{"id":2548,"date":"2014-01-23T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2014\/01\/23\/difference-capital-announces-successful-investor-conference\/"},"modified":"2014-01-23T19:01:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T19:01:09","slug":"difference-capital-announces-successful-investor-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2014\/01\/23\/difference-capital-announces-successful-investor-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference Capital Announces Successful Investor Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TORONTO, ONTARIO\u2013(Marketwired \u2013 Jan. 23, 2014) &#8211;<\/strong> Difference Capital Financial Inc. (\u201cDCF\u201d) (TSX:DCF)(TSX:DCF.DB) is pleased to announce the success of its first investor conference, hosted at the Shangri-La Hotel on January 22, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The conference saw keynote presentations from DCF investee companies BuildDirect.com Technologies Inc., Vena Solutions, Thunderbird Films, Vision Critical, Bluedrop Performance Learning, Baanto International, and Virgin Gaming. Additionally, DCF\u2019s executive team reviewed the firm\u2019s strategy and emphasized the attractiveness of later stage private technology investing in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur first investor conference was a great success. The day brought together several of DCF\u2019s portfolio companies with over 100 fund managers, investors, and top technology analysts and bankers on the street resulting in standing room only,\u201d said Tom Astle, Head of Investment Strategy at Difference Capital.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Difference Capital Financial Inc.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Difference Capital Financial Inc. is a publicly-listed, Toronto-based specialty finance company focused on creating shareholder value through strategic investments in, and advisory services for, growth companies, particularly in the technology, media and healthcare sectors, as well as through opportunistic investments in undervalued financial assets and real property.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cautionary Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This release includes forward-looking statements regarding DCF and its business. Such statements are based on the current expectations and views of future events of DCF\u2019s management. In some cases the forward-looking statements can be identified by words or phrases such as \u201cmay\u201d, \u201cwill\u201d, \u201cexpect\u201d, \u201cplan\u201d, \u201canticipate\u201d, \u201cintend\u201d, \u201cpotential\u201d, \u201cestimate\u201d, \u201cbelieve\u201d or the negative of these terms, or other similar expressions intended to identify forward-looking statements. The forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this release may not occur and could differ materially as a result of known and unknown risk factors and uncertainties beyond the control of DCF. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed. Forward-looking statements and information by their nature are based on assumptions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause actual results, performance or achievements, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statement or information. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements or information. Except as required by applicable securities laws, forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and DCF undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO, ONTARIO\u2013(Marketwired \u2013 Jan. 23, 2014) &#8211; Difference Capital Financial Inc. 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The conference saw keynote presentations from DCF investee companies BuildDirect.com Technologies Inc., Vena Solutions, Thunderbird Films, Vision Critical, Bluedrop Performance Learning, Baanto &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2014\/01\/23\/difference-capital-announces-successful-investor-conference\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Difference Capital Announces Successful Investor Conference - Thunderbird Entertainment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2014\/01\/23\/difference-capital-announces-successful-investor-conference\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Difference Capital Announces Successful Investor Conference - Thunderbird Entertainment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"TORONTO, ONTARIO\u2013(Marketwired \u2013 Jan. 23, 2014) &#8211; Difference Capital Financial Inc. 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