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Early Stage Venture Fund
The Early Stage Venture Fund invests in qualified early stage venture capital Limited Partnerships.
Key criteria for evaluation to determine the strategic fit of any Limited Partnership opportunity includes: A strong local presence.
Focus on investments in early stage ventures in one or more of the ICT, life sciences and other industrial technology sectors.
Professional, high calibre, experienced general partner(s) and fund manager(s) able to attract significant private capital leverage and support the likelihood of financial success.
AVAC is a highly respected leader within Alberta’s burgeoning value-added industry and an architect behind Alberta’s emerging venture capital sector. As a leading fund-of-fund investor in early-stage venture capital, we have committed $22 million to establish three early-stage venture capital funds in Alberta, with a combined total of $307 million in available funds. All three funds are active direct investors in Alberta based companies.
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Agricultural Research in Southern-Alberta Event a success!
The September 2011 AVAC Investing in Innovators event was held in Lethbridge in partnership with the University of Lethbridge. Looking out to a sunny day from the Coulee Junction at the U of L, more than 50 friends, colleagues and invited guests celebrated the works of Drs. Olga Kovalchuk, Igor Kovalchuk and Roman Przybylski.Agrivalue Processing Business Incubator continues to nurture value added processing ventures…
In 2005, ground broke to the east of the Leduc Food Processing Development Centre to form what would eventually become the Agrivalue Processing Business Incubator (APBI) - opened in 2007.Recognition for AVAC Investees at the TechRev Innovators 2011 Event
Two AVAC portfolio companies, MoboVivo and Circle Cardiovascular Imaging were recognized as some of TechRev’s Top Innovators of 2011.