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Sep 3		Rescare Undecided On $370 Million Buyout Offer From Onex



Sep 3		SGF Invests Near $20 M in the Gaspé Peninsula



Sep 2		Penfund Announces US$15 Million Investment in Choice Environmental Services, Inc.



Sep 2		First Nickel Completes US$5 Million Bridge Loan Facility



Aug 31		Google Acquires Social Gaming Company SocialDeck



Aug 30		Doughty Hanson Commits Up To $3 Million in Equity for Sustainable Energy



Aug 30		FTQ invests in St. Jerome-based furniture company



Aug 30		IC Potash Announces $15 Million Private Placement



Aug 26		Brookfield and Fairfield Residential Company LLC Announce Completion of Fairfield Residential LLC's Reorganization and Recapitalization



Aug 24		Birch Hill’s Fourth Fund Nears Target



Aug 24		Airband and Sparkplug Communications Announce Merger, Creating the Largest Fixed-Wireless Company in the U.S. Serving Businesses



Aug 24		Newport Partners Income Fund to Sell Peerless Garments



Aug 23		Blue Point Capital Partners and Packers Holdings LLC Acquire Kaiser Contract Cleaning Specialists Inc. and Canadian Contract Cleaning Specialists Inc.



Aug 23		GrowthWorks Announces Changing Role for Jim Charlton



Aug 19		Avista Capital Partners and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Agree to Acquire INC Research, Inc.



Aug 18		Funds brighten future of Canadian innovation



Aug 18		Venture capital market may be opening up



Aug 18		Three Toronto high-tech companies receive seed funding through Ontario's Investment Accelerator Fund



Aug 17		Clickfree Closes $15 Million in Series C Funding from Tandem Expansion Fund



Aug 12		C.A. Bancorp Inc. to Sell Interest in Bermingham Foundation Solutions



Aug 11		Canada venture sector shows signs of recovery



Aug 11		Venture market shows a pulse



Aug 10		Canada's Venture Capital & Buyout Industry In Q2 2010: Some Positive Signs



Aug 10		Ontario venture capital levels jump in Q2



Aug 10		Status of Québec's venture capital industry - Q2 2010 - Venture capital experiencing strong growth in Québec



Aug 10		Ontario Teachers Sells 11% of Maple Leaf Foods



Aug 9		Wellington Financial provides $3.5 million debt financing commitment to Pivot Inc.



Aug 9		GrowthWorks Canadian Fund Provides Update on Participation Agreement with Roseway Capital



Aug 9		Skype Files Plans for $100 Million IPO



Aug 9		Wellington Financial Provides $5.5 million in Financing to Telekenex



Aug 6		MEG Energy Corp. announces closing of its initial public offering



Aug 5		Qiming Invests $10 Million into Life Science Research Firms



Aug 5		ONCAP Completes Acquisition of Sport Supply Group



Aug 4		Seaforth Energy Inc. Secures $2 Million Financing



Aug 3		TorQuest Partners Invests in SCM Insurance Services Inc.



Aug 3		StatusNet Raises New Round of Investment Led by FirstMark Capital



Aug 2		Payfone Closes $11m Series B Financing



Aug 2		Wynnchurch Capital Acquires Pro-Fab Inc.



Jul 29		Celtic House Venture Partners Leads US$10 Million Follow-On Investment in Morega Systems



Jul 28		Plasco Secures $110 million Equity Placement Led by Ares Management



Jul 27		Recommended Cash Acquisition of Tomkins plc by Pinafore Acquisitions Limited, a Company Jointly Owned by Onex and CPPIB



Jul 26		Huron Capital Makes Significant Investment in Artissimo Designs



Jul 26		Axela Acquires Xceed Molecular Creating Powerhouse in Robust and Easy-to-Use Systems for Translational Medicine



Jul 23		PE Firms Put NZ Yellow Pages On The Block



Jul 23		Life sciences practice a staple for law firms



Jul 22		Avrio Increases its Participation in Advitech



Jul 22		Key invests $15 million in Ice River Springs



Jul 22		AgeChem Increases Its Participation in Advitech



Jul 21		Fonds de solidarité FTQ Invests $30 Million in Logibec Groupe Informatique and Helps Keep Its Headquarters in Québec



Jul 20		SGF Invests $30 Million in Logibec's Development



Jul 20		Wellington Financial Provides Financing to Marathon Technologies



Jul 19		IPeak Networks Closes Series B Financing



Jul 19		CellFor Announces the Completion of a $35 Million Equity Financing



Jul 19		Northleaf Launches FOF With $200M Target



Jul 19		PacketMotion Secures $3.5 Million Financing from MMV Financial



Jul 19		Flash Sales Site Beyond The Rack Raises $12 Million To Take On Gilt



Jul 19		CPPIB makes $3.2-billion bid for Australian firm



Jul 19		Onex, CPPIB may bid for Tomkins



Jul 19		Sverica International Announces its Acquisition of Syscon Justice Systems



Jul 19		BIOREM announces proposed private placement of up to $3 million of units and changes to board of directors



Jul 18		Picture brightens for venture capital investment funds



Jul 16		Smart Technologies IPO Raises $660 Million for Whiteboard Maker



Jul 15		Macquarie Resource Capital Canada Ltd. Acquires 15,169,932 Common Shares of Terrex Energy Inc.



Jul 9		Low-cost wireless war heats up



Jul 8		VentureLink Diversified Income Fund Inc. Invests in Sprott Power Corp.



Jul 8		Bridgescale Partners Invests in Workforce Management Company Dayforce



Jul 7		Georgian Partners successfully completes first close ahead of its $50 million initial target



Jul 7		Blackboard to Acquire Elluminate and Wimba



Jul 6		IMW Industries sold to U.S. company in US$125 million deal



Jul 6		Laricina Energy Secures $250 million Investment From Canada Pension Plan



Jul 6		Software developer joins Innovacorp



Jul 6		Marketwire news release company buys Sysomos social media analysis firm