Canada’s most highly anticipated Software as a Service (SaaS) community event, SAAS NORTH is back in Ottawa at the Shaw Centre from November 16-17th. First time SAAS NORTH attendees can expect to experience Canada’s fastest growing SaaS companies gathering, networking and growing together. This unique conference enables cross-pollination amongst the Canadian ecosystem. The conference is […]
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What’s the Damage so Far? Breaking Down the 2022 Layoffs in BC Tech
Several thousand Canadians employed in the technology sector have been laid off this year, as a brief post-Pandemic surge has quickly soured into a global downturn. Layoffs hail from a wide range of companies, including Ottawa’s Shopify and Toronto’s Clearco. In all, more than 400 tech firms in North America have laid off staff in 2022. Several […]
Vancouver’s Dooly Parts with a Dozen Staff
Software-as-a-service startup Dooly is another victim of the market downturn. The Vancouver-based SaaS firm, which uses AI to help salespeople, let go of a dozen of their 100-strong team. Kris Hartvigsen, who founded Dooly in 2014, expressed his sentiment surrounding the decision in a post on LinkedIn. “We might be a SaaS company where most […]
Dooly Ranks As #6 Fastest-Growing Product on G2’s 2022 Best Software Awards
Vancouver’s Dooly has been named to G2’s 2022 Best Software Awards, placing #6 on the Fastest Growing Products list. Operating a software marketplace used by more than 60 million software buyers annually, G2 is the definitive online destination to discover, review and manage the technology that businesses need to reach their potential. Its annual Best […]
Dooly Sweeps Summer’s G2 Sales Engagement and AI Sales Assistant Categories
The sales professionals have spoken. They’re saying things like, “I could not do my job without Dooly” and “Will never go back to not using Dooly.” That impressive feedback has earned Vancouver’s Dooly #1 ratings in this year’s G2’s Sales Engagement and AI Sales Assistant categories. Some Dooly customers have gone as far as to say […]
Freshly Funded Dooly Announces Four New Executive Team Hires
Vancouver’s Dooly is putting their fresh funding to work. The connected workspace pioneer and leading CRM automation software making Salesforce fast and painless, today announced four new additions to its leadership team: Nikita Miller as Vice President of Product, Michelle Pietsch as Vice President of Revenue, Candace Bajgoric as Head of People and Culture, and […]
Dooly Raises USD $80 Million Series B Two Months After Series A Round
Just two months after raising a Series A round, Vancouver’s Dooly is back at it with a Series B. Today the CRM automation software startup announced it has raised a USD $80 million funding round led by Spark Capital with new participation from Greenspring, Tiger Global, and Lachy Groom, and continued participation from boldstart ventures, […]
Armed with $26 Million, Dooly Keeps Sales Reps Focused On Selling
Save 5+ hours of Salesforce gruntwork every week. That’s what it says on Dooly’s homepage in bold betters. It’s a bold claim but apparently its true. Dooly is the fastest way to update Salesforce, take sales notes, and easily manage all your deals so nothing slips through the cracks. According to Salesforce’s 2019 State of […]
10 Homegrown B.C. Startups to Watch in 2020
2019 is in the books and it was a great one for Vancouver tech community and the province as a whole. Burnaby’s Clio announced a funding round that makes them Canada’s newest Unicorn, seven Vancouver companies were among Canada’s best workplaces in technology, and to top it off, we found out that our software developers now […]