It’s Thursday May 20th 2021, and today we’re talking about: Knixwear gets intimate with the TZP Group for $53M USD, Relay Financial relays $15m into their bank account and a Lighting round: BuyProperly raise, Wingocard raise and Unbounce acquisition Snazzy AI.

It’s Thursday May 13th 2021, and today we’re talking about: Ada chats up investors for $130M, Xanadu may or may not have raised $100m from Bessemer Venture Partners; and this week in early-stage funding: raises from Sports IQ Analytics, Curbie Cars, Railz.ai, and Relay Platform.

It’s Thursday May 6th 2021, and today we’re talking about: Wealthsimple raises the largest Canadian private round ever, Sonder is checking-in to a SPAC, BuzzBuzzHome moves into a new build with Zonda, and this week in early stage funding: AgTech is sprouting, with raises from Precision AI and Carrot Ventures. 

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It’s Thursday April 29th, 2021, and today we’re talking about: Toronto-based Alphawave who develops “semiconductor intellectual property core”, Thinkific, who topped a $1bn market cap in its trading debut on the TSX and Burnaby-based, Clio, raised a $110m USD Series E round co-led by T. Rowe Price.

It’s Thursday April 22nd  2021, and today we’re talking about: Clearbanc evolves into a double unicorn named Clearco, Waterloo's Axonify trains a US private equity firm to invest in them, Calgary-based Absorb Software is absorbed by another US private equity firm for over $500m USD, and Pay attention to these payment players: Victoria-based MazumaGo and Plooto. 

It’s Friday April 16th  2021, and we’ve got a trio of 9-digit deals to cover from the past week: Loopio accepts a proposal for $200M USD, Perpetua needs to perform for $250M USD, and goeasy and LendCare unite in a $320M deal

Photo of a young Adam Epstein and the TechTO x Tab Payments Tromba Tequila bar at TechTO in 2015: https://youtu.be/2_jXnFhebTE?t=889

It’s Thursday April 1st  2021, and today we’ll be talking about: Clutch fills up the tank with $60m, The Ontario Securities Commission cracks down on crypto, Dapper Labs runs it back with $305M, and Getty Images takes another dip into Canada with Unsplash.

Photo of a young Alex Norman and Dan Park drinking a beer at TechTO in 2015: https://youtu.be/8iQYZ26gx60?t=90

It’s Friday March 26th 2021, and today we’ll be talking about: Think Research thinks it can end COVID (featuring Sachin Aggarwal, CEO of Think Research), Thinkific and Maple tapping the TSX, Hopper is in the Capital One Wallet, and Beanworks sells their beans to Quadient.

It’s Thursday March 18th 2021, and today we’ll be talking about: KOHO and Brim Financial reload their cards with new rounds (featuring Rasha Katabi, CEO & Founder of Brim), Revolut finds Canada revolting, Lightspeed HQ adds Vend to their cart, Inovia Capital raises $450M USD for its growth fund, and Greensoil PropTech Ventures has a first close of $50M. 

It’s Thursday March 11th 2021, and today on TechTO Quick Takes we’ll be talking about: Wealthsimple focuses on Canada, Dialogue dials up an IPO, Wrapbook wraps up $27m from A16Z, Snapcommerce snaps up a large round, Shopify women back BIPOC founders with Backbone Angels, and Shopify invests in Pipe.