FedDev Q2 fundings include Maluuba, Avenir, Dejero, Axonify, GTAN and Cyborg Trading

Kudos to the staff at FedDev for announcing most of the contributions for the July to September period before the quarterly disclosures were posted. The most significant not-yet-announced funding from the list is $925,000 for Dejero, made through FedDev's Investing in Business Innovation program (which means there was additional angel funding for the company as well).

Angel groups across Southern Ontario are getting $100,000 this year from FedDev and GTAN received its funding in the quarter.

Funding to businesses is repayble.

Disclosed FedDev fundings in (or related to) Southwestern Ontario:

Maluuba	Waterloo	$980,000
Avenir Medical	Waterloo	$950,000
Dejero	Waterloo	$925,000
Axonify	Waterloo	$750,000
Sweet Tooth	Waterloo	$750,000
Cyborg Trading Systems	London	$381,500
Ontario Association Of CFDCs	St. Thomas	$170,000
AURP Canada	Waterloo	$129,500
Golden Triangle Angel Network	Cambridge	$100,000
Western Ontario CFDC Association	Thorold	$45,000

AURP Canada is a national organization, headed by Carol Stewart at the David Johnston Research and Technology Park at UW. The Ontario Association of CFDCs is based in St. Thomas and serves all of Ontario. The Western Ontario CFDC Association covers an area that includes all of Southwestern Ontario.

Also see the latest IRAP contributions.

A&L Labs (London) and Communitech top SWO IRAP contributions, July-September

IRAP has disclosed its Q2 contributions—the period covering July, August, and September. Topping the list among recipients in Southwestern Ontario is A&L Labs in London and Communitech in Waterloo Region, with London's Quantum5X also in the six-figure range.

Other recipients include Big Blue Bubble, TechAlliance, Avvasi, CrossChasm, Aeryon, IMAP, Akira, Powernoodle, Renix, Neoventures, and LifeLike Biotissue.

Disclosed IRAP contributions for Southwestern Ontario:

A&L Laboratories Canada	London	$436,839
Communitech	Kitchener	$300,000
Quantum5x Systems	London	$126,623
Delhi Solac	Delhi	$80,095
Big Blue Bubble	London	$60,000
Can-Technologies	Cambridge	$50,000
Clearwater Clinical	London	$50,000
Polyanalytik	London	$50,000
TechAlliance	London	$50,000
Ontario Drive And Gear	New Hamburg	$50,000
Mitten	Paris	$50,000
Avvasi	Waterloo	$50,000
Crosschasm Technologies	Waterloo	$50,000
Huron Technologies International	Waterloo	$50,000
Aeryon Labs	Waterloo	$50,000
CS Automotive Tubing	London	$49,988
Bluewater Wood Alliance	Walkerton	$49,960
Coorstek Advanced Materials	Paris	$49,958
LBMX	London	$49,950
Bluewater Wood Alliance	Walkerton	$49,890
IMAP Audits	Sarnia	$49,848
Akira Systems	London	$49,741
Picard Foods	Waterford	$49,680
Coorstek Advanced Materials	Paris	$49,500
Red Piston	Windsor	$49,120
Renix	London	$49,100
Windsor Mold	Windsor	$49,000
Powernoodle	Stratford	$47,887
Orion Foundry Canada	Waterloo	$47,760
Pakfab Engineered Solutions	Ayr	$45,768
Molesworth Farm Supply	Listowel	$45,648
Conceptual Pathways	Stratford	$45,200
Great Lakes Greenhouses	Leamington	$45,012
Veriform	Cambridge	$45,000
Bogdon & Gross Furniture Co.	Walkerton	$44,266
Parallax Innovation	Ilderton	$44,160
Sylvan Point Technologies	Wiarton	$44,032
Rescraft Plastic Products	Paris	$44,000
Neoventures Biotechnology	London	$42,000
Kilbank Metal Forming & Turning	St. Thomas	$41,002
Suntrition	Tecumseh	$40,000
Gorge Cinema	Elora	$39,936
Rol-Land Farms Blenheim	Blenheim	$37,928
Remontech	St. Thomas	$35,133
Wrightplan	Waterloo	$34,859
Change Air Products & Services	Aylmer	$30,000
Dynajoin Corporation	Cambridge	$30,000
LifeLike Biotissue	London	$30,000
Ramsden Industries	London	$30,000
Buildscale	Waterloo	$30,000
Sciencetech	London	$29,424
2092912 Ontario	St. Williams	$28,968

Middlesex County tops SWO for residential assessment increases ... farmland values jump

The 2012 MPAC property assessment results are all in, and all regions of Southwestern Ontario fell below the provincial average of an 18.0% increase in residential property value between 2008 and 2012.

Across the region, the highest average increase was in Middlesex County—my new(ish) home—at 17.0%, followed by Grey (16.3%) and Bruce (15.8%) Counties and Guelph (15.5%), with Waterloo Region (15.3%) and Huron County (14.8%) close behind.

(In the MPAC announcement, Brant-Haldimand-Norfolk were lumped together with a range of 8.3% to 10.3% for the three. I used the mid-point for the graph.)

Windsor was at the other end of the scale with a 0.3% increase, followed by Sarnia at 1.8%.

In Ontario, the highest reported increase was in Timiskaming, where assessments were up an average 36.8%. But that doesn't come close to the increases for farmland:

The value of farmland has skyrocketed in Southwestern Ontario over the last four years, with the biggest increases coming in Chatham-Kent (65.6%) and Huron County (65.3%). The Brantford area (64.0%) and Lambton County (62.2%) were also right up there.