Alongside closes $8 million Series A to merge its HR tools with CareerBeacon’s jobs site
Alongside used some of the funding to acquire CareerBeacon in December.
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LifeSpeak to acquire digital fitness platform Wellbeats for up to $117.9 million CAD
Wellbeats would mark LifeSpeak’s largest acquisition to date.
Paper secures $343 million CAD with US schools drawn to its remote tutoring tech
Paper doubled the number of students on its platform to two million since last year.
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Plus: Acquirers are circling Zendesk.
Former Wattpad employees close $300,000 to build relationship improvement app Couply
Couply’s investors include Wattpad co-founder Ivan Yuen, Shopify employees.
Who are Canada’s ‘soonicorns’?
BetaKit knew them before they were famous.
11 Canadian tech companies to watch in 2022
ControlHQ’s co-founder is back with his #CDNtech crystal ball.
Potential Motors closes $4 million CAD to improve off-road electric vehicle performance
The startup focuses on “the most overlooked space in electrification.”
Hospitality platform 7shifts secures $101.6 million CAD to increase staffing, product development
Startup says it added more than 10,000 restaurants to its platform last year.
Odaia secures $17.5 million CAD to help pharma firms focus their sales and marketing with AI
Odaia aims to be a “one-stop shop” for pharma data analysis.
Axya raises $3.9 million in seed extension to scale deployment of supply chain software
The initial round closed in March and raised $1.5 million.
Coveo sees 39 percent year-over-year revenue growth in “record” Q3
This is the first earnings report since Coveo went public on the TSX.
Elastic Path secures $60 million to scale “composable commerce movement”
The round brings Elastic Path’s total funding to $120 million.
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Dozr raises $27.5 million in Series B funding to support US expansion plans
The heavy equipment rental startup aims to replicate its Florida playbook in other markets.