GrandBanks Capital, a Boston-based venture capital firm, is actively looking for Canadian investments (in Ontario and Quebec) and recently sent out an open letter to Canadian entrepreneurs and investors (published below). Canadian investments have worked for them in the past which is why they are interested over here, and rumour has it that even pretty recently they closed a deal in Toronto. Interested Ontario/Quebec-based entrepreneurs - go ahead and give Charley Lax (Managing Partner, GrandBanks Capital) a call (his phone number is in the document below). Quote from the letter:
Yeah, we like cigars, but we like Canadian entrepreneurs better!
Varun Mathur
Varun Mathur is the Techvibes Community Manager in Toronto, focused on covering local tech startups, news and events. He is also a Co-founder and Product Manager at Zytran, a Toronto-based web startup which developed and launched Alertle.com - a personal news aggregator (Alertle's version 1.0 got widespread global coverage, with reviews written about it...[more]
