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A Swing Through Western Canada

By admin | Published: November 11, 2009
Mike Lee is in Calgary today to host an event at Cambrian House put together by Digital Alberta. He will be hearing pitches from local startups between 10 a.m and noon at Cambrian House in an open forum (all are welcome). We’re then having lunch with several local community instigators and supporters to learn more about [...]
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An Interview with Melinda Rogers

By admin | Published: November 3, 2009
Since Rogers Ventures launched last month, we’ve been a lot of great coverage from the media and bloggers about our mandate to provide seed capital to smart entrepreneurs with great ideas. In today’s National Post, Matt Hartley interviews Melinda Rogers, senior vice president of strategy and development with Rogers Communications. Melinda talks about why Rogers Ventures [...]
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A Great Day in Waterloo

By admin | Published: October 23, 2009
Thanks to Waterloo community for a great day of activities and discussions. We started our day at Velocity, a residence created by the University of Waterloo’s Sean Van Koughnett for entrepreneurially-minded students. We met Jesse Rodgers, the community manager, and Virginia McLellan, the recruiter for Velocity. Velocity wants to become a mecca for entrepreneruship. They’re considering things such as [...]
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Kudos for the Thoora “Posse”

By admin | Published: October 21, 2009
It has been an exciting month for one of our portfolio companies, Thoora. The news discovery service launched its private beta last month at TechCrunch50 in Silicon Valley, and then unveiled the public beta last week at BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas. The reception from the media, bloggers and users are been enthusiastic as people recognize [...]
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Welcome to Rogers Ventures

By admin | Published: October 15, 2009
Welcome to the official launch of Rogers Ventures. The launch of Rogers Ventures marks an exciting new chapter for the company that my father, Ted Rogers, started more than 40 years ago. So why have we created Rogers Ventures? And why now? We’re living at a time when technology innovation, new online services and shifts in consumer behaviour [...]
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