Artemis Update - May 2021

All The Moves

Virtek Vision welcomes two new executives to their team, Dietmar Wennemer joins as CEO and Chris Ramuscak joins as Chief Operating Officer

Steve Bradwell former Senior Data Strategist at Fairventure Lab joins new insurtech startup First Acre Insurance as their Head of Technology

Brian Douglas joins League as VP Talent

Kaitlyn Buse joins Figbytes as Sr. Human Resources Manager

Michael Aristocrat joins Varicent as Growth Lead

Elly Bradley, former Director of Talent at TextNow, joined CaseWare International as Head of Programs, HR Operations

Eric Nicolaisen is now Software R&D Site Manager - Waterloo at Lincoln Electric Automation

Michael Irvine is now Head of Marketing at Goodside

Saibal Chakraburtty Director of Technical Program Management at Cognitive Systems Corp.

John Shackleton former OpenText CEO, to Lead FutureVault as Chief Executive Officer

Nigel Vanderlinden former Chief Revenue Officer at Plum joins Powernoodle as their new CEO

Sarah Eisenbach joins InMoment as their VP of Sales Strategy

Matt Collaton is now VP Sales at AirMatrix

Alexander Schwertner is now VP Product at Crowdriff

Erin Arnold previously at PointClickCare, is now Director, People & Culture at ACTO

Ashleigh Grey, previously VP Strategic Partnerships at Rangle.io is now VP, Partners & Alliances at Vidyard

Tara Janke has joined as Boast.ai’s Chief Technology Officer while Chris Cottle and Tim Fisher have taken on the roles of Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer

Hussam Ayyad is now Chief Accelerator Officer at Highline Beta

Peter Gould is now Head of Channel Partnerships at Ride Co.

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What We Are Working On

VP Drives - Cleantech/Hardware- Kitchener-Waterloo

VP Control + Firmware - Cleantech/Hardware-Kitchener-Waterloo

VP Machines - Cleantech/Hardware-Kitchener-Waterloo

VP Simulation - Cleantech/Hardware-Kitchener-Waterloo

VP Engineering - Compliance/ Risk Management, SaaS-GTA/Remote

VP Sales - Compliance/ Risk Management, SaaS-GTA/Remote

Head of Development - Early Stage, Digital Freight Network-Kitchener-Waterloo

Head of Marketing - B2C, SaaS-Kitchener-Waterloo

Sr. Product Marketing Manager - Remote-eCommerce/Loyalty-Kitchener-Waterloo/Remote

Product Marketing Manager - Edtech-Toronto/ Remote

Marketing Demand Manager -  Hardware/Healthtech-Kitchener-Waterloo/Remote

Salesforce Manager - Healthtech-Toronto/Remote

User Experience Leader - Fintech-Toronto

QA Manager - Fintech-Toronto

Data Architect - Loyalty-Toronto

Senior UI Developer - IoT/Smart Buildings-Kitchener-Waterloo

Here We Grow Again!

We are thrilled to welcome, Ashley Gallant to the Artemis Canada team!

Salary Snapshot!

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All The News & Stuff You Should Know

Toronto incubator DMZ has unveiled a new community networking platform as part of the tech hub’s push to expand its programming for women entrepreneurs.
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Google Canada has committed $2 million CAD to NPower Canada, Pathways to Education, the Toronto Public Library, and the YMCA to help young workers in underserved communities re-skill for jobs in tech.
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The federal government is investing $44.3 million in 11 Canadian cleantech companies solving sustainability challenges across a number of sectors.
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Kitchener-Waterloo-based quantum computing startup Quantum Benchmark has been acquired by Keysight Technologies.
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Hamilton, Ontario-based software startup Ackroo is set to acquire InterActive DMS for $900,000.
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Toronto-based healthtech startup Felix Health has announced the launch of a new virtual mental health service, as it looks to make mental health treatment more accessible and help to reduce the stigma and inconvenience associated with accessing it.
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Toronto-Based Q4 files to go public on TSX.
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Toronto-based IT consulting firm Sourced has been acquired by Amdocs.
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Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) has partnered with the University of Washington’s (UW) Foster School of Business to launch CDL-Seattle, its third United States location, this fall.
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BDC Capital is launching another $250 million CAD growth equity fund to help mid-market Canadian companies scale.
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Nuvei is set to acquire FinTech and cryptocurrency startup Simplex.
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Toronto-based Willful, which offers online will and estate planning, has launched a new national partnership with Allstate Insurance Company of Canada.
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Kitchener retail brand Wolf and Grizzly has been acquired by Quebec-based “digital-first brand architects” Nolk.
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Funding News

Relay Financial - 19.4M

Wealthsimple - 750M

Ada - 130M

Knix - 53M

Vetster - 12.25M

Vendasta - 119.5M

eSSENTIAL Accessibility - 55M

PartnerStack - 29M

Ledn - 30M

Xandu -100M

Tenstorrent - 200M

Fluence Technologies - 10M

CLC Network - 9M

Sherpa - 8.5M

Nanology Labs - 3M

Agnostiq - 2M

BuyProperly - 2M

Loopt - 1.7M

Myant - 1.5M

ALT TEX - 1.5M

OpenUnit - 1M

7shifts - 21.5M

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