Should I Join an Accelerator?

To startups looking to jumpstart their businesses, accelerators may seem like a godsend. Who wouldn’t want to a structured environment in which to grow their company? While accelerators can indeed provide superb value to startups, not all are made equal. The effectiveness of some are contested, a ...

2019 October Funding Deals

Post-IPO Equity dominated the funding scene in October, defining the three largest deals raised. RioCan, the second-largest real estate investment trust in Canada, raised $230M in a public equity offering; Golden Star Resources, a mid-tier Canadian gold mining company, close a $60 million senior sec ...

How to Determine Your Company’s Stage

What is a Company Stage?It’s occurred to you before while scrolling through the press release of a recently-funded startup. Seed? Surely that company is Series A. Pre-seed? No, they’re definitely seed. Everyone is familiar with the stages applied to startups, and yet, nobody seems entirely sure ...

September Funding Deals

In September, Verafin, a financial crime software management service whose clientele includes over 3000 banks and credit unions across Canada, dominated where funding deals were concerned, raising $515M (CAD). Software provider Element AI, meanwhile, quietly secured a $200M (CAD) deal, which it will ...

Moving from Manufacturing to Services/IT

IntroductionOver the past few years, the “deindustrialization” of the Western world has become a talking point for economic alarmists. Those with an understanding of the industrial age and the leaps and bounds made during its approximate 80 year span have been startled to find that employment in ...