Sponsors
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Fasken Martineau
Visit site Our Ongoing Commitment to Quality
Fasken Martineau is one of the world's leading international business law and litigation firms with more than 650 lawyers with offices in Canada, the United Kingdom and South Africa. Our practice includes every sector of business, industry and government.
Our approach is built on relationships. That means a comprehensive and sustained focus on service at the highest levels throughout our entire firm to meet and anticipate your evolving needs. Quite simply, the building of relationships starts with listening to you, our clients.
Our international excellence, sector expertise, integrity and ethics have earned us numerous prestigious accolades such as being named a top corporate dealmaker by Lexpert; consistently distinguished in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, the prestigious Chambers Global Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers, the International Financial Law Review's Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms, and The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers.
But while we take pride in each of these acknowledgements, we take our greatest satisfaction from our clients who continue to entrust us with their most pressing matters.
What matters most to us is going beyond good results and focusing on your goals and the long-term success of your business.
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Bootup Labs
Visit site A Vancouver-based startup accelerator designed to help founders build tech startups and take them to their first round of funding over the course of a nine month placement.
The nine months are split into three trimesters - because we all know that growing a startup is like raising a child! Each three month period has different deliverables in the areas of business, marketing, and product. Founders will come in with different strengths and weaknesses, being matched with the right set of people at Bootup Labs or external Advisors to reach each deliverable.
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Layer 7 Technologies
Visit site Layer 7 Technologies markets a family of XML appliances and software to secure, simplify and scale Web services. Web services are applications that can expose their functionality to other applications over the Internet using standards based XML data formats like SOAP, REST, AJAX, and RSS. Modern service oriented application integration models and Web oriented application delivery models depend on effectively addressing the performance, security, complexity, reliability and availability issues inherent in sharing Web services with other applications. Layer 7 Technologies therefore aims to provide the essential application oriented security and networking infrastructure to enable Service-oriented and Web-oriented architectures (i.e. SOA and Web 2.0) that are central to the next wave of Internet and software innovation.
Founded in 2003, the company operates in the US, Canada and Europe. Its customers include leading insurance, banking, telecom and government organizations. The company is venture backed by leading Canadian and US investors.
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BC Renaissance
Visit site Ministry of Small Business, Technology and Economic Development.
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Yaletown Venture Partners
Visit site Yaletown Venture Partners is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. Yaletown is backed by leading institutional and private investors in Canada and the United States and by a network of successful technology entrepreneurs, executives, and angel investors.
Yaletown leverages an extensive on-the-ground network to seek out the most promising cleantech and IT investment opportunities in Western Canada and we also selectively lead cleantech investments in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and the rest of Canada. When we get behind a deal we take an active, lead role with entrepreneurs, building teams and well-financed companies that can dominate growing markets.
Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest is a leading region of innovation in cleantech and information technologies. We know this region, its entrepreneurs, and clusters of strength, well. We work hard every day to be the partner of choice to the most talented teams in this market and other quality venture capital firms seeking investment opportunities here.
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BDC
Visit site BDC (Business Development Bank of Canada) provides Canadian businesses with flexible financing, affordable consulting services and venture capital. We work with entrepreneurs in all industries, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), through all economic cycles and help businesses in their development projects, both local and global.
