Ask @StartupCFO: Should I consider a buyout?
Typically, when founders and management teams think about their exit strategy, they are thinking about selling to a strategic…
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Dax Dasilva on buying out investor Accel to deter Lightspeed acquisition
On the latest episode of BNN’s The Disruptors, Dax Dasilva, CEO of Lightspeed, discussed how the company grew to one of…
Today in Funding ($40M): Appili, Finn.ai, Goldmoney, Askuity, ODX
Every day, BetaKit tracks innovation funding news from across Canada. Here’s the latest on who raised how much, and from…
Tasktop raises $11.3 million Series A to ramp up sales of team collaboration platform
Vancouver-based Tasktop, which creates software that automates the software development process, announced that it has closed…
Moving The Dial asks senior leaders to go out of their way to support #womenintech
Despite its organizational genesis only three weeks ago, last night’s Moving The Dial event attracted hundreds of people…
The Entrepreneurship Society event reveals the best and worst ways to raise money from investors
As BetaKit’s Ask an Investor series often shows, there are common questions many entrepreneurs have when they’re…
Ask Pam CEO says quotas necessary to encourage diversity following Google Demo Day: Women’s edition
Pour lire cet article en français, cliquez ici. A couple of weeks ago, Ask Pam — a cloud startup that centralizes the day-to-day…
#firesideconf brings 250 people to the middle of nowhere and asks them to connect
Last year, the first-ever Fireside Conference brought together 80 members of Toronto’s tech community, put them in a campground…
Why Kik and Facebook are fighting over bots like Chatty McChatface while investors watch
A lot has changed in the messaging space since Jonathan Keebler and Matt McCausland launched of their anonymous chat service…
Ask @StartupCFO: How do I deal with ‘mentor whiplash’?
Back in my VC days we ran the FounderFuel accelerator. Our program was blessed with many strong mentors. We regularly brought…
NACO hosting inaugural Western Regional Summit for Angel investors on May 24
On May 24, the National Angel Capital Organization is hosting its first-ever Western Regional Summit in Calgary. It’s…
1000 Angels launches Startup Return Calculator to support investors making funding decisions
1000 Angels, a OneVest-owned network that connects vetted startups with investors, launched a new tool to help investors determine…
Ask @StartupCFO: How to avoid the “Oh shit” board meeting
I was at a gathering of most of Canada’s VC fund managers a few weeks ago in Vancouver. One of the fund managers talked about…
Ask @StartupCFO: Should I hire a COO or CFO?
Venturebeat recently declared in an article that “The CFO is dead, long live the COO.” The premise of this piece, written…
Cassia Research and TRIDUS partner to give all investors ‘seatbelts’ in time of market volatility
Just a few days before the Canadian cutoff date for topping up RRSPs in hopes of a big tax refund (despite being in a time…