Nasdaq acquires St. John’s based Verafin for $2.75 billion USD
Nasdaq, Inc., has acquired St. John’s-based Verafin for $2.75 billion in cash, a move to combine Verafin’s anti-financial…
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Narwhal List 2020 tracks a year of massive raises, 42 potential Canadian Unicorns
In partnership with MaRS Discovery District, Communitech, and Invest Ottawa, Charles Plant, the founder of the Narwhal Project,…
Today in Funding ($2.25 million): Rally, Morphio, BreatheSuite
Three Canadian startups have announced fresh funding rounds to fuel their growth. Here’s the latest on who raised how much,…
St. John’s-based Verafin closes massive $515 million in financing
Verafin, a financial crime management company based in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, has closed a record-setting…
Focus FS to have global reach following partnership with Germany-based Dräger
Focus Field Solutions, an industrial safety solutions company based in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, will be expanding…
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…
Hacking Health St. John’s opens registration for Hackathon 2019
Hacking Health has opened registration for its St. John’s health hackathon, a weekend-long hackathon aimed to address the…
Canadian government invests $79.8 million in five health research centres
The Canadian government announced that it is investing a total of $79.8 million into five health research hubs through the…
Industrial safety platform Focus FS raises $1.4 million from BDC Capital
St. John’s-based Focus FS, which is developing cloud-based solutions to safeguard industrial worksites, has closed a…
Canadian Digital Media Network announces companies accepted into Silicon Valley program
The Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN) has accepted eight companies into the February 2018 cohort of the Get There: San…
radient360 raises $3.3 million to help oil and gas companies adopt data analytics
radient360, which offers data analytics platforms for the energy sector, announced that it has received $3.3 million in seed…
Propel ICT announces 28 companies in fall cohort
Propel ICT has kicked off its Launch and Build accelerators with 28 startups coming from New Brunswick, PEI, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland…
GoDaddy awards $5,000 seed money to three Canadian ventures
GoDaddy Canada announced the winners of its Life Fulfilling Ventures contest, which awards $5,000 in seed money to entrepreneurs…
HeyOrca raises $2 million to build up US presence and double headcount
St.John’s-based HeyOrca has announced $2 million in follow-on seed funding from Killick Capital and Pelorus Venture Capital.…
Empowered Homes raises $600,000 to take the customers that Nest can’t serve
When Joshua Green was working as an energy auditor in Newfoundland, part of his job was visiting people in their homes to find…