Today in Hires: Hootsuite, Element AI
Recently, two Canadian tech companies have announced new members to their teams. Here’s a breakdown of who is joining and…
Canadian Startup News
Online grocery startup Goodfood to open new fulfillment centre in Toronto
Montréal-based Goodfood Market, an online grocery and meal-kit startup, has signed a lease for a new first fulfillment centre…
Silicon Valley Bank appoints former PayPal president Paul Parisi as new head of Canada
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a United States-based commercial bank that helps fund tech startups, has appointed Paul Parisias…
Boosted.ai raises $11.2 million CAD Series A led by Portag3 Ventures
Boosted.ai, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for the investment sector, has closed an $11.2 million CAD ($8 million…
Startup Canada Podcast: reaching your digital audience with Kevin Chan
In an age where everyone has a soap-box to stand on, it’s more important than ever to carve out your corner in the digital…
ApplyBoard raises $100 million CAD, claims $2 billion ‘unicorn’ valuation
Kitchener-Waterloo-based ApplyBoard has raised a $100 million CAD Series C round of funding, with the company claiming that…
Zone Startups Calgary to offer support to early-stage AgTech startups through new partnership
Zone Startups Calgary, an accelerator for pilot-ready tech startups, has partnered with United Farmers of Alberta Co-operative…
L-SPARK announces first cohort of Compass North accelerator program
SaaS accelerator L-Spark and Queen’s University have unveiled ten companies joining the first cohort of Compass North, an…
How Shopify turns ideas into insights
In these unprecedented times, entrepreneurs need all the help they can get. BetaKit has teamed up with Microsoft for Startups…
Canadian venture capital investment down seven percent in Q1 2020, CVCA finds
Venture capital investment in Canada for the first quarter of 2020 is down 7.5 percent compared to the first quarter last year,…
Shopify launches new POS connecting brick-and-mortar with online sales
Shopify launched what it is calling “a fully rebuilt and reimagined” Shopify POS on Monday. The new point-of-sale…
Black Swan #7 – Scaling healthcare in a pandemic
Last episode, we spoke to a Canadian startup pivoting to healthtech in light of COVID-19. So what’s happened to those already…
Ayogo Health raises $7.5 million Series B for behavioural support platform
Vancouver-based Ayogo Health, which has developed a behavioural support platform for healthcare patients, has raised a $7.5…
EDC executive vice president on the agency’s COVID-19 response
Export Development Canada (EDC), a Crown corporation that aims to help Canadian companies respond to international business…
How some provinces are facilitating the federal commercial rent relief program
Only three provincial governments have provided details on how they will facilitate the federal government’s commercial rent…