Your Double Dose of Tech Moves and News!
All The Moves:
Masterclass opens new Canadian HQ in Waterloo and welcomes James Spere, Head of Product, Canada and Matt Elgie, Head of Engineering, Canada
Cheli Nolan joins Relay Financial as their Head of Talent
Craig Walford is now COO at P&P Optica
Sarah Bettencourt former Chief People & Culture Officer at Lightspeed, joins Clio as their Chief People Officer
Caily Reid is now the AVP of Partner Marketing at Geotab
Jason Yacey is now head of Global Sales at Autonomous.ai
Sebastien Provencher is now SVP Product at Joist
Elevate is bringing on former Bell Media president Randy Lennox as its Executive Chair as co-founder and CEO Razor Suleman joins Pacaso International as President.
Lindsay Rutledge, former Director of Operations and Strategy joins Properly as VP of Strategy
Jay Hedges joins HR4 as their Chief Executive Officer
James Kurz joins Thentia Cloud as their new Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer
What We’re Working On:
VP People- Fintech/Scale-Up
VP Drives- Cleantech/Hardware- Kitchener-Waterloo
VP Machines- Cleantech/Hardware-Kitchener-Waterloo
VP Simulation- Cleantech/Hardware-Kitchener-Waterloo
VP Engineering- Compliance/ Risk Management, SaaS
VP Sales- Compliance/ Risk Management, SaaS
Head of Development- Early Stage, Digital Freight Network
Head of Customer Success- SaaS/ Career Development
Head of Marketing- B2C, SaaS/Community
Head of Engineering- HealthTech/Community Startup
Director of Innovation - HealthTech/Patient Engagement
Director of Product Management- B2B SaaS
Data Architect - Loyalty/Digital Currency
Product Design Manager- FinTech Scale-Up
Product Marketing Manager- Network Technologies
Technical Marketing Manager- Engineering/Edtech
Product Marketing Manager- EdTech
Software Lead- Robotics
Humans of Tech
Meet Nicholas Armstrong!
Chief Technology Officer at MarshallZehr
We chat about designing a diverse and transparent interview process, bringing an innovation culture to more traditional industry, and solving "people" problems!
The Artemis Canada team is thrilled to welcome Tyler Swabey as our newest Research & Recruitment Consultant!
All the News & Stuff You Should Know:
KW Robotics company Otto Motors is expanding to Europe
Lightspeed POS has entered into definitive agreements to acquire two global leaders in digital commerce: Ecwid and NuORDER
The Reynolds and Reynolds Company announced today the acquisition of automotive sales innovator Gubagoo
The Government of Ontario is committing $100 million towards a new fund of funds focused on supporting high-potential tech companies in the province.
Toronto-based Converge Technology Solutions has acquired ExactlyIT for $26.4 million USD
Illumiti, an SAP systems integration and management consultancy based in Toronto, has been acquired by Syntax
Toronto’s VerticalScope has acquired Paddling.com, a website for kayak, canoe, and paddle board enthusiasts.
Toronto-based Clearco has launched a $50 million USD fund in partnership with Caravan to provide non-dilutive capital to businesses looking to use the power of celebrities to accelerate their growth.
Semantic Health, a Toronto based healthtech company, comes out of stealth to help hospitals use coded data.
A new tech mentorship program designed for Canadian Black high school students is now accepting applications.
Mississauga, Ontario-based chronic pain management company NeuPath Health is set to acquire Toronto-based virtual care startup KumoCare for up to $1.5 million.
Creative Destruction Lab has launched a new stream focused on scaling companies that work on advances in brain and nervous system science.
Funding:
SkyWatch- 17.2M
Trulioo- 476M
Faire- 260M
Applyboard-375M
AlayaCare- 225M
Joyride- 3.7M
Tulip-28M
Tribe Technologies- 7.5M
Alida- 10M
Rebelstork-5M
ResQ- 7.5M
Browze-12.5M
Kepler Communications- 60M
Adeptmind-6.2M
Adela- 60M
d1g1t- 16M