February Funding Deals

Canopy Rivers, a unique investment and operating platform pursuing investment opportunities in the emerging global cannabis sector, raised the largest round in February thanks to investments from CIBC and Eight Capital. Peraso Technologies, Blackberry QNX, and MOJIO, were the runners-up where inves ...

January Funding Deals

If your New Years resolution was to raise a round of funding in 2019, consider taking a page from one of the below companies’ books (or perhaps more appropriately, a slide from one of their pitch decks). In total, fourteen significant rounds were raised in January, the largest by ...

Secondaries: The New Best Route to Liquidity?

The State of IPOsInitial Public Offerings are no longer the logical next step for startups that have completed growth-stage funding rounds. In the United States, the passing of the JOBS act in 2012 “increased fourfold the maximum number of shareholders a company can have before it must disclose fi ...

SaaS Metrics That Get Investors’ Attention

As has been stated time and time again by entrepreneurs spanning countless industries, there is no one-size-fits-all model for constructing a successful startup. Indicative of this point were the 2018 Fundica Roadshow panels, where CEOs of everything from sports ...

December Funding Deals

2018 ended with a bang as far as funding deals were concerned. Twenty-two major rounds were closed by Canadian tech startups in December, including one by past Fundica Roadshow participant Cybeats, who announced a $3M raise on the 18th. Nineteen other companies secured multi-million dollar deals, in ...