S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Whitecap caps off 2021 with new fund
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Narwhal Project Canadian accelerator ranking shows need for improvement compared to US counterparts
Canadian accelerators have some catching up to do.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Is Wealthsimple building a FinTech super app?
Welcome to the FinTech Times, a weekly newsletter covering the biggest FinTech news from around the globe. If you want to read…
Canadian startup news of the week (12/12/21)
Welcome to BetaKit’s startup stories of the week! Here, you will find the week’s most important news, features,…
Cross-Border Impact Ventures launches with $30 million in commitments for women, youth-focused healthtech fund
Toronto-based Cross-Border Impact Ventures (CBIV) has secured commitments of $30 million USD in an initial close of its new…
Influitive acquires PostBeyond to expand customer advocacy platform to employees
Influitive has acquired fellow Toronto-based PostBeyond, a SaaS company focused on employee advocacy and social selling. The…
D2L records rising revenue, net losses in first quarterly report since IPO
D2L’s latest earnings report shows the Kitchener-Waterloo-based EdTech company continues to benefit from the pandemic-fuelled…
Execs, investors sell $74.4 million in Magnet Forensics shares
The selling shareholders received combined gross proceeds of $74.4 million.
Sleep Country acquires 25 percent stake in blackout curtains manufacturer Sleepout
Major Canadian sleep retailer Sleep Country has signed an agreement to purchase a 25 percent stake in Sleepout, a Toronto-based…
Shabodi secures $3.3 million to accelerate deployment of next-generation 5G solutions
Toronto-based Shabodi has raised $3.17 million USD in what it classifies as an oversubscribed seed round led by Blumberg Capital,…
Whitecap Venture Partners closes $140 million Fund V to invest across Canada
Whitecap Venture Partners has secured $140 million CAD for its fifth fund, which will invest in early-stage B2B SaaS and medtech…
R|T: The Retail Times – Life House looks to stop hotel bleeding
The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news from Canada and around the globe. Subscribe to R|T using…
Nuvei shares drop amid short seller report
Payment processing company Nuvei saw its shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and Nasdaq fall rapidly today as a short-seller…
NACO names Backbone Angels’ Arati Sharma 2021 Angel of the Year
Former Shopify senior leader and current founding partner of Backbone Angels Arati Sharma has been named Canada’s Angel…
A|I: The AI Times – Inside the Canadian AI for VFX studio behind WandaVision
The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data, and automation news from around the…