July's update is juicier than watermelon and a paperback beach read!
Catch the latest Canadian tech moves, news, roles, and insights.
Joe Wright joins BioIntelligence Technologies as Director of Enterprise Sales
Alex Leyn is now VP Engineering at Planitar
Larissa Currah joins ThinkLP as Senior Director, People Ops
ThinkLP expanded their Applications Specialist team by adding Steven Ruttan, Rhandi Jenkins and Alyssa Darden
Ian Rawlins is now President and COO at Tulip
Shabbir Lasani is now Senior Director, Revenue Marketing at Axonify
Asaf Inger joins Athennian as VP Engineering
Alex Dlugokecki joins Northern Labs as Engineering Manager
John Busch is now VP Business Technology at Educators Financial Group
Tara Fournier joins Enthusiast Gaming as Chief People Officer
Matthew Lombardi is now Director of Platform Sales, Pollinator Fund for Good at TELUS
John Wallace is now CFO at Arteria AI
Bailey Dougherty is now Vice President of Professional Services at Arteria AI
Bill Hewitt joins Mindbridge as Interim CEO
Russ Armstrong is now VP Sales at Avanti Software
Sr Growth Marketing Manager - FinTech - (Remote)
VP Product Innovation - HealthTech - London
Product Leadership - FinTech - US/Canada (Remote/Hybrid) - Email to learn more
Founding Full Stack Engineer - AI Automation - Toronto - Email to learn more
SVP Engineering - Confidential - Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlanta or Chicago
Head of Technology- InsurTech/AgTech- Canada (Remote)
Director of Growth - Marketplace SaaS- Canada (Remote)
Product Manager - Proptech/Cloud Services- KW (Hybrid)
Fractional CFO - AI/ML - KW, GTA, Calgary or Edmonton preferred - Email to learn more
Director of Growth- Rewards Tech- Canada (Remote)
Coming soon -
Fractional/Contract VP - Hardware Operations - KW - Email to learn more
VP CS- eCommerce/ B2B Enterprise- Canada/US (EST)- Email to learn more
Director of Finance- eCommerce/B2B Enterprise- Canada/US (EST)- Email to learn more
Various Engineering roles - Robotics/Controls - KW - Email to learn more
Confidential Director of Product- eCommerce- Canada/US (Remote)- Email to learn more
Great news! We're excited to announce we've officially launched an Alberta presence!
Carly Livingstone has been a valuable member of our Toronto-based team for 3 year. Hailing from Edmonton, Carly has now returned to her roots to establish our inaugural Alberta office (though for the record, we already partner with clients all over Western Canada!) This exciting expansion marks a significant milestone in Artemis' journey. Check out more about this expansion by clicking here!
"I need a leader who can spend 25% of their time on critical strategy, planning, and leadership work and 75% of their time spent tactically" We hear this a lot. We've found that fractional leadership is often the right choice.
With our Fractional Executive Practice, we connect our qualified and curated roster of fractional leaders with startups and scaleups that have very specific needs. Our team has spent 25+ years building relationships with tech leaders who have experience tackling critical finance, HR, go-to-market, and tech challenges. Contact us to learn more about how to add a fractional leader to your team, or to become part of our Fractional Exec Roster!
Spotlight: Our Fractional Leader of the Month
Title: SVP Engineering/CTOLocation: Toronto, Ontario
Background: He's a senior engineering leader with significant experience in early-stage and scaling tech companies. He's worked in fintech, healthtech, supply chain tech, and e-commerce. He's led both product and development, and thrives in chaos and uncertainty.
Looking for: Fractional opportunities where he can bring new products to market, hire, increase developer productivity, and transform low-performing teams to high-performing teams by introducing and improving processes.
Capacity for: Up to 16 hours/week
Email to learn more!
It’s client love time, where we highlight one of our incredible clients: what they do, why we’re excited to partner with them, the good they’re putting into the world, and what we’ve worked on together! It's Tech-for-Good time! This month we're taking a look at FlipGive, a Toronto-based, B-corp Certified startup that is revolutionizing grassroots fundraising in sports! We were introduced to FlipGive's CEO, Amy Halpenny, by Amrita Gurney, our client at Float (we love those referrals!)
We are partnering on a Director of Growth Marketing search to join the leadership team at an exciting inflection point in their growth. Read on to learn more!
Immigrants of Tech is a spin-off from our "Humans of Tech" series that is designed to focus on the inspiring stories of newcomers to our tech ecosystem.
Meet Ilya Brotzky. Ilya is the CEO and Founder of VanHack- a startup on a mission to create a borderless world for tech talent. Learn more about what led him to Canada, the origin story for VanHack, and insights for newcomers looking to integrate into the Canadian tech community.
Canada saw an intake of over 30,000 tech workers from abroad within the last year
Waterloo is the #1 small tech talent market for the 3rd year in a row
Waterloo takes top spot in new site selection report for small cities as a prime location for international business expansion
The Logic brings us their Talent Quarterly Report- As labour market cools, the work-from-home fight heats up
Review of Alberta Innovates' Scale-up GAP program shows $147 million raised, with 118 job created
Deep tech company, Primal, has spent nearly 20 years building world-leading AI platform in Kitchener
CarbonCure Technologies - East Coast | CleanTech | $105.9M
Ditch Labs - Quebec | HealthTech | $3.3M
Othersohere - British Columbia | CleanTech | $3.0M
Resemble AI - Toronto | AI | $8.0M
Metafold 3D - Toronto | 3DTech | $2.4M
ProShop ERP - British Columbia | ERP | $42.3M
3D BioFibR - East Coast | BioTech | $3.5M
Liberum Biotech - Toronto | BioTech | $1.8M
COMMUNITECH
ProSquad Learn & Connect with Artemis Canada
Wednesday, August 16 | 9.30-10.30am EDT
With the ongoing news of layoffs & restructuring still popping up in our feeds & a tighter investment climate, it's been an interesting & challenging time for both leaders and professionals. We're leading an in-person session at Communitech to add value to wherever you are in your hiring process, share market insights, and answer all your questions. For a complete list of the topics covered and to register, please click here
Send us your questions about hiring and retaining top talent in tech!
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