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Venture Capital pulse in Canada

for 2009:

Leading active VC in Canada along with the number of deals they participated in this year.

1. 26 - Business Development Bank of Canada - $128
2. 25 - GrowthWorks Ltd. - $99
3. 10 - VenGrowth Private Equity Partners - $27
4. 5 - Fonds de solidarité FTQ - $96
5. 5 - Yaletown Venture Partners Inc. - $19
6. 4 - iNovia Capital - $27
7. 4 - Ventures West Capital Ltd. - $26
8. 4 - Lions Capital Corp. - $16
9. 4 - Export Development Canada - $13
10. 4 - AVAC Ltd. - $10
11. 4 - Covington Capital Corporation - $7
12. 3 - Desjardins Venture Capital - $19
13. 3 - Multiple Capital Inc. - $15
14. 3 - BDR Capital - $15
15. 3 - B.E.S.T. Investment Counsel Limited - $9
16. 3 - Discovery Capital Management Corp. - $7
17. 2 - JLA Ventures Inc. - $21
18. 2 - CTI Life Sciences Fund - $20
19. 2 - EdgeStone Capital Partners - $18
20. 2 - VentureLink LP - $17

US College Rankings - by graduation

According to the Washington Monthly ...

Purdue is at 51.  ouch!

Want to graduate? The better the college, the better your chances

From an interesting New York Times article:

education and campus sites

Minglebox

India Education net
possible competitor

social networking scene in India ...

some data points:

Orkut: 12.8 m (YoY growth 81%)
Facebook: 4.4 m (150%)
BharatStudent: 3.8 m (88%)
hi5: 2.0 m (182)

interestingly: ibibo (-50%) and bigadda (-79%) have been losing people!

Northgate in dire straits ...

Hyderabad based Northgate Technologies Ltd is in significant cost-cutting mode: the company, which also owns the social networking site Bharatstudent.com.

We’ve been tracking Northgate for a while now, and from what we’ve gathered - their business largely been dependent on their Advertising vertical - Axill. The diversification into allied businesses like Social Networking and IPTV has been a means of creating inventory for Axill. For example, Globe7 recently partnered with SingTel in Singapore to deliver free content - live TV channels, news updates, movies, games and radio content to SingTel’s Wireless@SG users.

... challenge for the company is perhaps reflected in a 21.64% quarter on quarter decline in revenue, 44% decline in net profit and 95.05% increase in Selling and Marketing expenses.

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