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This Week in Intelligent Investing Podcast: Finding Value in Fast-Growing Businesses
David Barr joins a panel of hosts on This Week in Intelligent Investing, the podcast channel of MOI Global. The group discusses finding value in growing businesses. They talk about private ...
Always Be Ready: Four Tips for Startup Exits
At a recent Vancouver Entrepreneurs’ Forum (VEF) panel on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), a key message from company leaders who had recently sold their tech companies begs repeating: Always Be ...
Market Trends in Venture Capital
Despite the rocky start to 2020, VC funding hit an all time high. US-based, VC-backed companies raised nearly $130B in 2020, up 14% year-over-year (YoY) from 2019. However, annual deal ...
Renewed Optimism in Canadian Tech is a Welcome Change
Since the financial crisis, and before the onset of the pandemic, the Canadian appetite for technology had remained paltry at best. From 2016 through 2019, it seemed that the Nasdaq ...
Pender’s Summer Holiday Reading List – June 2020
Building a Business Felix Narhi - The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time, Jim McKelvey Tony Rautava - The Hard Thing About Hard Things: ...
The Transformation of Healthcare: Is telehealth a bellwether of changes to come?
There is little doubt that COVID19 will be considered one of the biggest catastrophic events of this century. I can’t help but reflect on what good can come of this ...
Pender’s Holiday Reading List – December 2019
Business Best Practices Gina Jones - Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, Laurence Gonzales Felix Narhi - A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Tren Griffin Kenndal McArdle - Trillion ...
Pender’s Summer Holiday Reading List – June 2019
The PenderFund Investment Team shares the books on their summer reading list. David Barr Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Donella Meadows and Diana Wright (Editor) I picked up “Thinking in ...
Pender Investment Conference 2019 – Marking 10 Years of Investing the Right Way
To mark 10 years since the launch of our mutual funds, Pender took its annual Investment Conference to a new level, with additional due diligence sessions and a keynote speaker. ...
Just What the Doctor Ordered
Why the next big tech name could come from the healthcare sector Important Information: Pender Technology Inflection Fund I Limited Partnership managed by PenderFund Capital Management Ltd. ("Pender") holds an ...
How Do Catalysts Form?
We have often talked about catalyst-driven investing, specifically in our blog post on Catalysts: Investing in “take-outs”. Another of the catalysts that can motivate a company to sell itself is ...
Pender’s Holiday Reading List – December 2018
The PenderFund Investment Team shares what is on their holiday reading list this season. David Barr I’m looking forward to reading three books this holiday season. Two relate to decision ...
