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ZenHub raises $5.9 million CAD seed round to help automate tasks for developers ZenHub, a Vancouver-based provider of GitHub-embedded project management and collaboration software, has raised $5.9 million CAD ($4.7 million USD) in its first institutional financing round. The seed round was co-led by BDC Capital and Ripple Ventures. Other participants include Inovia Capital, and a number of angel investors, including Adam Gross, former CEO of Heroku; Jiaona Zhang, VP of product a...

Close icon Two crossed lines that form an X. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. SoleSavy aims to keep sneakers away from resellers. SoleSavy This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. SoleSavy is a platform aiming to foster a community of sneaker enthusiasts who are not interested in reselling. The platform re...

Sneaker enthusiast group SoleSavy raises $2M, setting the stage for a community-driven commerce boom SoleSavy, a community built around buying hot sneakers and related items that are increasingly hard to acquire at retail, raised $2 million in a round that closed late last year. SoleSavy is a group of communities that is currently mostly hosted on Slack.  SoleSavy’s co-founders Dejan Pralica and Justin Dusanj founded the company in 2018 as a paid community for collectors and enthusiasts seek...

Updated Dec 21, 2020 at 2:31 p.m. UTC Tiny Capital’s Wilkinson Shows Interest in Bitcoin Andrew Wilkinson, the multimillionaire co-founder of tech-focused holding group Tiny Capital, ignited a small firestorm on Twitter Saturday merely by inquiring about bitcoin. Of course, asking a simple question doesnt mean that Wilkinson, who has been described as the Warren Buffett of startups, will ever buy a single bitcoin or even a blockchain-related startup, but it was enough to make CoinDesk Directo...

Andrew Wilkinson/Tiny Capital This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Andrew Wilkinson is modeling his growing collection of small technology companies on Warren Buffetts Berkshire Hathaway. The Tiny Capital chief owns about 30 businesses including Girlboss, MetaLab, and Dribbble, and aims to close a handful of acquisitions each year. Wilkinson emulates Berkshires decen...

Vancouver dropout makes market debut with Tiny tech SPAC Devon Pendleton and Michael Bellusci, Bloomberg News When things work people pay attention: Harry Sloan on rapid rise of SPACs VIDEO SIGN OUT Andrew Wilkinson didn’t even know what a family office was until people started using it in reference to Tiny Capital, his tech-focused holding group. A college dropout from Vancouver, British Columbia, Wilkinson, 34, wasn’t steeped in the ways of the ultra-wealthy when he started...

Emerge, WeCommerce begin trading on the TSX Venture Exchange Two Canadian tech-focused companies, Emerge Commerce and WeCommerce, began trading on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) on Monday. Toronto-based e-commerce startup Emerge Commerce initially announced plans to go public in May. Last week saw the company officially close its reverse takeover of Aumento. It began trading Monday under the symbol ‘ECOM.’ “The e-commerce sector has experienced more growth over the last t...

WeCommerce going public to further strategy of buying Shopify ecosystem companies WeCommerce, the holding company controlled by Andrew Wilkinson’s Tiny Capital, is set to go public on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) via a reverse takeover of Brachium Capital Corp. The Victoria-based WeCommerce announced this week it has closed a qualifying transaction that will see it takeover Brachium Capital Corp. and list on the TSXV under the symbol ‘WE.V.’ “We will continue to posit...