Garibaldi Capital Advisors is a mid-market transaction advisory services firm focused solely on the Canadian technology market. Garibaldi helps Canadian technology companies with key financial transaction milestones, such as raising growth capital or selling their company, through its Capital Advisory services. By leveraging access to key investors or acquirers, technology industry sector knowledge, and financial insights, Garibaldi is able to maximize valuation for its clients. By understanding the needs of technology entrepreneurs, Garibaldi creates a better experience for entrepreneurs completing these complex transactions. Garibaldi has established a leadership position as Canada’s leading mid-market capital advisor for technology companies, and has completed 50 transactions totalling over 1B dollars since 2013.
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Berlin? Washington DC? San Diego? Great cities, but better Start-up cities than any in Canada?
Well, this is depressing... Thanks Visual Capitalist for doing the work to show that Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver are not registering on a global stage... at least by this measure. More fodder for the suspect policies of our federal government. Want to be a world beating innovation economy? Tax the investors and the successful entrepreneurs more... Ya, that's how you do it.
Tech Exit State of Technology M&A according to Garibaldi Capital Advisors
State of technology M&A market in Canada delivered. Not all doom and gloom out there. Valuations stabilized. Buyers are active. #TechExit Vancouver is a huge event for us and we are proud sponsors. Garibaldi Capital Advisors will be posting much of the supporting data and charts on M&A and capital raising in technology soon. Stay tuned.
Looking forward to meeting and helping tech entrepreneurs with this webinar ... important to note that there is a companion workshop at SFU VentureLabs in conjuntion with this event. The workshop is a chance to get in person coaching on getting the right capital raising plan in place ... to particpate in both, first sign up for the webinar (note, the LinkedIn event posting has the link to the webinar registration), then fill in this form to get the workshop invite: https://lnkd.in/dyT9qXU6
After a 6 month break from public events, Geoff Hansen, Partner at Garibaldi Capital is pleased to be presenting an engaging session to advise Tech Companies on raising capital, based on his 35 years as a tech entrepreneur and investor.
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After a 6 month break from public events, Geoff Hansen, Partner at Garibaldi Capital is pleased to be presenting an engaging session to advise Tech Companies on raising capital, based on his 35 years as a tech entrepreneur and investor.
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Another successful Garibaldi technology company sale.
My Capital gains tax rants will likely continue... but back to our regularly scheduled technology M&A business at Garibaldi: We help bootstrapped, founder-owned and/or lightly capitalized tech businesses get the best outcomes when selling their businesses. This is exemplified by the sale of Laundroworks, a father and son owned hardware and payments business to Cents from California. Who knew there was so much money in laundromat payment solutions? https://lnkd.in/g9P7xSMV Congrats to Oleg and Michael as well as to Alex and team at Cents. A fantastic outcome in difficult times!
See Brent's article on why the Capital Gains tax disincentive is horrible policy
In my anger at Chrystia Freeland and the Liberals for their short-sighted, vote pandering disincentive to risk-taking that is fundamental to the technology ecosystem, I have commented on other's posts. I attach Kim Furlong's excellent rebuttal in the National Post here and have some further thoughts and actions below. https://lnkd.in/gQKWCTyK After my blood pressure returned to near normal, I have focused my specific rage against incentive vs. disincentive. Guess what the Liberals did in the budget that hasn't gotten much attention? They raised the rate for inclusion of your charitable donation from 50% of the gift to 80%. Gee Chrystia, why did you do that? To incent the wealthy to give back by... wait for it... reducing their taxes. This is sound policy and I fully support it. We need to re-distribute wealth and help! Thanks for incenting us. In their fast back-pedaling on Friday, the Minister's office cited, among other studies that they couldn't actually find, that the in the 90's the capital gains rate inclusion was 75%. Yes, and how productive were we in the 90's? Many of you weren't in the tech business in the 90's. I was, and we absolutely pounded the table for years to get Chretien's Liberals to reduce taxation and incent (yes, there it is) investment and risk taking like our brethren to the south. So we could compete! And Chretien's Liberals listened. This isn't about taxing the rich (vote pandering)... it is about competition for talent and incentive to take risk. What do we do now? Keep screaming. Keep pounding the table. Take the volume up a notch. This is terrible policy. Sign petitions. Email your federal politicians. It must be repealed. Damn it, my blood pressure's up again...