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One chart that will make you feel good about Canadian tech

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Douglas Soltys @ BetaKit 1 place · 11/18/2024 05:00 EDT

Plus: Neo’s backers, Wealthsimple’s value, and Shopify’s concerns. Read more ›

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R|T: The Retail Times – Thrasio raised $3 billion. Now it’s filing for bankruptcy.

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Alex Riehl @ BetaKit 3 place · 03/07/2024 05:00 EDT

Plus: US resistance has Shein eyeing UK to IPO. Read more ›

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Virtual mental health platform Cognito raises $2 million in seed funding

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Alex Riehl @ BetaKit 3 place · 03/06/2024 16:40 EDT

Cognito plans to expand its mental health services across Canada this year. Read more ›

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McMaster University partners with Celesta Capital to support Canadian deep tech startups

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Alex Riehl @ BetaKit · 03/06/2024 13:23 EDT

Celesta will help McMaster-affiliated entrepreneurs commercialize their innovations. Read more ›

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Contractor management platform PayShepherd closes $7 million CAD as product, market expansion continues

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Alex Riehl @ BetaKit 2 place · 03/06/2024 08:00 EDT

Inovia Capital-led round aimed at cementing firm’s presence in the United States and Canada. Read more ›

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A|I: The AI Times – Cohere will cover its customers sued for copyright violations

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Alex Riehl @ BetaKit 3 place · 03/06/2024 05:00 EDT

Plus: Six months after launch, Toronto’s Ideogram secures $80 million. Read more ›

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Canadian tech leaders back new venture studio Simple Ventures

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Isabelle Kirkwood @ BetaKit 1 place · 03/06/2024 04:00 EDT

Wealthsimple, Shopify, Ada, Knix execs part of contingent backing studio run by CEO Rachel Zimmer. Read more ›

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Tenstorrent founder reveals new AI chip startup Taalas with $50 million in funding

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Isabelle Kirkwood @ BetaKit · 03/05/2024 17:08 EDT

Startup says one of its chips can hold an entire large AI model without requiring external memory. Read more ›

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Synctera secures $18.6-million Series A extension, launches new payments integration

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Alex Riehl @ BetaKit · 03/05/2024 14:04 EDT

Synctera launched its embedded banking platform for Canada in December 2023. Read more ›

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RBCx launches second edition of mentorship program for women in tech

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Isabelle Kirkwood @ BetaKit 3 place · 03/05/2024 07:01 EDT

The previously all-women mentorship roster now includes men. Read more ›

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S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Why is Marc Benioff buying up Hawaiian land?

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Alex Riehl @ BetaKit 3 place · 03/05/2024 05:00 EDT

Plus: Certn’s new president targets growth over acquisitions. Read more ›

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Miovision nabs Traffic Technology Services in second acquisition this year

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Alex Riehl @ BetaKit 2 place · 03/04/2024 16:35 EDT

Miovision acquired traffic data collection company CJ Hensch & Associates in January. Read more ›

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General Atlantic becomes major investor in travel perks platform Plusgrade

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Alex Riehl @ BetaKit · 03/04/2024 15:45 EDT

The deal values Plusgrade at over $2 billion, according to The Globe and Mail. Read more ›

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Canadian tech leaders headline speaker lineup for inaugural INNOVATEwest

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Isabelle Kirkwood @ BetaKit 2 place · 03/04/2024 06:02 EDT

Execs from Koho, Ada, Wealthsimple, Clio comprise speaker roster for 2024 conference. Read more ›

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F|T: The FinTech Times – Stripe’s $65B valuation indicates an IPO isn’t anytime soon

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Alex Riehl @ BetaKit 2 place · 03/04/2024 05:15 EDT

Plus: How Flinks is building middleware for open banking. Read more ›

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Does corporate VC have an advantage in AI investments?

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Alex Riehl @ BetaKit 3 place · 03/04/2024 05:00 EDT

Plus: Omnirobotic reborn and Flinks moves in for the kill. Read more ›

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How to fix SR&ED

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Douglas Soltys @ BetaKit · 03/03/2024 18:56 EDT

Can a decades-old, $4 billion tax credit program be modernized to solve Canada's innovation woes? Read more ›

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These tech companies are hiring machine learning engineers in Canada

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Isabelle Kirkwood @ BetaKit 1 place · 03/01/2024 17:00 EDT

Autodesk, Electronic Arts, and BenchSci are looking to beef up their AI teams. Read more ›

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Middleware land grab: Flinks wants to kill screen-scraping and make APIs king

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Kelsey Rolfe @ BetaKit 1 place · 03/01/2024 12:51 EDT

Montréal FinTech hopes to cement "special position" in North America's financial ecosystem. Read more ›

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How money actually flows from VCs to startups

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Stefan Palios @ BetaKit 1 place · 03/01/2024 06:06 EDT

Capital call lines of credit are the liquidity instrument that allows VCs to manage their operations and administration. Read more ›

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Fuelled by new funding, RetinaLogik wants to prevent vision loss with AI and VR

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Isabelle Kirkwood @ BetaKit 3 place · 03/01/2024 06:04 EDT

Startup closes $783,000 in pre-seed funding led by HaloHealth. Read more ›

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