Marketing analytics startup StrategyBox raises $2 million in seed funding
Vancouver-based StrategyBox has closed a $2 million seed round from Fuel Ventures to fund new marketing features and platforms. StrategyBox noted the investment is…
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Tom Keiser to replace Ryan Holmes as CEO of Hootsuite
Vancouver-based Hootsuite has appointed Tom Keiser, former chief operating officer at San Francisco-based Zendesk, as its new CEO. As first reported by Fortune, Keiser…
Terramera leading project to predict future strains of COVID-19 with AI
Vancouver-based agricultural technology company Terramera is leading a new research project that hopes to use machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to get ahead…
Montréal makes Startup Genome’s top 30 as Toronto, Vancouver ecosystems drop in rankings
Montréal is Canada’s newest entrant to the top 30 of Startup Genome’s 2020 global ecosystem rankings, while Toronto-Waterloo and Vancouver have dropped by five…
Bench re-hires workers as sales rebound following shift to helping US businesses with COVID relief
Vancouver-based Bench was initially hit hard by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. A sudden drop in sales in March forced the FinTech company…
Food-X Technologies brings on Attabotics to streamline its fulfillment operations
Food-X Technologies, a Vancouver-based e-grocery startup, has entered into a three-year partnership with Calgary-based Attabotics, a robotics warehouse and fulfillment system provider. The initial…
US private equity firm Crest Rock Partners takes majority ownership of Vancouver-based Unbounce
Crest Rock Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm, has acquired a controlling stake in Vancouver-based startup Unbounce in a $52 million deal. Unbounce co-founder…
Victory Square Health acquires COVID-19 antibody test from Brazilian company
Vancouver-based Victory Square Health has acquired assets and intellectual properties from Brazilian company Safetest Comércio de Diagnósticos for $4 million CAD. Safetest has developed…
Enterprise software startup jSonar raises $50 million USD from Goldman Sachs
jSonar, an enterprise software startup that has developed a database security platform, has raised $50 million USD in its first institutional round of funding….
Slack reports record customer growth as global workforces go remote
Vancouver-founded communications software company Slack has reported its financial results for the first quarter and provided its outlook for the fiscal year ending 2021….
Report: Canada ranked fourth startup ecosystem globally as Toronto, Vancouver drop for second year
Despite being ranked in the top four, Canada has fallen one spot in StartupBlink’s 2020 global startup ecosystem rankings, as major tech hubs Toronto…
Sonic Incytes raises $3.5 million seed round to commercialize liver health assessment device
Sonic Incytes, a medical device startup based in Vancouver, has raised a $3.5 million CAD seed round. This startup’s funding raised to date now…
Canadian angel groups mixed on capital availability in COVID-19 world
As COVID-19 forces angel investor groups to move their activities online, industry leaders have mixed views about the outlook for capital availability. BetaKit spoke…