What Every Start-Up Needs: Insight, Scaling, & More | Paper, Cohere, BMO, 7shifts - February 17, 2022

It's Thursday, February 17, 2022, and today we are talking about: 

A successful startup needs insights, product market fit and good timing: Paper raises $270m USD to become latest Canadian unicorn 
What it takes for a scale economy business to succeed: Cohere raise $125m USD 
Markets may not reflect the true value of your business: Shopify misses expectations shares crushed but nothing to worry about 
The Importance of good timing in the execution of business: 7shifts raises $80m USD in round led by SoftBank Investment Advisers 
From old times at U of T to the next big raise: ODAIA raises $13.8m USD 
Major key alert: BMO Financial Group commits $100m for black entrepreneurs