Active Companies and University of Waterloo Ryerson University

University of Toronto: Since 2011, we have invested in four Toronto-based startups as well as one Ottawa-based company, out of 60 active companies in our portfolio, according to Globe and Mail. We are aware of only one other U.S. seed-focused investor with as many investments in Canada. We’re a New York based early-stage venture capital firm. This is a catch-all ASF view; only displays when an unsupported article type is put in an ASF drop zone The question some of our limited partners ask us is, Why Central Canada has many of the assets of other entrepreneurial hubs: a flourishing creative community, strong engineering talent and quality universities, such as University of Toronto, University of Waterloo and Ryerson University. Additionally, the Canadian government has significantly more rational immigration policies for foreign entrepreneurs than America, encouraging talented people globally to come to Canada. In 2013, Startup Genome, a platform for analyzing startup communities, listed Toronto, Vancouver, and Waterloo, Ont., among the top 20 most active startup scenes in the world. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.