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A Unicorn is defined as privately held start up's and companies who have reached a value of over $1 billion dollars.
2014
David Hariri and Mike Murchison
$200M USD total funding over 7 rounds.
ada's co-founders joined multiple support teams to identify the barriers - like time, technology, and tedious tasks – that were keeping businesses from delivering incredible customer experiences. Our co-founders both answered tens of thousands of customer inquiries, painstakingly and manually addressing each one, to arm themselves with broad-based insight of what it would take to overcome these barriers. In 2021, unicorn status was achieved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYcCPA4LdqQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOnj9kPM7GI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQTfZGyWc98
https://www.ada.cx/
2011
$42.2M USD total funding over 5 rounds.
Trulioo has raised a total of $474.8M in funding over 8 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on June 7, 2021 from a Series D round.
Mar 1, 2021
Trulioo hires new technology chief as it ramps up expansion plans.
June 7, 2021
Trulioo raised $394,000,000 / Series D from American Express Ventures and 7 other investors.
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2017
Daniele Perito, Jeffrey Kolovson, Marcelo Cortes, Max Rhodes
Faire has raised a total of $696M in funding over 10 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jun 10, 2021 from a Series F round.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DDduEIy9Xs
1995
Dave Wessinger, Mike Wessinger
PointClickCare has raised a total of $230M in funding over 4 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jan 6, 2021 from a Private Equity round.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7BoUBPiYvk
http://www.pointclickcare.com/
2008
Jack Newton and Rian Gauvreau
$367M CAD total funding over 5 rounds.
2021:
Clio donated $100,000 to the Equal Justice Initiative, which works to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial inequality.
Ongoing:
Clio is on a mission to transform the legal experience for all, which means taking responsibility for enacting positive social change in our industry and community.
https://www.clio.com
2018
Dieter Shirley, Mack Flavelle, and Roham Gharegozlou
$357.5M USD total funding over 6 rounds.
Michael Jordan Joins $305M Investment in Firm Behind NBA Top Shot
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https://www.dapperlabs.com/
2005
Dave Teare, Natalia Karimov, Roustem Karimov, Sara Teare
1Password has raised a total of $300.1M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jul 27, 2021 from a Series B round.
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2007
Frederic Lalonde and Joost Ouwerkerk
$423.7M USD total funding over 10 rounds.
2021: Hopper recently announced it raised $170M in series F funding led by Capital One, with participation from new and existing investors GS Growth, Inovia Capital, WestCap Group, and Citi Ventures. 2020: the company generated triple-digit YoY revenue growth in spite of the pandemic and travel headwinds. This revenue growth is the result of product innovation as the company released several new proprietary AI-driven financial technology products, such as Price Freeze and Flexible Dates Plan, that offer travelers flexibility and control over their itineraries.Hopper utilizes massive amounts of data and machine learning to build the world’s fastest-growing mobile-first travel marketplace -- one that enables customers to save money and travel better.2021: Hopper announced it is launching a new B2B initiative called Hopper Cloud to distribute these proprietary features with Capital One being its first partner.
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https://www.hopper.com/
2003
Levi Cooperman, Michael McDerment
FreshBooks has raised a total of $205.9M in funding over 6 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Aug 10, 2021 from a Series E round.
2021 - FreshBooks now contain a $1b valuation and is looking to expand globally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAE8OJWyYls
http://blockstream.com/
2017
Alex Fowler, Erik Svenson, Gregory Maxwell, Jonathan Wilkins, Jorge Timón, Mark Friedenbach, Matt Corallo, Pieter Wuille
$266 million CAD ($210 million USD), in what the company described as the first close of its Series B round. With the new funding, Blockstream has secured a $4 billion CAD ($3.2 billion USD) valuation, making it Canada’s latest unicorn.
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http://blockstream.com/
2017
Tony Pialis
TBD
2021 - Canada welcomes 3 new unicorns: Thinkific, Alphawave IP Group, and Clio - Cloud-Based Legal Technology
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https://www.awaveip.com/en/home/
2015
Martin Basiri, Massi Basiri, and Meti Basiri
$42.2M USD total funding over 5 rounds.
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https://www.applyboard.com/
2014
Andrew D'Souza, Ben Sanders, Charlie Feng, Ivan Gritsiniak, Michele Romanow, Pavel Melnichuk, and Tanay Delima
Clearco has raised a total of $681.5M in funding over 5 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jul 8, 2021 from a Series C round.
Mayor John Tory visited the Clearco office in September 2020. Clearco was named Canada’s LinkedIn Top Startup 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guxrTaM-bdY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_duxmeit5Ws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB1DgcOv23Q
https://clear.co/
2014
Brett Huneycutt, Michael Katchen, and Rudy Adler
Wealthsimple has raised a total of $900.4M in funding over 9 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on May 3, 2021 from a Private Equity round.
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https://www.wealthsimple.com/
2010
Matt Whitteker, Robert Imbeault
Assent Compliance has raised a total of $533.6M in funding over 5 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jan 6, 2022 from a Series D round.
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https://www.assentcompliance.com/
2014
Michael Serbinis
League has raised a total of $146.1M in funding over 5 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Dec 31, 2021 from a Series C round.
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https://league.com/ca/
2015
Shopify Inc.
$120 million CAD
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2006
Constellation Software Inc.
$120 million CAD
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1986
CGI Inc.
$120 million CAD
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2018
Ceridian HCM Holding Inc.
$120 million CAD
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2019
Lightspeed Commerce Inc.
$120 million CAD
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1996
Open Text Corporation
$120 million CAD
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2020
CAE Inc.
$120 million CAD
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2020
Nuvei Corporation
$120 million CAD
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2014
Descartes Systems Group Inc. (The)
$120 million CAD
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1997
BlackBerry Limited
$120 million CAD
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2014
Kinaxis Inc.
$120 million CAD
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2021
TELUS International (Cda) Inc.
$120 million CAD
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2021
Voyager Digital Ltd.
$120 million CAD
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2019
Docebo Inc.
$120 million CAD
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1999
Enghouse Systems Limited
$120 million CAD
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2005
Altus Group Limited
$120 million CAD
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2021
Hut 8 Mining Corp.
$120 million CAD
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2020
Dye & Durham Limited
$120 million CAD
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2021
Converge Technology Solutions Corp.
$120 million CAD
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2021
Celestica Inc.
$120 million CAD
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2005
Tucows Inc.
$120 million CAD
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2006
Evertz Technologies Limited
$120 million CAD
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2021
Coveo Solutions Inc.
$120 million CAD
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2021
Magnet Forensics Inc.
$120 million CAD
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2019
Bitfarms Ltd.
$120 million CAD
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2017
HIVE Blockchain Technologies Ltd.
$120 million CAD
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2021
Topicus.com Inc.
$120 million CAD
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2020
Absolute Software Corporation
$120 million CAD
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2017
Real Matters Inc.
$120 million CAD
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2021
Enthusiast Gaming Holdings Inc.
$120 million CAD
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2021
E Automotive Inc. (dba E Inc.)
$120 million CAD
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2021
Thinkific Labs Inc.
$120 million CAD
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2019
Facedrive Inc.
$120 million CAD
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2020
WeCommerce Holdings Ltd.
$120 million CAD
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2021
AcuityAds Holdings Inc.
$120 million CAD
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These are "soon-to-be" Canadian Unicorns. Soonicorns are companies and start up's that are growing rapidly, raising funding and nearing a $1 billion dollar valuation.
2016
Devlin McDougall Chartand, Eamonn O'Rourke, James Collom, Joelle Chartrand
RenoRun has raised a total of $21.1M in funding over 3 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Nov 1, 2019 from a Series A round.
- About to raise
http://www.renorun.com/
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2015
Jason Smith, Sarathy Naicker
Klue has raised a total of $19M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Sep 9, 2020 from a Series A round.
http://klue.com
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2010
Michael Gilbert
Semios has raised a total of $215.4M in funding over 11 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Sep 29, 2021 from a Private Equity round.
Interesting industry
http://semios.com/
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2016
Andrew McLeod, Evan Dalton, Owen Madrick
Certn has raised a total of $34M in funding over 6 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Dec 1, 2020 from a Series A round.
http://www.certn.co/
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2016
Henry Shi, Hussein Fazal
Snapcommerce has raised a total of $101.4M in funding over 5 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Mar 4, 2021 from a Series B round.
http://www.snapcommerce.com/
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2013
Majed Masad, Noura Sakkijha
Mejuri has raised a total of $28M in funding over 5 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Apr 25, 2019 from a Series B round.
http://mejuri.com
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2013
Etienne Lacroix, Max Windisch
Vention has raised a total of $43.8M in funding over 5 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on June 2, 2020 from a Series B round.
http://www.vention.io
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2016
Justin Vaillancourt, Kris Hartvigsen
Dooly has raised a total of $102.3M in funding over 6 rounds. Their latest funding round was raised on May 20, 2021 from a Series B round.
http://www.dooly.ai/
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2016
Hanif Joshaghani, Tiffany Kaminsky
$42.2M USD total funding over 5 rounds.
Union Square Hospitality Group, Ten Coves Capital, Conexus Credit Union, Enlightened Hospitality Investments, Relay Ventures, SaskWorks Venture Fund, Western Economic Diversification Canada, and Napier Park Global Capital.
www.symend.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmNdpndUoU4&t=38s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38p8FKuuPDg
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2017
Alex Popa, Kevin Southworth, Lloyed Lobo, Ryan Doom
Boast.AI has raised a total of $123M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Feb 17, 2021 from a Debt Financing round.
http://boastcapital.com
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2018
Daryna Kulya, Mahyar Raissi
OpenPhone has raised a total of $16.1M in funding over 3 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Nov 17, 2020 from a Series A round.
http://www.openphone.co/
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2015
Akhil Gupta, Cameron Dearsley, Darren Fung, Derrick Fung
Drop Technologies has raised a total of $56.2M in funding over 4 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Mar 7, 2019 from a Series B round.
http://www.joindrop.com
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2013
Alexandre Lapointe, Alexandre Marcotte, Charles Lambert, Jay Rousseau, Khalil Zahar, Patrick Chandler, Tommy Duquette
FightCamp has raised a total of $98.5M in funding over 7 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jun 30, 2021 from a Series B round.
http://joinfightcamp.com/
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