S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Microsoft faces new Excel rival as it’s forced to separate teams from office
Plus: BlackBerry CEO sued by former senior employee for sexual harassment.
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Define Capital closes $20 million to acquire and nurture profitable niche software companies
New Toronto private equity fund aims to follow in Constellationâs footsteps.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Coinbase secures restricted dealer status in Canada
Plus: Nuvei to go-private in $6.3B deal while Binance kills Bitcoin NFT support.
The stapler problem in #CDNtech procurement
Plus: Meet BetaKitâs new CEO.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Ontario budget allocates funding to healthtech procurement
Plus: Neuralink is now accepting Canadian patients.
BetaKit Live: How Coinbase is growing crypto adoption in Canada
Join BetaKit and Coinbase on April 4, 2024 for a fireside chat on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
Coinbase becomes first international crypto exchange to secure restricted dealer licence in Canada
The approval comes as Coinbase faces an SEC crackdown at home.
R|T: The Retail Times – Why women in retail are leaving CEO positions
Plus: Lightspeed CEO muses about privatization; Giant Tigerâs cyberattack.
Cohereâs Aidan Gomez talks scaling AI for enterprise, Vinod Khosla explores risk-taking at CIX Summit 2024
Opening night covered AI adoption, risk-taking in venture capital, and bipedal robots.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Peek inside Canvaâs battle plan against Adobe
Plus: Ontario school boards sue social media giants for $4.5B.
Nuvei to be acquired by US-based Advent and taken private in $6.3-billion USD deal
Nuvei will become the latest in string of publicly traded Canadian tech companies to go private.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years
Plus: Mogo backs Kaos in WonderFi boardroom battle.
Why Dax Dasilva thinks about taking Lightspeed private
Plus: Notman House is for sale. A startup-led effort wants to buy it back.
WonderFi responds as shareholders Kaos Capital, Mogo push for board overhaul
Kaos and Mogo want board changes. WonderFi claims Mogo wants control without paying a premium.
R|T: The Retail Times – Tobi Lutke granted a nine-figure Shopify compensation package
Plus: Sonder faces class action, Busbud continues LATAM push.