Halifax-based SalesRight receives $250,000 in pre-seed funding
Halifax-based SalesRight, a cloud-based platform that helps B2B sales teams to create custom, interactive pricing guides,…
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S|W: The SaaS Weekly – A new era for enterprise IT
The SaaS Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering major SaaS news from Canada and around the globe. Subscribe to S|W using the…
VanillaSoft receives additional $3 million loan for sales engagement platform
VanillaSoft, a tech-enabled sales engagement service, has received a $3 million loan from the Fonds Régional de Solidarité…
Locketgo raises $1.2 million seed round for turnkey smart locker service
Locketgo, which offers mobile-charging lockers for event attendees, has announced the close of a $1.2 million round of seed…
CoLab Software becomes first Atlantic Canada startup to join Y Combinator
CoLab Software, based in St John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, has become the first Atlantic Canada startup to be accepted…
University of Ottawa’s MakerLaunch startup program gets a $1.5 million boost
The University of Ottawa’s faculty of engineering has received a $1.5 million CAD investment for its startup program MakerLaunch.…
Parity raises $5 million to make urban living sustainable
Toronto-based computer software company Parity, which uses technology to reduce carbon emissions for condos and multi-tenant…
Webware raises $2 million CAD following brick-and-mortar partnership with Staples
Webware.io, a Toronto-based website platform for small businesses, today announced that it has received $2 million in strategic…
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Slack on the NYSE
The SaaS Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering major SaaS news from Canada and around the globe. Subscribe to S|W using the…
Disruption Ventures cuts first cheque to women-led Hostfully
Disruption Ventures, a Canadian female-founded venture capital fund investing in women-led businesses, has deployed its first…
Hootsuite lays off 100 employees, 10 percent of its staff
Hootsuite, the Vancouver-based social media management unicorn, laid off more than 100 employees, or about 10 percent of its…
Cybersecurity startup Kobalt closes $1 million CAD founders round
Cybersecurity startup Kobalt has raised a $1 million CAD founders round, led by its co-founders, Pankaj Agarwal and Boris Wert,…
Toronto startup Thinkwire wins Josef Umdasch Research Prize
Toronto-based software engineering startup Thinkwire Inc. was named the winner of Josef Umdasch Research Prize at the 2019…
Lightspeed receives $30 million stand-by acquisition loan from CIBC
Earlier this month, Lightspeed announced that it has received new credit facilities, including a new $30 million stand-by acquisition…
Today in hires: Vention, Procurify, National Research Council Canada
In the last week, two Canadian SaaS companies and one government research organization have added new members to their teams.…