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Charles Mandel's reporting and writing on technology has appeared in Wired.com, Canadian Business, Report on Business Magazine, Canada's National Observer, The Globe and Mail, and the National Post, among many others. He lives off-grid in Nova Scotia.

SaaS

Former Google ad chief’s Neeva launches its ad-free, privacy-conscious search engine in Canada

Dec 13, 2022

“We wanted a search engine that was all about users.”

Funding

Perceiv AI raises $1.5 million to better predict the progression of diseases

Dec 9, 2022

Startup’s platform initially focused on improving outcomes for Alzheimer’s patients.

Funding

Commerce startup Elastic Path secures additional $30 million from existing investors

Dec 9, 2022

The Vancouver company claims leadership in the composable commerce movement.

Lightspeed payments
Retail

Former head of marketing at Klaviyo and Dropbox joins Lightspeed as chief marketing officer

Dec 6, 2022

Kady Srinivasan tasked with helping drive Lightspeed’s strategic growth and innovation.

Events

Montréal Startup Community Awards 2022 honours #MTLtech’s best and brightest

Dec 2, 2022

Winners include Real Ventures’ Katy Yam, Startup Montréal’s Liette Lamonde.

Funding

Private AI secures $10.7 million CAD to protect personal data from privacy breaches

Dec 2, 2022

Microsoft, BDC, Twilio alum are among Private AI’s investors.

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Impact

Shopify, Benevity set records for Black Friday-Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday

Dec 2, 2022

Shopify merchants rack up $7.5 billion in sales over the weekend.

Funding

AgTech startup Ground Truth secures $4 million to improve grain analysis for farmers

Nov 29, 2022

Seed round: startup’s technology will allow farmers to make sound investment decisions.

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Coveo’s Louis Têtu on market cycles, mentorship, and “recipes for failure”

Nov 28, 2022

Avoid “yes people.” Choose to be “the dumbest person in the room.”

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Markets

Think Research reports increased revenues, debt in Q3

Nov 28, 2022

CEO maintains company well positioned to continue revenue growth.

Chinova Bioworks
Events

Potential Motors, Chinova Bioworks, Introhive feted at New Brunswick innovation awards ceremony

Nov 24, 2022

Nine awards handed out at the first InnovateNB awards event.

FinTech

Legal tech startup Clio advances its FinTech play with launch of payments product in Canada

Nov 22, 2022

Clio claims to have processed over $1 billion USD in legal transactions.

Howard Migdal
Retail

Former SkipTheDishes COO Howard Migdal steps up to the plate as food delivery firm’s new CEO

Nov 17, 2022

Migdal vows to help the delivery platform thrive through tough times.

EV charging
Funding

BluWave-ai, Tehama receive collective $4.4 million from FedDev Ontario for product development, hiring

Nov 17, 2022

The federal government investment is expected to create 85 jobs in the Ottawa region.

Hopper
SaaS

Nobul, Hopper top Deloitte Canada’s fastest growing startups lists for 2022

Nov 16, 2022

Annual survey of tech execs expresses concerns over access to capital, talent.

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