TD Bank launches Innovation Partners banking platform for tech companies
TD Innovation Partners’ leadership team is almost entirely ex-SVB and ex-RBCx leaders.
Chexy secures $4.1 million to improve its rent-to-rewards platform’s payments infrastructure
Chexy is looking to become a one-stop shop for tenants paying their monthly rent and expenses.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Regulations? Uber can “suck it up,” says BC premier
Plus: Copperleaf to go private in billion-dollar deal.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Brex drops a CEO and looks to IPO
Plus: An exclusive interview on the new Float product launches.
Borderless AI makes its Cohere-powered HR agent free to use
As part of the Cohere Startup Program, Borderless hopes to attract new customers by opening up its AI offering.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Acorn Biolabs secures $11 million for regenerative medicine
Plus: Feds table bill with new healthtech data security rules.
Northleaf and Kensington both close their VCCI-backed funds
VCCI-backed funds-of-funds feature respective $370 million and $290 million war chests.
R|T: The Retail Times – Exclusive: Ex-Lightspeed CEO nabs Inovia gig
Plus: Costco building an ad business with customer data.
Descartes acquires UK-based logistics platform BoxTop for $18 million CAD
The deal follows a similar across-the-pond acquisition in April.
Zero Point Cryogenics secures $2.67 million to help cool quantum computers
The non-dilutive funding came from PrairiesCan and the City of Edmonton’s Edge Fund.
Sharethrough to merge with French adtech firm Equativ
Deal comes two-and-a-half years after Sharethrough scrapped TSX IPO plans.
A|I: The AI Times – Cohere had a busy week
Plus: How Apple fell behind in the AI arms race.
Kardium secures $143 million CAD to help bring irregular heartbeat treatment to market
The financing follows Kardium’s $158-million CAD round in 2021.
Copperleaf Technologies to join wave of #CDNtech go-privates in $1-billion deal with IFS
Copperleaf expects IFS to continue investing in its Vancouver team.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Certn gets investigated by privacy watchdogs
Plus: BlackBerry asks court to throw out workplace misconduct suit.