Brightspark is a Canadian venture capital firm offering accredited investors access to investment opportunities in innovative technology companies through a new investment model. With a low minimum investment, proprietary deal flow, and ability to choose investments, investors can customize their portfolio and invest alongside Brightspark's partners and institutional investors. By signing up on Brightspark's website, investors gain exclusive insider access to carefully selected lucrative technology investments across Canada.

1. Never before have you had the ability to tap into the
tech sector’s hottest venture capital deals; however,
now you can with Brightspark’s new investment model.
Brightspark, a successful Canadian early stage VC founded
in 1999, is now offering accredited investors the potential
for significant returns through a highly vetted pipeline of
innovative technology companies.
With a low minimum financial commitment, constant
proprietary deal flow, and the ability to choose your deals,
you can customize your portfolio and invest alongside
Brightspark’s partners and institutional investors.
Sign up for free at brightspark.com/signup and welcome
exclusive insider access to the most promising technology
investment opportunities in Canada.
Insider access to carefully selected,
lucrative technology investments

2. For more information contact:
Sally Ng
506-292-7786
sally@brightspark.com
Atlantic office:
125 Wetmore Road, Fredericton, NB E3B 6Y2
Toronto office:
140-101 College St., Toronto, ON M5G 1L7
Montreal office:
51 Sherbrooke St West, Montreal, QC H2X 1X2
www.brightspark.com
Features How you will benefit
Industry leading returns
Invest in best companies in the hottest markets
Flexibility that suits your portfolio diversification needs
Invest with ease
You are well informed
Access to the best opportunities coast to coast
Continuous pipeline of deals with large exit potential
Tap into proven expertise and invest alongside the
partners, and other institutions
Exposure to practically all early stage opportunities
Lower your financial risk
No liability over and above your investment
Reduced risk and complexity
You pay less taxes
Your goals are aligned with Brightspark, i.e., to deliver
large exits
Your return is maximized
Brightspark invests in late seed and early series A companies with solid
validation, earlier than most VC’s, translating to favourable valuations
Brightspark selects repeat entrepreneurs with differentiating IP in the
following sectors: mobile, social, cloud, enterprise, and data discovery,
where it has deep expertise
Choose your portfolio approach by investing in select deals or in all,
depending on your diversification strategy and comfort on a per deal
basis, with a low minimum investment of $10K per deal
Brightspark applies traditional VC discipline by taking care of
sourcing, diligence, deal structure, auditing, managing, administration,
tax documents, and legals
Brightspark provides quarterly and annual reporting
Canada-wide offices (Toronto, Montreal, Atlantic) with Western Canada
coming soon
Brightspark does not commit to a specific deal volume, focusing on
quality investments with defined exit strategy
Credentials
Partners Mark Skapinker, based in Toronto, and Sophie Forest, based
in Montreal, have decades of experience investing in early stage
companies (Delrina - $500M exit, Radian6 - $360M, Servicesoft -
$500M, ThinkDynamics - $55M) and they co-invest in every deal
Brightspark is a lightning rod for innovative young companies given its
solid track record, huge network in the early stage ecosystem, and sees
hundreds of funding candidates per year, accepting less than 3%
Partners are proven business operators, which enables them to fill
skills gaps of companies, unlike most investors who are less
operationally engaged
Financial
Limited Partnership structure
Canadian transactions so no currency, tax, and legal foreign exposure
Gains typically treated as capital gains
Management fees are 1.5% per year for only 3 years, about 70% less
than comparable VC firms
For each successful investment, once you are paid back your initial
amount in full, you receive 85% of the gain, more than the industry
average of 75-80%