Land of Unicorns - Canada’s New Bounty of Billion-Dollar Tech Companies
Disruptors27 Jul 2021

Land of Unicorns - Canada’s New Bounty of Billion-Dollar Tech Companies

To learn about Clearco and its financing model for entrepreneurs, follow this link.

If you want to understand more about the record VC year for Canadian tech startups—and how that looks in the global context—check out CB Insights’ State of Venture Q2’21 Report via this link (registration required).

In this episode, John also mentions a new report from the RBC Economics and Thought Leadership Team called

The Coming Creativity Boom: How human ingenuity will power the 2020s. To read it, go to RBC.com/creativity.


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