{"id":3882,"date":"2021-10-08T20:27:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T00:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.millerthomson.com\/deals-cases\/appnovation-completes-follow-on-investment-from-canadian-business-growth-fund-business-growth-fund-and-export-development-canada\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T19:18:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:18:45","slug":"appnovation-completes-follow-on-investment-from-canadian-business-growth-fund-business-growth-fund-and-export-development-canada","status":"publish","type":"deals-cases","link":"https:\/\/www.millerthomson.com\/en\/deals-cases\/appnovation-completes-follow-on-investment-from-canadian-business-growth-fund-business-growth-fund-and-export-development-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Appnovation completes follow-on investment from Canadian Business Growth Fund, Business Growth Fund and Export Development Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On October&nbsp;8, 2021, Appnovation Technologies Inc. (\u201cAppnovation\u201d) received a follow-on investment from Canadian Business Growth Fund (\u201cCBGF\u201d), Business Growth Fund (\u201cBGF\u201d) and Export Development Canada (\u201cEDC\u201d). The transaction follows an initial investment in Appnovation by CBGF and BGF in July 2019, and subsequent follow-on financing in September 2020 by CBGF, BGF and EDC. Appnovation will use the proceeds from this follow-on investment to continue scaling its team and executing on its growth strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Appnovation is a Vancouver-based full-service digital consultancy firm that advances their clients\u2019 businesses by nimbly innovating on everything digital, with offices in B.C., Quebec and New Brunswick, and across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miller Thomson advised Appnovation on the transaction with a team comprising Philipp Park (Corporate\/M&amp;A).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","class_list":["post-3882","deals-cases","type-deals-cases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Appnovation completes follow-on investment from Canadian Business Growth Fund, Business Growth Fund and Export Development Canada | Miller Thomson<\/title>\n<meta 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