SAN FRANCISCO and TORONTO, January 15, 2019-- OMERS Ventures today announced its expansion to the U.S. through the opening of its Silicon Valley office and the hiring of venture capital veteran Michael Yang. OMERS Ventures is a multi-stage, multi-sector venture capital investment arm of OMERS, the defined benefit pension plan for municipal employees in the Province of Ontario, Canada. Michael Yang brings over a dozen years' of venture capital investing with an early stage focus on e-commerce and emerging technologies such as healthtech, IoT, and AR/VR.