Tag: sequoia capital
Brookfield and Sequoia Heritage’s reported new fund is well-positioned to scoop up discount tech startups
Valuations are down and Canadian companies are filling for insolvency at a 10-year high. As industry observers brace for the worst, a pair of…
F|T: The FinTech Times – Stripe to power Shopify’s new business credit card
Plus: How the partnership between Apple and Goldman Sachs soured. Welcome to the FinTech Times, a weekly newsletter covering the biggest FinTech news from…
Practice Better acquires That Clean Life for a healthy-sounding eight figures
An eight-year collaboration has ended in acquisition for the two Toronto healthtech startups. Business sounds healthy over at two Toronto-based healthtech startups, Practice Better,…
LayerZero Labs raises $120 million at $3 billion valuation to enable more multi-blockchain apps
VCs continue to bet on long-term growth for crypto despite volatile market. Vancouver-based Web3 startup LayerZero Labs is now valued at $3 billion after…
Former Google ad chief’s Neeva launches its ad-free, privacy-conscious search engine in Canada
Neeva, an advertising-free search engine that claims to preserve user privacy, is launching in Canada. Sridhar Ramaswamy, the ex-SVP of ads at Google, and…
R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify’s bet didn’t pay off
The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news from Canada and around the globe. Subscribe to R|T using the form at…
F|T: The FinTech Times – The bottom fell out of Canadian FinTech
Plus: Former Coinbase manager arrested for insider trading. Welcome to the FinTech Times, a weekly newsletter covering the biggest FinTech news from around the…
PitchBook projects VC deal value to drop, deal count to stay high as market cools
VC market shifts from founder-friendly “game of winning” to “game of picking.” During a Collision 2022 presentation about the state of the VC market,…
LayerZero Labs reaches $1 billion valuation in round backed by Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz
Tom Brady, Justin Timberlake, crypto leaders like Dapper Labs invested in the $135 million round. Vancouver blockchain tech startup LayerZero Labs is the latest…