Canadian Tech Guy

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

-Chatta Technologies raised C$4.5mm in a seed round led by undisclosed investors

-Beatdapp raised C$3.2mm in a financing round led by Panache Ventures

-Flare Systems raised C$1mm in a seed round led by Luge Capital

-ADT’s acquisition of I-View Now for undisclosed terms

-Sabre’s US$110mm acquisition of Radixx

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

-Convictional raised C$3mm in a seed round led by individual investors

-Voila! Raised C$3mm in a seed round led by Panache Ventures

-Microsoft opened its newest Reactor hub in Toronto

-Accenture acquired Sutter Mills for undisclosed terms

-IHS Markit acquired Novation Analytics for undisclosed terms

-Grammarly raised US$90mm led by General Catalyst

Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian listeners!  We hope you enjoy the show and please subscribe for future updates!

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

-7Shifts C$20mm Series A raise led by Relay Ventures

-Naborly C$9.9mm seed round raise led by investors Bill Trenchard and Chad Byers

-OTTP and BCG launch a new incubator, Koru

-Accenture’s acquisition of Nytec for an undisclosed amount

-Bird’s $275mm Series D raise led by CDPQ and Sequoia Capital

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

- The largest Canadian venture raise in history, Verafin’s C$515mm equity and debt recapitalization 

- Montreal-based Knox’s $8.5mm seed round led by Initialized Capital 

- Waterloo-based Plum’s $4.2mm seed round led by Real Ventures 

- Wealthsimple’s acquisition of SimpleTax 

- Amazon’s acquisition of startup INLT for undisclosed terms 

- Peloton’s disastrous IPO 

- WeWork’s Adam Neumann stepping down from CEO position 

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

- Touchbistro's $158m Series E round led by Omers

- Neuvoo's $53m raise from Caisse de Depot

- Toronto-based Maple's $14.5m led by Acton Capital

- Qualcomm's $1.2bn acquisition of the stake in RF360 it didn't already own

- DataRobot's $206m Series E funding

- WeWork's struggling IPO and the delta between public market valuations and private market ones

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In this week's Monday Morning Minutes brought to you by Sampford Advisors, we cover all the latest tech news including M&A, capital raises and other interesting tech tidbits we find interesting.  This includes:

- Shopify's $450m acquisition of 6 River Systems

- McDonald's acquisition of Apprente

- Element AI's $150m VC raise

- The impact of Bill 5 on Uber and Lyft

- The FOMC's upcoming meeting on interest rates

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In this episode we cover all the latest technology news, including:

- Prudential's $3.5bn acquisition of Assurance IQ, an online insurance platform

- Alibaba's $2bn acquisition of the e-commerce business of NetEase

- Grove Collaborative's $150m Series D VC financing

- WeWork's upcoming IPO and valuation rumours

- The August jobs report and the signals for any potential economic slowdown

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In this week's episode we look at the latest tech news including recent M&A and VC funding transactions for technology companies.  In particular, we take a closer look at:

- VMWare's double acquisition of Carbon Black and Pivotal for a combined $5bn

- Splunk's $1.1bn acquisition of SignalFX 

- H20.ai's $72.5m Series D led by Goldman and Ping An

We also review the latest market performance including what is driving the NASDAQ's 1.8% decline last week and discuss the upcoming week of tech earnings announcements.

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In this week's episode we look at the latest tech news and the latest funding or M&A transactions for technology companies.  In particular:

- Scoop's $60m Series C funding from BNP Paribas and Index Ventures

- Presidio's $2.3bn sale to BC Partners at 0.8x revenue, 10.5x EBITDA and a 21% premium

- WeWork's IPO filing where it lost $900m+ on $1.5bn of revenue in the first half of 2019

- The upcoming week of earnings from Splunk, Intuit, HP, VMWare and Salesforce

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