BlackBerry Partners Fund 

The $150 million BlackBerry Partners Fund™ is the leading independent venture capital firm focused exclusively on mobile computing.  The fund was established in 2008 in collaboration with Research In Motion, Thomson Reuters, Royal Bank of Canada and a roster of high profile investors.  The fund is device, platform and stage agnostic and has an investment footprint throughout the United States and in Canada, the United Kingdom and Israel.

In the fifth major computing cycle since the introduction of the mainframe, PCs are being displaced by smart phones and tablets.  By 2011, there will be 5 billion mobile phones for the world’s 7 billion people and by 2013, there will be over 1 billion smartphones.  In the next decade, every phone will be “smart” and every device will be “connected”.  This is the unique opportunity that the fund was created to address.  The fund brings capital, resources and unparalleled domain expertise to the partnerships it forms with exceptional entrepreneurs around the world who are shaping the future of the mobile eco-system.