FORAGEN LAUNCHED WITH $42 MILLION FINANCING DEAL

Royal Bank Ventures Inc (RBVI) has finally made good on its pledge to create an early-stage investment pool for agri-food and agri-biotechnology with the official announcement of $42 million in financing for Foragen Technologies Limited Partnership. Announced in early 1999, the launch of Forgagen was contingent upon securing financial partners (R$, March 10/99). Those partners are SGF Soquia Inc, a subsidiary of Société générale de financement du Québec, and the Saskatchewan Opportunities Corp in conjunction with Crown Investments Corp of Sask-atchewan. Each partner is cont