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THE LIST

Largest Venture Capital Investment Firms

(Ranked by amount invested locally)

	Name of Company/ Address/Phone/Fax/Web	Amount Invested Locally	Capital Under Management	Canadian Investee Companies	Minimum Investment/ Preferred Investment	Type of Fund/ Industry Preference	Stage of Company when investment is made	Notable Ottawa Investments
1	Celtic House Venture Partners 300-80 Aberdeen St. Ottawa, ON K1S 5R5 613-569-7200/613-569-7209 celtic-house.com	$135.0 million	$315.0 million	35	N/A/ $500,000-$5,000,000	ICT early-stage venture capital/ MEMS and nanotechnology; optics; semiconductor; software; systems	Seed, early stage	Extreme Packet; Cambrian; Skystone; Fastlane; Ubiquity; Dragonwave; Diablo Technologies; Overlay.TV; dna13; eBillme; Third Brigade.
2	GrowthWorks Capital Ltd. 275 Slater St. Ottawa, ON K1P 5H9 613-416-934-7777/613-416-929-0901 growthworks.ca	$52.6 million	$480.0 million	130	500,000/ $500,000-$5,000,000	Private venture and retail venture capital/ IT; clean tech; life sciences	Early and mid-stage	Med-Eng Systems; SiGe Semiconductor; NUVO Network Management; Seprotech; BTI Systems Inc.; Spotwave Wireless; Objectworld Communications; International Datacasting Corp.; neuroLanguage.
3	MMV Financial Inc. 604-370 King St. W. Toronto, ON M5V 1J9 416-977-9718/416-591-1393 mmvf.com	$50.0 million	$200.0 million	100	1,000,000/ $1,000,000-$5,000,000	Specialty finance company/ Technology; life sciences	Early- and mid-stage	Nakina Systems; BTI Systems; Epocal; SkyWave Mobile Communications; Got Marketing; Tropic Networks; FreeBalance; Solidum; Bitflash; Espial Group; Natural Convergence.

Should your company be on this list? If so, please send details to research@obj.ca. This list is current as of August 1, 2011 by Ottawa Business Journal. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced by any method in whole or in part without written permission by Ottawa Business Journal. While every attempt is made to ensure the thoroughness and accuracy of the list, omissions and errors sometimes occur. Please send any corrections or additions by e-mail to research@obj.ca. OBJ lists are primarily compiled using information provided voluntarily by the organizations named. Some firms that may qualify for the list are not included because the company either failed to respond to requests for information by press time, because the company declined to take part in the survey or because of space constraints. Categories are drawn up in an attempt to gather information of relevance to the Ottawa market.
Research by Patti Moran. Please send questions and comments to research@obj.ca.

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