Tag: Brightspark
Brickeye secures $5 million CAD in convertible debt round with participation from BDC and Graphite Ventures
Brickeye provides construction companies with job site monitoring, analytics, and smart automations. Toronto-based Brickeye, a construction-focused internet of things (IoT) and data analytics company,…
F|T: The FinTech Times – Diagram Ventures adds $100M onto its FinTech bet
Plus: Shopify backs Nigeria-based FinTech Nomba. Welcome to the FinTech Times, a weekly newsletter covering the biggest FinTech news from around the globe. If…
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Telehealth giant Amwell posts nearly $400M loss in Q1
Plus: Peloton shares plunge after company reports wider-than-expected loss. The Healthtech Times is a weekly newsletter covering healthtech news from Canada and around the…
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – 1Password’s CEO responds to Google’s “tipping point”
The SaaS Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering major SaaS news from Canada and around the globe. Subscribe to S|W using the form at…
A|I: The AI Times – Geoffrey Hinton issues warning, Cohere is soaring
Plus: IBM to pause hiring for jobs that AI could do. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning,…
R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify sheds staff, offloads logistics business to focus on “main quest”
Plus: RenoRun halts operations as it pursues asset sale. The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news from Canada and around…
Canadian startup news of the week (5/7/23)
Plus: Canadian Q1 VC investment falls 82 percent from last year. Welcome to BetaKit’s startup stories of the week! Here, you will find the…
Brightspark seeks to recreate its “home run” exits of Think Dynamics, Radian6 as it launches $120-million fund
Brightspark Ventures has made an initial close of $60 million towards its target. Brightspark Ventures thinks now is the right time to be investing…
Éléonore Jarry-Ferron, Pablo Srugo get promoted at Brightspark, Mistral
Jarry, Srugo, and two others co-founded VCHOURS in 2020 to support startups during the pandemic. Montréal-headquartered venture capital (VC) firm Brightspark Ventures has promoted…
University of Alberta spinout DrugBank closes $9 million from Brightspark, Amplitude, Theodorus to fuel drug discovery with its data platform
DrugBank wants to ‘be the shovel’ in a gold rush of new medical innovation. Training machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms requires…