Exploring ETA with the Thrive ETA Fund (Canada focused fund)

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by an investor from Ivey Business School at Western University
in Toronto, ON, Canada

6mos ago

VIRTUAL meetup

14 attending

Exploring ETA with the Thrive ETA Fund (Canada focused fund)

· Virtual event

Hi All, My team and I are hosting a 1 hour webinar to introduce people to our investment fund with the goal of demystifying ETA. A quick background on us, we are a newly launched fund which is apart of BDC Capital (The Business Development Bank of Canadas Private Equity and Venture Capital arm). We are a $50M equity fund backing both traditional and self funded female led or co-led searches in Canada. Please sign up using the link above! The French version will be hosted on December 4th at 11AM EST and the link can be found here: redacted Thanks!

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meetup

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1 hr

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reply by a searcher 6mos ago
from Harvard University in Toronto, ON, Canada

^redacted‌ for those of us looking across US/Canada and thus ineligible for the search phase, is Thrive Fund open to providing gap equity funding if the acquisition does end up being Canadian?

reply by a searcher 6mos ago
from University of Toronto in Durham, ON N0G 1R0, Canada

Thanks ^redacted‌! I attended this launch in person, it's an awesome initiative and I'm happy to pass this along to my fellow Canadian women searchers.