Life sciences-focused venture capital firm Lumira Capital received the 2013 “Deal of the Year” award in the venture capital category from Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association. The firm won for its […]

(Reuters) – Canada’s Valeant Pharmaceuticals International is nearing a deal to acquire eye care company Bausch & Lomb Holdings Inc from Warburg Pincus LLC for about $9 billion, a person familiar with the matter […]

Marzio Pozzuoli, founder and former president and CEO of RuggedCom Inc., has been named the 2013 “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association. Pozzuoli led RuggedCom, a […]

Private equity firms Clairvest Group and Teachers’ Private Capital have both won the 2013 ‘Deal of the Year’ award in the private equity category from Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association. […]

Proxy advisory and research firms Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. and Glass Lewis & Co. have recommended that clients who are shareholders in IT solutions provider Softchoice Corp. vote in favor of Birch […]

Canadian buyout firm Onex Corp. has suspended its auction of portfolio company Carestream Health Inc., a Rochester, New York-based medical imaging systems provider, reports Reuters. Onex, which was unable to find […]

Canadian venture capital firm Northwater Capital Management has invested US$3 million in a Series A financing of RedWave Energy Inc., which develops energy harvesting products from infrared through visible light, […]

Vancouver’s LX Ventures, a publicly traded business incubator, has completed its previously announced purchase of Vancouver-based Mobio Technologies Inc., a developer of identity and trust solutions. LX Ventures […]

(Reuters) – Google Inc is in talks to buy Waze, an Israeli mapping start-up that has held discussions with several large technology companies, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on […]

Teine Energy Ltd., a Calgary-based oil and gas company focused on finding and developing high net-back, large hydrocarbon in place properties in Western Canada, has obtained a US$300 million senior secured second […]

Canadian private equity firm Persistence Capital Partners, which focuses on healthcare-related opportunities, has raised $90 million in the first close of its second fund, Persistence Capital Partners II LP. […]

Google Inc is in talks to buy Waze, an Israeli mapping start-up that has held discussions with several large technology companies, sources told Reuters Friday.

(Reuters) – Google Inc is in talks to buy Waze, an […]

Toronto-based ViXS Systems Inc., a developer of high-performance semiconductors for media solutions, has completed its previously announced going-public transaction through an amalgamation agreement with capital […]

Automattic, the company that operates blogging service WordPress.com, announced a $50 million investment from hedge fund Tiger Global on Friday.

(Reuters) – Automattic, the company that operates blogging […]

Canadian mid-market private equity firm Fulcrum Capital Partners has made an equity investment in Nilex Civil Environmental Group, an Edmonton, Alberta-based provider of environmentally-friendly construction […]

Automattic, the company that operates blogging service WordPress.com, announced a $50 million investment from hedge fund Tiger Global on Friday.

(Reuters) – Automattic, the company that operates blogging […]

Toronto-based mid-market private equity firm Signal Hill Equity Partners announced the appointments of Mayank Chadha as the firm’s director of operations and Sundri Sengupta as the firm’s director of human […]

Energy Capital Partners has closed its buy of EnergySolutions. Salt Lake City-basd EnergySolutions, which provides nuclear commercial services, announced in January that it would merge with an Energy Capital […]