Hardbacon acquires Simple Rate to consolidate financial product comparison tools
Hardbacon is focused on acquisitions that help users bring home the bacon.
Montréal
Age of Union Alliance donates $14.5 million to BC Parks Foundation
Age of Union is Dax Dasilva’s latest focus after stepping down as Lightspeed CEO.
Mila partners with Twitter’s data and machine learning team
Twitter wants Mila to ML your tweets.
With $150 million USD in fresh funding, Montréal’s Talent.com is ready to take on Indeed worldwide
Co-CEO says startup wants to be Pepsi to Indeed’s Coke.
Bloom secures $1.4 million CAD, launches AI-powered platform to measure e-commerce product photo performance
Bloom’s big picture vision is to match its algorithm with generative AI.
Market watch: Nuvei, VerticalScope, Magnet Forensics
Nuvei posts strong Q4, 2021 earnings as VerticalScope, Magnet see mixed results.
Somm acquires last-minute restaurant reservation app Dinr to move beyond wine recommendation
Somm describes Dinr deal as “part of a bigger vision” for the wine-focused startup.
Clinia closes $5 million to scale B2B health search infrastructure
Montréal startup aims to be “first point of entry for health searches.”
Zymeworks co-founder, former CEO Ali Tehrani joins Amplitude Ventures as venture partner
Tehrani aims to leverage his Zymeworks learnings to help other Canadian biotech firms grow.
Haivision to acquire France’s Aviwest to expand low latency video solutions
Aviwest is Haivision’s second acquisition post-IPO.
Hopper continues acquisition spree with Parisian airline travel tech Smooss
Hopper looks to bolster its B2B offering as it expands into new verticals.
Busbud closes $14 million CAD, acquires Recorrido to fuel Latin American expansion
Chilean energy firm COPEC’s venture arm led the round.
Mila partners with AI Sweden to bolster AI R&D in Canada and Sweden
AI Sweden has established a physical presence in Montréal.
Bank of Montreal commits $100 million to launch lending program for Black entrepreneurs
Black entrepreneurs can receive loans of up to $250,000.
Paper secures $343 million CAD with US schools drawn to its remote tutoring tech
Paper doubled the number of students on its platform to two million since last year.