Canada

Ideon Technologies closes $16m Series A round led by Playground

Ideon Technologies is a Vancouver-based provider of high-resolution subsurface imaging for the mining industry.

Insurtech startup ProNavigator raises C$10m in growth funding

Graphite Ventures and Luge Capital led the round.

Cannabis ERP platform GrowerIQ lands $2.3m in seed financing

Golden Section and MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund led the round, with participation from LAGO, Delbridge, GTM Fund and Gaingels.

Physicians network The Round collects C$5.1m in Series A financing

The Rounds is a Halifax-based collaboration network for physicians and healthcare professionals.

Wellness-at-work platform Bright secures C$1.45m in seed funding

Tidal Venture Partners led the round with participation from Concrete Ventures and Innovacorp.

Thomvest Ventures adds fintech specialist Dave Hafford

Dave Hafford has joined Thomvest Ventures as a senior associate. He will be ased out of the firm's headquarters in San Francisco and will focus on early-stage investments in fintech and proptech.

Kaloom, preparing to expand in Japan, secures $21m in funding

Montreal-based Kaloom is a programmable and automated cloud-native edge center networking software provider.

Panache Ventures wraps up sophomore early-stage fund at C$100m

The investors include Alberta Enterprise Corp, Ontario Capital Growth Corp, Investissement Québec, BMO Financial Group and TELUS Ventures.

BDC Capital provides C$2m in funding to maritime data provider GSTS

GSTS is backed by Canadian venture capital firms Innovacorp and Ecofuel as well as other private investors.