Michele Romanow becomes Clearco CEO as Andrew D’Souza moves to Executive Chair
Clearco lost its CFO to Clio in January.
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Co-founder Lisa Zarzeczny named Elevate CEO with in-person festival to return this fall
Randy Lennox steps down from his role as executive chair.
Signal intelligence monitoring firm Pipeline Signals raises $507,000 CAD pre-seed round
Pipeline uses LinkedIn to help sales teams with lead generation.
Roach Capital closes $6.4 million CAD for first fund from prominent VCs, Shopify execs
Golden Ventures and partners from Tiger Global and Garage Capital also invested in the Shopify alum-led fund.
Convictional secures $50.7 million CAD, announces UK expansion
FinTech startup plans to ramp up staff, accelerate product development.
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.
Properly begins Canadian expansion with move into Vancouver, Fraser Valley
CEO says Vancouver is a “great hub” to begin serving Western Canada.
Cohere closes $125 million USD Series B round led by Tiger Global
Cohere plans to open new Palo Alto office led by Apple alum.
LifeSpeak to acquire digital fitness platform Wellbeats for up to $117.9 million CAD
Wellbeats would mark LifeSpeak’s largest acquisition to date.
Former Wattpad employees close $300,000 to build relationship improvement app Couply
Couply’s investors include Wattpad co-founder Ivan Yuen, Shopify employees.
Cyclica spins out startup, Perturba Therapeutics, from University of Toronto
Perturba fuses AI-drug design and biological science.
11 Canadian tech companies to watch in 2022
ControlHQ’s co-founder is back with his #CDNtech crystal ball.
Wafra Capital Partners acquires Toronto FinTech startup Financeit from Goldman Sachs
The sale comes five years after Goldman Sachs acquired Financeit.