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BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company’s development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975, and has to date invested in more than 400 different companies. It currently manages approximately $550 million in venture capital assets invested in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology, Advanced Technologies and Fund Investments.

Covington Capital is a leading venture capital investment firm led by veteran venture capitalists Grant Brown and Chip Vallis. The company's highly regarded 11-member investment team has over 150 years of combined experience and focuses on growth and maximization of shareholder value. Covington Capital currently manages Covington Fund I, Covington Fund II, New Millennium Venture Fund, Triax Growth Fund and the Venture Partners Funds.

Skypoint Capital targets the business opportunities and "disruptive" technologies that will become the building blocks for the next generation of telecommunications. They seek opportunities to bridge technology gaps, to explore and create new markets, to build major companies that are both profitable and groundbreaking. They mitigate risk through a due diligence process that includes in-depth analysis of the technical, business, financial and management capabilities of each start-up.

Venturelab

Venturelab Partners invests exclusively in companies that are technology driven. They believe that the technology sector offers outstanding growth opportunities and many new markets in which emerging companies can thrive. They seek to identify markets where technology will lead to and/or capitalize on rapid change in customer behaviour, and believe that many of the areas of technology on which Columbia University researchers are focused will lead this rapid change.

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