Requity Homes closes $1.2 million to expand rent-to-own home ownership model to Western Canada
Requity wants to apply what Divvy Homes and Landis are doing in the US to Canada.
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Hootsuite appoints former Mailchimp exec as CPO, as Wealthsimple snags Snap VP as COO
Natalia Williams and Radhika Kakkar join Hootsuite and Wealthsimple as both companies expand their offerings.
Boxhub closes Delivery Hero CEO-led $2.7 million seed round
Boxhub aims to make the buying and selling of shipping containers as easy as booking a hotel.
MeetAmi secures $36.5 million to help wealth management firms navigate digital assets
MeetAmi looks to relieve the pressure wealth management firms are feeling amid the crypto boom.
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Plus: Federal #Budget2022 surprisingly heavy on innovation policy.
Amid mounting competition, Float’s CEO believes company has what it takes to win in Canada
With army of customer evangelists, Float aims to capture Canadian market before international competitors swoop in.
University of Alberta spinout DrugBank closes $9 million from Brightspark, Amplitude, Theodorus to fuel drug discovery with its data platform
DrugBank wants to ‘be the shovel’ in a gold rush of new medical innovation.
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Plus: PocketHealth secures $20 million CAD to put medical records in US patients’ pockets.
Eight months after a personal tragedy and a lab fire, e-Zinc has bounced back with a $31 million CAD Series A
e-Zinc has secured backing from Anzu, BDC, Toyota, and Eni to start producing its energy storage solution.
In effort to cut costs, CSE-listed Legible lays off over a third of its employees
Legible becomes second publicly-traded Canadian tech firm to announce significant layoffs in the past week.
Amid NFT boom, Liquid MarketPlace aims to turn physical sports and Pokémon cards into tokens
Logan Paul-led startup using blockchain to facilitate fractional ownership of physical assets.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Tough cuts, big hopes
Plus: Antitrust bill targeting Amazon, Google, Apple gets support from DOJ.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Sequoia, A16Z, and Tom Brady (Oh my)
Plus: Alberta proposes regulatory sandbox to attract FinTechs, crypto companies to the province.
Canadian startup news of the week (4/03/22)
Plus: Meta to hire up to 2,500 workers in Canada, open engineering hub to build metaverse.
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