{"id":77523,"date":"2017-01-20T16:17:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T21:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=77523"},"modified":"2017-01-25T12:54:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T17:54:34","slug":"venture-capitalists-canadian-startup-awards","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/venture-capitalists-canadian-startup-awards","title":{"rendered":"Honoring the Work of Venture Capitalists Through the Canadian Startup Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are dozens of venture capital firms in Canada. They foster Canada&#8217;s robust startup ecosystem by injecting capital into fledgling companies, many of which mature to anchor their local innovation hubs.<\/p>\n<p>VCs play a major role in the health and sustainability of a startup ecoystem. A total of $2.3 billion was invested in Canadian companies in 2015, a 12% increase from 2014, according to Canada\u2019s Venture Capital &amp; Private Equity Association.<\/p>\n<p>This is why we support the importance of venture capital through our Canadian Startup Awards, which recognizes the nation&#8217;s most outstanding VC firm each year.<\/p>\n<p>Previous winners of the award include Real Ventures (2015 and 2011), Omers Ventures (2014), BDC Capital (2013), iNovia Capital (2012).<\/p>\n<p>Who will win this year? Well, that&#8217;s for you to decide: which VC stood out most in 2016? <a href=\"https:\/\/borndigital.com\/canadian-startup-awards\">Nominate one now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are dozens of venture capital firms in Canada. They foster Canada&#8217;s robust startup ecosystem by injecting capital into fledgling companies, many of which mature to anchor their local innovation hubs. VCs play a major role in the health and sustainability of a startup ecoystem. A total of $2.3 billion was invested in Canadian companies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1358,"featured_media":74344,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-77523","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/77523","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\/1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/77523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/74344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77523"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=77523"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=77523"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=77523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}