A $72 billion Canadian investor is poised to start making venture capital bets in Silicon Valley (Zachary Tracer/Business Insider: Finance)

Zachary Tracer / Business Insider: Finance
A $72 billion Canadian investor is poised to start making venture capital bets in Silicon Valley – A huge Canadian pension fund is plotting to expand into Silicon Valley, seeking to place bets on hot US tech startups. OMERS, which manages more than C$95 billion ($72 billion) on behalf of municipal workers in the province of Ontario, hired Michael Yang as a managing partner of OMERS Ventures …