Nearly ten years ago, two first-time founders with a five-page deck sold us on a…
Five years ago, a new odyssey began for me with an introduction to the team at Inovia Capital. After getting to know Shawn and Chris, I developed a tremendous respect for their entrepreneurial roots and the vision they had for Inovia. That vision was focused on building…
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…
Inovia Capital portfolio company AppDirect a leading cloud service marketplace company, announced today that it has acquired Standing Cloud, a provider of cloud management services, such as…
AppDirect Secures $8.5M to Expand Global Network of Application Marketplaces
Funding from Inovia Capital Caps Year of Explosive Growth, Sets Stage for Continued Success
As investors we are fortunate to meet with hundreds of companies. One of the first things, whether right or wrong, we do is to immediately try and put the company in a “bucket” in terms of what they are doing. This helps in identifying the market, competitors and better…
I clearly remember my first experience with Saas (Software as a Service) applications. I remember seeing that last server in our office shut down and the absence of the humming coming from that corner room. We adopted cloud-based SaaS applications for product development, bug tracking, agile…
AppDirect Raises $3.25M to Reinvent the Way Businesses Find, Buy and Use Web-Based Applications
