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Charlize Alcaraz

Charlize Alcaraz

Charlize Alcaraz is a staff writer for BetaKit.

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Acquisitions

Essential Accessibility merges with Level Access to combine accessibility solutions

Aug 31, 2022

The combined firm will be based in the US, retaining offices in Toronto and Argentina.

SAAS NORTH
Events

SAAS NORTH unveils speaker lineup for 2022 conference

Aug 30, 2022

Presenters include executives from Shopify, Unbounce, Hootsuite, Wattpad.

Node
SaaS

Google selects Canadian startups Node, Beam.city, HumanSquad for third Black Founders accelerator

Aug 30, 2022

All three startups hail from Toronto and have worked with the DMZ.

Plurilock
Acquisitions

Plurilock completes acquisition of assets from India-based CloudCodes

Aug 29, 2022

CloudCodes marks another addition to Plurilock’s rapidly growing portfolio.

Roblox
Acquisitions

Roblox acquires gamified employee engagement platform provider TriplePlay

Aug 29, 2022

TriplePlay was co-founded by two engineers from Facebook, Wealthsimple.

Impact

Benevity’s platform surpasses $10 billion in donations, brings on 124 clients

Aug 26, 2022

Among Benevity’s new clients include Mondelēz International, LegalZoom.

CIO Strategy Council wants to establish a national standard for cybersecurity workers

Aug 25, 2022

The national standard is meant to lay out core requirements for the qualifications of cybersecurity workers.

BarrelWise
Funding

BarrelWise secures $3.1 million CAD to modernize wine barrel management

Aug 25, 2022

The Vancouver startup aims to tackle thousands of years of winemaking tradition.

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SaaS

Amazon makes AWS EdStart accelerator available to Canadians, picks Springbay Studio as first participant

Aug 24, 2022

Springbay Studio creates climate-focused educational games for children.

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AI

Three Canadian startups selected for Google’s latest Women Founders accelerator cohort

Aug 24, 2022

Blossom Social, Emaww, MedEssist represent Canada in the third installation of Google’s accelerator.

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Acquisitions

Insurtech startup Relay Platform acquired by US-based cyber insurance provider At-Bay

Aug 23, 2022

Relay Platform specializes in cyber insurance.

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Funding

D-Wave, Coveo, Canada Drives among tech companies receiving collective $50 million for Scale AI projects

Aug 23, 2022

The projects in this cohort vary from AI integrations in finance to transportation.

VendorPM
Funding

VendorPM secures $20 million Series A to expand US footprint

Aug 23, 2022

VendorPM’s backers include Bessemer and a plethora of real estate investors.

Layoffs

Vendasta lays off staff after the pandemic spurred fast-pace growth

Aug 22, 2022

Vendasta’s teams are spread across Canada, India, and the US.

Layoffs

Canadian tech companies continue to hire despite downturn – here’s an (incomplete) list

Aug 22, 2022

300 tech companies say they are still hiring in Canada.

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