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[Interview] Christopher Kape, Vancouver Executive, President of JAMCO Capital Partners

YoungUpstarts

Vancouver executive Christopher Kape is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who founded JAMCO Capital Partners , an early-stage investment and strategic advisory firm that focuses on a number of industries, including gaming, high-tech, food and wellness. Get in with a person in a group, and they’ll introduce you to others.

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Demo day arrives for Springboard’s Internet of Things accelerator

The Next Web

The eight teams hail from all over the world – including entrants from Montreal, Toronto, Portugal and Bulgaria – and have spent the last three months tirelessly working away on their hardware-based startup ideas for the Internet of Things in preparation for today.

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Generate and Transformify: Umbrella Solutions to Help Businesses Hire Top Talent Worldwide

Transformify

During the test period, the candidates work out of the coworking offices of Transformify ‘s partners. arrangements can be outsourced to Transformify’s partners. across the country, as well as operating over 35 active in-country payroll solutions for those working overseas. All visa, relocation, etc. About Generate.

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Facebook Acquires Israel’s Snaptu For an Estimated $60-70 Million

VC Cafe

Founded in 2007 by Ron Makavy, Micha Berdichevsky, and Barak Naveh, Snaptu raised a total of $9 million in three rounds: $3 million from Carmel Ventures, $5 million a year ago (March 2010) from Sequoia and $1 million from private investors, including Spotlab, an angel fund operated by former Israeli MP Neomi Blumental.

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Janvest Wants to Fill the Seed Investment Gap in Israel (Interview)

VC Cafe

To learn more, VC Cafe interviewed Brian Rosenzweig, one of the managing partners in the new fund and the former marketing director at 21Ventures. VC Cafe: What is the premise of Janvest and how large is the fund? Janvest: The premise of JANVEST is to give a wider base of U.S. What are the expectations?