Optimize Capital Markets was an internet-based institutional crowdfunding company located in

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. Optimize Capital Markets was founded in September 2009 by Matthew McGrath, a former vice-president of private client services at the Royal Bank of Canada. The company was referenced as recently as January 2014 in a

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Economics report, estimating that there were 60,000 angel investors in the

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. On April 16, 2013, Optimize Capital Markets provided comments on capital raising exemptions 45-710 to the

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. The company offered a wide range of financial services: Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Shareholder Liquidity, Equity Research, Advisory Services, Institutional Marketplace. Headquarters were in Toronto, but, by appointment, it was possible to meet them even in

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, Calgary,

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and New York ( Midtown or Wall Street).

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