Category: Augmented Reality/VR
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AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) high performance computing power attracts Artificial Intelligence contract
AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C), which recently topped up its bank account to bring in more sales folks, announced some sales today, with a news release pointing to a new contract with an artificial intelligence company. AMPD Ventures Inc. has signed a deal with Variational AI Inc. to supply machine-learning infrastructure hosted at AMPD’s DC1 sustainable data…
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AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) shows off its new HPC data centre with big launch party and stock jump
Last night, Vancouver’s tech elite were crowded into the Waterfall Building, off Granville Island, enjoying cocktails, tasty vittles and, most importantly, tours of AMPD Ventures’ (AMPD.C) new DC1 high performance computing data centre. This was no ordinary tech soiree, there were representatives of some seriously large partner companies, potential clients, and folks who AMPD would…
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AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) jumps 31% after short attack falls away
Technology public markets newbie AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) has had an interesting first 7 weeks on the market, initially doubling in value out of the gate, before profit taking and short selling drove it well down to 2/3 of its initial financing price in just as quick time. That downswing swung back hard today, with a…
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AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) management pulls baller financing move, fights off shorters
AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) CEO Anthony Brown told a reporter yesterday he was looking to raise money for acquisitions and growth, with a $2 million raise announced a few days ago. Nothing weird about that. What was maybe a little weird was the flex Brown was pulling in the announcing of that financing. With his stock heading…
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AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) secures video rendering deal with team behind Rick and Morty and Teen Titans Go!
My favourite thing is when a company says ‘we’re going to do a thing,’ and then a few weeks later they announced that thing actually happened. That shouldn’t be a weirdly high standard but, in the public markets, it is. A few weeks ago, AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) told the world it had completed work on…
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![AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) begins trading on the CSE today – here’s why it matters for internet users]()
AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) begins trading on the CSE today – here’s why it matters for internet users
The year is 2029. A rogue and non-copyright protected artificial intelligence system has gained sentience and launches an Oedipal war against humanity, its creators. Our best hopes for survival lie in the child-prodigy gamers of yester-year, trained for maximum lethality in combat, vehicle operations and strategy thanks to high-performance computing servers which cuts latency to…
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E-Sports ETFs are terrible and not really about e-sports, but what is?
Zynga (ZNGA.Q), the mobile video game developer, is a terrible investment. The sort of large company that only stays large because it’s large to begin with, thereby attracting dumb investment from institutional folks who buy the things they see mentioned on CNBC, Zynga made US$280 million in revenues last quarter, dropping a net loss of…
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E-sports in a nutshell: Enthusiast Gaming (EGLX.V)’s Overwatch League team makes finals, but where’s the dough?
If you bought into Enthusiast Gaming (EGLX.V) because they have a connection to the Vancouver Titans Overwatch League team, congratulations on their winning season, where they came runner-up in the finals against the San Francisco Shock. The Titans came into the final with a 25-3 record, which isn’t horrible, but wasn’t enough to take it…
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![AMPD Technologies about to go public: Holding last million of financing for little guys]()
AMPD Technologies about to go public: Holding last million of financing for little guys
If you’ve been reading this site for a long time, you’ll have heard us mention AMPD Technologies before. This is a company I’ve been a part of, in an informal advisory nature, for nearly two years, having met one of the founders at a Dungeons and Dragons game way back, and realizing his company would…
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Mining for minors: Time for resource companies to figure out the money is in millennials
In 2015, when we started this outfit, our business model was to steer clear of conventional wisdom and the same old pubco marketing techniques, and instead focus on rich niches. Honest coverage of client companies that is negative when justified was one niche. Being inclusive of women was another. And appealing to a younger investor…
