Hopper to power travel portal for Brazilian digital banking giant Nubank
Hopper brought travel booking to Uber UK and is now targeting Nubank’s 80 million customers.
Canadian Startup News
Vital Biosciences reveals desktop blood-testing device with funding from OpenAI, Salesforce CEOs
After the bloody mess at Theranos, Vital is among the new wave of startups developing accessible diagnostics.
Sun Life Canada to acquire Dialogue Health Technologies
Dialogue will maintain its head office in Montréal and operate as a standalone entity as part of Sun Life Canada.
Shopify reveals AI suite, business credit card, dropshipping-like feature in latest product showcase
Canadian rapper Drake launched his website Drake Related using Shopify Collective.
PasswordBox, Intel alums build enterprise low-code tool for natural language models
HumanFirst’s backers include Panache, Inovia, and Real Ventures.
Waterloo Region deal volume has been tanking steadily since 2019. Could undisclosed deals be partly to blame?
Off-the-record raises may be painting an incomplete picture of the ecosystem, investor says.
MindBridge closes $60 million USD from US growth equity firm, appoints interim CEO
AI-powered auditing-tech firm adds new interim leader as CEO and founder depart.
Review of Alberta Innovates’ Scaleup GAP program shows $147 million raised, 118 jobs created
Scaleup GAP was created in 2021 to bring more tech and business accelerators to Alberta.
Long-time VP and product leader Satish Kanwar departs Shopify
Kanwar steps down 10 years after Shopify’s Jet Cooper acquisition.
Practice Better acquires That Clean Life for a healthy-sounding eight figures to continue expansion
An eight-year collaboration has ended in acquisition for the two Toronto healthtech startups.
Solink secures $60-million USD Series C and backing from Goldman Sachs to become cloud video surveillance leader
As the security market shifts to cloud, Solink looks to scale.
Ontario organizations secure nearly $20 million in federal funds to drive entrepreneurship, job creation
Funding is split between five companies and one business hub in Toronto, as well as one Ottawa-based firm.
Impact of Canada’s H-1B visa talent grab may go well beyond 10,000 applicants
Taking aim at “broken” US visa program was “best marketing Canada has ever done”: lawyer.
Canadian tech unicorns Ada, Clio, Lightspeed among first cohort of Canada’s Global Hypergrowth Project
Canada aims to take companies from $1-billion ‘unicorn’ valuation to $1-billion in annual revenue.
Liberum raises $1.8 million for ‘protein synthesis as a service’
The Toronto-based startup creates custom proteins for everything from medical applications to household products.