A large amount of shares were employee owned and did do well for quite a few people
It's part of the public markets that Vancouver actually does have a lot of activity in...but is a parallel system from angel / venture path. And it is mostly less ... legitimate, at least in the tech startup space. I've never been able to get public markets people to properly understand how tech startups work.
Peer 1 was acquired by Cogeco in 2012 https://corpo.cogeco.com/cgo/en/press-room/press-releases/cogeco-cables-acquisition-peer-1-network-enterprises/
A large amount of shares were employee owned and did do well for quite a few people
It's part of the public markets that Vancouver actually does have a lot of activity in...but is a parallel system from angel / venture path. And it is mostly less ... legitimate, at least in the tech startup space. I've never been able to get public markets people to properly understand how tech startups work.
AbCellera should probably be on your list, it IPO'd in 2020 https://betakit.com/abcellera-officially-closes-initial-public-offering-with-555-5-million-gross-proceeds/ -- biotech again is a particular startup vertical, that I personally am a lot less in tune with, but that BC does have some good bench strength in. Semios fits in that category.