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Foresight 50 list names Canada’s “most investable” cleantech firms

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Josh Scott @ BetaKit 3 place · 12/02/2022 13:16 EDT

Vancouver-based cleantech accelerator Foresight Canada has identified what it deems Canada’s 50 “most investable” cleantech companies. The 2022 Foresight 50 list recognizes leading Canadian cleantech innovators “moving the needle towards net-zero, connecting honourees to international investors. The chosen firms were evaluated based on criteria that included investability, potential environment and employment impact, and probability of success. The second annual Foresight 50 list names cleantech firms from. Read more ›

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Shopify, Benevity set records for Black Friday-Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday

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Charles Mandel @ BetaKit · 12/02/2022 06:00 EDT

Shopify merchants rack up $7.5 billion in sales over the weekend. Read more ›

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R|T: The Retail Times – GoodGood shuts down as funding tightens

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Michael Edgar @ BetaKit · 12/02/2022 05:30 EDT

Plus: Amazon India's food delivery shuts down. Read more ›

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R|T: The Retail Times – GoodGood shuts down down as funding tightens

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Michael Edgar @ BetaKit 1 place · 12/02/2022 05:30 EDT

Plus: Amazon India's food delivery shuts down. Read more ›

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A|I: The AI Times – Unpacking 10 years of AI funding

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Michael Edgar @ BetaKit 1 place · 12/02/2022 05:00 EDT

Plus: Are we running out of data to train language AI? Read more ›

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Sanctuary secures $30 million from Canada’s SIF to build robots with human-like intelligence

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Charlize Alcaraz @ BetaKit · 12/01/2022 17:51 EDT

The AI startup is expected to hire more than 160 employees. Read more ›

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Avatar Innovations targets $3 million for new decarbonization tech fund

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Meagan Simpson @ BetaKit · 12/01/2022 17:13 EDT

Avatar has secured Cenovus Energy as its lead investor. Read more ›

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Mozilla acquires Canadian-founded startups Pulse, Active Replica to fuel metaverse strategy

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Charlize Alcaraz @ BetaKit · 12/01/2022 13:46 EDT

The company behind web browser Firefox wants to deliver its own metaverse. Read more ›

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Durable aims to help solo entrepreneurs launch service-based businesses with AI

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Josh Scott @ BetaKit · 12/01/2022 08:00 EDT

Durable has closed $6.25 million USD to date from US investors. Read more ›

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H|T: The Healthtech Times – Can at-home nursing alleviate hospital crowding?

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Michael Edgar @ BetaKit · 12/01/2022 05:00 EDT

Plus: Will Sextech survive the tech downturn? Read more ›

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Cross-border payments startup Buckzy takes the smart money in downscaled $19.5 million CAD Series A

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Josh Scott @ BetaKit · 12/01/2022 00:01 EDT

In challenging market, Buckzy opts for smaller round to hit escape velocity in 2023. Read more ›

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Produce8 lands $6 million in seed funding to improve digital-first team productivity

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Michael Edgar @ BetaKit · 11/30/2022 14:01 EDT

Startup believes addressing burnout is the answer to a trillion-dollar question. Read more ›

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RailVision Analytics closes $5.5 million CAD to cut train emissions by curbing fuel consumption

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Josh Scott @ BetaKit 2 place · 11/30/2022 05:59 EDT

Trucks choo-choo chooses RailVision following successful pilots with Via Rail, Metrolinx. Read more ›

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S|W: The SaaS Weekly – What’s old is new again: Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny

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Michael Edgar @ BetaKit 2 place · 11/30/2022 05:00 EDT

Plus: Google employees have a bad feeling mass layoffs are coming. Read more ›

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ApplyBoard cuts back customer experience department

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Michael Edgar @ BetaKit · 11/29/2022 17:27 EDT

Layoffs impact six percent of ApplyBoard’s workforce. Read more ›

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UgoWork closes $22.8 million Series B to help expand the use of lithium-ion batteries in Fortune 500

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Michael Edgar @ BetaKit 3 place · 11/29/2022 14:55 EDT

Canada ranks second in lithium Bloomberg’s lithium supply chain ranking. Read more ›

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AgTech startup Ground Truth secures $4 million to improve grain analysis for farmers

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Charles Mandel @ BetaKit 3 place · 11/29/2022 13:59 EDT

Seed round: startup’s technology will allow farmers to make sound investment decisions. Read more ›

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Ha Nguyen named McRock Capital’s third partner as firm looks to raise $200 million fund

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Meagan Simpson @ BetaKit 1 place · 11/29/2022 06:01 EDT

Nguyen is the first McRock partner in addition to firm’s co-founders. Read more ›

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Nortel alum-turned-mystery novelist combines her tech and writing background with Fictionary

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Josh Scott @ BetaKit 2 place · 11/29/2022 06:00 EDT

Fictionary’s $1.8 million round one of the first investments out of BDC’s Thrive Venture Fund. Read more ›

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F|T: The FinTech Times – Canadian crypto leaders want “consequences” after FTX fall

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Michael Edgar @ BetaKit · 11/29/2022 05:00 EDT

Plus: Pipe on the hunt for a new CEO. Read more ›

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