What is an Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR)?

People often ask me, “what’s the difference between a venture partner and an entrepreneur in residence (EIR)”? Patrick Lor joins the Inovia team as an EIR as of this month, so I’ll use Pat’s work with iNovia as a case study to address this question.

Pressly Raises $1.5 Million for its Mobile Publishing Platform

TORONTO, ON — March 12, 2013 — Pressly, a mobile publishing platform that helps media companies and marketers instantly increase their audience engagement, has secured $1.5 million in financing from Inovia Capital and…

Mass connectivity creates massive opportunity

The next billion people will join the Internet in less than 5 years, at which time fully half the planet’s population will be connected.

Thanks to mobile devices, more people and devices than ever are “always online” — and…

Risk Tolerance

If there is one thing in Canadian startup land I have heard repeatedly since moving back from California it is in regards to the lack of ‘risk tolerance’ of VCs here. When I was on the operational side of things I didn’t know many Canadian VCs so I couldn’t really comment, but I heard the stories. In…