Canadian Tech Guy

In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including:

-Skywatch Space Applications’ $7.5mm Series A round led by Bullpen Capital

-General Fusions’ C$85mm Series E round led by Temasek Holdings

-TabNine’s sale to Israeli AI Startup Codota for undisclosed financial terms

-MolecuLite’s FDA approval for its handheld infection detection device

-Snap’s $166mm acquisition of Ukrainian computer vision startup AI Factory

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In this week's episode we cover the latest tech news including:

-Nuvei's $270mm equity raise at a $2bn post-money valuation

-Valent Low-Carbon Technologies' $30mm investment from Kensington Private Equity and CFFI Ventures

-Second Closet's $13.2mm Series A round led by Whitecap Venture Partners

-Sony's $195mm acquisition of Silvergate Media

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In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including:

-Zebu's $4mm seed round

-Thoughexchanges's $20mm Serbies B led by Information Venture Partners

-Telus' €915mm acquisition of Berlin-based Competence Call Center

-Portag3 Ventures' C$417mm close of its Fund II

-Frontdoor Inc.'s acquisition of Streem, Inc. 

In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including:

-Koho's raise of an additional CAD $25mm in Series B funding led by Drive Capital

-Coconut Software's CAD $6.5mm Series A2 round led by Conexus Venture Capital Fund

-Knix Wear's $5.7mm financing raise led by Action Capital

-eBay’s $4.05bn sale of StubHub to Viagogo

-Apollo increases bid for TechData to $145 per share

-HP rejects Xerox’s buyout bid and hostile approach to their process

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In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including:

-CVCA’s latest venture capital funding report

-NerV Technology’s first place finish at the Entrepreneurship World Cup

-Silofit’s CAD $1mm seed round led by Whitecap Venture Partners

-Paypal’s 4bn acquisition of Honey Science

-Google’s acquisition of CloudSimple

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In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including:

-1Password’s $200mm Series A led by Accel

-Stradigi’s C$53mm Series A led by Fonds & Investissment Quebec

-Threekit’s $20mm Series A led by Shasta Ventures

-Apollo Global’s $5.4bn acquisition of Tech Data (NASDAQ: $TECD)

-OpenText’s $1.4bn acquisition of Carbonite (NASDAQ: $CARB)

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In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including:

-Coveo’s C$227mm late stage raise led by OMERS Growth Equity

-RenoRun’s $22.5mm Series A raise led by inovia Capital

-Mylo’s $10mm Series A raise led by NAventures

-Xerox’s proposed takeover bid of HP despite being one third the size

-Workday’s $540mm all cash acquisition of Scout RFP

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In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including:

-Montreal’s Element AI has partnered with Mozilla on several research and development initiatives

-Toronto-based League received an undisclosed investment from Workday and has become a software partner

-Google's $2.1bn acquisition of Fitbit

-ADI's acquisition of Test Motors for undisclosed financial terms

-ShareGrid acquisition of BorrowFox for undisclosed financial terms and subsequent surpassing of 100,000 users

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In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news in Canada and the US including:

-Benevity’s $40mm series C financing round led by JMI and General Atlantic

-Microsoft acquired data migration startup Mover

-Berkeley Payment Solutions acquired fintech startup Pungle

-Platinum Equity acquired Cision for ~$2.75bn at $10/share

-Mastercard acquired SessionM for undisclosed financial terms

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In our latest tech founder interview, we speak to Ravin Shah, the co-founder and former co-CEO of QuickTapSurvey which we helped him sell to Providence Equity about 18 months ago. Ravin has a fascinating story and a ton of experience scaling SaaS companies.