My take is the Canadian startup financing landscape is healthy and getting more robust and mature.

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Smart Technologies cofounder Jeffrey DeCoux, then only 23, had vague plans for an Internet software firm when he met Heller at a conference on startup financing in early 1995.

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In their simplest forms, debt financing is when a startup agrees to pay back a loan with a predetermined timeframe and interest rate and equity financing is when the business sells ownership shares in exchange for funding.

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The startup also aims to move beyond financing photovoltaic arrays for community organizations and non-profits and will work with developers building bigger commercial projects.

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Congratulations to energy entrepreneur and PITCH 2012 speaker Danielle Fong for closing the Series D round of venture financing for her Berkeley-based startup (working out of the former Scharffen Berger chocolate factory) to pursue a solution to the energy storage problem with compressed air.

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Q3 statistics from Gust, which powers a majority of the organized early stage financing world, show a continued expansion of new, high-growth ventures outside the traditional startup centers, along with an increasing number of entrepreneurs seeking their first round of equity financing with products that are fully developed and ready to take to market.

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In an economy with ever-decreasing startup costs for new companies, 91% of ventures seeking their initial financing rounds during the past quarter have come to the table with something to show prospective investors.

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