Shipping technology startup Freightos raised $25 million in a funding round led by General Electric Co.’s GE Ventures, the freight company said Wednesday. Read more on The Wall Street Journal...
Read MoreIn 2014, Brent Holliday of the Vancouver-based Garibaldi Capital Advisors began referring to Canadian technology companies that had reached a valuation of $1 billion or above as Narwhals, a playful reference to US Unicorns. He published data sets showing the most valuable Canadian tech firms in his Narwhal Club and also identified emerging Narwhals. Since the list produced by Brent Holiday had not been kept up to date, he graciously allowed us to use the term he originated. As a result, we are pleased to publish an updated Narwhal List with the top 50 Canadian companies in terms of Financial Velocity (Table 2). Read more on Impact Centre here, page 6, table...
Read MoreIn 2014, Brent Holliday of the Vancouver-based Garibaldi Capital Advisors began referring to Canadian technology companies that had reached a valuation of $1 billion or above as Narwhals, a playful reference to US Unicorns. He published data sets showing the most valuable Canadian tech firms in his Narwhal Club and also identified emerging Narwhals. Since the list produced by Brent Holiday had not been kept up to date, he graciously allowed us to use the term he originated. As a result, we are pleased to publish an updated Narwhal List with the top 50 Canadian companies in terms of Financial Velocity (Table 2). Read more on Impact Centre here, on page 6, table...
Read MoreFreightos, a startup that wants to digitize more of the international logistics process, announced today that it has raised a $25 million Series B extension round led by GE Ventures, General Electrics’ venture capital arm. This brings the total funding raised by Freightos, which was founded in 2012 and is based in Hong Kong, to $50 million. Its initial Series B of $14 million closed in 2015. Read more on TechCrunch...
Read MoreCommercial real estate data startup CrediFi analyzed $180 billion in annual commercial lending for New York City and found that Deutsche Bank was the largest commercial real estate lender in 2016. Germany’s biggest bank inked between $5.5 billion and $6 billion in NYC loans last year. Among Deutsche’s major deals of 2016 was the origination of a $396 million loan to Related Companies to refinance 85 10th Ave.—former Oreo factory, current Google office. Read more on Forbes...
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