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Report: Telehealth company Dialogue going public
Montreal telehealth company Dialogue will go public on the Toronto Stock Exchange, reports the Globe and Mail.
Dialogue offers medical ..
Electric jet-ski maker Taiga Motors to go public
Montreal electric jet-ski maker Taiga Motors plans to go public through a merger with a “blank-check” SPAC company while raising $100 mill..
Novacap Closes USD $1.865 Billion Fund
Based on the south shore, one of the countries longest-operating private equity firms has announced the creation of its largest ever fund,..
Centech launches new Boreal Ventures fund worth $26 million
Montreal tech incubator Centech will launch a new fund for deep tech startups worth $26 million, called Boreal Ventures.
The $26 millio..
Medtech company Medfar Clinical Solutions gets $25 million
Montreal’s Medfar Clinical Solutions, an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) provider, is raising nearly $25 million in venture capital. The r..
Fintech app Hardbacon seeks to go public
Julien Brault’s Hardbacon will seek to go public by the end of 2021.
Hardbacon is a personal finance app used by more than 25,000 Canad..
Montreal’s District M, San Francisco’s Sharethrough join forces
Montreal’s District M and San Francisco’s Sharethrough, two digital advertising companies, will merge into one entity.
The pair of comp..
MAIN Québec spends $29 million to coach 375 startups
MAIN Québec (Mouvement des accélérateurs d’innovation du Québec) will spend $29 million on a project that will fuel the coaching of 375 Qu..
TechAide Montreal’s funding jumped by nearly 70% in 2020
Amid all the obstacles of 2020, the TechAide Montreal charity raised $647,135 in funding in 2020, 69 percent more than in 2019.
In a bl..
Google shutters Stadia game studio in Montreal
Google is calling it quits on its Stadia video game studios in both Montreal and Los Angeles.
In a blog post, Google’s Phil Harrison sa..
Two of Real Ventures’ founders moving on
In a move signalling an end of an era in Montreal early stage venture capital, Real Ventures cofounders Alan MacIntosh and JS Cournoyer wi..
Bay Area profit-purpose company Samasource rebrands a year after founder’s death
San Francisco-based AI training company Samasource is now Sama, says CEO Wendy Gonzalez.
Sama is a for-profit training-data company foc..
French multinational IT company Atos acquires local cybersecurity firm In Fidem
The French multinational IT company Atos is acquiring Montreal’s In Fidem, a cybersecurity consulting firm.
In Fidem’s roughly 100 employ..
Women’s health startup Eli takes $1.9 million
Eli, a women’s health company that created a novel hormone tracking technology, is announcing a $1.9 million ($1.5 million USD) seed fundi..
Couche-Tard Launches Retail Tech Lab
Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., has launched a retail innovation lab at McGill University’s Bensadoun School of Retail Management. The stat..