Tag: Canada

Canada-based APOLLO Insurance has closed an oversubscribed Series A round on $13.5m, storming past its initial $4m target.

Buy now, pay later company Affirm has completed the acquisition of fellow point-of-sale lending solution PayBright.

Neo Financial has netted CAD 50m ($39.3m) in a funding round comprised of both debt and equity.

Aya, which builds payment solutions, has reportedly launched out of stealth after the close of a $2.9m seed investment.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security within the Communications Security Establishment has warned that China, Russia, Iran and North Korea pose the biggest cybersecurity threats to the nation.

Canada-based Interlapse Technologies has completed its non-brokered private placement raising a total of CAD 735,632.

FundThrough, which helps small businesses optimise cash flow by leveraging outstanding customer invoices, has bagged a $50m investment from private equity firm Northleaf Capital Partners.

Online investing app Wealthsimple has reportedly joined the ever-growing list of FinTech unicorns, after the close of a $114m investment.

goPeer, which makes non-traditional loans available through a peer-to-peer network, has received $25,000 after it wins the top prize in York University’s LaunchYU Accelerator programme this year.

Covalent, which aims to bring transparency to blockchain, has reportedly raised $3.1m in its latest funding round.