Inside a New $40M Fund Built to Fix Canada's Brain Drain Nectarios Economakis

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May 26, 202600:26:55Technology

What if the next frontier isn't a metaphor, it's a market? Venture capitalist Nectarios Economakis (Partner & Co-Founder, Amiral Ventures) just closed the first $40M of a new $75M fund built to keep Canada's best builder...

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