The Daily Real

May 17th, 2012

  • Thinknear

    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 [...]

  • VC cowboys

    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 [...]

  • Laocalmind

    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 [...]

  • Job

    Analyst or Associate role at Real Ventures

    By John StokesJuly 4, 2011

    Real Ventures is a Montreal-based seed stage Venture Fund investing in web and mobile startups. We are looking to add to our team at either the Analyst (entry) or Associate (some experience) levels. A week in the life of the [...]

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    Launch at Grow !

    By John StokesJune 13, 2011

    Real Ventures will once again be involved with Grow Conference, a great event for startups taking place in August in Vancouver. As they did last year, the folks @ Grow have lined up a killer 1st day, including a great [...]

  • FounderFuel

    FounderFuel takes off

    By John StokesJune 3, 2011

    Today we announced FounderFuel, our accelerator program. The full details are below. We have assembled a World Class group of mentors and are ready to welcome the 1st group of entrepreneurs and help them make their startups fly. If you [...]

  • 48Hours

    48 Hours in the Valley

    By John StokesMay 1, 2011

    Our friends at C100 are gearing up for another session of 48 hours in the Valley.  Details from their site: The focus this time around will be on Social Media, Metrics, Advertising and Monetization! We’re giving Canadian Social Media companies the [...]

  • Suit Up

    Real Ventures “suits up” !

    By John StokesApril 27, 2011

    We are pleased to announce our latest investment. Together with Anges Quebec we invested in Modasuite. Modasuite sells personalized and made-to-fit menswear. From shirts, to suits, pants and accessories Modasuite offers men great product, service and prices. We think there [...]