Artemis Update - June 2020

Artemis Update - June 2020

All The Moves

Nicholas Armstrong has joined MarshallZehr Group as a Head of Engineering consultant to help lead their innovation strategy.

Nikolay Gigov joins Enlighted as  their Principal Research Engineer

Holly Holmes-Uniacke, previously at Miovision, joins ShipperBee as their new Director of Human Resources

Amanda Little has joined Nicoya as People & Culture Manager

Zahra Shaikh is the new Product Marketing Manager at Wave

Caryn Petker started at Shopify as Talent Business Partner Lead

Marc Faucher joins ArcTern Ventures as Managing Director

John Doolittle joins TouchBistro as their Chief Financial Officer

Former COO at Zendesk Tom Keiser, to replace Ryan Holmes as CEO of HootSuite.

What We Are Working On

Product Manager (Satellite Focus) - KW (or Remote)/Data & Analytics

Engineering Lead - Toronto/eCommerce

Product Manager- Integrations - Toronto/ Fintech

Senior Software Developer, Team Lead - KW /Robotics

Product Manager - Toronto/ Fintech

Our Commitment To Diversity and Inclusion

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All The News

Communitech is named to deliver Digital Main Street programming across Ontario, as part of a $57-million investment by the federal and provincial governments.
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Sensibill has partnered with Chase Bank to provide the bank’s customers with its digital receipt management solution.
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KW's North, developer of Focals has be acquired by Google parent company Alphabet.
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Canadian tech & innovation leaders have come together to launch anti-racism coalition.
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Portal137 is launching in Waterloo Region, as part of the Catalyst Building, in the newly launched 76,000 sqft CoWork space, Catalyst Commons.
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Toronto based challenger bank Stack has been acquired by Credit Sesame, a United States-based credit and loan company.
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Google is set to launch a new accelerator program focused on women founders in Canada and the United States.
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Kitchener-Waterloo based start-up Tauriam launched a secure video conference tool and business suite.
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CrowdRiff, a Toronto based marketing software start launches Localhood, a free online platform to allow users to discover and support local businesses during COVID-19.
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Funding News

OTTO Motors - 29M

Ritual - 29.8M

Vention - 38M

Humi - 15M

Lane - 10M

Vendr - 4M

Invixium- 3M

PreVu3D- 2.5M

GoFor Industries- 9.8M

BlackCart- 2.8M

Spiderwort- 2.5M

Trusscore- 5.33M

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July 1, 2020