OMERS Ventures is a venture capital firm prefers to invest in media, retail, transportation, real estate, financial technology, health technology, mobile, virtual reality and cyptocurrency sectors. The firm was formed in 2011 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
OMERS Ventures is the venture arm of OMERS. OMERS, the Ontario Municipal Employee Retirement System, is one of Canada's leading pension funds. They have CAD$1 billion in funds under management.
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OMERS Ventures' investments include 360Insights, Acerta, AmpMe, Busbud, Citizen Hex, Digital Currency Group, DogVacay, DuckDuckGo, Embark, Felix & Paul Studios and Hootsuite.
Their exited investments include AppHero, DogVacay, PasswordBox, Pressly, Shopify, and Wave.
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Charles Mandel
September 9, 2021
BetaKit
OMERS is the first pension plan firm to collaborate with Vector. The collaboration will build on AI progress already underway within the pension plan company.
Agile Analog
May 17, 2021
www.prnewswire.com:443
/PRNewswire/ -- Agile Analog, a supplier of highly configurable process node agnostic analog IP building blocks, today announced that it closed a US$19m...
Josh Scott
April 20, 2021
BetaKit
The SaaS Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering major SaaS news from Canada and around the globe.
Josh Scott
April 19, 2021
BetaKit
Welcome to the FinTech Times, a weekly newsletter covering the biggest FinTech news from around the globe.
Natasha Lomas
December 3, 2020
TechCrunch
Ultimate.ai, a virtual customer service agent builder, has closed a $20 million Series A round of funding, led by Omers Ventures with participation from Felicis Ventures and existing investors HV Capital, and Maki.vc -- bringing its total raised to date to $25M+. The European startup's flagship claim for the data-ingesting bot-builder platform is it's capable [...]
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OMERSFull Address
EY Tower 900 - 100 Adelaide St. W. Toronto, ON M5H 0E2
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John RuffoloVenture Capital Firm attributes
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