Mr. Rick Nathan

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  www.dgvcn.com/blog/?m=200805 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/1/2008    Last Visited: 9/13/2009  

  As Rick Nathan (President, CVCA) said, "These quarterly investment numbers point to the pressing need to strengthen the Canadian venture capital industry.

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  www.bspark.com/pages/content/article_VentureWire7122001 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/12/2001    Last Visited: 6/22/2008  

  The company, which makes software that facilitates the scalability and efficiency of IT infrastructure operations, received the financing from Toronto-based Brightspark Ventures, Montreal-based CDP Sofinov, and The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, said Rick Nathan, managing director at Brightspark Ventures.Mr. Nathan also said Sofinov was the lead investor in the round.
  
  The financing will be used to develop the company's first software product, known as ThinkControl.Mr. Nathan said Think Dynamics will probably seek another round of financing in 18 to 24 months.He would not comment on the company's valuation or burn rate.
  
  Brightspark maintains three board seats on Think Dynamics while Sofinov has one, Mr. Nathan said.

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  www.brightspark.com/pages/content/article_ebusiness3172 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/1/2000    Last Visited: 11/27/2008  

  Together with former Bay Street lawyer Rick Nathan they've created Brightspark Inc. to finance fledgling Internet companies.
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  Nathan, a computer science grad, spent 10 years at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, leading the Toronto law firm's technology business group, which included working with venture capital funds.
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  Nathan, they say, "is our adult supervisor."

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  www.bspark.com/pages/content/z_press_article_2002_Archi - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 6/22/2008  

  "Mark is a welcome asset to the Brightspark team," said Rick Nathan, co-founder and managing director of Brightspark.
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  In this case, Brightspark recognized a market opportunity , real-time capacity on demand -- and applied seasoned software expertise to connect that opportunity to a market trend , utility computing."The success of Think Dynamics demonstrates once again the validity of the Brightspark vision to create and invest in software companies that address real market needs," said Rick Nathan, co-founder and managing director of Brightspark Ventures, L.P. and a director of Think Dynamics.
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  With the successful completion of this round of financing, Inforbit will establish the standard for organized information exchange and updating."Inforbit has developed a truly unique technology," said Rick Nathan, managing director and co-founder, Brightspark, and board member of Inforbit.
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  Founded in November 1999, Brightspark has distinguished itself from the pack of venture and start-up catalyst firms with its incomparable industry experience and savvy under the leadership of its three founding partners Mark Skapinker, Tony Davis and Richard Nathan.
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  "The judges at VentureFair.com recognized -- as we do at Brightspark , the promise of the Borderfree solution," says Rick Nathan, managing director and co-founder, Brightspark, and board member of Borderfree.
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  "In a short time we have laid the foundation for what an incubator should be, and we have done so at Internet speed," said Rick Nathan, Brightspark managing partner and co-founder.
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  Lanacom was subsequently sold to BackWeb (NASD:BWEB) and Delano debuted at a record high on the NASDAQ in mid-February (NASD:DTEC); and Richard Nathan, technology deal-maker and lawyer and the former co-chair of the Technology Business Group at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, one of Canada's leading law firms.
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  Today, Mark Skapinker, former Delrina co-founder and president, Tony Davis, WinFax inventor, and Rick Nathan, technology deal-maker and lawyer, announced the formation of Internet incubator brightsparkÔ. brightspark is geared to target, build, mentor, and launch the next wave of Internet success stories.
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  "brightspark is quite different from every other Canadian incubator because we are here to mentor startup-companies, not to learn as we go along, " said Rick Nathan, brightspark co-founder."We are applying a proven model, and enriching it with a great advisory board and very strong strategic relationships."brightspark has already struck strategic relationships with Mosaic Venture Partners, Griffiths McBurney & Partners, Ernst & Young, and Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, and is actively involved with its first projects
  
  About brightspark's FoundersHaving established several successful companies before, Mark Skapinker, Tony Davis and Rick Nathan bring a proven track record and expertise to Internet start-ups.
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  Richard Nathan was a partner and co-chair of the Technology Business Group at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, one of Canada's leading law firms, where he practiced for 10 years, focusing on clients within the technology industry.As lead counsel to small and large software companies, venture capital funds as well as Internet and new media businesses, Nathan was involved in major transactions, such as financings, mergers, acquisitions and strategic alliances.Nathan also advised some of Canada's leading investment dealers, financial institutions and securities regulators regarding the use of the Internet in the capital markets.In 1996 and 1997, he advised the Canadian securities regulatory authorities on the development of the SEDAR electronic document filing system used by all Canadian public companies and mutual funds, including with respect to the creation of an Internet based public dissemination system.

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  www.brightspark.com/pages/content/article_VentureWire71 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/12/2001    Last Visited: 11/27/2008  

  The company, which makes software that facilitates the scalability and efficiency of IT infrastructure operations, received the financing from Toronto-based Brightspark Ventures, Montreal-based CDP Sofinov, and The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, said Rick Nathan, managing director at Brightspark Ventures. Mr. Nathan also said Sofinov was the lead investor in the round.
  
  The financing will be used to develop the company's first software product, known as ThinkControl. Mr. Nathan said Think Dynamics will probably seek another round of financing in 18 to 24 months. He would not comment on the company's valuation or burn rate.
  
  Brightspark maintains three board seats on Think Dynamics while Sofinov has one, Mr. Nathan said.

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  www.brightsparkventures.com/pages/content/pressroom_cov - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 6/23/2008  

  In an article by senior writer Andy Holloway, the state of the union for Canadian Venture capital is examined in depth - with participation and the viewpoint of Brightspark co-founder Rick Nathan.
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  Brightspark Ventures and co-founder Rick Nathan are part of Gordon's discussion where he examines Brightspark philosophy on creating, funding and developing technology companies.
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  I spoke the other day with Rick Nathan, managing director of Toronto technology incubator Brightspark . He's a bright guy (a former partner at the law firm of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt ), who knows a thing or two about the challenges technology companies face these days.In the current corrective atmosphere in which dot-com start-ups are trying to take their first breaths, Brightspark's task is a tough one.But that's not what Nathan wanted to talk about.Early-stage investors like Nathan (who cofounded the incubator a year ago with Mark Skapinker and Tony Davis of Delrina fame) live to see the companies they've nurtured reach maturity-either by selling them or by taking them public.
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  "We're setting up a company every month or so, and the plan is for them to be incorporated in the US," Nathan told me. "There's very little reason for us to take a company public in Canada."
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  Together with former Bay Street lawyer Rick Nathan they've created Brightspark Inc. to finance fledgling Internet companies.
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  Mark Skapinker, co-founder of Delrina Corp., Tony Davis, inventor of Delrina's Winfax Pro software, and Richard Nathan, a high-tech lawyer, have opened Brightspark to prepare Internet companies to hunt for venture capital.
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  Mr. Skapinker, Mr. Davis and Richard Nathan, their former lawyer, yesterday unveiled Brightspark Inc., which has a mandate to create, finance and support new Internet companies.

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  www.brightspark.com/pages/content/article_TheGlobeandMa - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/26/1999    Last Visited: 11/27/2008  

  Mr. Skapinker, Mr. Davis and Richard Nathan, their former lawyer, yesterday unveiled Brightspark Inc., which has a mandate to create, finance and support new Internet companies.
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  Before joining Brightspark, Mr. Nathan was a lawyer with Osler Hoskin & Harcourt for 10 years, and was the chairman of its high-tech business group.

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  www.feicanada.org/Conference/PvtESymp_Jan08/PE_SpeakerB - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/15/2007    Last Visited: 12/15/2007  

  Rick Nathan
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  Rick Nathan is an investor, entrepreneur and lawyer with broad experience across the private equity and venture capital markets.Rick is one of four Managing Directors at Kensington Capital Partners, where he forms part of the core leadership team directing investments in buyout, mezzanine and venture capital funds, and in a wide variety of individual companies through its active co-investment program.Rick also serves as President of the CVCA, Canada's Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, the public policy voice and industry network for Canada's private capital markets.CVCA membership consists of more than 1100 investors and other industry participants from across Canada with over $50 billion under management.
  
  Prior to joining Kensington, Rick led Goodmans Venture Group, a division of Goodmans LLP, where he spent several years as legal counsel and strategic business advisor to emerging growth companies and private equity investors.He also had responsibility for a related investment portfolio.Rick was one of the three founding partners of Brightspark, one of Canada's leading early-stage venture capital funds.Prior to founding Brightspark, Rick spent more than ten years as a corporate and securities lawyer at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, including as leader of the firm's Technology Business Group.
  
  Rick has served as a Board member and Board Advisor to a wide variety of growth companies and investment funds, and currently is a member of the advisory council for the Toronto Region Research Alliance.Rick was one of 40 Canadian Technology industry leaders profiled in Innovation Nation (published by John Wiley & Sons, 2002) and is a frequent speaker at industry events and in the press.
  
  Rick is a graduate of Dartmouth College (B.A., Computer Science) and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law (LL.B.).

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  www.brightspark.com/ventures/pages/content/article_ebus - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/1/2000    Last Visited: 9/22/2008  

  Together with former Bay Street lawyer Rick Nathan they've created Brightspark Inc. to finance fledgling Internet companies.
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  Nathan, a computer science grad, spent 10 years at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, leading the Toronto law firm's technology business group, which included working with venture capital funds.
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  Nathan, they say, "is our adult supervisor."

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  www.29.maestroworks.net/about/Committees.aspx - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/31/2006    Last Visited: 8/19/2007  

  Rick Nathan(Goodmans Venture Group)(chair)
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  Rick Nathan (Goodmans Venture Group)
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  Rick Nathan (Goodmans Venture Group)

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