CIBC

CIBC, established in 1905, is a prominent Canadian commercial banking firm, providing a wide array of financial solutions for businesses. These services include bank accounts, credit cards, mortgages, lending, investments, and insurance, with protection services covering approved credit limits. CIBC World Markets, its investment banking subsidiary, operates both domestically and internationally, offering credit and capital market products, mergers and acquisitions advisory services, and other investment banking services. CIBC Capital Markets, another division, specializes in corporate and investment banking, sustainable finance, and financial services. CIBC Capital Partners, a venture capital and private equity arm, focuses on direct, fund, and mezzanine investments, providing subordinated debt and equity to mid and late-stage companies for growth, acquisitions, and restructurings. It typically invests CAD10-20 million in companies based in Canada, Europe, and Australia, across sectors like Internet retail, industrials, healthcare, and technology.

Harry Culham

Senior Executive Vice President and Group Head

Jon Hountalas

Senior Executive Vice President and Group Head, Commercial Banking and Wealth Management, Canada

Paul McKinlay

Managing Director, Innovation Banking

Mark R. McQueen

President and Executive Managing Director, CIBC Innovation Banking

Brendan Mulheran

Managing Director

Mark Usher

Managing Director

David Yeh

Managing Director

Past deals in Broadband

Wire 3

Debt Financing in 2024
Wire 3 is a telecommunications company founded in 2021 and based in Rochester, New York. It specializes in providing fast, high-bandwidth internet services to consumers, with a focus on delivering customizable bandwidth packages. The company aims to offer flexible and affordable high-speed internet solutions to its customers, particularly in Central Florida. Through its services, Wire 3 seeks to enhance connectivity and meet the growing demand for reliable data connections.

euNetworks

Debt Financing in 2024
euNetworks is a European provider of broadband infrastructure services, focusing on scalable, fiber-based solutions for various industries, including wholesale, content, media, mobile, and finance. The company operates extensive metropolitan networks linked by a high-capacity intercity backbone, enabling it to offer a range of services such as dark fiber, metro wavelength, Ethernet, and colocation. By delivering these services, euNetworks supports the growing bandwidth demands and performance needs of its diverse customer base, positioning itself at the forefront of technological transformation in the telecommunications sector.

WiLAN

Post in 2011
WiLAN is an intellectual property licensing company based in Ottawa, Ontario, that focuses on developing and commercializing patented technologies. Founded in 1992, the company manages intellectual property and licenses inventions to corporations, facilitating the monetization of patents. WiLAN's wholly owned subsidiary, WiLAN Labs, specializes in creating innovative technologies related to 4G broadband wireless networks, addressing the increasing demand for bandwidth-intensive multimedia data. By enabling patent owners to sell or license their intellectual property, WiLAN ensures that inventors receive fair compensation for their research and development efforts, thereby encouraging further innovation in technology.

WiLAN

Post in 2010
WiLAN is an intellectual property licensing company based in Ottawa, Ontario, that focuses on developing and commercializing patented technologies. Founded in 1992, the company manages intellectual property and licenses inventions to corporations, facilitating the monetization of patents. WiLAN's wholly owned subsidiary, WiLAN Labs, specializes in creating innovative technologies related to 4G broadband wireless networks, addressing the increasing demand for bandwidth-intensive multimedia data. By enabling patent owners to sell or license their intellectual property, WiLAN ensures that inventors receive fair compensation for their research and development efforts, thereby encouraging further innovation in technology.

WiLAN

Post in 2009
WiLAN is an intellectual property licensing company based in Ottawa, Ontario, that focuses on developing and commercializing patented technologies. Founded in 1992, the company manages intellectual property and licenses inventions to corporations, facilitating the monetization of patents. WiLAN's wholly owned subsidiary, WiLAN Labs, specializes in creating innovative technologies related to 4G broadband wireless networks, addressing the increasing demand for bandwidth-intensive multimedia data. By enabling patent owners to sell or license their intellectual property, WiLAN ensures that inventors receive fair compensation for their research and development efforts, thereby encouraging further innovation in technology.

Silicon Bandwidth

Series B in 2002
Silicon Bandwidth, Inc. is a highly innovative, fabless semiconductor company serving the high-performance, high-speed optoelectronic and semiconductor interconnect markets with product platforms that vastly increase performance and reduce costs.

CityNet Telecommunications

Series B in 2001
CityNet is a broadband infrastructure company that builds carrier-class last-mile fiber optic networks. The company uses a revolutionary but proven in-sewer deployment method to build its networks in cities across the U.S. and internationally. As a wholesale carrier’s carrier, CityNet provides telecom carriers and network service provider customers with all-optical high-speed connections directly into commercial and residential multi-tenant buildings, thereby Bridging the Last-Mile DivideSM that exists for these carrier customers and, ultimately, end-users of broadband services.

IP Communications

Series B in 2000
Dallas-based IP Communications (IPC) has the most extensive broadband network in Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas. IP Communications provides wide-area networking services to replace traditional private line, frame relay and ISDN with cost effective packet-based solutions. Our next-generation packet-switched network uses a redundant ATM backbone and advanced switching capabilities to provide high quality bundled communication services to all of our customers.

CityNet Telecommunications

Series A in 2000
CityNet is a broadband infrastructure company that builds carrier-class last-mile fiber optic networks. The company uses a revolutionary but proven in-sewer deployment method to build its networks in cities across the U.S. and internationally. As a wholesale carrier’s carrier, CityNet provides telecom carriers and network service provider customers with all-optical high-speed connections directly into commercial and residential multi-tenant buildings, thereby Bridging the Last-Mile DivideSM that exists for these carrier customers and, ultimately, end-users of broadband services.

TriVergent Communications

Private Equity Round in 2000
TriVergent, headquartered in Greenville, SC, is a rapidly growing Integrated Communications Provider. They're uniquely positioned in the marketplace through their bundled offering of integrated DSL high-speed Internet access, Web site design and hosting services, as well as local and long distance telephone services. As a fully integrated service provider of end-to-end technologies, TriVergent delivers an extensive set of data networking solutions and comprehensive voice CPE to complement their core DSL offering. Founded as State Communications in 1997 and named "One of the 50 Companies to Watch in 2000" by digitalsouth magazine for two consecutive years, TriVergent is led by former top executives from Corporate Telemanagement Group and LCI International (now Qwest Communications) and Tel Man/Southern Net (now MCI WorldCom). TriVergent's management team possesses the necessary experience and leadership to successfully guide TriVergent into the 21st century. TriVergent's primary focus is the deployment of an eighteen-switch, ATM-backbone, high-speed data network that will cover 26 Southeastern metropolitan markets.

Grande Communications Networks

Venture Round in 2000
Grande Communications Networks is a telecommunications company based in San Marcos, Texas, that offers a comprehensive range of services for both residential and business customers. The company specializes in high-speed internet, local and long-distance telephone services, and digital cable television. In addition to these core offerings, Grande provides a variety of advanced network solutions, including fiber internet services, wireless home networking, and advertising services. The company also caters to small and enterprise businesses with data, voice, and video services, commercial development, colocation, and customer support. With a focus on delivering high-quality communication solutions, Grande Communications Networks serves a diverse clientele, ensuring connectivity and service excellence.
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