It’s Thursday September 23rd 2021, and today we’re talking about: Rewind and Dapper Labs both raise additional capital, FormHero raises an A and rebrands to Daylight, Opendoor enters Canada via the Skylight; and a lighting round: Inovia Capital’s SPAC, Foxquilt series A, and Copperleaf Technologies goes public.

It’s the first Thursday in September, and today we’re talking about: National Bank of Canada makes $100m+ bet on Flinks, VICE Media is too much to handle for SPACs and raises $85m, and Top Hat continues to stock its shelf.

It’s Thursday August 12th, and today we’re talking about: Southwestern Ontario team up to launch Health Innovation network, FreshBooks now contain a $1b valuation and is looking to expand globally and due diligence is completed as Kira Systems is acquired by Litera.

It’s Thursday, July 29th, 2021, and today we’re talking about: The Maple Syrup Mafia invests in 1Password, Deep Genomics raises $180m US led by SoftBank Group Corp., Paystone engages with private equity to raise $30m. Notch rebrands and raises $10m US, and Shopify announces more earnings and more investments.

It’s Thursday, June 24th, 2021, and today we’re talking about: Q4 tells investors to wait for their IPO, AlayaCare brings home $225m for home care.

It’s Thursday, July 8th, 2021, and today, we’ve a got special episode discussing the key questions facing the Canadian tech scene in the second half of 2021: Is this the end of easy money? How bad is the tech talent shortage? What trends will accelerate - or reverse - as vaccination rates rise and Canada re-opens? And quick takes on FightCamp’s raise, Ritual.co’s acquisition, and SoftBank entering Canada with an investment in Clearco. 

It’s Thursday, July 15th 2021, and today we’re talking about: Is Canada’s brain drain over? In other news, Float raises $4m to launch a Canadian SMB credit card. Further, Canadian companies go on a shopping spree, and Algolux sees a $18.4m USD raise.

Read the full report on Canadian tech talent here: https://www.cbre.ca/en/research-and-reports/Canada-Scoring-Tech-Talent-2020

It’s Thursday, July 22nd, 2021, and today we’re talking about: Properly raises a proper Series B, Allocadia is acquired by BrandMaker,

It’s Thursday June 10th 2021, and today we’re talking about: Sequoia Capital makes a high end investment in SSENSE. Waabi drives into $83.5m from Khosla. Lightspeed HQ continues its shopping spree. Trulioo identifies $394m USD; and this week in early stage funding: Poka Inc., Kepler, and VRScheduler.

It’s Thursday, May 27th 2021, and today we’re talking about: PartnerStack stacks up $35M with new partners, and Ledn raises $30M to expand its crypto offerings. This week in early stage funding: Tenstorrent Inc., Novisto, 7shifts: Restaurant Scheduling, and Rumble. Also, Canadian startups hit record levels of VC funding in Q1; and today we break down the numbers, and discuss what that means for you.