Toronto, ON (October 16, 2008) – The BlackBerry Partners Fund LP, a $150 million venture capital fund formed to focus on applications and services for the BlackBerry platform and other mobile platforms, announced today that it has appointed Marc Faucher and Matt Golden to its investment team.

Marc will leverage the experience gained in his career through positions at Summerhill Venture Partners (formerly BCE Capital), Bell Mobility, McKenna Group, and Ericsson Communications to provide the BlackBerry Partners Fund with extensive knowledge in both the communications domain and venture investing.

Matt offers the BlackBerry Partners Fund significant wireless operational expertise having been a founding member of Tira Wireless. Prior to Tira, Matt was involved with early stage venture capital at Brightspark Ventures LP following his law career at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP.

“Marc and Matt add competencies that perfectly compliment the knowledge and experience currently resident within the members of the BlackBerry Partners Fund management team,” said Kevin Talbot, Co-Managing Partner of the BlackBerry Partners Fund. “With these appointments the BlackBerry Partners Fund has further solidified itself as the preeminent source of venture capital for mobile application or service developers.”

About BlackBerry Partners Fund
The BlackBerry Partners Fund is a $150 million venture capital fund formed to focus on applications and services for the BlackBerry platform and other mobile platforms including mobile commerce (payments, advertising, retailing and banking), vertical and horizontal enterprise applications, communications, social networking, location-based applications and services (navigation and mapping), media and entertainment, and lifestyle and personal productivity applications. The Fund considers all stages of development and is co-managed by JLA Ventures and RBC Venture Partners. For further information visit: www.blackberrypartnersfund.com.

For more information, contact:
Matthew Bogart
BlackBerry Partners Fund
+416-367-2401
Matthew.bogart@blackberrypartnersfund.com