Voiceflow raises $4.7 million CAD following takeover of American competitor
Voice app design and development platform Voiceflow has raised a nearly $4.7 million CAD seed round, following an announcement…
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Velocity and YC grad, Fuzzbuzz, raises $3.6 million CAD seed round
Fuzzbuzz, an automated software security platform founded in Kitchener-Waterloo, has raised a $3.6 million CAD seed round led…
Axonify expanding presence in Europe
Waterloo-based learning software company Axonify will be expanding into the European market, with strategic new roles supporting…
Wattpad, Sony Pictures Television teaming up for TV programming deal
Wattpad has announced a partnership with Sony Pictures Television to co-produce original programming of Wattpad’s stories…
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Leveling up the cloud
The SaaS Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering major SaaS news from Canada and around the globe. Subscribe to S|W using the…
Lightspeed officially launches loyalty platform globally following TSX debut
Montreal-based POS software firm Lightspeed has globally launched Lightspeed Loyalty, a technology that enables merchants to…
Tiny acquires Pixel Union, commits $25 million CAD to acquire more Shopify partners
Victoria-based technology holding company, Tiny, has procured a majority stake in Pixel Union, a major Shopify partner. The…
Toronto-founded PagerDuty goes public, sees stocks jump in market debut
PagerDuty, a San Francisco-headquartered SaaS unicorn, with Canadian roots, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)…
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Leveling up the cloud
The SaaS Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering major SaaS news from Canada and around the globe. Subscribe to S|W using the…
Synapse raises $3.3 million CAD seed funding for corporate e-learning software
Toronto-based Synapse, which provides e-learning software for company training programs, recently announced the close of a…
Toronto-based Rangle expands digital consultancy to Europe
Digital Javascript and HTML5 consultancy firm Rangle has announced it is establishing its first European office in Amsterdam,…
Echosec helping security teams search the dark web
Victoria-based Echosec, an online data aggregation platform, has announced the launch of Beacon, a dark web search tool. Beacon…
HiMama raises $7.25 million CAD Series A to expand child care software
Toronto-based HiMama announced today that it has raised a $7.5 million Series A funding round, as it looks to expand its child…
Erin Bury named CEO of Willful
Erin Bury, advisor and investor in Toronto-based Willful, is jumping with both feet into entrepreneurship, replacing her husband…
10 Montreal tech companies to watch in 2019
In recent years, BetaKit has presented curated lists of the top Montreal startups to watch. As with previous years, there is…