Brent Holliday

Over thirteen years of M&A advisory services for technology companies in Western Canada. Since early 2013, founded a cross-Canada, technology focused M&A advisory firm and Exempt Market Dealer, Garibaldi Capital Advisors. Some recent technology transactions: Advised on Tranquility Online sale to Greenshield Advised on CoolIT financing by nVent and BDC Clean Tech Fund Advised on Inkblot Sale to Greenshield Advised Founded on its sale to RBC Ventures Advised Navarik on its sale to Vela Systems Advised Locality Systems on its sale to Inpixon Helped CoolIT Systems raise $10m in debt financing Advised Lasso Data Systems on sale to ECi Software Helped Rise People Raise $24m from Sun Life Advised Densify on a growth raise from Sigma Advised Aquatic Informatics on sale/merger with Waterlink/XPV Water Partners Helped Dream Payments in $10m capital raise (advised company) Mobify raised $10m+ (advised company) Cymax raised over $30m in two transactions (advised company) Aras 360 sale to Faro Technologies (advised seller) Vision Critical Secondary Financing $28m (advised selling shareholders) Retsly sale to Zillow (advised seller) InMotion $23m sale to Sierra Wireless (advised seller) BuildDirect $30m private placement from Mohr Davidow, Dynamic, Difference Capital and BDC BroadbandTV $36m majority stake from RTL Group in Europe Active angel investor Twelve years of early stage venture capital investing for The Western Technology Seed Investment Fund and Greenstone Venture Partners, both in Vancouver, BC. Invested in over 20 information technology companies. Three years of start-up software management prior to joining the venture industry. Column Writer (Tech Talk) for BC Business Magazine from 2008-2013 Specialties: Vancouver and Western Canada technology companies, capital raising, broad understanding of technology markets, mergers & acquisitions