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All The Moves:
Jennifer Paxton joins Smile.io as VP People
Jordan Fox joins Skywatch as their new Senior Sales Director
Bart Pirowar is now Head of Product at DarwinAI
Peter Berczi joins MarshallZehr Group as CEO
Shaun Cawley joins Clearco as their Director of Talent.
Rob Khazzam, former head of Uber Canada has joined FinTech startup Float as CEO
April Clark now VP People and Culture @ Skywatch
Eran Ben-Ari joins BencSci as Chief Platform Officer
Sean Erjavec has joined Viafoura as SVP Revenue after successfully leading revenue growth and strategy at Bridgit
Ryan D'Souza now CRO at Shop-Ware
Chris Bondhus is now VP Marketing at Igloo
Evan Clark is now Executive Director at GTAN - Golden Triangle Angel Network
Harrison Levy is no the Director, Product Marketing at Resolver
Davis Neable is now Director of UX at Humi
Steve Wood, former Engineering Lead, Google Canada joins Inovia as a Partner and CTO
Pam Martin, former Director of Customer Success at Sortable joins PointClickCare as Director, Digital Customer Success
Tanzina Alam previously at Saage joins Shopify as Global Head of Go to Market
Chris Inch, former Senior Software Development Manager at Shopify joins Wealthsimple as their new Director of Engineering
Rahul Khanna is the new Sr Director of Product Management at SSENSE
Jason Karsh is now CMO at Rewind
Martin Piszel joins Coinsquare as CEO
What We’re Working On:
Think you have what it takes to be a great Recruiter and Talent Consultant or know someone who we should meet? Come work with us!
VP People- Fintech/Scale-Up GTA/remote
Head of Drives- Cleantech/Hardware- Kitchener-Waterloo
Head of Machines- Cleantech/Hardware-Kitchener-Waterloo
Head of Simulation & Analysis- Cleantech/Hardware-Kitchener-Waterloo
VP Sales- Compliance/ Risk Management, SaaS
VP Product- Global FinTech
Head of Development- Early Stage, Digital Freight Network
Head of Customer Success- SaaS/ HR - Career Development
VP People- Edtech
Director of Engineering - HealthTech/Patient Engagement
Sr. Manager, Finance- Environmental/Sustainability Reporting SaaS
IT Lead- Financial Solutions/Tech
Data Architect - Loyalty/Digital Currency
Product Design Manager- FinTech Scale-Up
Product Marketing Analyst- Network Technologies
Product Marketing Manager- EdTech
Sr. Fullstack Developer (UI)- IoT/ Smart Buildings - KW
Product Marketing Manager- Enterprise SaaS - Customer Communication Management
Robotics Software Engineer- Industrial Robotics
Humans of Tech- Gary Pacheco
Meet Gary Pacheco, CTO at DarwinAI
We talk about ethical AI, identifying root problems, transparent leadership, and the value in unique perspectives.
All the News & Stuff You Should Know:
July saw a good number of M&A deals, but the big news was all about capital! Take a look at both the volume of funding deals and the valuations. From our perspective this is a sign that the playing field is leveling out for Canadian tech companies. And of course the implications for talent are huge!
M&A News
Foodee’s Industry-Leading Meal Planning Service for Businesses Joins Sodexo to Expand across the U.S. and Canada
Miovision acquires Traffop
Salesforce closes $27.7 billion acquisition of Slack - ok this isn’t Canada specific news - but is a big one!
Toronto-based virtual data room (VDR) company Firmex has been acquired by fellow VDR provider Datasite
Accenture has acquired Toronto-based consulting firm Cloudwork
EQ Works acquires Paymi to expand into new verticals
Pluribus acquires POWR as it looks to target SME market
Funding News:
Arctic Wolf Networks - 150M
Auvik- 250M
Float (formerly Journal)-5M
P&P Optica- Series B
Clearco- 268M
Deep Genomics- 226M
Swift Medical- 35M
Properly-44M
Loop-65M
1Password- 100M
Notch (formerly, Chef Hero)- 12.5M
Untether AI- 125M
Brokrete- 2.1M
FrontFundr- 1.78M
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