Sixty Degree Capital closes $338 million CAD for third venture fund
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Sixty Degree Capital closes $338 million CAD for third venture fund

The new fund looks to invest in enterprise software and healthtech startups. Toronto-headquartered Sixty Degree Capital has completed a final close of its third…

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Active Impact Investments launches third climate tech seed fund with $70 million in initial commitments
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Active Impact launches $120-million third cleantech fund, Feds release Fall Economic Statement

Welcome to BetaKit’s startup stories of the week! Here, you will find the week’s most important news, features, and editorials published on BetaKit. If…

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SaaS
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Canadian SaaS investment rebounded in 2023, reaching nearly $7 billion

L-Spark’s report identified 20 SaaS deals valued at $50 million or more. Canada’s software as a service (SaaS) sector saw a marked year-over-year…

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Microsoft sign
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S|W: The SaaS Weekly – What’s old is new again: Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny

Plus: Google employees have a bad feeling mass layoffs are coming. The SaaS Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering major SaaS news from Canada…

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Leo Lax BetaKit podcast SAAS NORTH 2022
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2022 has been a “disaster” for SaaS funding, though sector continues to grow

“The bias is less towards building the innovation economy, more towards sustaining what we got.” This year has been a “disaster” for SaaS venture…

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Twitter, Instagram, YouTube logo and cars
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S|W: The SaaS Weekly – TikTok pushes for growth, Elon pushes for Twitter… again

Plus: L-SPARK selects six startups for latest B2B SaaS accelerator cohort. The SaaS Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering major SaaS news from Canada…

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L-SPARK selects six startups for latest B2B SaaS accelerator cohort
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L-SPARK selects six startups for latest B2B SaaS accelerator cohort

Cohort participants’ tech range from identity verification to same-day delivery management. L-SPARK has revealed the six startups joining the ninth cohort of its B2B…

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Stradigi.ai vows to continue despite laying off more than two-thirds of its staff
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A|I: The AI Times – A giant wave of machine-learning acquisitions

Plus: Stradigi.ai says it’s still alive. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data, and automation news…

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Radicle
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S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Introhive cuts staff, Contentsquare goes mammoth

Plus: Netflix coming to Vancouver with new acquisition. The SaaS Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering major SaaS news from Canada and around the…

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Deeplite co-founders
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BlackBerry, L-SPARK unveil third cohort for connected car accelerator

Third cohort sees return of Deeplite, Sensor Cortek. SaaS accelerator L-SPARK and BlackBerry have revealed the four companies taking part in the latest edition…

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