W Media Ventures invests in Consumer Internet Opportunities
W Media Ventures is a Vancouver-based angel fund focusing on early-stage Consumer Internet opportunities in the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada. We are looking for entrepreneurs that want to build remarkable companies in the fields of digital media, e-commerce, social networks or platforms. Having founded and run Internet companies ourselves, we not only understand the space but also the challenges of starting up a company. If you think that you are the kind of entrepreneur we are looking for, we love to hear from you!
Latest Blog Posts
Best practices for board meetings
Chris Fralic‘s tweet about a board meeting best practice this morning got me thinking that this was something I wanted to write about for some time. I currently sit on 12 boards and have therefore seen my fair share of board meetings – most of them were really productive, some of them highly unproductive. Here [...]
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Techvibes TV interview at GROW
Techvibes did a range of interviews at the GROW conference, among others with Andrew Mason (Groupon) and Zynga‘s Robert Mason. I got the chance to get interviewed as well and chatted with Michelle Sklar a bit about W Media Ventures but more importantly about the Vancouver tech community and the C100. Enjoy! Techvibes TV: Boris [...]
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New investment: Summify, a social news reader
August seems to be “funding announcement month” so after Empire Avenue and Barcode Hero, here comes a 3rd new investment: Summify is a social news reader that addresses the information overflow we all are experiencing with the explosion of social media. What that exactly means is best described by the Summify team on their blog: [...]
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My investment thesis
Fred Wilson’s blog post on Dave McClure’s investment thesis a few weeks ago reminded me that I needed to do a better job on spelling out my own. I had done some preliminary work when I started W Media Ventures almost 3 years ago but it was very high-level only addressing the sector (consumer Internet), [...]
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Pitching day
The GROW conference has brought dozens of high-profile VC’s and super-angels to Vancouver which presents a wonderful opportunity for many local start-ups to get exposure to out-of-town investors. So today is “pitching day” jointly organized by W Media Ventures and Bootup Labs. 7 companies will take the stage: CompassEngine (location-based gaming platform), EmpireAvenue (influence stock [...]
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New investment: Barcode Hero, a “Foursquare for shopping”
Image via Wikipedia After the investment in Empire Avenue last week I am very excited to announce another investment today: Barcode Hero‘s mission is to help shoppers in physical stores, through breakthrough mobile technology. Simply put, it is like a “Foursquare for shopping”: Barcode Hero users scan products at home or in a store, build [...]
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What GROW means for the Vancouver tech community
Image via Wikipedia For the next 3 days the Valley descends on Vancouver for the GROW conference and you can feel a real excitement in the local tech community about hosting entrepreneurs like Tony Hsieh (Zappos) or Andrew Mason (Groupon) as well as investors like Rob Hayes (First Round Capital), Dave McClure (500 Startups), Jeff [...]
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New investment: Empire Avenue, the world’s first influence stock market
Image via CrunchBase With the explosion of social media in the past few years, we now have millions of people broadcasting and curating information on a daily basis, making personal recommendations and endorsements to their friends and followers and creating personal brands on the Internet. But with that explosion of small “media outlets” it is [...]
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