The Artemis Update - April 2021

Updated: Sep 20, 2022

All The Moves

Andrea Kerswill joins Farm Mutual Re as Innovation Lead
Jeremy Oudit joins Points as Director, Product Design
Selin Jessani, Director of Professional Services join the leadership team at FigBytes.
Alicia Bedard joins Procurify as their VP Marketing
Kader Khan joins SVP, Head of Connectivity and Industry 4.0 Practice at Wavelabs Technologies
Phil Obendorf joins Chief Operating Officer at PowerHub
Michael Rabern joins PocketHealth as VP of Sales
Marc Gallant joins Canvass AI at VP Partnerships
Dana Fox, previously the VP Global Enterprise Sales at Athena Software, is now Head of Sales- Mid-Market, NA at PatSnap
Aaron Cheng, previously VP Products at KOHO, joins Felix Health as their Chief Product Officer
Samir Zabaneh joins Touchbistro as CEO
Ann Tebo joins Ampli as Chief Product Officer
Mark Stevenson joins EventMobi as Chief Financial Officer
Lino Gentile joins Visier Inc as their VP, Solution Management
Luke Sheehan to join Willful as VP Marketing
Lauren Taylor to join as Head of Customer Experience at Juniper Creates
Rod Foster joins FormHero as VP Sales
Evan Fein joins TextNow as their CFO

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All The News

Rapid antigen screening is being made available to small and medium-sized businesses in Waterloo Region, Ontario, under a pilot program.

Toronto-based FinTech company LendCare is set to be acquired by financial services company goeasy for $320 million.

IKEA Canada partners with Second Closet and Lion Electric for last-mile delivery in Greater Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver markets.

San Francisco firm buys out early backers in a transaction that valued Waterloo’s Axonify at around US$350-million.

Eleven years after the Toronto incubator was founded, alumni and current portfolio companies of Ryerson University-based nonprofit DMZ have raised a total of $1 billion CAD in funding.

Continuing its cybersecurity acquisition spree, private equity firm Thoma Bravo on Monday agreed to buy Proofpoint stock in an all-cash $12.3 billion deal.

Burnaby, B.C.-based legal software company joins a parade of Canadian unicorns in raising US$110-million in equity. The financing values Clio at US$1.6-billion.

Netflix chooses Toronto for its Canadian corporate headquarters.