Bringing Magic to Contract Law with Spellbook
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Building an Open Source Developer Stack to Service the Growth of Contextual Communication
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Building the Future of Subscription Commerce with AppDirect
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Building the Modern eCommerce Platform for the Furniture Industry with CommerceBear
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Building the Next Generation Digital Trust Infrastructure
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Castles, Knights, Satchels and Writs —The Evolution of Security
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Catching the Digital Manufacturing Wave
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Celebrating Clearparth's Journey: From University Halls to Making the Impossible a Reality
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Celebrating our Growing Talent
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Certn: building the network for international identity management
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Connecting the Dots: How RouteThis Is Revolutionizing the World of Connectivity
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COVID-19 Exposes Cracks in the Status Quo
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Cracking the Code of Venture Debt in a Changing Landscape
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Creating Talent Strategies & Crafting Success with System Design: Insights from the Unicorn Leaders Podcast
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DeFi-ing the Odds: How Conduit is Making Crypto Accessible for Retail Investors
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Defying Eroom’s Law: Why We’re Doubling Down on BenchSci
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Democratizing Access to Fertility Care
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Distinction or Extinction: Why It’s Game Time for Main Street
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Doubling Down on Our Winners, 1 New Portfolio Company, 1 New Partner, New Team Members and a New Website!
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Doubling down on Spare: Unlocking the potential of mobility for everyone
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Dynamic City Infrastructure
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Embedded Communications
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Flare Takes Cybersecurity to Every Corner of the Web, Including Dark Ones
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Forecasting What Matters
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Founder-to-Founder: Annie Cyr, CEO and Co-Founder of Tengiva, on Building Something New in an Antiquated Industry
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Founder-to-Founder: Emily Luk, CEO of Plenty, on The Human Side of Scaling a Company
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Founder-to-Founder: Greg Gunn, CEO of Commit, on Hiring, Culture & Remote Work
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Founder-to-Founder: Jason Moore, CEO of RouteThis, on Scaling People & Process
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Founder-to-Founder: Kristine Steuart, Founder of Allocadia, on Empowering Women to Lead and Scale Tech Companies
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Growth Fund II: Meeting the Demand for Value-Added Partnerships
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Handbook for New Board Member
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Happy Holidays
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How Neo4j Is Unlocking the Next Generation of Data-Driven Technology
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Impactful Leadership: Key Insights from Manon Brouillette
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Inovia 2017 Annual Summit: Exploring Optionality
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Inovia 2020 in a Snapshot & Happy Holidays!
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Inovia actively recruiting for a Head of People and a Head of Communications to further build out our Full Stack venture model
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Inovia Announces Closing of $334M Continuation Vehicle Transaction to Support Growth of High-Performing Portfolio Companies
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Inovia Capital 2024 AGM Recap Video
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Inovia Capital Welcomes Seasoned Operator-Investor Magaly Charbonneau as Principal
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Inovia Closes its First Discovery Fund to Empower Emerging Managers
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Inovia CTO Summit 2019
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Inovia Discovery Fund I: Investing in Emerging Managers to Build a Robust Funding Environment for Canadian Tech Startups
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Inovia Emerging Managers Portrait Series: Meet Boon
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Inovia Emerging Managers Portrait Series: Meet Defined
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Inovia Emerging Managers Portrait Series: Meet Front Row Ventures
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Inovia Emerging Managers Portrait Series: Meet GTMfund
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Inovia Emerging Managers Portrait Series: Meet Luge Capital
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Inovia Emerging Managers Portrait Series: Meet Maple VC
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Inovia Emerging Managers Portrait Series: Meet Mighty Capital
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Inovia Emerging Managers Portrait Series: Meet N49P
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Inovia Emerging Managers Portrait Series: Meet Northside Ventures
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Inovia Emerging Managers Portrait Series: Meet Roar Ventures
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Inovia Emerging Managers Portrait Series: Meet The51
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Inovia Emerging Managers Portrait Series: Meet Two Small Fish Ventures
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Inovia Emerging Managers Portrait Series: Special Edition With FounderFuel
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Inovia Q1–2: AlayaCare $37M, Sonder $170M, Symend $52M, WorkJam $50M, $8M Tugboat Logic, North acq. by Google, Rubikloud acq. by Kinaxis
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Inovia Q1: 1 New Partner, 1 New CFO, 10 Additional Team Members, 1 Nasdaq IPO, 3 New Portfolio Companies and US$364M in Fundraising Announcements
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Inovia Q1: Celebrating Lightspeed’s IPO, $600M in New Funds, Launch of UK Initiatives
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Inovia Q1: Portfolio Raised $1.5B, a Mega-Deal with Vista Equity Partners, and the Launch of Growth Fund II $450M
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Inovia Q2: 15 Years of Company Building, a New Fund, 1 Exit and 3 New Portfolio Companies
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Inovia Q2: 2019 Annual Summit; AlayaCare & Fellow Funding, Smooch & Chronogolf Exits & Milestone IPO
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Inovia Q2: Over US$1B in Primary and Secondary Financing, 4 New Companies, SPAC Merger
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Inovia Q3: Internal Rounds, New Team Members, Doubling Down on Waterloo, and Back to In-Person Meetups!
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Inovia Q3: Over US$1.5B in Financing, 2 New Partners, a SPAC IPO and 1 New Company
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Inovia Q3: Sonder $225M, Clearbanc $300M, KNØX C $8.25M, AppDirect Engage in Montreal and Inspiring Talks in San Francisco
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Inovia Q3: US $1.2B Raised by Portfolio During COVID, 4 Inovia New Hires, Lightspeed IPO on NYSE, AppDirect Closes a $185M Round
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Inovia Q3: Welcoming AlayaCare, DarwinAI and Armored Things into the Portfolio, New Hires and London Office!
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Inovia Q4: Closing the Year with Over US$4B in Portfolio Financings & the Launch of A New Continuation Fund!
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Inovia Q4: Magaly Promoted to Partner, CTO Summit, US $17M in RenoRun
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Inovia Q4: Sonder to Hire 700 in Montreal, DarwinAI Strategic Funding, Inovia Team Grows
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Inovia Q4: Welcoming Boosted, Clearbanc, Future Family, Spatial, & EiR Sam Pasupalak; a Trip to Kenauk Nature, Plus Stephen Curry in the House!
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Inovia Quarterly: Luxury Retreats x Airbnb, Series C: Top Hat & WorkFusion, AI Disruptors — Clearpath & Ross Intelligence
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Inovia Quarterly: New GPs, New Hires, CEO & Annual Summits, and, Ahh…Vacation
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Inovia Quarterly: Rubikloud @ $37M, Busbud @ $11M, Bench Accounting @ $18M, Poka @ $10M, Routehappy Acquired by ATPCO, and…We’re Hiring!
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Inovia Quarterly: Salima joins as Head of Talent, Diversity Best Practices from Kristine at Allocadia, Top Hat’s New Content Platform
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Inovia Quarterly: The Boardlist Recognizes Influential Women in Tech, Tulip Raises its B Round, Pressly Acquired by Vision Critical
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Inovia Sessions Podcast - Exploring Strategic Partnerships and M&A with Ernest Chi, Senior Director of Product Acceleration at 1Password
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Inovia Sessions Podcast - Jann Lau, Senior Director of Corporate Development at PayPal, on Mastering M&A Across Economic Cycles
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Inovia Sessions Podcast - Mastering M&A with Hilary Shirazi, Head of Corporate Development at Notion
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Inovia Sessions Podcast - Navigating Successful Exits with Alex Leclerc, Co-Founder & CEO of Poka
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Inovia Sessions Podcast - Patrick Pichette, A Board Member's Perspective on M&A
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Inovia Sessions Podcast - Season Premiere: Navigating the Complex World of M&A
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Inovia Sessions Podcast - The Strategic Moves Behind Atlassian's M&A Success with Sarah Hughes, Head of Corporate Development and Product Partnerships
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Inovia Sessions Podcast: B2C Expansion Playbook with Phil Hutcheon
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Inovia Sessions Podcast: Bridging European and North American Business Practices
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Inovia Sessions Podcast: Building the Case for North American Expansion with Isabelle Guis & Françoise Brougher
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Inovia Sessions Podcast: Laying the groundwork with Daniel Glazer
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Inovia Sessions Podcast: Making Dual HQs Work
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Inovia Sessions Podcast: Mastering the Art of U.S. Expansion
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Inovia Sessions: Building Distributed and Remote Teams from Seed to IPO
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Inovia Sessions: Intentional Diversity
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Inovia Sessions: Misconceptions on Starting and Scaling Marketplaces
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Inovia Sessions: Rebuilding Healthcare’s Software Stack
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Inovia Sessions: The Future of Workspaces
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Inovia Sessions: The Great Board Commitment
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Inovia Sessions: The State of the M&A Market
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Inovia Sessions: Why are Continuation Funds a Hot Topic in Venture Capital?
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Inovia Welcomes Two World-Class Partners: Krista Skalde Joins as Chief Talent Officer and Steven Woods as Chief Technology Officer
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Inovia-Portfolio HR & Talent Session: Future of Work with Prasad Setty
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Inovia’s Magaly Charbonneau Promoted to Partner, Will Lead Montreal Office
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Introducing the Revenue Execution Model
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Investing in Booksy: Empowering Beauty & Wellness Entrepreneurs Everywhere
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Investing in Cavelo: Simplifying Data Protection and Attack Surface Management
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Investing in Cohere: Bringing LLMs to the Enterprise
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Investing in CreditApp: Disrupting Incumbents with Innovative FinTech in Auto Lending
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Investing in gaiia, Simplifying the Day-to-Day Operations of Internet Service Providers
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Investing in Guesty: The Global Choice for Property Management Software
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Investing in Medeloop: Redefining the Limits of Clinical Research With AI Agents
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Investing in Motion and Redefining Creative Strategy: A New Era of Marketing Collaboration
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Investing in Novisto, building a global leader in ESG reporting
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Investing in PayShepherd: Advancing Vendor Management in Heavy Industry
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Investing in Photonic: Unlocking a Credible Path to Commercial Quantum Computing
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Investing in Plenty: Empowering Couples with a Modern Approach to Wealth Management
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Investing In Reliant AI: Empowering Knowledge Workers In Biopharma
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It’s Time to Give Sales Operations the Momentum They Need
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Key Considerations When Forming a Compensation Committee
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Letter to a Founder About to Raise a Major Growth Round
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Life House Is Powering Independent Hotel Management
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M&A During COVID-19 Times
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Meet Some of the Female Tech Leaders in the Inovia Community
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Musings of a Tech CEO: What We Learned Building and Scaling a Billion-Dollar Business
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My Journey to Partner at Inovia
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Navigating change with transparency and adaptability - What it means to be a Company Builder
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Navigating Startup Sales: Insights for Founders and Sales Leaders
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New Portfolio Companies, First Closing of Growth Fund III, and Key Events!
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New Portfolio Companies, Over US$660M of Equity Financing in the Portfolio & 3 Globally Relevant Events in Montreal
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New Portfolio Company, First State of Canadian Software Report and a Strong Momentum in the Portfolio!
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Now Trading on Nasdaq as (SOND), Sonder Continues Its Mission of Revolutionizing the Hospitality Industry
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One Exit, One New Fund, and Lots of Insight Sharing!
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Optionality and the Conversations You Need to Have
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Outliers: Celebrating the Renegade Mindset of Inovia Portfolio Founders
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Passing on the CFO Torch
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Patrick Pichette & Dennis Kavelman: Fueling the Canadian Tech Flywheel for Our Economic Prosperity
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People Share Their Cars, Their Homes, and Now Their Nannies
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Perspectives on Generative AI from our CTO Office: A Moment In Time
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Perspectives: 15+ Years of Shaping the Canadian Ecosystem
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Preserving Wilderness, Investing in the Future
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Profiles in Diversity and Inclusion
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Putting Entrepreneurs First: Clearbanc Pioneers Access to Fast, Affordable Capital
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Putting Patients at the Center: Parallels between Customer Experience Solutions and Digital Health platforms
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Q1: Highlighting COVID-19 Responses from the Portfolio
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Remote Sensibilities: Spatial.is Leads the Way To the Future of Work
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Rethinking last-mile logistics as the eCommerce boom continues
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Scooter Sharing is for the Birds
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Shaking Up Canada’s $761B Mortgage Market with Pine
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SMB Funding Platform Clearbanc Hits Primetime
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Sonder Scales the Personalized and Instagrammable Era of Hospitality
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State of SaaS in Canada: Trends, Challenges, and Growth
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Supporting Portfolio Companies, Relaunching FounderFuel, New Team Members & Networking Events!
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The Times They Are A-Changin’
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TopHat: 25x in 5 years… How Did that Happen?
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Transportation Efficiency Is Just Getting Started
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Tune into Patrick’s Expertise
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Unlocking Value Creation Among API-first Companies
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Venture Debt for Startups: A Deep Dive on Lines of Credit and Term Loans
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We’re Taking on the Labour Shortage with Talent.com
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Welcome Andre Charoo: Inovia Venture Partner & Maple VC Founder
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Welcome to Inovia Entrepreneur in Residence Kristine Steuart
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Welcome to Inovia Entrepreneur in Residence Simon Leroux
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Welcome to Inovia Executive Advisor Françoise Brougher
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Welcome to Inovia Executive Advisor Manon Brouillette
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Welcome to Inovia Executive in Residence Adam Schlesinger
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Welcome to Inovia Executive in Residence Felicia Bochicchio
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Welcome to Inovia Executive in Residence JP Chauvet
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Welcome to Inovia Executive in Residence Melissa Dominguez
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Welcome to Inovia Executive in Residence Mike Lueck
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Welcome to Inovia Executive in Residence Sarah Miller Wright
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Welcome to Inovia Executive in Residence Shyam Sheth
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Welcoming Rosie Chopra as Inovia Executive in Residence
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Why theBoardlist Matters to Us, and to You
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WorkJam is Transforming the Digital Frontline Workplace
