Coveo latest Canadian tech company to file for TSX IPO
Québec City-based artificial intelligence (AI) retail tech startup Coveo has filed to go public on the Toronto Stock Exchange…
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Lightspeed posts record revenues in second quarter of fiscal 2022
Lightspeed announced total revenues of $133.2 million USD (165.4 million CAD), for its second quarter 2022, an increase of…
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…
D2L, E Automotive make their Toronto Stock Exchange debuts
Two Canadian tech companies, D2L and E Automotive, began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) today. Kitchener-Waterloo-based…
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…
Sonder lowers valuation expectations for SPAC deal amid market conditions
As part of its reverse takeover deal, travel tech company Sonder has changed its valuation from its original estimate of $2.2…
Lightspeed continues e-commerce push with product developed through Ecwid acquisition
Lightspeed has launched a newly updated e-commerce product built on the integration of its acquisition of Ecwid. Founded in…
Shopify increases revenues and gross profits, posts operating loss in Q3 2021
Shopify posted total revenue of $1.12 billion, up 46 percent year-over-year as it announced its third-quarter results for 2021.…
R|T: The Retail Times – E Automotive revs up
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Hootsuite plans to IPO before Christmas, raise $200 million on TSX
Hootsuite is finalizing its preparations to go public on the Toronto Stock Exchange before the end of the year, BetaKit has…
GrubMarket expands to Canada by acquiring e-commerce startup Funtech
San Francisco-based foodtech startup GrubMarket enters the Canadian e-commerce market through its completed acquisition of…
Former Slack leader Allan Leinwand joins Shopify as new CTO
Allan Leinwand, former senior leader at Slack, is joining Shopify as its chief technology officer. In a Tweet posted on Monday,…
Amid potential PayPal-Pinterest deal, Scott Galloway predicts Shopify will purchase Snap
Scott Galloway, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, has predicted that Canadian e-commerce giant…
7shifts moves HQ to Nutrien Tower for its post-COVID workforce
Saskatoon-based retail software startup 7shifts has entered into an agreement to lease a 22,500 square foot space in the Nutrien…
Shopify to help bands merch-ify their Spotify
Long-plagued by name confusion, especially in Twitter mentions, Canada’s Shopify and streaming service Spotify are teaming…