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The Board’s Role in Facilitating and Supporting a Fundraising Process 15 Aug 2013 | 02:31 am
Guest Blog Post by David Unsworth, a Partner with RBC Venture Partners. The views expressed in this post are his own. Raising a new round of financing is a difficult and highly distracting exercise. H...
Legal Due Diligence & Closing the Deal 15 Aug 2013 | 12:10 am
Guest Blog Post by Glenn Rumbell, Partner of Ross Rumbell Professional Corporation Legal due diligence may not make financial headlines but it is the item investors focus on once they’ve made the busi...
Investment Hunting Season Opens After Labour Day – Will You Be Ready? 13 Aug 2013 | 09:11 pm
The passing of Labour Day marks not only the start of the new school year, but also the beginning of a new “investment hunting” season! If you are thinking about raising capital this year, the dog day...
Espresso Says ‘Yes’ to Financing 10 Times A Month 28 May 2013 | 02:58 am
Alkarim Jivraj joins Espresso Capital Partners Whenever I meet a colleague, I often get asked about Espresso Capital, and why I joined Espresso instead of launching a new equity fund (my first fund fi...
Science Powers Commerce – commentary on 2013 Federal budget 24 May 2013 | 04:38 am
This is a guest blog post by Alma CG Finance Minister Jim Flaherty delivered the government’s 2013 federal budget on March 21, 2013. Due to uncertain global economic times, relatively modest measures,...
Espresso finances Mobio acquisition via SR&ED bridge loan 21 May 2013 | 10:01 pm
Guest Blog Post by Bernd Petak, CFO of Mobio Technologies Espresso Capital Partners (ECP) recently assisted Mobio Technologies Inc. with a SR&ED secured loan facility to bridge to a then-confidential a...
Espresso Announces First Close of $35M Fund III 5 Apr 2013 | 02:25 am
We are happy to announce the first close of our $35M Espresso Fund III focused on tax credit financing for Canadian technology companies. We anticipate the total investment program for Fund III will b...
SCL Elements acquired by Schneider Electric SA – Espresso Capital provides standby credit facility 19 Feb 2013 | 03:27 am
Espresso Capital Partners (ECP) recently structured a Standby Credit Facility for the benefit of Montreal-based SCL Elements Inc. (http://www.can2go.com). The facility provided the founders and manage...
Conflicts in Directors Making Direct Loans to Companies 12 Jan 2013 | 01:02 am
Fiduciary Duties are potentially compromised and it just has bad optics I am a manager of a Fund that loans money to technology companies. Separately, as an individual, I am an active independent dire...
Sidense closes $1.1M Financing led by Espresso Capital 13 Nov 2012 | 10:20 pm
Espresso Capital Partners (ECP) recently led a $1.1 million round of financing in Ottawa-based Sidense Corp. (www.sidense.com). Sidense is a leading developer of silicon-proven embedded non-volatile m...
