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S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Is Salesforce reviving the M&A market?

The SaaS Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering major SaaS news from Canada and around the globe. Subscribe to S|W using this form to ensure you don’t miss out on the most important SaaS news every week! If Salesforce is a Buyer Again, the M&A Market Must Be (Almost) Back A year ago, the board […]

Across-the-pond acquisitions: Descartes acquires ASD, HR Path acquires GroupeX

Two Canadian software companies were involved in two different transatlantic acquisitions today. Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.-based Descartes Systems Group has acquired Dublin, Ireland’s Aerospace Software Developments (ASD), while Toronto-based HR management tool provider GroupeX Solutions has been acquired by Paris, France-based HR Path.  Descartes said that ASD, which provides customs declaration software for logistics service providers, will […]

Versaterm continues acquisition spree with purchase of Integrated Computer Systems

Ottawa-based public safety tech firm Versaterm is acquiring Integrated Computer Systems (ICS), a software firm based in McKinney, Tex. This deal is the latest in a spree of acquisitions Versaterm has made in the last four years. According to a report from the Ottawa Business Journal, the ICS acquisition marks Versaterm’s tenth such deal since […]

Cyber Security Today, April 22, 2024 -Vulnerability in CrushFTP file transfer software, security updates for Cisco’s controller management application, and more

Vulnerability found in CrushFTP file transfer software, security updates for Cisco’s controller management application, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday April 22nd, 2024. I’m Howard Solomon. A warning is going out about a vulnerability in another file transfer platform. The hole is in CrushFTP servers, which run on Windows, Linux, Unix and […]

Canadian tech’s essential #Budget2024 primer

Budget 2024 delivered substantial updates for Canada’s innovation sector. BetaKit parsed through the over-400-page document to find what matters most to those in the ecosystem: please enjoy our 2,500-word budget overview, broken out by section with an executive summary. BetaKit is also digging into specific budget commitments with deeper looks, like Kelsey Rolfe’s open banking […]

Changemakers: Did the SEC just help Manifest Climate scale?

PRESENTED BY BetaKit is proud to present Changemakers, a series presented by AWS spotlighting Canadian tech companies solving complex global challenges. Greenhouse gas levels are at an all-time high, more than a million species face extinction, and we currently use more of the earth’s resources than we can renew. If that’s not enough to keep […]

#Budget2024 emergency pod: spoiling for a fight

All hell broke loose this week. #Budget2024 dropped, weighing in at over 400 pages and containing more than $53 billion in net new spending, including several new commitments impacting Canadian tech. Because we love you, BetaKit has produced a 2,500-word budget overview, with an executive summary and the major commitments broken out by section. Some […]

Community-led bid to buy back Notman House unsuccessful

A community-led offer to buy back Montréal startup hub Notman House was not accepted by the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) and Investissement Quebec (IQ), BetaKit has learned. The proposal, spearheaded by real-estate startup Guiker, was outbid by another party, according to Guiker CEO and founder Nan Hao and Mission.dev co-founder Gabriel Sundaram. The […]