F|T: The FinTech Times – Canada’s crypto consolidation
Plus: Beanstalk cryptocurrency project robbed after hacker votes to send themself $182 million.
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Canadian startup news of the week (4/17/22)
Plus: The problem keeping entrepreneurs up at night.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Can Float win Canada?
Plus: Amid mounting competition, Float’s CEO believes company has what it takes to win in Canada
Legible sees more execs depart in restructuring as company eyes private placement for liquidity
In recent weeks, Legible has laid off 23 employees and lost its CTO, CFO, CRO, and CPO.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – No one Musk should have all that power
Plus: Federal #Budget2022 surprisingly heavy on innovation policy.
Canadian startup news of the week (4/10/22)
Plus: Sid Paquette will now head RBC Ventures and RBCx.
R|T: The Retail Times – Place your bets
Plus: Why Stripe’s ‘Fast’ Horse is losing the one-click checkout race.
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.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Tough cuts, big hopes
Plus: Antitrust bill targeting Amazon, Google, Apple gets support from DOJ.
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.
Following 2021 losses, Thinkific to lay off 100 employees
Layoffs to impact one-fifth of Thinkific’s 499-person team.
Canadian startup news of the week (3/27/22)
Plus: How NFTs might change music and gaming.
Canadian startup news of the week (3/20/22)
Inside the province-wide push to make BC a global leader in cleantech
F|T: The FinTech Times – Portage secures a boatload
Plus: A year after launch, Backbone Angels is closing gaps felt by underrepresented founders.
Canadian startup news of the week (3/13/22)
Why Clio and Trulioo are choosing M&A over IPO.