The Bird&Be Co. secured $2.2M funding from BAM Ventures, Backbone Angels, Halo Health, PillPack, Founder Collective, Slow Ventures, private investors. BAM Ventures’ Shamin Walsh joined founders Samantha Diamond and Breanna Hughes on Bird&Be board of directors.Continue Reading
WELL Health Technologies Corp. launched WELL Health Ventures Inc. and invested $250K in Halifax’ Bright (formerly Cribcut)Continue Reading
Swift Medical closed major Series B round of financing led by Virgo Investment Group. Virgo’s Pooja Goel will join Swift Medical board of directors.Continue Reading
Cornell Capital and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec backed Knowlton Development Corporation, Inc. (kdc/one) filed for initial public offering (IPO) on TSX and NYSEContinue Reading
Desjardins Capital PME and Cortexnord Capital acquired minority stakes in Progitek. Desjardins’ Christine Buteau and Cortexnord’s Éric Gagnon will join founder Éric Vézina on Progitek board of directors.Continue Reading
Walter Capital Partners acquired undisclosed stake in Clareo Dental Network, the largest domestic network of dental clinics in Quebec. Continue Reading
MCA Dental Group Limited closed significant growth and recap transaction with Persistence Capital Partners (PCP) and investor group led by DWS Group’s private equity business.Continue Reading
Novacap acquired undisclosed stake in Canada Diagnostic Centres (CDC). CDC’s leadership led by founder and President Lorne Paperny and shareholders will remain in place. Continue Reading
Round13 Capital, Bederman Capital, Kensington Capital Partners, Roynat Capital backed LifeSpeak priced $125M IPO at $10/share for $475.9M valuation. Founder Michael Held and Round13 will be the principal shareholders beneficially controlling 10% or more of outstanding shares.Continue Reading
AlayaCare secured $225M Series D funding from Generation Investment Management LLP, Klass Capital, Inovia Capital, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), and Investissement Québec. Continue Reading
Round13 Capital, Bederman Capital, Kensington Capital Partners, Roynat Capital backed LifeSpeak to raise $125M to be priced at $9-12 per share. LifeSpeak will have 47.2M shares outstanding (assuming offering price of $10.5)Continue Reading
Round13 Capital, Kensington Capital Partners, Roynat Capital, Bederman Capital backed LifeSpeak Inc. filed for IPO on TSX. Founder Michael Held to remain as the largest shareholder.Continue Reading
Onex Corporation’s Onex Partners V to acquire Newport Healthcare, in partnership with company’s management team, from Carlyle, the majority owner of Newport since 2017.Continue Reading
Rocket Doctor Inc. closed US $2.7M seed financing led by f7 Ventures and Dr. Irv Edwards with Emergent Medical Associates, building on US $1.1 million of pre-seed funding closed in 2020.Continue Reading
OMERS Private Equity to acquire Gastro Health from Audax Private Equity for undisclosed amount. The transaction is expected to close in Q2 2021.Continue Reading
Persistence Capital Partners (PCP) backed Neighbourly Pharmacy priced $175M IPO at $17 per share at $568.5M valuation. PCP entities to continue to own 21,100,922 shares if over-allotment option is exercised in full.Continue Reading
L Catterton, Imperial Capital Group, OPTrust backed dentalcorp Holdings to raise $950M by way of IPO ($700M+greenshore) and con-current private placement with L Catterton, Imperial Capital, OPTrust, founder Graham RosenbergContinue Reading
