Tag: golden ventures
Y Combinator graduate Terminal closes $4.2-million CAD seed round
Terminal aims to be the Plaid for telematics data in commercial trucking. Toronto-based Terminal, a trucking telematics integrations startup, has closed a $3.1-million USD…
BenchSci, Inovia, Ada among #CDNtech orgs pledging to fight workplace hate in wake of Israel-Hamas war
The pledge holds signatories to four commitments aimed at fostering safe and inclusive workplaces. A coalition of Canadian tech companies and investors has pledged…
Former Global Founders Capital partner launches Northside Ventures to back pre-seed Canadian entrepreneurs across North America
Northside has secured $6.25 million USD from Inovia, Intact, Bain, Golden Ventures, and Garage Capital, among others. After spending the past few years building…
Ideogram launches with $22.3 million CAD for generative AI text-to-image platform like DALL-E
a16z, Canadian AI expert Raquel Urtasun, Github co-founder Tom Preston-Werner invested. Toronto-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Ideogram, which offers generative text-to-image technology, has launched…
Shakudo closes $9.5-million CAD Series A to help companies adopt generative AI
GreatPoint-backed Shakudo is led by AI experts from Georgian, Borealis AI, and BMO. Toronto-based Shakudo has secured $9.5 million CAD ($7.2 million USD) in…
Loopio co-founder launches Barley to help make employee compensation easier, more equitable BetaKit
Golden Ventures-backed Barley has raised $5.4 million CAD to date. Determining how to compensate employees can be challenging. As remote work has become common…
Toronto venture funding saw a “return to sanity” in 2022
Toronto tech startups raised a collective $3.7 billion through 154 deals in 2022. Toronto’s venture funding in 2022 may have dipped from a record-breaking…
After navigating “major” changes to restaurant industry, Notch closes $13.7 million CAD to fuel pivot to FinTech
Toronto-based supply chain software startup Notch has survived COVID-19 upending the restaurant industry and come out of the pandemic with a focus on FinTech…
R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify abandons The Well
Plus: Saas-based hotel management platform raises $185 million. The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news from Canada and around the…
A|I: The AI Times – OpenAI projects $1 billion in revenue in two years
Plus: Cohere hires YouTube CFO as president. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data, and automation…