how startups will
save venture capital in
canada

Step 1: Cool Idea
Step 2: Get VC
Step 3: ????
Step 4: PROFIT

Here is the problem
Step 2 doesn’t play fair

The funding ecosystem is busted

Early stage venture capital in Ontario
declined from $1.5 billion in 2000
to
$236 million in 2007.

The Downward Spiral
data (c) thomson reuters

The Early Stage is
crashing
data (c) thomson reuters

Less startups getting
funded
data (c) thomson reuters

Why is the VC business
screwed in Canada?
There is NO money for THEM
They lack operational experience
They are too b