The last event of the year for CIN went off with a bang! The evening comprised of our biggest Unthinkable Thursday’s event to date as well as a festive evening celebration at E:Ne restaurant. Many local start ups got up on the chair at Swans Pub to introduce themselves and give some insight about their business and story. Great chats were had and new connections formed over local beers in Swans' atrium with views of the blue bridge and holiday lights. After Unthinkable Thursd

The beginning of November kicked off with another great event, “Why I Invest in Victoria!”

The end of September wound up with two great tech industry events for investors and start ups hosted by Capital Investment Network: Unthinkable Thursdays and Pitch & Mix 9. Unthinkable Thursdays kicked off the end of the week with its very first event at Swans Brewpub. About 30 tech industry guests showed up to network over appetizers and a drink with views of the Johnson street bridge and peeks of the inner harbour. This newly instituted monthly event is about creating a net

Capital Investment Networks first ever Pitch & Mix event that was on board a 78-foot yacht took place Thursday August 29. Patrons set off on a round trip shuttle to Nanaimo, spent 4 hours sailing, and were privy to 3 exciting and well vetted startup pitches at the intimate and unique setting on board Jordan Schley’s family boat. Once guests boarded the yacht they enjoyed appies, a cheese bar, a quality local summer wine selection, and were also treated to handcrafted cocktail

Medved is a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He currently is the founder and CEO of OurCrowd.

Women's Equity Lab (WEL) is on a mission to create new women leaders and increase equal gender opportunity in the area of early stage investing. To date, WEL has 23 women from Victoria and Vancouver as founding partners and has made 4 investments into local BC-based companies. Members range from their 20s into their 70s representing a broad range of backgrounds from business owners, retired executives, scientists, elected officials, realtors, and stay-at-home-moms. All have a

Results from our January 2019 survey are in! We asked our local investment community to anonymously report details of their recent investments and interests (over the previous 12 month period). Our results show an overview of the current ecosystem.

Organized by Vancouver’s Angel Forum and Victoria’s Capital Investment Network, some hundred and twenty angels and entrepreneurs descended on Victoria to discuss the changing trends in angel investing. After an evening of introductory drinks at Victoria’s classic Bard & Banker pub, the attendants gathered in the spectacular Oak Bay Beach Hotel the next morning to dive deep into the latest and greatest of angel investing. Victoria was not a random choice, as mayor Lisa Helps e

Hannes Blum is an extremely well respected leader in the business community, a successful investor with numerous exits and an active participant in the companies that he invests in. Several successful local companies were strongly shaped through his involvement. Some of Hannes’ first angel investments were Indochino and Teampages in early 2008. Both have been very successful investments in local teams that were originally based in Victoria. Indochino raised their first large

VICTORIA, BC (April 21, 2017) – The City of Victoria’s 2017 Capital Mission has already started producing significant returns on investment for the region’s technology sector. The Capital Mission is an opportunity for angel and venture capital investors with an interest in early stage innovative technology companies to visit Victoria. The event was held in February for the second consecutive year hosted by the City of Victoria, VIATEC and the Capital Investment Network (CIN).

In 2001, Rasool founded Metalogix Software, which won North America’s largest new venture competition (2002), experienced triple digit organic and profitable growth and took on private equity financing (2008). Metalogix is the leading provider of enterprise collaboration and infrastructure solutions to the fortune 5000 (Inc 500 – 2011) and was acquired by Permira in 2014.  In 2009, Rasool began investing in early stage technology firms including Backstage, Mediacore, Versly,

Results from our January 2017 survey are in! We asked our local investment community to anonymously report details of their recent investments and interests (over the previous 24 month period). Our results show an overview of the current ecosystem.