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Jobber gives the workday back.
A painter’s lost paperwork became a software company serving more than 100,000 businesses. Jobber’s bet: the hours between jobs deserve as much attention as the jobs themselves.
Prophix wants finance to stop chasing its own numbers
Budgets held together by spreadsheets made Prophix a business. Connecting planning, the financial close, and AI is its bid to win more of the CFO’s working day.
Enghouse Turns Unloved Software Into a Cash Machine
While NICE, Talkdesk, Amazon and Microsoft spend to win the AI contact-center race, Enghouse Systems keeps buying mature software companies and holding roughly 69% recurring revenue at 27% margins. The Markham compounder is boring on purpose.
Corel Corporation
Corel Corporation is a 40-year-old Ottawa-based software company behind a portfolio of iconic creativity and productivity brands - CorelDRAW, Painter, PaintShop Pro, VideoStudio, WordPerfect, WinZip and MindManager - used by more than 100 million people across 75+ countries. After a stint as KKR-owned 'Alludo,' Corel relaunched in May 2026 as an independent company backed by Vector Capital, with a strategy built on deepening customer experience, embedding AI across its products, and acquiring complementary brands.