Canada mobilized the world’s capital. Now it has to help companies scale

Canadian founders have been complaining for years that domestic investors are slower to write the large cheques a company needs to scale, and quicker to demand worse terms when they do.
Mark Carney
None of the investment commitments from Prime Minister Mark Carney's Investment Summit reach toward the medium-sized Canadian firms that have already proven their markets and are trying to grow into the world, writes Adam Froman.

Up to a point, Prime Minister Mark Carney's September Canada Investment Summit worked. The world's largest investors flew to Toronto, wrote enormous cheques, and signalled that they see this country as a p...

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