{"id":68257,"date":"2016-04-22T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=68257"},"modified":"2016-04-22T02:04:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T10:04:45","slug":"inovia-capital","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/inovia-capital","title":{"rendered":"iNovia Capital Strengthens Western Canada Investment Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 33px; float: right;\" src=\"\/public\/cache\/company\/220x145\/Logo_Colour_255255255.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\" \/>iNovia Capital has brought on Hugues Lalancette as a Senior Analyst for his insights into the Canadian financing ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Hugues brings strong analytical experience to our investment team,&rdquo; says Shawn Abbott, Partner at iNovia. &ldquo;His insights were invaluable during the recent raising and closing of our new $175M fund, and we look forward to bringing the benefits of his expertise to our portfolio companies.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Prior to iNovia, Hugues supported several tech startups in CFO and advisor roles, where he developed a passion for financial modeling, fundraising, deal structuring, lean analytics and growth accounting.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Hugues had the opportunity to work on numerous billion-dollar capital market transactions as an Analyst at BMO Investment &amp; Corporate Banking Group.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;iNovia is unique among venture capital firms, both in its approach to investing and in its embracing of the distributed team notion,&rdquo; Hugues said. &ldquo;But the deciding factor for me was when I saw how iNovia interacts with its portfolio company executives &#8211; one of the few firms to actually deliver on the promise of bringing more than just money to the table.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hugues Lalancette will be based in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Dan Freedman, former VP of Security Products at McAfee, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/industry-veteran-dan-freedman-joins-inovia-capitals-investment-team-2016-02-16\" target=\"_blank\">joined the firm&rsquo;s investment team<\/a>. Prior to iNovia, Freedman was lead mentor at Blue Startups, a Hawaii-based accelerator behind the Startup Paradise brand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am tremendously excited to join the iNovia team, a band of individuals who have collectively developed one of the strongest and most interesting portfolios at any fund,&#8221; he said in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iNovia Capital has brought on Hugues Lalancette as a Senior Analyst for his insights into the Canadian financing ecosystem. &ldquo;Hugues brings strong analytical experience to our investment team,&rdquo; says Shawn Abbott, Partner at iNovia. &ldquo;His insights were invaluable during the recent raising and closing of our new $175M fund, and we look forward to bringing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":68259,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-68257","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/68257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/68257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68257"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=68257"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=68257"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=68257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}