Rehman Ahmed

B.E.S.T. Investment Counsel Ltd. (Investment Management) (BEST-IM) is the investment management division of B.E.S.T. Investment Counsel Ltd., an independent, Canadian venture firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. BEST-IM manages the assets of individual and institutional investors.

FirePower Capital Corp. provides investment banking services. It focuses on advising Canadian small- to mid-sized enterprises on financing and mergers and acquisitions transactions. The company was founded by Ilan Jacobson in 2009 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund seeks investment opportunities in technology companies located in Canada, primarily in Ontario. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of advanced manufacturing, IT, communications, clean-tech and life sciences. It provides financing for seed and early stage capital requirements with an investment size ranging up to $0.5 million.

Canaccord Genuity Corp. (CGC) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of Canaccord Genuity Group, Inc., (TSE: CF; OTCMKTS: CCORF) in Canada. The firm was founded in 2010 and is locally known as Financière Canaccord ltée. Headquartered in Vancouver, CGC offers corporate and institutional clients with versatile and responsive sales and execution services that range from Institutional Equities and International Equities to Electronic Trading and Fixed Income. Their sales & trading team execution capabilities encompass a wide range of products and services such as Equities, ADR’s, OTC, ETF’s, Fixed Income, Options, Preferreds, Investment Companies.

State Street Global Advisors Ltd. (SSgA) is a Canadian mutual fund manager headquartered in Montreal, Quebec with an additional office in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded in 1991 and is a subsidiary of State Street Global Advisors International Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by State Street Corp. (NYSE: STT). SSgA provides asset allocation models on a non-discretionary basis to investment advisers and other financial institutions. They also provide investment advice to pensions and profit-sharing plans.

The Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), locally known as Office d'investissement des régimes de pensions du secteur public, is a government-owned pension fund manager headquartered in Montreal, Canada. The firm was founded by the Public Sector Pension Investment Board Act in 1999. PSP Investments invest funds for the pension plans of the federal public service, the Canadian Armed Forces, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Reserve Force.

SweetIQ Analytics Corp. engages in the provision of location-based marketing and analytics platform services. Its products include listing management, store locator software and mirosites, review management, and data analytics. The company was founded by Ravdeep Sawhney, Michael Mire, and Mohannad El-Barachi in 2010 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

MMB Research, Inc. engages in provision of hardware and software platforms services. Its products include zigbee module and USB stick, firmware library, rapidconnect desktop, and development kits. The firm also offers services such as DIY with a rapidconnect development kit, contracted development, and supported services. The company was founded in 2008 by Mark Borins and Alireza Motamed and is headquartered in Ontario, Canada.

StackAdapt, Inc. operates a native advertising platform for publishers. Its platform identifies and collects information based on the behavior and preferences of the users that are grouped into categories, and display native advertisements to the users in those categories. The firm offers trading desks and media buyers a programmatic content distribution and content amplification through in-feed native advertisments. The company was founded by Ildar Shar, Vitaly Pecherskiy and Yang Han in 2013 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Access Ventures, Inc (Access Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Bryce Butler. The firm is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.

Plazacorp Ventures is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2008. The firm is headquartered in Ontario, Canada.

FirePower Capital /Private Equity/ is the private equity arm of FirePower Capital Corp, founded in 2012 by Ilan Jacobson. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.