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Extreme Venture Partners

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Extreme Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in start-up, early and seed stage technology companies in Canada.

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Extreme Venture, Extreme, EVP, EV

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01.01.2007

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Private

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Extreme Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Toronto, Canada that invests in seed-stage companies operating in B2B, commercial services, big data, mobile, internet, and technology sectors. The firm has committed significant capital resources towards innovating on its own internal opportunities through its investment in Extreme Innovations. With its second fund, the firm is expanding its sector interest to include Big Data and the Internet-of-Things, while continuing its focus on Mobile.
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Ken Teslia
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Imran Bashir
Imran Bashir

Imran Bashir

Imran is an entrepreneur and a visionary with a demonstrated track record of business successes and leadership. His professional career spans over 30 years. Imran is currently General Partner in Extreme Venture Partner. Prior to EVP Imran was CEO of Jugnoo Inc. Prior to Jugnoo Imran was the founder and CEO of Envision Mobile. Prior to Envision, he was founder and COO of Octanewave Software. Octanewave specialized in Mobile Application Platform. Under Imran’s leadership, Octanewave Software grew to 50 employees and was sold to Dexterra Inc in 2006. Prior to Octanewave, Imran founded ISG in 1994. ISG focused in Internet infrastructure. Imran grew the company to 60 people and sold it to USWEB in 1999. During the last 30 years Imran has held executive positions at Extreme, Envision, Dexterra, Octanewave, excendis, marchFIRST (formerly USWeb/CKS), ISG and AT&T Canada.

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Ray Sharma
Ray Sharma

Ray Sharma

Ray Sharma is a veteran of the mobile technology sector. Ray Sharma’s industry accomplishments include: #1 ranked wireless technology analyst based on Greenwich and Brendan Woods International surveys of fund managers for five of eight eligible years; visionary research on the mobile device representing the next evolutionary wave of computing; leading the most successful tech IPO in Canadian capital markets history; one of the world’s first BlackBerry users. Ray Sharma is considered a leading authority in the current evolution of the mobile application layer. Previously Ray Sharma spent over 11 years in technology investment banking research, including positions at the CSFB Technology Group, BMO Nesbitt Burns, and most recently GMP Capital Trust. Ray Sharma has a degree in Business Administration from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.

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Sunil Sharma
Sunil Sharma

Sunil Sharma

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