Here's what happened this month in Winnipeg Tech 🌾📈
Winnipeg improves 5 spots in global ranking, Imaginet gets acquired, and big hires across the board
🚀 Launches & Acquisitions
Improving has acquired Imaginet, a technology firm specializing in Microsoft consulting with offices in Winnipeg and Dallas, Texas.
Taiv has launched another market – Atlanta!
RocketRez has just launched RocketRez Insights, the product’s key features are: Real-time dashboards and reports, Excel export for custom analysis, Power BI integration for advanced insights, and Open API access for seamless system integration.
Klaudia McDonald has announced Season 2 of her podcast “She Has it All” and is looking for amazing women to feature. If you’re interested in speaking with her, send her a note on LinkedIn.
🤝 Partnerships
Taiv has announced a partnership with OpenX, an omni-channel supply-side platform. The partnership will make it even easier to run effective TV ads on Taiv’s inventory.
Hoot Reading has been selected as a partner in Stephen and Ayesha Curry’s Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation's commitment to investing $25 million into kids’ literacy in Oakland Unified School District! Read the article here.
👑 Notable Hires
FasTab announced Austin Grant as their new Head of Growth. Austin has deep sales experience through his experience at SkipTheDishes and Neo Financial.
Gryd has hired their first in-house Dev Lead, Danilo Meireles. Danilo was placed through a partnership with Jagger.
Dan Blair, CTO and Founder of Bit Space Development has joined the Board of Directors at North Forge.
📰 In the News
Winnipeg has improved 5 spots in CBRE’s annual ranking of the Next 25 emerging tech markets. The city saw a 40.1% growth in its total tech employment base between 2018 and 2023, for a total workforce of 21,300.
SkipTheDishes reduced the size of their workforce through a layoff that affected nearly 800 employees, 100 of those were Canadian market employees, while 700 were operations employees servicing the global JustEatTakeaway organization.
Bobo has been selected as one of the top 100 AI startups in Canada and will be presenting at the ALL IN conference on September 11th and 12th.
👯 Other Events
Builder’s League and Tech Manitoba presents “Hackathons Changing the World” on October 4 - 6th. Location: Official Venue at Red River College Polytech - Manitou A Bi Bii Daziigae. Find out more here.
👩🏫 Who’s Hiring
Neo Financial, Staff Software Developer, Fullstack
3Common, Sr. Account Executive
Activate, Director, Software, Web/Software Developer, VP, Supply Chain, and more
GrainFox, Customer Success Specialist
QDoc Inc., Patient Support Specialist (Non-Technical)