Emerge Commerce enters B2B space with purchase of WholesalePet.com for up to $31.2 million CAD
Following its purchase of BattlBox and Carnivore Club in August, Emerge Commerce has swung another sizable acquisition, this…
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Billdr secures $4 million CAD to build up its home renovation marketplace
MontrĂ©al-based startup Billdr, which offers a market network for the home renovation industry, has scored nearly $4 million…
Market Watch: E Automotive, Copperleaf post robust results in third quarter following IPOs
Two companies that recently entered the public markets announced robust third quarter 2021 results in the second week of November.…
Market Watch: VerticalScope makes acquisitions after revenue increase; BBTV posts positive Q3
Two Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX)-listed Canadian tech companies, Toronto-based VerticalScope and Vancouverâs BBTV Holdings…
US private equity firms make $300 million CAD strategic investment in Fullscript
A pair of American private equity firms have agreed to invest $300 million CAD ($240 million USD) in Ottawa-based healthtech…
R|T: The Retail Times – Ecobee’s new owner
The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news from Canada and around the globe. Subscribe to R|T using…
Shopify, Ledger dodge class action as California court dismisses 2020 data breach lawsuit
A California court has dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Shopify and Ledger over a 2020 Shopify data breach…
Calgary, the city that offered to fight a bear for Amazon HQ2, gets new Amazon data centre
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the IT service management arm of tech giant Amazon Inc., is set to open an infrastructure region…
Ikeaâs investment arm buys into Bolt Logistics as part of Series B round
Bolt Logistics (formerly Second Closet) has had a lightning-fast year, finding its niche in fulfillment and last-mile logistics,…
Coveo latest Canadian tech company to file for TSX IPO
QuĂ©bec City-based artificial intelligence (AI) retail tech startup Coveo has filed to go public on the Toronto Stock Exchange…
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
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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…