website design for Pan-Canadian Technology Fund

Pan-Canadian Technology Fund

The Pan-Canadian Technology Fund (PCTF) is a new venture investment fund that provides funding to Canadian-based technology companies. The fund provided capital to growing, cash flow positive, profitable companies that cannot access capital from traditional funding sources such as banks and traditional financial institutions.

There are two target audience. The first is entrepreneurs looking for funding for their new ventures. The second is those investors looking to invest in PCTF.

Industry can be categorized under venture capital, investment banking and financial services.

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The PCTF brand reflects the following attributes:

1) Venture Capital, Investment Banking, Financial Services. The notion of venture capital, investment banking, and financial services, which are professional and conservative in nature

2) Entrepreneurial. Our customers are Entrepreneurs that run their own businesses

3) Technology and Innovation Focused. The PCTF invests in technology, which could be software, computer related hardware, or other ventures with a significant technology component in their business

4) Canadian. The PCTF services the Canadian Market.

We have included med-fi wireframes. We are looking for two designs, one for the home page (0.0) and one for the entrepreneurs page (2.0).

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Inspiration

For the home page, we will be using an image slider. The images we use will be large and will go outside the 960px area. Here are some examples to help you understand. 

http://www.mother-parkers.com/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.brown-gold.com/Pages/default.aspx

Some images ideas would be an aerial view of the Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal skylines. Or you could use Canadian nature scenes. Others images could be of technology, a trading floor or of buildings. 

Website Inspiration

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