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Ontario’s $250 million Emerging Technology Fund Launches!

The $250 million Emerging Technolgies Fund announced by Ontario as part of the Budget in March and recently the subject of an RFP process to find a fund administrator launched today! Details are on the OETF homepage, including: Fund Guidelines [PDF 2.7 MB] FAQs [PDF 673 KB] Application to seek qualification as a Venture Capital or [...]

Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund RFP: Excerpts from MRI Presentation

A couple of weeks ago, Ontario’s Ministry of Research and Innovation put out an RFP for the new $250 million Emerging Technologies Fund, looking for a third party to evaluate co-investor and investment applications, and to administer and monitor investments for the fund. Last Friday, they held a briefing for interested parties where they presented [...]

MRI RFP ISO for Emerging Technology Fun(d)

Ontario’s Ministry of Research and Innovation has put out an RFP for the new $250 million Emerging Technologies Fund. They are looking for someone to evaluate co-investor and investment applications, and to administer and monitor investments for the fund. Here’s the blurb from the RFP Abstract: The OETF is a new $250 million program announced [...]

BIO 2009: Ontario Premier’s Breakfast

The speeches (s-peach-es?) just finished this morning at the Ontario Premier’s breakfast. Minister of Research and Innovation John Wilkinson announced that Ontario has recently completed 2 new BIP investments: a Pfizer collaboration with the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR); and GSK Canada for manufacturing in Mississauga. Ontario’s Premier — Dalton McGuinty, winner of BIO’s [...]

$250 million Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund Seen, Raised by $825 million Quebec Venture Capital Fund

Ontario announced the $250 million Emerging Technologies Fund yesterday … pretty much exactly what Monday’s letter to McGuinty from the CVCA requested. That has got to be, by the way, either: the world’s first psychic government relations campaign, or the world’s fastest government stimulus. Not to be out-done, the Québec budget today included an $825 [...]

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