Shoes.com planning IPO this fall
It’s IPO season in Canada. After Shopify stunned the markets late last week by going public, which brought its value…
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Shopify reportedly prepping for 2015 dual-IPO to raise $100M at $1 billion valuation
Ottawa-based Shopify has been rumoured to go public for about a year now. According to the Wall Street Journal, the ecommerce…
Hootsuite Raises $35 Million in Pre-IPO Money, Acquires BrightKit
Vancouver’s Hootsuite, creators of a social media dashboard tool for enterprise and individuals, has raised $35 million…
Hootsuite Could Soon Go Public According to Reports
Vancouver social media dashboard startup Hootsuite is poised to go public following an expected cash influx from Fidelity…
Montreal/Mississauga’s DataWind Goes Public on Toronto Stock Exchange
DataWind, the company that makes low-cost tablets and a leader in low-cost Internet connectivity for emerging markets, has…
Canadian Startups Want to Exit But Show a “Startling Lack of Acquisition Preparedness”
Contrary to our “build Canada’s billion dollar company” cheerleading, Canadian startup founders are apparently…
Visual Search Platform Slyce to Go Public
Calgary and Toronto-based startup Slyce, the company that recently raised nearly $11 million in venture capital, is going…
Hootsuite, Shopify, BuildDirect and Others To Go Public?
A new Bloomberg report that quote’s OMERS Ventures’ John Ruffalo is saying that several Canadian technology companies…
Toronto and New York-Based BorderFree to Go Public
Toronto-based BorderFree (which also has offices in New York, Tel Aviv, Shanghai and Dublin) is reportedly set for an initial…
Female Head of Twitter Canada to Publish New Book, “Our Turn”
Move over Sheryl Sandberg, there’s another female social media exec ready to push her manifesto to the shelves. Twitter…
Jack Dorsey and Square Say Its Less About Payments and More about analytics
He completely changed the media industry and now he’s changing the mobile payments sector. But Jack Dorsey said that his…
Analyst Says Canada Can Expect More Tech IPOs
According to a second quarter report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), the global technology IPO market showed steady…
Why Groupon Acquired Uptake: Deal Targeting
Groupon confirmed its acquisition of social travel startup Uptake on Tuesday, though the terms were not disclosed. It’s…