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April 8, 2022
Making the most of the Campground property during the winter season, the team at Wesley Clover Parks wrapped up another successful Magic of Lights Christmas Display earlier in the Quarter. For the sixth year in a row, the ever-popular attraction convinced tens of thousands of guests over eight weeks to trade the warmth of their…
April 8, 2022
With a cloud-based surveillance platform that integrates client video with relevant operational data, and a unique SaaS pricing model, portfolio company Solink has been disrupting the traditional video surveillance industry in an increasing way for several years now. This fiscal Quarter proved no different, with the company accelerating introductions to new customers and breaking previous…
April 8, 2022
Blackberry/QNX software is already incorporated into 68% of the global EV market by volume, through partnerships with 23 of the top 25 EV makers! For the team at L-SPARK, the main focus for the Quarter was the launch of two new Accelerator programs — the Calian L-SPARK MedTech Accelerator and the Blackberry IVY L-SPARK Accelerator.…
April 8, 2022
Calendar 2021 was an active year for Alacrity Global, notwithstanding the business-affecting realities of a world-wide pandemic. The team helped orchestrate nine portfolio-company exits over the period, bringing the total estimated value of all 13 Alacrity exits to more than USD$250M in proceeds. Each of these companies has been successfully founded, mentored and grown within…
April 8, 2022
Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a way of building enterprise IT infrastructure such that information (data) is able to flow between applications, cloud services and IoT devices in real-time — as events (e.g., transactions, updates, requests, etc.) occur, as opposed to periodic polling for synchronization. Portfolio company Solace has been leading the EDA technology industry for…
December 3, 2021
For the team at L-SPARK, the Quarter flew by in a hurry. And as usual, it was an eventful few months. For example, announcements from the following portfolio companies provided some key highlights: EssayJack was acquired by Vancouver-based Ed-Tech firm Wize. HeyDay was acquired by global social media management leader Hootsuite in a CAD$60.0M deal.…
December 3, 2021
As the hybrid workplace is embraced by more and more businesses, increasing numbers of companies are turning to cloud services such as Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 to operate their new environments as effectively as possible, and keep their employees productive no matter where they work from. Adoption of Microsoft Teams continues to skyrocket, and…
December 3, 2021
Portfolio company Segmentify was one of the early investments undertaken by Alacrity Turkey in Istanbul, in 2016. At the time, the company had just completed development of promising new eCommerce technology and had only modest annual revenues. The full vision, however, was to create an unmatched software platform that would enable online retailers to ‘personalize’…
December 3, 2021
5G will touch virtually every business sector in some way 5G is the next generation of wireless networking technology. It has been gaining market momentum for some time now, and infrastructure build-outs are continuing across the globe. According to GSMA, the global association that represents mobile network operators, 5G networks will deliver between 10 and…
December 3, 2021
Notwithstanding the COVID restrictions still in place during the Quarter, operations at Wesley Clover Parks were adapted to the rules and activities continued forward in positive ways. Here are some of the latest highlights: CAMP Coming to a close this Quarter, the 2021 season at the Wesley Clover Parks Campground proved to be the most…
