Ecommerce platform Vendasta has named Lisa Reeves as the newest addition to its Board of Directors. Ms. Reeves is an experienced SaaS and enterprise software leader, bringing valuable expertise in go-to-market, product, and strategy fields to guide Vendasta’s decision making and direction.

Hanniere Faria grew up in Anápolis, a town of 334,000 in Brazil’s inland Goiás state. So when the software developer started looking for jobs in Canada two years ago, “I didn’t want to live in Toronto, or big cities.” He landed in Saskatoon at Vendasta, a fast-growing SaaS firm with 450 employees, almost a third of them hired this year.

Vendasta and multinational distributor Tech Data have launched a new partnership. The move will help bolster Vendasta’s security solutions stack within its reseller platform. In turn, vendors get access to a new network of selling opportunities, which involves 30,000 resellers serving 4 million SMBs. The new ecosystem will allow NexVen vendors to grow their revenue and eventually circle back into the Tech Data fold

Hosting Authorty’s Sean Garrity dissects Vendasta’s partnership model, and the value to small and medium businesses in the post-COVID era.

In 2019, I put together the first Prairie Startups to Watch article for BetaKit. Last year was a great year for Prairie startups, and looking back on the list there were some sizeable headlines made by the listed companies.

Sask. tech investment last year was more than past five years combined.

Saskatchewan went from punching well below our weight in the technology sector to well above in the last year.

This product enhancement launch from Vendasta got me thinking about how local and small business can leverage the same machine learning and AI tools.

The Canadian solutions provider talks lists, plans and pitfalls, and the company’s evolution and goals for the future. (Read More...)

The StarPhoenix sat down with CEO Brendan King to talk about the city's growing tech centre and what's next for the company he started more than a decade ago. (Read More...)