Ada raised $2.5m from Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Version One Ventures. Ada Support is based in Toronto with about 10 employees. Ada is a customer support automation software that enables companies to easily leverage machine learning to provide instant answers to their questions in chat. They make automating and scaling customer support simple. With chatbots … Continue reading Toronto Ada Support, chat automation software firm, raises $2.5m→
Montreal firm, TickSmith, with about 16 employees that specializes in in Big Data applications for Capital Markets and financial services, has raised $2m Canadian. TickVault is a comprehensive software platform that leverages Hadoop and is highly scalable Its various modules include ETLs, business logic, analytics, workflow, process monitoring and data delivery. Trading groups typically use it … Continue reading Montreal Startup TickSmith, Big Data for Finance, raises $2m→
SnapTravel announced today an $8M USD Series A round led by iNovia Capital. SnapTravel allows users to find and book the perfect hotel room over SMS and Facebook Messenger. Financing was provided by iNovia Capital as well as Lightbank, Bee Partners, and Hedgewood. What is Snap Travel? SnapTravel gives you access to great hotel deals over … Continue reading Toronto Travel Website SnapTravel Raises $10M Series A→
Borrowell raised $12m Canadian in funding , this is on top of $4.2m they have already received. Financing was provided by Portag3 Ventures LP, Equitable Bank and White Star Capital, with participation by FirstOntario Credit Union among others. Borrowell is a Canadian fintech lender that offers fast, fair, and friendly personal loans, and credit scores … Continue reading Toronto Financial Tech Borrowell Secures $12m in Funding→
Timely is advancing the calendar into a distribution and promotional platform. Unlike other calendars, Timely offers our users an inspiring calendar for their own website that can also import & export events to other calendars – whether those other calendar are Timely or others. We aim to fix the fragmented events space by connecting & … Continue reading Guelph Ontario Time.ly Helps Manage Your Events→
Retinad is the leading VR analytics platform for VR/AR and 360 videos. We help marketers, advertisers and creatives measure human behavior in immersive media through head movement. We sat down with Alexander Haque to talk more about his startup: Who started the company? Do you / team members have tech background? Kevin Ouellet is the CTO … Continue reading Montreal Startup Retinad VR Tracks Virtual Reality→
Semeon Analytics will be hosting an event to bring together university students and young professionals across Montreal, to discuss the impact of Artificial Intelligence in the new world market, while also rolling out its own AI product, Digi Seer. The main focus of the event is to provide value to students interested in the field … Continue reading Future of Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Business (Montreal Event)→
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