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Putting the Prairies on the tech-sector map

Putting the Prairies on the tech-sector map

Photo courtesy Skip The Dishes

By Martin Cash / Winnipeg Free Press

In Silicon Valley, they call companies that are worth more than $1 billion before they go public unicorns.

Skip the Dishes was on its way to becoming Winnipeg’s first unicorn, but it was acquired by the U.K.-based public company Just Eat, so it might not technically qualify for the label.

Farmers Edge, the precision agriculture company that has raised much more than $100 million from venture capital investors and has customers around the world paying for its data-based precision agricultural services, is probably getting close to that mark.

Read the full story in the Winnipeg Free Press.

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