Busbud closes $14 million CAD, acquires Recorrido to fuel Latin American expansion
Chilean energy firm COPEC’s venture arm led the round.
SaaS
Operto raises $15.3 million CAD to help hosts manage short-term rentals, hotels
Operto is eyeing international expansion and new verticals like hotels.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Wattpad’s widening end zone
Plus: Checking in with BC’s SaaS Unicorns.
Signal intelligence monitoring firm Pipeline Signals raises $507,000 CAD pre-seed round
Pipeline uses LinkedIn to help sales teams with lead generation.
RideCo drives up expansion with $20 million Series A
The financing marks RideCo’s first investment round since it launched in 2015.
Hubdoc co-founders back eState Planner’s $1 million seed round
Divorcemate creator Mark Harris also participated in the financing.
Pinterest appoints Kristie Painting as Canada country manager
Painting joins after Pinterest expanded its Toronto office by 50 people last year.
BetaKit Live: Checking in with BC’s SaaS Unicorns, Clio and Trulioo on February 23rd
Let’s get SaaS-y with two Best Coast unicorns.
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.
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.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – 7shifts staffs up
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.