fintech

Live shopping marketplace ShopThing secures $10 million Series A round

ShopThing lets you shop for things via someone else’s live stream.

How trips to São Paulo, London, and Hong Kong sold Kanata Ventures on Canada.

Plus: Virtual Gurus closes $8.4 million amid US demand for diversity-focused virtual assistants.

Tiggy, Booxi, and SmartONE are some of the 11 startups joining this year.

The appointment to come almost a year after its recommendation from the Advisory Committee on Open Banking.

Pivot in 2020 turned reseller into fast-growing payments FinTech.

Inside the province-wide push to make BC a global leader in cleantech

NDP noted Alberta attracted less venture capital last year than provinces like Ontario, BC, Québec.

Canada explores digital currency as Biden calls for US to examine its own options.

Wisedocs’ “bread and butter” is helping insurance orgs work with medical records.

Faced with increased problems from climate change, cleantech stakeholders believe BC should think bigger still.

Scribble Data aims to dip into Toronto’s machine learning talent pool.

Why Clio and Trulioo are choosing M&A over IPO.

Clio CEO says IPO window is closed, and “probably gone” for 2022.

Key claims a waitlist of nearly 5,000 people for its service.