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Diversity gap persists in senior ranks of Canadian VC firms

BDC Capital data shows almost half of venture firms are entirely male owned. Despite year-over-year gains in the representation of women and visible minorities…

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R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify touts checkout conversion rates, ranks merchants

Plus: Lightspeed Commerce recovers from tough third quarter. The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news from Canada and around the…

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Shopify changes employee compensation model: “being a manager now has no effect on compensation”
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Canada ranks 12th in Shopify’s first report on economic impact of merchants

Canada’s Shopify merchants lag behind on economic impact compared to smaller economies. Shopify has published its first entrepreneurship index, mapping the economic impact of…

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CleanBC Industry Fund opens applications for round three of funding
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Startup Genome ranks Vancouver, Toronto-Waterloo among top global AgTech, new food ecosystems

Vancouver came ninth, while Toronto-Waterloo followed closely behind at 11. Startup Genome has published its first AgTech and New Food report, naming two of…

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