S|W: The SaaS Weekly – What’s old is new again: Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny
Plus: Google employees have a bad feeling mass layoffs are coming.
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ApplyBoard cuts back customer experience department
Layoffs impact six percent of ApplyBoard’s workforce.
Nortel alum-turned-mystery novelist combines her tech and writing background with Fictionary
Fictionary’s $1.8 million round one of the first investments out of BDC’s Thrive Venture Fund.
Canadian tech talks down rounds, disasters, and “recipes for failure”
Featuring interviews with luminaries from OMERS Ventures, Shopify, Coveo, Clio, Unbounce, and L-SPARK.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Nobul, Hopper top Deloitte Canada’s Fast 50
Plus: Twitter employees say no to being “extremely hardcore.”
Acerta closes $10.4 million CAD Series B to help automakers like Nissan and GM build car parts more efficiently
Acerta puts pedal to the metal and targets North American, European expansion.
WorkJam closes $50 million USD round co-led by Inovia, Fonds FTQ
WorkJam’s platform is geared towards supporting the frontline workforce.
Legal tech startup Clio advances its FinTech play with launch of payments product in Canada
Clio claims to have processed over $1 billion USD in legal transactions.
L-Spark’s Leo Lax: 2022 has been a “disaster” for SaaS funding, though sector continues to grow
“The bias is less towards building the innovation economy, more towards sustaining what we got.”
Will some Canadian tech companies die during the downturn?
Founders: get used to hearing the ‘Canadian no’ more often.
Canadian tech layoffs continue as tough year comes to a close
Properly, TealBook, D2L, League among latest firms to cut staff amid economic downturn.
BluWave-ai, Tehama receive collective $4.4 million from FedDev Ontario for product development, hiring
The federal government investment is expected to create 85 jobs in the Ottawa region.
Symend closes $54 million CAD to pursue global expansion amid uncertain economic environment
Facing market headwinds and tailwinds, Symend has cut staff and set its sights on growing efficiently.
Nobul, Hopper top Deloitte Canada’s fastest growing startups lists for 2022
Annual survey of tech execs expresses concerns over access to capital, talent.
BoostSecurity emerges from stealth with $12 million CAD to automate cybersecurity for DevOps
Two veterans in the application security space want everyone to deliver software at large scales.