First-time investors participating in the e-commerce and fintech platform’s round include Export Development Canada, Plaza Ventures and Canadian tech executives like Shopify president Harley Finkelstein and Substack CEO Chris Best. (The Logic)

Talking point: Super.com started out—two name changes and one country move ago—as Snaptravel, a messenger-based hotel booking service. The company has since added an online shopping deals marketplace and cashback card. Superapps that combine e-commerce as well as consumer and financial services in a single platform, often with a chat interface, are already in widespread use in most major Asian markets. Super.com will use the new funding to hire staff and build out new features based on user demand, CEO Hussein Fazal said via email. He and co-founder Henry Shi originally started the firm in Toronto in 2016; Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors was an early marquee investor. Fazal said the firm moved headquarters to San Francisco in October 2022, but about three-fifths of its 200 workers are still in Canada.