More U.S.-based VCs and acquirers came up to Canada in 2012, looking for good deal flow, rational valuations and inexpensive buys.

Canadian start-up Crowdbase has secured $650,000 in seed financing from Real Ventures, iNovia Capital, and Martin-Luc Archambault (Bolidea) to accelerate product development and expand its team. Crowdbase allows teams to share questions, answers, notes, and Web links in a private social network.

Local search analytics platform Get Me Listed has secured a seed financing round with Mark Macleod, general partner of Canada-based seed ventrue capital firm Real Ventures. Other angel investors who participated on the round include Internet entrepreneurs Yona Shtern and Robert Gold of online retailer Beyond the Rack as well as Sterost Holdings, the angel [...]

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Unbounce said it raised $850,000 from a syndicate led by Real Ventures of Montreal. The group includes Founder Co-Op of Seattle, Atlas Ventures of Boston, Social Leverage, 500Startups and Point Nine Capital. Also participating are angels Boris Wertz, Mike Edwards, Rapleaf CEO Auren Hoffman and Articulate CEO Adam Schwartz. BLOG POST Unbounce Raises $850k to [...]

Montreal-based MConcierge Systems Inc., a maker of mobile-to-web software for the hospitality industry, has inked an undisclosed amount of financing from Real Ventures, Montreal Start Up, Palos Capital and Positron Inc. The money will help it expand software for hotels, which is a task management, content management and ordering system designed to integrate into existing IT infrastructures, PMS and other third party software. Real Ventures is a seed venture fund based in Montreal.

MODASUITE, the Canadian online menswear retailer, has secured unspecified seed funding from Real Ventures, Anges Quebec investors and Bolidea. The Montreal-based company will use the capital for its development initiative.