Articles Tagged: "Shawn Abbott"
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The core idea of “network effect” is that the value to each participant increases as more active members are added. Done thoughtfully, this is nowhere more true than when building a team of people. Dr. Ray Muzyka has become an active participant in iNovia’s network. And now as a Venture Advisor, he is getting to know more portfolio companies as he advances his own mentoring and investing activities through Threshold Impact (http://thresholdimpact.com)… More
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People often ask me, “what’s the difference between a venture partner and an entrepreneur in residence (EIR)”? Patrick Lor joins the iNovia team as an EIR as of this month, so I’ll use Pat’s work with iNovia as a case study to address this question. Pat has been a venture partner with iNovia for some time. Venture Partners are individuals we… More
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33Across, operators of the largest social and interest graph in the world, reaching over a billion users globally, today announced it has secured $13.1 million in new equity financing. The round was led by new investor Pelion Ventures, with continued support from existing investors Flybridge Capital, Greycroft Partners, First Round Capital, iNovia Capital, Panorama Capital, QED Investors, Metamorphic Ventures, and Great Oaks Ventures. To date, the company has raised more than $26 million in total… More
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Top Hat Monocle, a market leading mobile-based education platform that enables student engagement, today announced it has completed Series A financing. The $8 million round is led by Emergence Capital Partners and iNovia Capital, along with SoftTech VC, Version One Ventures (Boris Wertz) and Golden Venture Partners… More
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The Internet has revolutionized many aspects of our day-to-day lives, including everything from how we talk to how we shop, work and play. One area that has remained relatively unencumbered by this revolution has been the classroom experience. Enter Mike Silagadze, Mohsen Shahin Andrew D’Souza. These three have taken their passion for disruption and channeled it into Top Hat Monocle. Top Hat Monocle is a mobile-based education platform that engages students and provides Professors with the real-time feedback on student understanding… More
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Tynt’s network of publisher partners through which data is collected is about the best there is along with the expansive data sets that a Google or Facebook have. We at Tynt predicted that independent sources of data able to meet high-value applications would be incredibly valuable…quantity and breadth of data required to drive these sophisticated algorithms is mind-boggling. This is the basis of the hook-up between 33Across and Tynt… More
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Today, we are happy to announce the first close of $110M for our third found focused on investments in the Digital Media, Internet and Communications sectors… More
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iNovia Capital has raised $110 million for its third fund, iNovia Investment Fund III L.P. (“iNovia III”). iNovia III will build on the current strategy of backing exceptional founders and management teams transforming the Internet, Digital Media and Communications industries. “We have benefited from the support of top institutional and value added individual investors many of them return investors,” said Chris Arsenault, Managing Partner. “In prior funds, these investors have enabled us to invest in some of the more important companies in the sectors we focus on. From this base, we can leverage the network we have built over the years to make impact investments and help grow these companies thereafter wherever they are located.”
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CoolIT Systems Inc. has completed a $6.2 million series B growth financing in conjunction with an expansion of business to service growing demand. Existing investors led by iNovia Capital and new investor Chart Venture Partners, L.P. of New York came together under a shared belief that CoolIT is ideally positioned to support the present industry shift from air to liquid cooling
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Sanj Singh and the W. Brett Wilson Centre for Entrepreneurial Excellence are doing an excellent job inspiring passion for true innovation across multiple schools… More
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