BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. The company helps create and develop strong Canadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises. BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.
Founded in 1997, we are Canada’s tech supercharger. We support founders on their path to global scale, helping them hire and retain the best team, access growth financing at every stage and sell to the biggest customers at home and around the world.
From our humble early beginnings as a community college in 1967, Conestoga has risen to become one of Canada's premier polytechnic institutes. We offer advanced applied education, and research leading to the commercialization of innovation in southwestern Ontario. For nine of the last ten years independent research has named Conestoga as the number one publicly funded college in Ontario! Our largest campus (Doon) in Kitchener is located right next to highway 401 on 138 acres of land and offers a full range of programming. Conestoga's newest campus, located in Cambridge directly across the 401 from the Doon (Kitchener) campus, opened in August 2011. This 260,000-square-foot facility is home to Conestoga’s School of Engineering Technology and Trades as well as its Institute of Food Processing Technology. Our Waterloo campus is a centre of excellence for skilled trades and culinary and our Guelph campus has emerged as a provincial leader in motive power trades. We also have smaller campuses in Stratford and Cambridge offering academic upgrading and career focused programs.