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November 11, 2019
Portfolio firm Solace announced recently a set of new products, partnerships and community-building efforts called “Event Horizon” that are designed to give large organizations everything they need to transform the applications that underlie their business operations and customer interactions into ones that function in real-time and are “event-driven”. In effect, it is a next-generation digital…
November 11, 2019
No one would deny the growth of cloud computing over the last decade. The concept of computing equipment and applications being hosted by third-party providers in off-site data centres around the globe (i.e., “in the clouds”), all accessed via the Internet, seemed worrisome to many when first proposed, but has since been proven and adopted…
November 11, 2019
The annual Academy of Country Music Awards (ACMA) took place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas earlier this year. It is one of the largest annual awards shows in the world, staging a full weekend of events to acknowledge the best industry performers of the year and also to help raise funds for worthy…
November 11, 2019
The past Quarter saw portfolio company Echosec make solid progress in terms of PR and partnerships in the areas of Digital Risk Protection and Threat Intelligence. The platform offered by the company combines data monitoring and automated response procedures that alert organizations to online material that could represent a risk to their business. By gathering…
November 11, 2019
The past months at ProntoForms have been busy. Among the more significant developments from a marketing and sales perspective, the company was recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low Code Application Platforms (LCAP). Gartner is one of the most trusted research groups in the technology industry, and this “third-party validation” for the ProntoForms…
November 11, 2019
Instead of gas or electric golf carts, it was innovative new autonomous ‘pods’ that were seen travelling the cart paths of The Marshes Golf Course over a one-week period this past August. Together with the Brookstreet Hotel, the facilities hosted the first Ottawa L5 trial of this exciting new transportation technology, enabling the public to…
November 11, 2019
L-SPARK hosted their SaaS Roadshow in four Canadian cities (Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Waterloo) over the past Quarter. The primary goal — find the next B2B SaaS ‘unicorn’ in Canada. No small feat, but it is always best to aim high! Over the course of the Roadshow, the team heard business pitches from hundreds of…
November 11, 2019
Portfolio company AirVM was busy updating more than their product platform over the last Quarter. The company has adopted a new corporate brand as well, being known as HyAlto moving forward. And HyAlto is all about the cloud, particularly multi-cloud environments in which, as discussed earlier in this report, enterprises want to source services from…
November 11, 2019
As is now the norm, the summer season of programs and events at Wesley Clover Parks was a very busy time once again. Here are a few of the highlights: CAMP Reservations at the Campground were strong throughout the season, aided in part by the online reservation system which was deployed this With operations now…
April 26, 2019
As this is the first issue of Q for calendar 2019, we thought it would make sense to provide an update on the latest investment activities being reported around the world. Combining a number of sources, we offer the following picture. The Global View PWC and CB Insights released their MoneyTree Report earlier this year,…
