 On July 28 Procolumbia hosted an event featuring Pycap Venture Partners and its Startup Visa Incubator.
The event included information and strategies for Latin American entrepreneurs to immigrate to Canada and receive investment capital facilitated by Pycap. PROCOLOMBIA is the entity that promotes international tourism, foreign investment and non-traditional exports in Colombia. Through its national and international network of offices, it offers support and integral consultancy to clients through services or instruments aimed at facilitating design and execution of its globalization strategy, which seeks to generate, develop and close business opportunities.
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 ChargerQuest, Canada’s Electric Vehicle Charging Network, Raises $3.1M
For Immediate Release ChargerQuest has secured $3.1M to launch expansion of its comprehensive public electric vehicle (EV) charging station network. The company, founded by Christopher Misch, a pioneer in Canada’s EV space, and Stuart Browne, a leader in the venture capital space, have successfully attracted strategic capital that will be utilized to expand its SMART EV charging network by building out 36 new level 3 FAST EV charging stations, as well as deploying over 100 new level 2 charging stations at prime locations principally located throughout Ontario and across western Canada. “Our vision is simple: to build the most comprehensive EV charging network in Canada. We are humbled by the incredible response to our company - attracting interest from leading strategic investors from across the nation, including Legion 3 Capital, Quinsam Capital and Leonite Capital. Despite the pandemic, CQ persevered and successfully completed our pilot phase in 2020. We are excited about the next phase of business growth which is razor-focused on deploying our charging station assets at some of the very best properties across this great nation and beyond” - Christopher Misch, Founder and CEO, ChargerQuest Inc. Roger Dent, CEO of Quinsam Capital said: "Quinsam Capital invested in ChargerQuest because we were attracted to its recurring revenue , and green economy business model. We see incredible potential in this company and very interesting growth potential." ChargerQuest plans to raise additional capital to expand and grow its EV charging network to over 700 EV charging stations over the next 2 years - focusing predominantly on secondary and tertiary markets where EV infrastructure is weak and range anxiety hinders EV adoption and travel. The company plans to initiate its first L3 FAST charging hub in Kelowna BC. Stay tuned and follow ChargerQuest’s journey. For More Information info@chargerquest.com chargerquest.com  Pycap created the curriculum, and for numerous years instructed courses related to venture capital, private equity, corporate finance, and cryptocurrency for the Schulich School of Business, MBA and Master of Finance programs.
Due to popular demand the University of Toronto Management, Scarborough Campus is now running Pycap's course for almost 100 BBA students. This fully accredited course will provide students with invaluable, real world insight into the world of private equity. The course, MGFD15H3 Special Topics in Finance: Private Equity explores the private equity asset class and the private equity acquisition process. It covers both the academic and practical components of private equity investing, including: deal sourcing, financial modelling and valuations, transaction structuring, financing, diligence, negotiations, post transaction corporate strategy and governance. The University of Toronto Scarborough, also known as U of T Scarborough or UTSC, is a satellite campus of the University of Toronto. Located in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the campus is set upon suburban parkland in the residential neighbourhood of Highland Creek.  Pycap partnered with Unicorn Events and Pycap's CEO Stuart Browne will be a guest panelist judge for the Unicorn Battle Latin America on April 27, 2021.
Unicorn Events hosts the World's Largest Startup Pitch Competitions, connects startups with more than 500 VCs around the world, and has raised over $274M for its contestants over the years. Startups can apply here: https://cutt.ly/0vVx6Zj  Pycap CEO Stuart Browne was a panelist for the Global Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (GIIE) Summit where he discussed topics related to innovation ecosystems and best practices. Stuart discussed the roles different stakeholders play in creating a startup tech cluster including government, investors, entrepreneurs, universities and service providers. He also described how, as a Canadian, federally recognized designated organization for the startup visa program, the new Pycap Incubator will provide a superior platform for immigrant entrepreneurs to tap into the innovation ecosystem in Canada.
The goal of GIIE SUMMIT was to create a space dedicated to the leaders of collaboration from all sectors from all over the world, to share, discuss, learn and together build a more inclusive innovation-driven economy. The event was dedicated to bring new trends in the areas of innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship to the global co-creation movement and thus prepare the co-innovation sector for the new challenges that we are already facing and will continue facing in the coming years. The “new normal” that COVID-19 has brought upon us impacts the economy and disturbs our way of doing things. The objective of the GIIE Summit is for cooperatives´ managers to take stock of the economic situation and to become inspired by the best innovative practices to better serve their members in these changing times. The summit presented answers and insight to some big issues:
 Pycap Venture Partners joins the Business Angels of Slovenia as a strategic partner along with Pycap CEO Stuart Browne as an external advisor.
Business Angels of Slovenia is an angel investment club that connects local startups with angel investors and VC's both home and internationally. We aim to create successful partnerships with entrepreneurs help them with fundraising so they can grow internationally. We envision enabling entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas to access seed funding for their companies in early stages of growth and aim to expand and grow on global markets. We also connect business angels with international investors around Europe and are actively helping to further contribute to the development of the Slovenian and regional Startup ecosystem.  Ottawa, ON: ChargerQuest, a Pycap portfolio company, and Place d'Orleans partner together to create an electric vehicle charging hub with five (5) public EV charging stations installed and many more planned in the future. Place d’Orléans is a beautifully designed regional shopping centre with an extensive selection of retailers to meet the needs of the surrounding affluent market. Anchored by Hudson’s Bay, Sport Chek, Mark’s, Farm Boy and AUB44, Place d’Orléans is one of the largest shopping centres in the Ottawa area. The centre is located in the east-end of Ottawa in the
growing suburb of Orléans. "Place d’Orleans is excited to be working in partnership with Charger Quest to offer five new EV charging stations on site, in keeping with our green initiatives for a better tomorrow." - Emma Martin - Marketing Manager, Place D'Orleans "ChargerQuest is pleased to partner with Place d'Orleans, a remarkable destination for local residents and a great place for EV owners to stop, shop, dine and re-energize their vehicles." Christopher Misch - Founder, ChargerQuest ChargerQuest (CQ) is Canada's EV Charging Network. CQ owns and operates smart EV charging infrastructure hosted at premier properties, businesses, and high-traffic hubs. CQ leverages the most innovative charging technology, placing electric vehicle charging stations everywhere YOU want to be.  Pycap CEO Stuart Browne joined numerous other venture capitalists, angels and entrepreneurs to mentor startup tech companies for Together 2021, an international pitch competition in association with the Schulich School of Business as well as Startup India.
The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp and Venture Competition (7-days, week of January 4th, 2021) will feature 50 pairs of inspired student entrepreneurs handpicked from over 17,000+ Indian colleges and 700 + universities as they attempt to innovate across several sectors of national importance to unlock business opportunities fit for the Indian commercial landscape. The theme of this year’s event is ‘Self Reliability, Sustainability, and Social Purpose’, with eight sectors as follows: e-mobility, environment and energy, healthcare, income security and fintech, as well as food and agriculture. Startup India is a flagship initiative of the Government of India, intended to build a strong ecosystem that is conducive for the growth of startup businesses, to drive sustainable economic growth and generate large scale employment opportunities. The Government through this initiative aims to empower startups to grow through innovation and design. Several programs have been undertaken since the launch of the initiative on 16th of January, 2016 by Hon’ble Prime Minister, to contribute to his vision of transforming India into a country of job creators instead of job seekers. These programs have catalyzed the startup culture, with startups getting recognized through the Startup India initiative and many entrepreneurs availing the benefits of starting their own business in India.  TorontoStarts brought together investors to talk about what the startup investment landscape looks like in 2021 and what startups should be doing differently to get funded.
Panelists included Allison Weil - Hyde Park Venture Partners, Stuart Browne - Pycap Venture Partners and Alex Morsink - Equivesto. A key take away from Stuart Browne at the event was that the pandemic has resulted in "investors increasingly preferring more established business models as it will lessen the risk, a necessity considering the added risk in the economy." In addition, Browne mentioned "the new litmus test for entrepreneurs will be what they did during the pandemic - did the entrepreneur adapt successful and find a new opportunity, did they close down their business, or try to wait it out?"  Pycap portfolio company ChargerQuest is ranked in StartupPill's list of the Most Innovative Companies Specializing in Electric Modes of Transport. Pycap CEO Stuart Browne is also the CFO of ChargerQuest and, along with Chris Misch, one of its Co-founders.
The StartupPill article showcases Startup Pill’s top picks for the best Electric Modes of Transport startups. These startups are taking a variety of approaches to innovating inside of the Sustainable transport sector and around the world. They are all exceptional startups well worth a follow. We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
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