The Daily Real

February 23rd, 2012

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    Our latest investment: iget.it

    By Mark MacLeodOctober 20, 2011

    We are very pleased to announce our latest investment: iget.it.  iget.it is an online-group buying club with a twist: They personally curate and hand pick the best products and experiences in a wide variety of categories. Imagine if Wallpaper Magazine [...]

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    Our newest investment: Massive Damage

    By Mark MacLeodOctober 3, 2011

    Toronto’s Massive Damage announced it’s angel round last week. We have been following Ken and Garry for some time and have been really excited by their track record and what they have done so far with Please Stay Calm their [...]

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    Our latest investment: Caristix

    By Mark MacLeodSeptember 20, 2011

    We are pleased to announce our latest investment: Caristix. Quebec-City based Cartistix is a healthcare IT startup that is transforming data interoperability and transfer for hospitals and other partners in the healthcare ecosystem. To run their businesses, these organizations have [...]

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    Rewardli launches and announces funding

    By Mark MacLeodSeptember 13, 2011

    Our portfolio company Rewardli had some big news today at Techcrunch Disrupt. First, it announced an oversubscribed funding round that included ourselves, 500 Startups, Kima Ventures and some amazing angels (Peter Bordes, Maneesh Arora, Hector Hulian, Jay Weintraub, Kerim Baran [...]

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    Clarity of Vision

    By Mark MacLeodSeptember 2, 2011

    I was traveling with one of my partners (John) yesterday. When you get out of the office with team members you often end up having great conversations that would never happen during the usual office hustle. Yesterday we found ourselves [...]

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    Real Ventures invests in ThinkNear

    By John StokesJuly 26, 2011

    Real Ventures is happy to announce its recent investment in ThinkNear as part of the $1.6M round led by IA Ventures. Other investors into this round included Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Metamorphic Ventures, and FF Venture Capital.  As Erick Schonfeld at [...]

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    VC Cowboys

    By Mark MacLeodJuly 14, 2011

    Real Ventures was in Alberta this week at iNovia’s Annual Meeting and to be part of Accelerate Alberta. It’s Stampede time in Calgary so we all got caught up in the local spirit. From the left: Boris Wertz – WMedia [...]

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    We are pleased to announce our latest investment, Localmind. Robert Scoble described Localmind as the birthchild of Quora and Foursquare – real time location based Q & A. Localmind launched at SXSW this year and was one of the highlights [...]