Clio doubles C-Suite with four new execs to support product, international expansion
Burnaby-based legaltech startup Clio has expanded its executive team, bringing on former leaders from high-growth and public…
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Canadian startup news of the week (11/07/21)
Welcome to BetaKit’s startup stories of the week! Here, you will find the week’s most important news, features,…
Owl.co raises $30 million Series B to scale insurance claim monitoring solution
Vancouver-based insurance tech startup Owl.co has raised $30 million in its Series B funding round led by Cota Capital. Other…
Hubdoc founders ready to help New Zealand’s A2X become as big as Shopify
New Zealand’s A2X Accounting is drawing on Canadian talent to help scale its company to Shopify size. The global e-commerce…
R|T: The Retail Times – Sonder’s lowered expectations
The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news from Canada and around the globe. Subscribe to R|T using…
Fluence acquires XLCubed to build an expansive finance reporting platform
Toronto FinTech SaaS startup Fluence Technologies has acquired United Kingdom-based XLCubed, a provider of reporting and analytics…
Tiger Global the latest suitor of corporate card startup Float in new $37 million CAD Series A
Less than six months after securing its seed round, Float’s corporate card and spending management solution has attracted…
US proptech Opendoor plots Canadian hiring expansion, aims to add 100 engineers
San Francisco-based real estate tech firm Opendoor is planning to hire around 100 product development engineers in Canada by…
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – IPO for Christmas
The SaaS Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering major SaaS news from Canada and around the globe. Subscribe to S|W using the…
Canadian startup news of the week (10/31/21)
Welcome to BetaKit’s startup stories of the week! Here, you will find the week’s most important news, features,…
Mogo planting trees to offset carbon emissions from Bitcoin mining
In the midst of the controversy over the climate change impact Bitcoin mining causes, the FinTech startup Mogo Inc. has launched…
Hopper’s Series G kept Montréal funding strong in Q3
Montréal’s tech ecosystem continued to see strong venture funding in the third quarter of 2021, raising a total of $408.7…
Lumira Ventures latest Canadian VC to jump on SPAC trend in pursuit of US medtech firms
A newly formed special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) with executives from and backed by Canada’s Lumira Ventures set…
Former CTO the latest Coinsquare exec to sue the crypto startup
Simon Palmer, who previously served as Coinsquare’s chief technology officer (CTO), has filed a lawsuit against the Toronto-based…
Propel closes over-allotment option, pulls in $70 million for public offering
Toronto-based FinTech startup Propel Holdings has closed its over-allotment option that generated gross proceeds of $9.1 million…