VCJ Staff

Worldwide fintech investor Flourish Ventures promotes Sarah Morgenstern and Ameya Upadhyay each to venture partner.

Retail Zipline raises $30m in Series B round led by Fifth Wall. The company operates an internal communications platform used by such retailers as Sephora, American Eagle Outfitters and Speedway.

Cambridge Brain Sciences, a Toronto-based online brain health assessment platform, has closed a new round of growth financing.

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Calian Group has agreed to acquire Dapasoft, a Toronto-based provider of systems integration, cloud lifecycle management and cybersecurity solutions.

After a few weeks of a new administration and US Congress, in which a major antitrust reform bill was introduced, Bob Ackerman of AllegisCyber and others say investors are nervous about how new regulation will ripple through the venture landscape. But it could also be an opportunity for VCs, writes Lee Bruno.

San Francisco's 137 Ventures names Alex Lurie director of legal and business affairs.

Industry experts tell PEI's Nicole Douglas how they're planning to deal with the challenges ahead in 2021.

McCain Foods has acquired a minority interest in Fiddlehead Technology, a Moncton, New Brunswick-based provider of advanced data science solutions to the consumer goods industry.

Venture capital investment in Canadian technology companies in 2020 fell from the record-breaking 2019 but still remained strong, with C$6.0 billion deployed across 576 rounds.