Neuralitic Systems, a Canada-based provider of mobile data analysis, has raised $8m in its series B round and hired Luc Filiatreault as chief executive.
BlackBerry Partners Fund, a corporate venturing fund backed by investors including phone maker Research In Motion, reinvested in Neuralitic, alongside venture capital firms BDC Venture Capital, Vertex Venture Capital and Go Capital, while Export Development Canada led the round as a new investor. Neuralitic has now raised $20m in total.
Neuralitic co-founder Audry Larocque has taken the newly-developed chief strategy officer role with Filiatreault’s appointment.
Filiatreault founded and led five in the software and technology sectors, of which two went public within 36 months. He was previously chief executive of Nstein Technology, a developer of semantic analysis software for international markets acquired by Open Text in April.