Canada

Online car shopping platform Canada Drives nets C$10m in follow-on VC

The company's investors include Honor Ventures and KAR Global.

SME cybersecurity platform Field Effect collects $30m in Series A

US growth equity firm Edison Partners led the round.

College admissions coach Halp picks up $4m in seed funding

Lerer Hippeau and Serena Ventures led the round.

Spexi nabs $5.5m seed to make geospatial data more accessible

Blockchange Ventures led the round.

Clean pharma company Blue-Zone Technologies garners C$8m

Crédit Mutuel Equity's Canadian venture capital arm and Round Pound Ventures led the round.

Horizon Blockchain Games secures $40m in Series A financing

Brevan Howard Digital and Morgan Creek Digital led the round.

Carbon6 Technologies closes Series A funding, brings in C$66m

White Star Capital led the equity piece with participation from Kale Investment Fund, Benevolent Capital and MidCap Financial.

Q2 Holdings acquires VC-backed digital receipt manager Sensibill

Sensibill, founded in 2013, was backed by Canadian venture capital firms Radical Ventures, Information Venture Partners, First Ascent Ventures, Impression Ventures, Mistral Venture Partners and others.

Espresso Capital provides $15m credit facility to Innovapptive

Innovapptive is a Houston-based connected worker platform.

Real estate e-commerce startup Ownly lands C$2.55m in seed round

Bluesky Equities led the round, with participation from NAventures, the corporate venture capital arm of National Bank of Canada, and Garage Capital.