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Lightspeed Revenue Way Up, Still Reports Loss
Montreal’s Lightspeed POS announced year end results May 21. This marked the end of the company’s first full year as a public entity. The ..
Breaking: Montreal travel app Hopper raises nearly $100 million
Montreal and Boston-based travel app Hopper has raised 98.5 million (US $70 million) from San Francisco-based Westcap. Also joining the ro..
Management software platform Planbox acquires IdeaConnection
Laval’s Planbox, which offers an idea-to-product innovation management platform for companies, is acquiring its Victoria, BC-based competi..
Relationship productivity platform Bliinx gets $1 million
Bliinx, a Montreal relationship productivity and collaboration startup, has raised $1 million in pre-seed pre-seed money, led by AltaIR Ca..
Scale AI Funds 8 Projects to Combat the Pandemic
Scale AI, Canada’s Montreal-based AI-for-supply-chains supercluster, has announced new funding for a number of initiatives in an effort to..
Montreal’s Medteq Invest gives funding to three Canadian tech companies
Medteq Invest, a Montreal medical technology fund, is investing in three companies across Canada.
We know who two of them are, while th..
New tech hires: Element AI brings on 2 C-level execs
Well known Montreal company Element AI has named two new C-level executives to its team this this week. This on the heels of an important ..
Online grocer Goodfood will hire 300 for new Toronto fulfillment centre
Goodfood, the publicly-traded Montreal-based online grocery company in Canada, has signed a lease for its first fulfillment centre in the..
Aquantix Takes $100,000 National Bank Prize
A months long innovation competition designed to improve wealth management in Canada has concluded. National Bank, in collaboration with F..
Student startup GRAD4 takes seed funding
GRAD4, a startup out of the University of Sherbrooke, is getting its first dose of seed funding from Front Row Ventures, Real Ventures’ st..
Ferme d’hiver, an AI-powered agricultural automation startup, gets $1.3 million
It all started with a batch of delicious, locally-grown Quebec strawberries.
Brossard-based Ferme d’hiver (“winter farm”) is getting $1..
Guide to government support programs for Montreal startups
Are you running a startup in Montreal or elsewhere in Quebec, and unsure about how what all three levels of government are offering? In th..
Lighthouse Labs Gives $500,000 in Scholarships
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to disrupt life and business across the country and around the world and many people are off work or worki..
Montreal hospital to roll out ‘game-changing’ app in fight against COVID
The staff and patients at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital will use a powerful new smartphone app that will allow users to monitor their..
GroceryHero connects grocery shoppers with crucial (and hungry) medical workers
Five friends have created a handy app that connects front line medical workers with a volunteer grocery shopper in their neighbourhood. Al..