It’s Thursday, December 16th, 2021, and today we have a very special episode where we are taking a look back at 2021 and asking ourselves: What were the biggest trends of 2021?  Is Alex Norman psychic? The predictions he got right and wrong in 2021. What did the TechTO community read, watch and listen to this year? We’ll reveal the highlights from our best performing content in 2021.

It’s Thursday December 9nd 2021, and today we’re talking about: mastering enterprise network effects with Spare, “Etsy for X” is fundable: GoodGood raises $6.5m, should you raise in secret? Buf finally announces $93M US in funding, and how to take on big tech: Rumble competes with YouTube and goes public.

It’s Thursday December 2nd 2021, and today we’re talking about: Constellation Software Inc. launches a VC arm, Tiger Analytics and Salesforce get a Klue, Spare raises $18m for its mobility software platform, and the end of the road for Roadmunk.

It's Thursday November 25th 2021, and today we’ll be talking about 5 major trends that we see in the Canadian tech ecosystem, across: Funding’s flight to quality, Going public: IPOs and SPACs, Accelerators: More or Less?, Salaries: to the moon?, Distributed teams vs. back to office, Announcing rounds, and Web3.

It’s Thursday November 11th 2021, and today we’re talking about: owl.co breaks the rules on their way to a $30m US raise, Wrapbook brings the gig economy to entertainment and becomes a unicorn, Bolt rides logistics and US expansion plans to a $75m series B, Threekit 3D & Augmented Reality adopts web3 and raises $35m; and a bonus take: Georgian backs Gradient Spaces, a 2S-LGBTQ-IA+ incubator.

It’s Thursday November 4th 2021, and today we’re talking about: Momentum fundraising: Tiger Global Management invests $37M in Float, No momentum yet? Be a repeat founder: Practice raises $10m US, Scaling hardware is hard: ecobee sells to Generac Power Systems for $770M. Lightning takes: Uvaro raises, and AlayaCare goes shopping.

It’s Thursday October 28th 2021, and today we’re talking about: On Deck launches a $100m USD accelerator, Hopper continues its transformation by acquiring PlacePass, IP-Oh Canada: Sharethrough, Magnet Forensics, Hootsuite, Propel Holdings, D2L and Q4; and in the lightning takes: CalendarHero acquired by Vendasta, Fellow.app raises $24m USD; and Council of Canadian Innovators | Conseil Canadien des Innovateurs launches board training.

It’s Thursday October 14th 2021, and today we’re talking about: Tiger Global Management pounces on ResQ. Rose Rocket drives into a new round, FreshBooks and Paystone use their funds just like they said they would; and in our lighting round: IPOs for Q4 and D2L; CostCertified raises $8.5m, and Alida is alive with a new raise.

It’s Thursday October 7th 2021, and today we’re talking about: AutoLeap drives into a $18m US round, Dapper Labs buys Lil Miquela, Klass Capital schedules $28m in Coconut Software; and a lighting round: Sandpiper Ventures makes first close on its new fund, and Interac Corp. acquires the rights to SecureKey Technologies Inc in Canada.

It’s Thursday September 30th 2021, and today we’re talking about: Semios harvests $100m USD to eat up agtech, Salesforce acquires LevelJump.io, Kira Systems spinout Zuva raises $20m, and a lighting round: Conexiom raises $130m from Warburg Pincus LLC, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company rolls into Gatik, and Convictional raises $6.7m.