Real Ventures & McKinsey Alum Joins Vention as CMO
Many in Montreal’s tech community heard about Vention’s huge $17 million series A raise back in January. It was the very first investment ..
Heyday raises $2M Seed Round, Led by Innovobot and Desjardins Capital.
Heyday, a Montreal-based virtual customer assistant platform
that helps brands enhance their customer service through a chat bot, has
anno..
Montreal’s Broadsign to Acquire Ayuda
The deal making two Montreal companies into one was announced this
morning and will close in Q2. Broadsign International, a leading digita..
Fasken’s Emerging Tech Group Launches SaaS Platform for Legal Services
Many Canadian entrepreneurs know that Fasken was one of the first law firms to develop a service offering for emerging tech companies. In ..
BDO Launches First Montreal Pitch Day - With a Twist
Those of you who attend a lot of startup demo nights, networking cocktails and other community events have probably bumped into Matthew Ha..
Autodesk Focussing on Customer Engagement
Montreal has been known as a video game hub for years, with a number of development companies operating studios in and around the city. Ma..
Montreal’s Yoshua Bengio Honored with the ‘Nobel Prize’ of Computing
The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, has named Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun recipients of this year’s ACM A…
A Big Push for Women’s Entrepreneurship in Montreal
Women led businesses get 4% of venture capital funding in Canada. This, despite the fact that they start 38% of the businesses. The proble..
Luge Capital Leads $5.35M Investment in Finaeo to ‘Transform’ Life Insurance Distribution
Don’t call it a series A. Montreal-based FinTech fund Luge Capital has announced its 4th investment in just over 9 months since the compan..
Corning Launches New AI Research Centre in Montreal
New York based Corning has become the latest foreign company to invest in a new research and development centre in Montreal. Sharing space..
Montreal Based CGI to Acquire Acando AB in All Cash Offer
Montreal based CGI (GIB-A.TO) continued its acquisition spree this week. The company made an all cash offer of $6 per share to acquire all..
Electric Bikes Will Compete with Bixi this Summer in Montreal
Jump, a subsidiary of Uber which provides electric bike and scooter sharing, will be coming to Montreal as of May 2019. The New York based..
AEPONYX Closes CAD $7.9 Million Financing Round
Montreal’s AEPONYX announced today it has raised nearly $8 million in Series A financing, led by Pangaea Ventures. The round also includes..
Shares of Lightspeed POS Rise Sharply on First Day of Trading
Montreal’s Lightspeed POS has begun trading on Toronto’s TSX, just weeks after announcing it would go public. Shares hit the market on Ma..
Mako Financial Technologies Raises Seed Round
Raphael Bouskila is officially back for a second kick at the can in the startup game. The President and Founder of Mako Financial Technolo..