Slack CEO Lidiane Jones to depart after a year in the role
Jones will become CEO of Bumble as Salesforce-owned Slack looks for its third CEO in as many years.
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The BetaKit Keynote Stage returns to SAAS NORTH 2023
Workleap, Wealthsimple, OpenView, BDC leaders among stage headliners November 15-16.
Brickeye secures $5 million CAD in convertible debt round with participation from BDC and Graphite Ventures
Brickeye provides construction companies with job site monitoring, analytics, and smart automations.
FigBytes acquired by Irish software company AMCS in trans-atlantic ESG deal
The deal comes one year after FigBytes secured $14.5 million USD for its ESG insights platform.
Hyatt brothers aim to build their “next big thing” with majority ownership of DataStealth
After exiting Dyadem and BlueCat for over $1 billion, the Hyatts have teamed up again to tackle cybersecurity.
Richard Lynch will replace John Chen as interim CEO as BlackBerry prepares to split company
BlackBerry has been attempting to revive shareholder interest over the past year.
PLATO’s Keith McIntosh among EY’s Entrepreneur Of The Year 2023 regional winners
McIntosh was recognized for building Indigenous representation among PLATO’s workforce.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Databricks nabs Arcion for $100M, 1Password detects “suspicious activity”
Plus: CentML gets Google and Nvidia backing to boost ML model performance.
BDC Capital recommits to leading seed deals in startups across Canada with new $50-million fund
VCs applaud BDC’s commitment to direct seed funding, ask for more emerging manager support.
Deloitte spinout Arteria AI closes $46-million CAD Series B to help banks turn documents into data
Backers include GGV Capital, Citi, BDC Capital, Information VP, and Illuminate Financial.
Google and Nvidia-backed CentML secures $37 million CAD to help companies deploy AI amid chip shortages
Toronto startup wants to help AI hardware “starvation period” by optimizing ML models.
After pivoting focus from sellers to buyers, Kiwiz hopes to be the Uber for car inspections
Kiwiz has raised $600,000 CAD in pre-seed funding.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Struggling BBTV to go private while BlackBerry spinout eyes June IPO
Plus: What Allen Lau learned from Wattpad’s $754-million acquisition.
QuoteMachine adds $3.7 million in new funding to streamline the sales stack for merchants
The Montréal-based startup is led by Lightspeed alumni.
Workplace investigation platform Case IQ acquires hotline service Whistleblower Security
Case IQ sees telephone hotlines as a “crucial” element of case management intake.