All The Moves
Gurjeet Kaur, former Engineering Manager at McAfee joins Arctic Wolf as Director of R&D
Paul Salvini, former Chief Executive Officer of Accelerator Centre has been appointed Global Chief Technology Officer of VFX firm DNEG
Karan Khiani, former Vice President of Product Management at VersaPay has joined Katipult as their Vice President, Solutions Engineering
Saibal Chakraburtty, former Director of Product Management at Arctic Wolf, joins Darwin.AI as their Head of Product
Ettan Romm is now the Director of Product Management at Ceridian
Adriana Romero, previously GTM Enablement Manager at Clearbanc is now Director Enablement Solutions at LevelJump.io
Ali Mahmoud, former Director of Product Management for Snow Software is now VP of Product Management at AUGMENTT
Brian Cullen, previously Senior Director, Security at Kognitiv is now VP, Global Operations at Rakuten Kobo Inc.
Kimberly Helm, former VP of Professional Services of PointClickCare is now the Chief Operating Officer of Opus One Solutions
Neha Khera, previously at 500 Startups has moved into a new role as Partner at 2048 Ventures
Paul Walker, previously Head of Engineering, WordPress VIP of Automattic is now Chief Technology Officer of NoFraud
Ray Newal, former Head of TechStars India is the New Head of Capital and Ecosystem at MaRS Discovery District
Sonduren Fanarredha, former Product Marketing Lead for Kira Systems is now Director of Product Marketing at Airbase
Whitney Susanna, previously Customer Success Director of Axonify, has joined ProNavigator as their Director of Customer Success
Bart Molenda is the new EVP of Marketing at Introhive
Erik Feig, founder and CEO of PICTURESTART joins Wattpad Studios as an advisor
Anastasia Valentine joins Wagepoint as their Chief Revenue Officer
Manon Brouillette, former CEO of Videotron joins Lightspeed’s Board of Directors
What We're Working On:
VP Engineering - eCommerce/Loyalty
Director of Engineering - Loyalty - Downtown Toronto
Senior Software Engineer - IoT/Smart Buildings
Principal Software Engineer - IoT/Smart Buildings
Application Software Engineer Manager - IoT/Smart Buildings
Principal Engineer - Retail SaaS
UX Designer - eCommerce
Principal Engineer - Agtech
Sr. Software Engineer - eCommerce
Sr. Talent Acquisition Partner - eCommerce/Loyalty
Principal Designer - IoT
Sr. Software Developer - Fintech/Proptech
Sr. Software Developer - Consulting/Architecture
Computer Vision Research Scientist - Gesture Recognition
Humans of Tech
Meet Sarah Facini! We chat all things Customer Success - but also about vulnerable moments, hiring and onboarding during COVID-19 and the power of transferable skills.
All The News
Intellijoint topped the Deloitte Fast 50 list for 2020 followed immediately by Apply Board (#2). Avidbots (#8), Auvik (#12), Bonfire (#30) and Smile (#48) also made the list. Voltera was named a Company to Watch while Vidyard (#449) and eSentire (#478) made the Deloitte Fast 500 along with the above firms.
Rockwell Automation Acquires Fiix Inc., Cloud Software Company for Leading Edge Maintenance Solutions. Read More.
Nasdaq to buy Atlantic Canada’s financial fraud detection firm Verafin for $2.75 billion. Read More. Dr. Vivek Goel named as the next president and vice‑chancellor of the University of Waterloo. Read more. Thirteen Canadian tech startups have been accepted into the Lazaridis Institute’s ScaleUp Program, representing the program’s largest cohort yet. Read More. Lightspeed to acquire ShopKeep for $440 million USD, reports strong Q2 results. Read More. Toronto-based SWTCH Energy has partnered with Opus One Solutions to implement a blockchain-based electric vehicle (EV) charging management platform, which will be launched in Toronto. Read more. Ario, an Ottawa-based FinTech startup that offers cost-efficient digital lending to small to medium-sized businesses, has been acquired by another small business lender, Thinking Capital. Read More. Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack. Read More. The Kitchener-Waterloo-based Accelerator Centre (AC) has expanded its cleantech program to support companies aligned with the 17 United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals. Read More. ServiceNow Inc. is beefing up its artificial intelligence development capabilities with the acquisition of Element AI. Read More. Tulip has acquired Timekit, which offers an advanced scheduling and resource management system. Read More. Toronto-based Intelex Technologies has acquired Vancouver-based ehsAI. Read More. The University of Waterloo-based incubator Velocity is set to get a new home following the recent announcement of a partnership with the City of Kitchener. Read More. Toronto-based start-up, AccessNow, receives Governor General’s Innovation Award. Read More. The Toronto-Waterloo region is among the top FinTech ecosystems globally, according to the latest report from the Startup Genome. Read More. Trufan has acquired Kelowna-based PLAYR.gg. Read More. BlackBerry will partner with Amazon Web Services to jointly develop and market its vehicle data integration and monitoring platform, IVY. Read More.
Funding News:
OpenPhone - 14M
Aya - 3.7M
HungryPanda - 70M
Gatik - 25M
Unbound - 20M
Tailscale - 14.5M
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