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Investing in KODE Labs: The Centralized Smart Building Platform
Federal Budget 2024 — Patent Boxes: A Chance to Address Canada’s “Christmas Tree” Problem
When the Tide Rolls Out
Industrial XR
The Golden Age of WealthTech
The Creator Economy - Understanding its Meteoric Rise and Predictions for the Future
Pharmacogenomics
How To Develop Great Relationships With Investors Before You Need Them
Sector Spotlight: Women's Health
AI Entrepreneurs: Strategies for Fortifying Your Competitive Moat
Central bankers should rethink the 2-per-cent inflation target
How to think about intellectual property for your startup or scale-up business
Redefining Recovery: The Rise of Hospital-at-Home
Revolutionizing Healthcare Documentation: The Role and Impact of AI-Assisted Medical Transcription
Will 2024 Be the Breakout Year for M&A in Startup Land?
Contextualizing the Gap: Canada’s Tech Underperformance Relative to the U.S.
Why Human Connections Still Take Center Stage
How Embedded Finance is Enabling Companies to Become FinTechs
Will 2023 be the year Canadians finally get pharmacare?
Seeing the Forest Through the Trees: Computer Vision in Healthcare Diagnostics
Governance, the Entrepreneur, and the Good Old Hockey Game
Canada’s science and tech ecosystem is broken — businesses need to invest more
Crucial Intel for Entrepreneurs: The Top 3 GenAI Predictions You Must Know!
A Framework for Defining, Identifying and Analyzing ‘Disruptive Innovation’
On Surplus Savings and The Outlook For Consumer Spending
The Future of AR and VR: Transforming the Way We Work, Live, Play, and Learn
Demystifying SaaS Pricing and How to Maximize Profits
Navigating the Rapids: Understanding Persistent Inflation and Contractual Safeguards
Venture Capital: Not a Short-Term Business
The Future of Work: The Luddite Legacy in the Age of AI
Navigating in Turbulent Times — Do you Grow Horizontally or Vertically?
Beware the Stroke of the Pen
When it comes to big investment deals, it's all about values—not price. Here's why
A People Business
Driving Disruption for Smart Cities: Why We Invested in Miovision
You’ve got a shiny new acquisition opportunity. Now what?
The Golden Age of WealthTech
Cash is King
Raising Capital in Turbulent Times and How, as a Founder, to Protect Yourself from Getting Screwed!
2023 Predictions — Brace for Volatility & Uncertainty
The Maverix Investment Process
A head-spinning year to be a growth investor…
Raising Capital: What Is The Fundraising Process Like?
Disruption, Hype & Product-Market-Fit
Building Your Business Grounded in Culture — Part Deux
Now It’s Our Turn: Leveraging Technology to Support Our Aging Population
Looking for innovation in consumer and retail
The New Normal: Building Your Business Like You Did in the Old Normal
Might As Well Win
Exploring Trends in Supply Chain & Logistics
Top 10 Things To Do As An Entrepreneur in Navigating The Storm
The future of our built world will be … smart!
Why Agora? Why Now?
Why we invested in Viral Nation
UN-icorns are Coming
The Future of Health Care
The Importance Of Following Up
Have you heard of Canada’s Christmas tree problem?
Building Your Business Grounded in Culture
Where does virtual care go from here?
Predictions 2022: Banking on the Future of Financial Services
The Next Wave of Financial Services Disruption
The Impact on Private Equity & Venture Investing in an Inflationary Environment
A Recipe for Starting a Career in a Pandemic
Defining what it means to be a “Maverix”
Through the Lens of Gratitude, Resilience & Hope
Confessions of a repatriate
Canada’s Report on Open Banking — A Toe in the Water
With anchor funding in place, John Ruffolo’s Maverix Private Equity is in motion
One of Canada’s top investors, John Ruffolo, is back from the brink with a new $500 million fund
The Evidence Suggests There’s Light Coming at the End of Canada’s COVID-19 Tunnel
Canadian Companies Must Prepare for Disruptors to Come Knocking
Blog Archive
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FINANCIAL SERVICES
- May 3, 2021 THE GLOBE AND MAIL | With anchor funding in place, John Ruffolo’s Maverix Private Equity is in motion May 3, 2021
- Mar 27, 2021 TECHCRUNCH | One of Canada’s top investors, John Ruffolo, is back from the brink with a new $500 million fund Mar 27, 2021
- Mar 26, 2021 STRICTLYVC | Canadian VC John Ruffolo Escaped Death and Now He’s Seizing the Moment Mar 26, 2021
- Mar 19, 2021 BNN BLOOMBERG | 'I stubbornly didn't die': Canadian tech investor John Ruffolo's recovery from near-fatal accident Mar 19, 2021
- Jul 25, 2019 THE GLOBE AND MAIL | Canadian companies must prepare for disruptors to come knocking Jul 25, 2019
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HEALTHCARE & WELLNESS
- Apr 19, 2020 THE GLOBE AND MAIL | The evidence suggests there’s light coming at the end of Canada’s COVID-19 tunnel Apr 19, 2020
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WORK LIVE PLAY
- Mar 26, 2021 MEDIUM | Maverix Private Equity - A Vision For Canada Mar 26, 2021
- Mar 26, 2021 STRICTLYVC | Canadian VC John Ruffolo Escaped Death and Now He’s Seizing the Moment Mar 26, 2021
- Mar 19, 2021 BETAKIT | Nearing the first close of his $500 million private equity fund, Maverix’s John Ruffolo wants to help build “another 10 Shopifys” Mar 19, 2021
- Mar 19, 2021 BNN BLOOMBERG | 'I stubbornly didn't die': Canadian tech investor John Ruffolo's recovery from near-fatal accident Mar 19, 2021
- Apr 19, 2020 THE GLOBE AND MAIL | The evidence suggests there’s light coming at the end of Canada’s COVID-19 tunnel Apr 19, 2020
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