About two decades ago, a young venture capital investor named Tony Van Bommel was attending an event in Fredericton showcasing technology developed at the University of New Brunswick, when something caught his eye.
Having just joined the VC team at Business Development Bank of Canada, Van Bommel was on the lookout for opportunities, and one booth featured a new cybersecurity product that battled cyber-attacks by tracking data flows through networks.
The company was called Q1 Labs.
Q1 became Van Bommel’s first investment for BDC, and after the company exited to IBM in 2012 (reportedly for
