News Pick – As U.S. closes its doors, Canada has a chance to attract top talent – G&M
May 10, 2017 – “Silicon Valley is, and is likely to remain, the epicentre of the global tech industry. But with anti-immigration sentiment spreading across the United States – as President Donald Trump seeks to impose travel bans on citizens of other countries and to restrict the use of the H1B visas that allow foreigners […]
News Pick – Google is planning a 12-acre high-tech city in Canada – Fortune
May 9, 2017 – “Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has applied to develop a strip of land in downtown Toronto in order to create a brand new high-tech city “from the Internet up.” The application is the latest initiative from Sidewalk Labs LLC, the company’s urban innovation unit, and is part of a vision to create […]
News Pick – Private Equity seduced by Software-as-a-Service Companies
May 9, 2017 – “Private equity suitors are giving strategics a run for their money in the hunt for SaaS targets. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and the cloud computing infrastructure underpinning it are attracting healthy levels of private equity interest, showing how those technologies have gone mainstream. The PE firms are drawn to “anything with SaaS that […]
News Pick – Canada wants Silicon Valley’s tech employees – The Atlantic
May 19, 2017 – “Despite talk of a business-friendly administration, the U.S. tech sector may face some pretty serious employment challenges under President Donald Trump. First, there was the immigration ban that threatened to stop immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, then the uncertainty about H-1B visas for skilled workers, and finally questions over how the […]
News Pick – A Trump dividend for Canada? Maybe in its A.I. industry – NYT
May 9, 2017 – “Amir Moravej, an Iranian computer engineer in Montreal, quietly worked last year on building software to help people navigate the Canadian immigration system. He saw it as a way for others to avoid the same immigration travails he suffered a few years earlier. Then came the American presidential election. “Trump accelerated […]
News Pick – Silicon Valley Bank sets sights on Canada – G&M
May 4, 2017 – “A leading U.S. bank catering to technology companies and venture capitalists is putting down roots in Canada, hoping to be a lender of choice for the next wave of Canadian innovators. Silicon Valley Bank, based in Santa Clara, Calif., filed an application Thursday with Canada’s banking regulator for a license to […]
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News Pick – 2017 Tech IPOs are on a tear compared to last year – TechCrunch
May 1, 2017 – “By this time last year, one tech company had gone public. Already this year, nine tech companies have gone public on U.S. exchanges. Needless to say, public exits are looking up. That comparison becomes starker when you compare SecureWorks, 2016’s first IPO, to Snap, which went public in 2017. SecureWorks priced […]
News Pick – The Startups Economy is Finally Stablizing – Bloomberg Technology
April 28, 2017 – “After a prolonged retrenchment, startups in the U.S. are finally seeing better days. The Bloomberg U.S. Startups Barometer rose 0.6 percent from a year earlier, marking the first year-over-year increase since the end of 2015. Bigger funding totals and more exits buoyed the index. Snap Inc. and MuleSoft Inc. are among […]
