Louis Tetu, CEO and founder of AI company Coveo, is fresh off the heels of a $200+ million fundraise for the Montreal-based organization. And he’s a bit angry. Well, not angry; passionate. He’s happy for his company and for what the fundraise will help them do, but he doesn’t think that his raise is the big win that some think it is.

Brice Scheschuk, the co-founder and CFO of Wind Mobile before the company’s sale to Shaw Communications, shared the turbulent story of Wind’s founding, near-death moments, and eventual $1.6 billion exit at TechTO’s Economics of Exits events in Toronto.

While many conversations were literal, focusing on statistics like how gender diversity leads to increased profits, there was a metaphorical undercurrent at the event. This undercurrent looked at the imagined business board room. The room only filled with people who don’t look like you.

When Vacation Fund got started, founder Erica Pearson just wanted to help employees achieve their dreams outside of work. But when she started interviewing people, vacation kept coming up as something they wish they could do, but couldn’t.

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Making decisions in complex, data-driven businesses is difficult, if not impossible. Despite the huge advances in analytical capabilities, multi-dimensional data companies such as insurance organizations and retailers have so many moving parts that some analysis just can’t be done. That’s what Daisy Intelligence hopes to change.