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Top Stories of the Week
Latest CBRE report shows Canada has some of the fastest-growing tech talent pools in North America(BETAKIT)
The CBRE report states that over the past five years, some of Canada’s major and emerging tech markets have experienced faster tech job growth than nearly all of its United States counterparts.
Great Hill Partners acquires majority stake in Auvik Networks for $312 million CAD(BETAKIT)
Prior to securing the $312 million from Great Hill, Auvik had raised just over $50 million CAD total.
Google’s Steven Woods joins Inovia as partner and CTO(BETAKIT)
Woods will become the ninth partner at Inovia and its sixth in Canada. Earlier this year, the firm raised $450 million USD for its second growth stage fund to build off the success of Lightspeed.
B.C. Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy to launch in fall with $105 million in funding(BETAKIT)
The Government of Canada’s $35 million commitment to the centre was part of its 2021 budget commitments and comes through Natural Resources Canada’s Energy Innovation Program.
Float secures $5 million seed round to make corporate credit cards less of a headache(BETAKIT)
Float is looking to use its newfound capital to “aggressively invest in product development, hiring, and growth.”
Latest Funding, Acquisitions, and Layoffs
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TOR – Think Research to acquire BioPharma Services (read more)
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TOR – Swift Medical – $44M (read more)
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VAN – Foodee acquired by Sodexo (read more)
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VAN – Ollie Order acquired by Next Glass (read more)
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SHE – Oneka – $5.5M (read more)
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OTT – Canvaspop acquired by Circle Graphics (read more)
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TOR – VitalHub acquires Alamac (read more)
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SF – Rootly – $3.2M (read more)
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TOR – Shift CRM acquired by Silverline (read more)
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TOR – Convergence.Tech – $2.67M (read more)
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TOR – Bird&Be – $2.2M (read more)
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MTL – Rithmik – $1.5M (read more)
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TOR – Happin – $1.2M (read more)
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ONT – Scatr – $1M (read more)
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REG – Prairie Robotics – $690K (read more)
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TOR – Sonero – $300K (read more)
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It’s mind-blowing.”
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