Cameron Chell

An increasing number of Canadian venture-backed startups have been making strategic acquisitions of late. Canadian serial entrepreneur Cameron Chell, whose Slyce is at the forefront of this trend, argues that growth isn’t just about organic scaling anymore. Rather, acquisitions are providing an important new source of opportunities to startups.

Seed investing is the game where those with the keenest eye make the biggest gains by taking the biggest risks, writes Cameron Chell, Canadian serial entrepreneur, investor and the co-founder and managing director of venture-backed startup Slyce. The rules are simple, yet there are innumerable complexities surrounding what fledgling startups will confront in their journey either to victory and success or their fall from grace at the first fence.