Global e-commerce Software as a Service (SaaS) platform Shoplazza has closed a USD $150 million Series C1 financing round led by Softbank Vision Fund 2. Headquartered in China, Shoplazza has a corporate office in Markham where is employs 20 and has plans for grow headcount to 50 by the end of 2022. The funds raised […]
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Toronto’s 1Password To Triple Headcount After Raising USD $620 Million
Toronto password management platform 1Password has closed a massive USD $620 million Series C funding round that raises the company’s valuation to USD $6.8 billion. The investment was led by Iconiq Growth, with participation from Tiger Global, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Backbone Angels, and Accel, which led the company’s Series A and B rounds. Other investors taking part include CrowdStrike […]
Doubling Down On The Toronto Region’s Talent Advantage
Touted as North America’s fastest growing tech market, Toronto continues to attract innovative companies from around the globe. Over 81,000 new tech jobs were added to our region between 2016-2020, and there is no indication of that slowing down any time soon. Talent remains the primary factor impacting corporate strategy and is a key driver for […]
Fintech Tipalti Accelerates Global Expansion with Plans to Hire 300 in Toronto
San Mateo’s Tipalti, a global payables automation company, announced that it will be opening a new office in Toronto. This is the sixth global office for Tipalti, joining existing locations in San Mateo, Plano, London, Kibbutz Glil-Yam, and Vancouver. The new office is set to open January 1, 2022. Tipalti is actively recruiting talent for […]
Twitter Expands Engineering Footprint In Toronto and Vancouver
Twitter has big plans for Canada and that includes Vancouver. Twitter currently has 200+ employees in Canada, spread across engineering, sales, marketing, policy & other areas. This includes staff in Toronto and Vancouver plus remote employees in Ontario, BC & Nova Scotia. This growth trajectory has grown significantly in 2021, led by the March 2021 […]
Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal Among Top 6 Growth Tech Cities in North America
Toronto has ranked first in North America for high-tech software job growth. According to the 2021 CBRE North America Tech-30 report, Toronto leads the 30 top tech markets in the US and Canada, with a growth rate of 26.4% over the past two years. In 2019 and 2020, approximately 40,200 new tech jobs were created […]
Wayfair To Hire 200 At Engineering Site In Toronto
Boston-headquarted Wayfair is opening three new engineering sites in the San Francisco, Austin, and Toronto and plans to hire 1,000 technologists over the next year. Wayfair is expanding its Engineering footprint to locations outside of its technology hubs in Boston and Berlin for the first time to further advance the innovative technologies that make Wayfair […]
Stripe To Open First Canadian Office In Toronto And Is Hiring
Stripe is expanding its presence in Canada with an office in downtown Toronto—its first in the country—and four new products in Canada: Stripe Tax, Pre-Authorized Debits, faster payouts, and a new smart reader for Stripe Terminal. Dual-headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, Stripe offers payment processing software and application programming interfaces for ecommerce websites and […]
Flexport Announces Expansion In Canada With Toronto Office
Flexport, the logistics platform for global trade, has announced the expansion of its services to Canadian importers and exporters with the launch of a new office in Toronto. The new location complements Flexport’s existing presence in Vancouver and will serve as a hub for the company in Eastern Canada, with plans for fifteen employees to […]
Enable Continues Global Expansion with New Toronto-Based Office
Fresh on the heels of a USD $45 Million Series B raise and a spot on Inc. 5000’s 2021 list, Enable, a modern cloud-based software solution for B2B rebate management, is opening of a new office location in Toronto. The expansion will support a growing team and allow for more comprehensive support for the North American […]