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Beauty tech startup Fyyne acquired by Nigeria-based e-commerce company Bumpa
Fyyne offers a beauty services marketplace and business tools. Toronto-based Fyyne, which offers a marketplace for beauty services and business management tools for independent…
FreshBooks president and CEO depart as company lays off six percent of employees
FinTech firm promotes two interim co-CEOs, embarks on search for next leader. Toronto-based accounting software company FreshBooks has restructured its leadership team and cut…
Certn acquires European ID verification company Trustmatic
Trustmatic marks Certn’s third international acquisition in the last two years. Victoria-based background screening startup Certn has acquired Trustmatic, a European remote identity verification…
FigBytes acquired by Irish software company AMCS in trans-atlantic ESG deal
The deal comes one year after FigBytes secured $14.5 million USD for its ESG insights platform. Ottawa-based FigBytes, which offers a sustainability insights platform,…
Richard Lynch will replace John Chen as interim CEO as BlackBerry prepares to split company
BlackBerry has been attempting to revive shareholder interest over the past year. BlackBerry has officially announced the retirement of John Chen, its CEO and…
A|I: The AI Times – OpenAI employee secondary values company at least $80 billion
Plus: Why Korean car makers want Tenstorrent’s AI hardware. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data,…
Struggling, TSX-listed BBTV announces plan to become a private company
BBTV founder and CEO, Well Health CEO to privatize Vancouver firm. Vancouver media tech firm BBTV Holdings, which currently trades on the Toronto Stock…
R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify takes stake in Faire as company discourages employee side hustles
Plus: Instacart quickly loses its IPO gains. The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news from Canada and around the globe….
Properly founders exit as company and tech are sold in separate transactions
America real-estate giant Compass buys out Properly founders; unnamed Canadian firm acquires brokerage. Toronto-based proptech startup Properly has been acquired, after its founders announced…
Identity-verification company Trulioo unveils new capabilities to accelerate person-matching
Trulioo uses AI and machine learning to accelerate customer verification. One of the many processes that businesses are digitizing is identity verification. It is…