[ad_1] TORONTO — BDC Capital announced four new women-led startups for its Women in Technology Venture Fund on Wednesday, including Lufa Farms, a Montreal-based company that’s growing vegetables in urban rooftop greenhouses. The idea behind Lufa Farms is that growing vegetables closer to where people live makes for fresher food, while also decreasing greenhouse energy…
[ad_1] Music streaming service Spotify, most recently valued at $13 billion, will be the first major company to carry out a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange when it goes public later this year or early next year, two sources familiar with the situation said on Friday. The move would be the biggest…
[ad_1] When IBM shareholders gather on Tuesday, they’ll be asked to sign off on a US$33 million pay package for Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty. It’s a hefty sum for any CEO, let alone one who’s overseen five years of falling revenue and left shareholders with a total return of less than 0.1 per cent.…
[ad_1] Snap Inc.’s Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy each added $1.6 billion to his fortune Thursday after shares in the photo-sharing mobile app closed at $24.48, 44 percent above their listing price. Investor appetite for the first technology listing of the year boosted the net worth of each co-founder to $5.3 billion, propelling Spiegel, 26, and Murphy,…