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RenoRun gets US $22.5 million in Series A money
Montreal-headquartered RenoRun, a construction material delivery service is bringing on US $22.5 million in series A venture funding.
T..
15 interesting things you didn’t know about Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke
As the CEO of Canada’s biggest technology company by market value, Tobias Lütke is part of a new wave of Canadian business royalty. In lat..
Orbit MTL fund reveals $9 million in investments since launch
Real Ventures’ Orbit MTL fund has made 61 investments totalling $9 million in venture funding since coming into existence in July 2017. Th..
Sonder adds US $225 million in Herculean funding round
Sonder, a platform that provides thousands of short-term rentals around the world, is announcing a Series D round of funding totalling US ..
Zendesk acquires Montreal’s Smooch
San Francisco’s customer service platform giant Zendesk has acquired Montreal startup Smooch.
Zendesk announced the acquisition on its bl..
Smooch partners with non-profit to help teens get birth control, sexual health advice
Montreal startup Smooch is partnering up with a local sexual health advocacy group to create SextEd, a new texting helpline for youth seek..
Hopper inks one of the largest VC deals in Canadian history
Montreal-headquartered Hopper today secured one of the largest VC deals in Canadian history: $100 million in Series D capital from a group..
Yoshua Bengio, PIXAR’s Matthew Luhn to headline Coopérathon kickoff event
Canadian machine learning royalty Yoshua Bengio and PIXAR’s Matthew Luhn will headline the Coopérathon kickoff Wednesday evening in Montre..
GradeSlam adds ex-Google machine learning expert
GradeSlam today announced it has added ex-Google machine learning engineer and “education leader” Luis Serrano to its advisory board.
Ser..
Industrial robotics startup Omnirobotic gets seed round from Element AI
Laval-based startup Omnirobotic, a robotics automation outfit, today announced a seed round of $1 million to commercialize the Omni Painte..
Four golden tickets up for grabs as New York’s Zola plants a stake in Montreal
New York-based ‘wed-tech’ startup Zola is headed to Montreal, ready to hand out four golden tickets to talented engineers in the city.
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WMNinTECH: on BDC’s “Women In Tech: Finding Opportunity on the Challenging Path to Success”
On Wednesday, May 23, BDC, BDO and MontrealNewTech hosted an event at Salon 1861 called “Women In Tech: Finding Opportunity on the Challen..
Montreal’s Unito nabs seed funding from Mistral, 500 Startups
Montreal-based Unito has raised $2M in seed funding.
Per Funding Portal, the round was led by Mistral Venture Partners with help from 5..
Smart agricultural startup Motorleaf receives seed round funding
Montreal agricultural startup Motorleaf has closed a $2.85M investment to aid their development of smart agriculture technology.
Motorl..
500 Startups unveils 21st cohort with strong Canadian presence
Seven Canadian teams were unveiled Tuesday afternoon as part of the 21st cohort of 500 Startups‘ notable accelerator program.
In total,..