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One45’s Road to Acquisition
We are thrilled to announce that One45 was acquired by Altus Assessments last week. The sale marks a new chapter in One45’s journey, and we look forward to seeing what ...
Pender Growth Fund Annual General Meeting June 30, 2021
Disclaimer Commissions, trailing commissions, management fees and expenses all may be associated with investments in Pender Funds. Please read the prospectus before investing. Our funds are ...
Bits & Bytes – The Impact of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion on Corporate Performance
There is a growing body of evidence to suggest that companies that focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) tend to financially outperform, and be more innovative, than their peers. According to research by Boston Consulting Group, there is a material positive correlation between the diversity ...
Market Trends – Venture Capital Markets are Frothy
The amount of capital being invested has surged well past historical highs, and along with it have gone valuations. The median deal size in 2020 was at an all time ...
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 ...