BlackBerry Partners Fund

BlackBerry Partners Fund

The BlackBerry Partners Fund™ is a $150 million venture capital fund focused on applications and services including mobile commerce (payments, advertising, retailing and banking), vertical and horizontal enterprise applications, communications, social networking, location-based applications and services (navigation and mapping), media and entertainment, and lifestyle and personal productivity applications for the BlackBerry® and other mobile platforms. The Fund will consider all stages of development and is co-managed by JLA Ventures and RBC Venture Partners.

Website:
http://www.blackberrypartnersfund.com
Categories:
Venture Capital
Address:
4440 - 161 Bay St
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Blog Posts About BlackBerry Partners Fund

mDialog secures $5 Million Series A led by BlackBerry Partners Fund
Toronto-based mDialog announced today that they have closed a $5 million Series A round of funding led by the BlackBerry Partners Fund. The investment will be used to expand mDialog’s... [more]
Ottawa's Meeting Co$t app picks up award in BlackBerry Partners Fund Challenge
The BlackBerry Partners Fund today announced the winners of the “WebWorks” competition in the fourth annual BlackBerry Partners Fund Developer Challenge. The first runners-up prize in... [more]
Toronto's Fuse Powered raises $2M from BlackBerry Partners Fund and NFQ Ventures
Toronto's Fuse Powered has completed a $2-million seed funding round, with contributions from BlackBerry Partners Fund and NFQ Ventures. The investment will accelerate Fuse, a mobile game... [more]
BlackBerry Partners Fund launches $3 Million Developer Challenge
Yesterday the BlackBerry Partners Fund launched the fourth annual BlackBerry Partners Fund Developer Challenge. This year, developers can enter their BlackBerry apps in a series of competitions... [more]
RIM recharges BlackBerry Partners Fund
Research In Motion and the BlackBerry Partners Fund announced yesterday that RIM is making a lead commitment to BlackBerry Partners Fund II, a new US$150 million independent venture capital fund... [more]
Toronto's SocialDeck acquired by Google
Toronto social gaming company SocialDeck has been acquired by Google for an undisclosed price. SocialDeck creates games that allow for simultaneous, viral multiplayer game play across a variety... [more]
Third annual Blackberry Developer Challenge offers more than $1.5 million in prizes
Less than two months remain to develop an app worthy of the Challenge. The third-annual Blackberry Developer Challenge, an app competition hosted by Blackberry Partners Fund, cuts off submission... [more]
BlackBerry Partners Fund expands into China
The Toronto headquartered BlackBerry Partners Fund announced today the expansion of its investment activities with the launch of a US $100 Million affiliate fund focused on mobile investment... [more]
How the mobile web could change the world economy
Those of us living in North America may find banking inconvenient, but it can be far worse in the developing world, assuming there even are banks. However, an Ottawa company is helping address... [more]
BlackBerry funded App launches in Canada
Last October, the Toronto-based $150 Million BlackBerry Partners Fund announced investments in three mobile startups - buzzd, Digby and WorldMate. And it looks like BlackBerry's Canadian roots are... [more]
Globe and Mail Article on the Breakdown of the Venture Capital Ecosystem in Canada
Globe and Mail, one of Canada's leading newspapers, published an article today on the declining state of the venture capital ecosystem in Canada, featuring interviews from some prominent local... [more]
BlackBerry Developers Challenge prerequisite - a business case
This morning at Wireless Enterprise Symposium 2009 Conference, RIM announced the 2009 BlackBerry Developers Challenge. While this is the second year that the BlackBerry Partners Fund are are... [more]
BlackBerry Partners Fund Invests $3.2 million In Xobni
The BlackBerry Partners Fund (BPF), a $150 million venture capital fund aimed at encouraging development of software for the BlackBerry, is investing $3.2 million (of a $10 million second round) in... [more]
Multiplied Media meets BlackBerry Challenge
The BlackBerry Partners Fund announced the winners of the BlackBerry Developer Challenge today and Calgary's Multiplied Media Corporation Poynt application won the Personal Productivity and... [more]
BlackBerry Partners Fund Announces Jump Start Program
The BlackBerry Partners Fund LP announced today that it has launched a Jump Start Financing Initiative. The Jump Start initiative provides entrepreneurs with capital infusions of up to $250,000.... [more]
BlackBerry Fund grows Investment Team
The BlackBerry Partners Fund announced today that it has appointed Marc Faucher and Matt Golden to its investment team. The BlackBerry Partners Fund is a $150 million venture capital fund formed to... [more]
BlackBerry Partners Fund Announced?
VentureBeat reported yesterday that Research In Motion, the RBC and Thomson Reuters invested in an $150 million venture investment fund, called the BlackBerry Partners Fund, to support developers... [more]

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