Toronto-based mid-market private equity firm Signal Hill Equity Partners opened a new office in Calgary, Alberta, to increase its presence in Western Canada. The firm also hired Stephen Hughes, who has a […]

Venture capital firm AmorChem and Univalor made an undisclosed investment in a project led by Dr. Nabil Seidah of the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal. The project, which was launched last year, is […]

Pinetree Capital, a Toronto-based private equity firm investing in the natural resource sectors, acquired securities of Wolfpack Gold Corp., a company which advances underground gold projects towards production in […]

Calgary, Alberta’s Sustainable Energy Technologies Ltd., a designer, manufacturer and distributor of power inverters for grid-connected solar PV systems, has had its $1.5 million standby equity commitment from […]

Mountain View, California-based Adaptive Planning Inc., a maker of cloud-based business analytics software, has secured US$45 million in funding in a deal led by U.S. venture capital firm Bessemer Venture […]

Twin Rivers Paper Company Inc., a specialty paper manufacturer with mill operations in Madawaska, Maine, and Edmundston, New Brunswick, and a lumber sawmill in Plaster Rock, New Brunswick, is to be bought for an […]

San Diego-based Ambit Biosciences Corp., which discovers, develops and commercializes drugs to treat needs in oncology, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, has priced its initial public offering at US$8.00 per […]

Success breeds success. In 2006, peHUB was launched. Today, the global interactive forum has tens of thousands of subscribers. It was only a matter of time that this remarkable brand would find a home in […]

Relay Ventures is just over a year old. The firm, with offices in Toronto and Menlo Park, Calif., focuses on early-stage mobile connectivity opportunities, officially launched in March 2012 with the merger of JLA […]

Ottawa, Ontario’s Halogen Software Inc., a provider of cloud-based talent management products, has completed its previously announced initial public offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange, raising just over $50 […]

AltaGas Ltd., a Calgary-based energy infrastructure business, completed its previously-announced buy of Blythe Energy LLC, which owns a 507 megawatt natural gas plant as well as a 67-mile electric transmission […]

Pebble Technology, launched by Canadian entrepreneur Eric Migicovsky, a University of Waterloo engineering graduate, has raised US$15 million in Series A financing from U.S. venture capital firm Charles River […]

Venture capital  deal-making in Canada shot up in the first quarter of 2013, reports Thomson Reuters (publisher of peHUB Canada). Dollars invested totaled $460 million, up 55% from the year before, while companies […]

Buyout and related private equity (PE) deal-making in Canada moderated in the first quarter of 2013, reports Thomson Reuters (publisher of peHUB Canada). Deal volume declined 47% year over year, however, disclosed […]

Net assets of the Canada Pension Plan Fund (CPP) totaled $183.3 billion at the end of its fiscal year in March 2013, increasing $21.7 billion year over year, reports CPP Investment Board (CPPIB). The fund’s […]

Canadian private equity firm Catalyst Capital Group welcomed the recent agreement in which TELUS Corp. will acquire Toronto’s Mobilicity, a.k.a. Data & Audio-Visual Enterprises Wireless Inc. for $380 million. The […]

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC)’s recent consultation on crowdfunding options received “favourable comments” reports law firm Osler Hoskin & Harcourt. Osler noted 100 responses to the OSC, most of which […]

Tao Liu, managing partner of the Sino-Canada Natural Resources Fund, has been appointed co-chairman and director of Pacific Potash Corp., which is focused on exploration and development of the Amazonas Basin […]

The April acquisition of Vancouver’s Layer 7 Technologies Inc., a provider of application programming interface management and security, by CA Technologies Inc., an Islandia, New York-based software developer, has […]

Rogers Ventures, the venture capital arm of Rogers Communications Inc., joined Panorama Capital in a US$15 million Series E financing of New York-based Zoove Corp., which operates StarStar and StarStarMe, a mobile […]