About Paul Kedrosky
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| Dr. Kedrosky is currently the Executive Director of the William J. von Liebig Center in San Diego, California. Using an innovative seed capital program, the Center catalyzes the commercialization of technologies from the internationally-ranked University of California, San Diego. Dr. Kedrosky is also a venture investor with Ventures West, Canada's largest institutional venture capital firm, where he is most active in consumer technologies and software. He is currently on the board of Marqui Corporation, a marketing automation software company. |
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Is Canada the New China for VCs? Or Just the New Colorado?
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Granted, it's a tiny market, but with the disappearance of most of the tax-advantaged venture capital firms from the Canadian market it's interesting to see that U.S. venture firms are increasingly driving things. There was 21% growth year-over-year in Canadian venture investment, but that was largely a function of the growing dominance of U.S. VCs in the Canadian market, with such firms now accounting for more than half of investment spending in Ontario, Canadian's largest venture market.
Not to get all inside-VC-baseball, but the numbers are fairly harrowing. If you net out of VC fund-raising last year in Canada the amount raised by Quebec VCs -- which is, let's just say, a highly unusual bit of business -- the rest of the country's VCs cumulatively raised about as much money as my friend Brad Feld's new Boulder-based fund.
Oh well, as one ex-venture guy put it to me, it's a hell of a lot closer for the U.S. guys than having to go to China. And, he added, without the U.S. guys involved a reasonable-sized Series B syndicate would now require the involvement of every firm in the country.
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These two factoids won't settle the debate as to whether China's stock markets are currently in a bubble, but I thought it was worth putting them out there -- one bullish, one bearish:
