Venture Capital

By David Shipley, Financial Post David Baxter admits when he and his startup co-founder approached a senior manger at McCain Foods about a possible partnership, they did so with a vague pitch. “I’m not even sure that we had an idea,” he said. The only thing Baxter and Shawn Carver knew was tha...

Resson, a fast-growing data-driven agriculture technology company, today announced that McCain Foods Limited is now a strategic partner and is part of a US$11 million (about CDN$14 million) Series B investment round in the company. Other investors in Resson’s Series B round include Build Ventures,...

Qimple, an HR software company, backed by 500 Startups (Batch 12), with a mission to humanize online hiring by improving the way job seekers and employers interact, announced today that it has raised $1.1 million in seed funding. The round was led by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF), w...

Introhive helps companies build better relationships by connecting every employee’s calendars, emails and contacts to the company’s customer relationship management system – to discover “unseen” relationships, find information gaps, and prompt dwindling interaction with...

As part of Innovation Week, be the first to learn about NBIF’s new investment strategy and what that means for startups and scale-ups. Everyone knows what a start-up is. A scale-up is a company that has found the right pivot and aggressively expanding personnel and profits. Hear about our new ...