John Toomey, CEO of HarbourVest Partners, with roughly US$160-billion in assets under management, told a room full of global investors that Canada “was the first of its kind” to offer what in 2014 was known as the Venture Capital Action Plan and later as the Venture and Growth Capital Catalyst Initiative, which he described as “one of the most successful public-private projects on the planet.”

With files from The Globe and Mail