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November 30, 2020
Shifts to virtual recruitment, work-from-home drive dramatic increase in need for advanced hiring tools In just months, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about years of change in the way companies operate. The act of hiring and retaining talent is no exception, with 86% of organizations conducting virtual interviews to hire candidates during the pandemic (Gartner…
November 10, 2020
New Smartphones are promoting it. Wireless carriers are promoting it. But despite the ads we see, the roll-out of new 5G wireless devices and underlying networks are still very much in their infancy. That is NOT because the demand is slow in coming. We have all heard the stories. Almost everything in our future –…
October 16, 2020
This Quarter saw Alacrity Turkey company Pisano secure another US$2.5M in external investment, coming from lead investor Elevator Ventures (EV). The partnership with EV goes back to 2018, when Pisano management met a team from Elevator Ventures parent company RBI, one of the largest banks in Central and Eastern Europe, at an event in London…
August 24, 2020
Insights from interviews with OMERS Ventures, M12 and Elevator Ventures We recently had the pleasure to speak with a number of leading global VCs and co-investors, including Laura Lenz, Partner at OMERS Ventures, Matthew Goldstein, Partner at M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund) and Maximilian Schausberger, Managing Director of Elevator Ventures (Raiffeisen Bank International’s Venture Group). We…
July 13, 2020
With Commentary from OMERS Ventures Partner, Laura Lenz Portfolio company Solink, a leader in video security and data analytics, recently closed a CAD$23 million Series B funding round led by OMERS Ventures – the venture capital arm of one of the largest pension funds in Canada. What were the drivers for this investment, and what…
June 28, 2020
Digital transformation propels rapid growth of the Digital Experience Monitoring market The changing global environment has fast-tracked new technology adoption. For example, the shift to remote work has accelerated the use of unified communication and collaboration platforms. Microsoft Teams (part of the Office 365 platform) saw an increase from 20 million daily users in November…
April 15, 2020
Echosec Systems is now a leader in digital threat intelligence software, and provides some of the most influential organizations in the world with tools and services that make hidden online data more accessible and actionable. The company, which was built on a social media monitoring tool, has evolved its offerings to provide risk and threat…
April 13, 2020
Alacrity Global continues to grow and add start-up technology companies to the global portfolio, attracting additional investment as well as achieving important company Exits. As 2020 continues to unfold, the world is facing uncertain times indeed. That said, the Alacrity program remains committed to growth within the portfolio as well as expansion into new global…
February 10, 2020
Why investors should be tracking 5G and MEC closely As we are entering 2020, it is safe to say that the 2010s were a decade of great digital transformation, enabled by cloud computing, broad automation, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), 4G, smartphones, mobile apps and social media. Companies such as Zoom, Uber, ByteDance and…
November 11, 2019
The latest Quarter marked a major milestone for portfolio member Tutela, as the company reached a definitive agreement to merge with Boston, MA-based Comlinkdata, the leading provider of telecom market data and insights in North America. Together the two firms plan to provide telecoms operators around the globe with complementary and extensive data on their…
