Lightspeed's Dax Dasilva wins Startup Canada's entrepreneur of the year
Dax Dasilva, founder and CEO of Lightspeed, a Montréal cloud point-of-sale platform, has received Startup Canada's "Entrepreneur of the Year Award." Dasilva was honoured at this week's third annual National Startup Canada Awards in Toronto. Lightspeed, which has raised $145 million in total funding, accounted for Canada's largest venture capital deal in 2015. Other Startup Canada award winners included Nadia Hamilton, founder and CEO of Magnusmode, who took the "Woman Entrepreneur Award," and Randy Yatscoff, executive vice president of TEC Edmonton, who took the "Adam Chowaniec Lifetime Achievement Award."
1 December 2016•4 mins read
