Skip to content
Canadian Tech Guy podcast artwork

PODCAST · technology

Canadian Tech Guy

by Edward Bryant

We discuss all things tech - from capital raises, start-ups, new technology, entrepreneurial tips and mergers and acquisitions.Brought to you by Sampford Advisors.

Publisher-supplied feed metadata · PodParley refreshed Sep 6, 2025 · Source feed

Episodes

  1. Tech Founder Interview - Stephany Lapierre, CEO & Founder of Tealbook

    In our first tech founder interview of the new decade, we speak to Stephany Lapierre, the founder and CEO of Tealbook. Stephany is a two-time founder, natural problem solver, mother of three and one of the Top 100 Most Influential Women in Supply Chain. Over the course of the interview, Stephany...

  2. Monday Morning Minutes – Latest Canadian and US Tech News (March 9, 2020)

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: -Semios’ additional $25mm in growth equity financing from CIBC Innovation Banking -StandUp Ventures’ close of its first inaugural fund at CAD $21mm -Genesys’ acquisition of Montreal-based tech startup nGuvu for undisclosed...

  3. Monday Morning Minutes – Latest Canadian and US Tech News (March 2, 2020)

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: -Georgian Partner’s close of its Fund V with C$1.1bn in commitments -RBC Ventures’ acquisition of Dr. Bill for undisclosed financial terms -Inuit’s $7.1bn cash and stock acquisition of Credit Karma We hope you enjoy the show and...

  4. Monday Morning Minutes – Latest Canadian and US Tech News (February 24, 2020)

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: -Semios' $75mm private equity funding led by Morningside Group -Conquest Planning's C$3mm seed round led by Portag3 Ventures -Insurtech startup Briza's C$3mm seed round led by management and other angel investors -PocketPills'...

  5. Monday Morning Minutes – Latest Canadian and US Tech News (February 18, 2020)

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: -Acuva Technologies’ CAD $5.4mm Series B round led by undisclosed investors -Volaris Group’s acquisition of public library software developer BiblioCommons -Square’s acquisition of machine learning startup Dessa -Facebook’s…

    more
  6. Monday Morning Minutes – Latest Canadian and US Tech News (February 10, 2020)

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: -Top Hat’s $55mm Series D round was co-led by Georgian Partners and Inovia Capital -Benchschi’s $22mm Series B round led by F-Prime Capital -Ambyint’s $15mm Series B round led by Cottonwood Venture Partners -Upland Software’s...

  7. Monday Morning Minutes – Latest Canadian and US Tech News (February 3, 2020)

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: -Miovisions’s CAD $120mm Series C round led by Telus Ventures -Terramera’s $3.5mm Series B extension round led by ArcTern Ventures -Comtech’s $532.5mm acquisition of Gilat Satellite, or $10.25 per share ($GILT) -Xerox’s…

    more
  8. Monday Morning Minutes – Latest Canadian and US Tech News (January 27, 2020)

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: -Canalyst’s $20mm Series B led by an undisclosed investor -Unito’s CAD $10.5mm Series A round led by Jeremy Levine -Tealbook’s $5mm bridge round led by Refinery Ventures -Arctern Ventures’ CAD $200mm raise for Fund II -VMware’s...

  9. Monday Morning Minutes – Latest Canadian and US Tech News (January 20, 2020)

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: -ToursByLocal’s $33mm growth capital funding led by Tritium Partners -Fusion Pharmaceutical's $20mm commitment from CPPIB -Nicoya’s C$10mm Series A round led by Whitecap Venture Partners -Sustainable Development Technology…

    more
  10. Monday Morning Minutes – Latest Canadian and US Tech News (January 13, 2020)

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: -Alayacare’s CAD $48mm Series C round extension led by Caisse de Depot and iNovia Capital -Deep Genomics $40mm Series B round led by Future Ventures -Aspect Biosystems’ $20mm Series A round led by Radical Ventures -e-ZN’s CAD...

  11. Monday Morning Minutes – Latest Canadian and US Tech News (January 6, 2020)

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: -Skywatch Space Applications’ $7.5mm Series A round led by Bullpen Capital -General Fusions’ C$85mm Series E round led by Temasek Holdings -TabNine’s sale to Israeli AI Startup Codota for undisclosed financial terms -MolecuLite’s...

  12. Monday Morning Minutes - Latest Canadian and US Tech News (December 16, 2019)

    In this week's episode we cover the latest tech news including: -Nuvei's $270mm equity raise at a $2bn post-money valuation -Valent Low-Carbon Technologies' $30mm investment from Kensington Private Equity and CFFI Ventures -Second Closet's $13.2mm Series A round led by Whitecap Venture Partners...

  13. Monday Morning Minutes - Latest Canadian and US Tech News (December 9, 2019)

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: -Zebu's $4mm seed round -Thoughexchanges's $20mm Serbies B led by Information Venture Partners -Telus' €915mm acquisition of Berlin-based Competence Call Center -Portag3 Ventures' C$417mm close of its Fund II -Frontdoor Inc.'s...

  14. Monday Morning Minutes – Latest Canadian and US Tech News (December 1, 2019)

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: -Koho's raise of an additional CAD $25mm in Series B funding led by Drive Capital -Coconut Software's CAD $6.5mm Series A2 round led by Conexus Venture Capital Fund -Knix Wear's $5.7mm financing raise led by Action Capital…

    more
  15. Monday Morning Minutes - Latest Canadian and US Tech News (November 25, 2019)

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: -CVCA’s latest venture capital funding report -NerV Technology’s first place finish at the Entrepreneurship World Cup -Silofit’s CAD $1mm seed round led by Whitecap Venture Partners -Paypal’s 4bn acquisition of Honey Science...

  16. Monday Morning Minutes - Latest Canadian and US Tech News (November 18, 2019)

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: -1Password’s $200mm Series A led by Accel -Stradigi’s C$53mm Series A led by Fonds & Investissment Quebec -Threekit’s $20mm Series A led by Shasta Ventures -Apollo Global’s $5.4bn acquisition of Tech Data (NASDAQ: $TECD)...

  17. Monday Morning Minutes - Latest Canadian and US Tech News

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: -Coveo’s C$227mm late stage raise led by OMERS Growth Equity -RenoRun’s $22.5mm Series A raise led by inovia Capital -Mylo’s $10mm Series A raise led by NAventures -Xerox’s proposed takeover bid of HP despite being one third the...

  18. Monday Morning Minutes - Latest Canadian and US Tech News (November 4, 2019)

    Summary for web: In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: -Montreal’s Element AI has partnered with Mozilla on several research and development initiatives -Toronto-based League received an undisclosed investment from Workday and has become a software partner -Google's...

  19. Monday Morning Minutes - Latest Canadian and US Tech News (Oct 28, 2019)

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news in Canada and the US including: -Benevity’s $40mm series C financing round led by JMI and General Atlantic -Microsoft acquired data migration startup Mover -Berkeley Payment Solutions acquired fintech startup Pungle -Platinum Equity…

    more
  20. Tech Founder Interview - Ravin Shah, Co-Founder QuickTapSurvey

    In our latest tech founder interview, we speak to Ravin Shah, the co-founder and former co-CEO of QuickTapSurvey which we helped him sell to Providence Equity about 18 months ago. Ravin has a fascinating story and a ton of experience scaling SaaS companies.

  21. Monday Morning Minutes - Latest Tech News (Oct 21, 2019)

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: -Chatta Technologies raised C$4.5mm in a seed round led by undisclosed investors -Beatdapp raised C$3.2mm in a financing round led by Panache Ventures -Flare Systems raised C$1mm in a seed round led by Luge Capital -ADT’s...

  22. Monday Morning Minutes - Latest Tech News (Oct 14, 2019)

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news in Canada and the US, including: -Convictional raised C$3mm in a seed round led by individual investors -Voila! Raised C$3mm in a seed round led by Panache Ventures -Microsoft opened its newest Reactor hub in Toronto -Accenture acquired...

  23. Monday Morning Minutes - The Latest Tech News (Oct 7, 2019)

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: -7Shifts C$20mm Series A raise led by Relay Ventures -Naborly C$9.9mm seed round raise led by investors Bill Trenchard and Chad Byers -OTTP and BCG launch a new incubator, Koru -Accenture’s acquisition of Nytec for an undisclosed...

  24. Monday Morning Minutes - The Latest Tech News (Sep 30, 2019)

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: - The largest Canadian venture raise in history, Verafin’s C$515mm equity and debt recapitalization - Montreal-based Knox’s $8.5mm seed round led by Initialized Capital - Waterloo-based Plum’s $4.2mm seed round led by Real…

    more
  25. Monday Morning Minutes - The Latest Tech News (Sep 23, 2019)

    In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: - Touchbistro's $158m Series E round led by Omers - Neuvoo's $53m raise from Caisse de Depot - Toronto-based Maple's $14.5m led by Acton Capital - Qualcomm's $1.2bn acquisition of the stake in RF360 it didn't already own -...

  26. Monday Morning Minutes - The Latest Tech News (Sep 16, 2019)

    In this week's Monday Morning Minutes brought to you by Sampford Advisors, we cover all the latest tech news including M&A, capital raises and other interesting tech tidbits we find interesting. This includes: - Shopify's $450m acquisition of 6 River Systems - McDonald's acquisition of Apprente -...

  27. Monday Morning Minutes - Latest Tech News (Sep 9, 2019)

    In this episode we cover all the latest technology news, including: - Prudential's $3.5bn acquisition of Assurance IQ, an online insurance platform - Alibaba's $2bn acquisition of the e-commerce business of NetEase - Grove Collaborative's $150m Series D VC financing - WeWork's upcoming IPO and...

  28. Bruce Linton - Interview

    Bruce Linton is well known as the former founder and CEO of Canopy Growth (aka Tweed) who were way ahead of their time in the Cannabis space and ultimately became the largest public company in the space globally as a result of an aggressive M&A strategy combined with organic growth. We take a...

  29. Monday Morning Minutes - The Latest Tech News (Aug 26, 2019)

    In this week's episode we look at the latest tech news including recent M&A and VC funding transactions for technology companies. In particular, we take a closer look at: - VMWare's double acquisition of Carbon Black and Pivotal for a combined $5bn - Splunk's $1.1bn acquisition of SignalFX -...

  30. Monday Morning Minutes - The Latest Tech News (Aug 19, 2019)

    In this week's episode we look at the latest tech news and the latest funding or M&A transactions for technology companies. In particular: - Scoop's $60m Series C funding from BNP Paribas and Index Ventures - Presidio's $2.3bn sale to BC Partners at 0.8x revenue, 10.5x EBITDA and a 21% premium -...

  31. Monday Morning Minutes - August 12th

    In this week's Monday Morning Minutes we look at the biggest tech news for last week including these large transactions: - Broadcom's $10.7bn acquisition of Symantec's enterprise security business - iPipeline (provider of cloud-based software solutions for the Insurance and Financial Services...

  32. Monday Morning Minute - A Weekly Tech Briefing

    The Monday Morning Minute is brought to you by Sampford Advisors and quickly reviews the latest technology M&A transactions, the latest news and expectations for the week ahead. In our first Monday Morning Minute we look at the latest M&A transactions in the tech space including Thoma Bravo's...

Type above to search every episode's transcript for a word or phrase. Matches are scoped to this podcast.

Searching…

We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.

No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.

Showing of matches

No topics indexed yet for this podcast.

Loading reviews...

ABOUT THIS SHOW

We discuss all things tech - from capital raises, start-ups, new technology, entrepreneurial tips and mergers and acquisitions.Brought to you by Sampford Advisors.

HOSTED BY

Edward Bryant

CATEGORIES

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does Canadian Tech Guy have?

Canadian Tech Guy currently has 32 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.

What is Canadian Tech Guy about?

We discuss all things tech - from capital raises, start-ups, new technology, entrepreneurial tips and mergers and acquisitions.Brought to you by Sampford Advisors.

How often does Canadian Tech Guy release new episodes?

Canadian Tech Guy has 32 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.

Where can I listen to Canadian Tech Guy?

You can listen to Canadian Tech Guy on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.

Who hosts Canadian Tech Guy?

Canadian Tech Guy is created and hosted by Edward Bryant.
URL copied to clipboard!