Business Products and Services
Cognota secures Series A financing
Cognota secured US $4.5M in Series A funding led by Grotech Ventures with participation of IDEA Fund Partners, Tyton Partners, Generation Ventures, BDC Capital, CEAS Investments and others, and US $1M in venture debt from Comerica Bank. Steve Fredrick, GP of Grotech Ventures, joined Cognota board.
Streamforge secures US $1.2M seed financing
Xavier Constantin and Nick Lombardi founded Streamforge secured US $1.2M seed funding led by Triptyq Capital with participation from Leansquare, Telegraph Hill Capital, and private investors. Guillaume Therien of Triptyq Capital joined Streamforge's board.
Ontopical secures $3.3M seed extension funding
Clayton Feick and Derrick Koenig founded Ontopical secured $3.3M in seed extension funding from Rhino Ventures, Graphite Ventures, Accelerate Fund III including a grant from Alberta Innovates.
PE-backed impact.com acquires SaaSquatch
Silversmith Capital Partners, Providence Equity Partners, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) backed impact.com acquired SaaSquatch from founders Will Fraser and Logan Volkers
Blanka secures US $2M seed financing
Kaylee Astle, Doug Long, and Adam Chuntz founded Blanka secured US $2M seed funding led by Dundee Venture Capital, with participation from Storytime Capital, Disruption Ventures, private investors including Fatima Yusuf and Manica Blain.
Truelink Capital acquires Flipp
Truelink Capital acquired Flipp Corporation from General Atlantic, Insight Partners, founders, Wehuns Tan, David Au-Yeung, David Meyers and Matthew Cheung, and others.
HumanFirst secures $5M seed financing
Gregory Whiteside and Mathieu Rene founded HumanFirst secured $5M seed funding led by Panache Ventures, with participation from Inovia, Real Ventures, BoxOne Ventures, private investors including Kevin Mahaffey.
Egis to acquire McIntosh Perry from Signal Hill
Tikehau Capital, Caisse des Dépôts backed Egis to acquire McIntosh Perry and Beam, Longest and Neff, LLC from Signal Hill Equity Partners and other shareholders.
Minutebook Technologies announces $3.3M SAFE private placement
Ryan S.D. Wilson led Minutebook Technologies secured $3.3 million SAFE private placement financing.
Doormat secures $1.25M pre-seed financing
Robert Saunders, Benjamin Berry and Joel Fox founded Doormat secured $1.25M pre-seed funding led by Alate Partners with participation from The LegalTech Fund, and private investors.
Spellbook secures US $10.9M Series A
Scott Stevenson, Matt Mayers and Daniel Di Maria founded Spellbook secured US $10.9M Series A funding led by Moxxie Ventures with participation from Thomson Reuters Ventures, Inovia Capital, The LegalTech Fund, Bling Capital, N49P, Concrete Ventures, Good News Ventures, Pelorus VC and others.
E Automotive/E Inc delists from TSX
Intercap Equity Inc. controlled E Automotive Inc. d/b/a E Inc. to delist from TSX today and to close $21M private placement led by Intercap which is investing $20M
PREdict AI secures $1M
Parham Aarabi founded PREdict AI secured $1M seed financing led by Roya Ventures.
Mountaingate Capital invests in Bond
Mid-market private equity firm Mountaingate Capital acquried undisclosed stake in Bond Brand Loyalty.
Certn secures US $30M Series B-2 funding
Certn secured additional US$30M Series B led by Export Development Canada (EDC) with participation of B Capital/Boston Consulting Group, Bank of Montreal, and two other Canadian investors.
Optable secures $20M Series A
Yves Poiré, Vlad Stesin and Bosko Milekic founded Optable secured US $20M Series A funding from Hearst Ventures, Brightspark Ventures, Desjardins Capital, Deloitte Ventures, asterX, and others.
Merinio secures $2.2M seed financing
Maxime Gauthier-Bourbonnais, Xavier Lavallée, and Francis Villiard founded Merinio secured $2.2M seed funding led by Graphite Ventures, AQC Capital and Anges Québec. Kevin Madill of Graphite Ventures and Stéphane Caron of AQC Capital joined Merinio board of directors.
Brizo Data secures $12M Series A equity and debt financing
Ian Delisle, Gaétan Corneau and Trevor Shimizu founded Brizo Data secured $12M Series A equity and debt funding led by FRAMEWORK Venture Partners with participation of BDC Capital. FRAMEWORK's Jim Texier joined Brizo board of directors.