Woveo partners with BDC on business microlending program
The $10-million project aims to expand capital access for small and medium-sized businesses.
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Femtech Connect conference puts femtech funding under the microscope
While women founders dominate the femtech landscape, men still get most of the money.
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Why Silicon Valley is taken with Tailscale
Plus: Nvidia, AMD sign Canada's data centre framework.
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Fortinet expansion suggests Calgary’s cache is growing among global companies
The $30-million cybersecurity hub adds another international company to the city’s growing tech ecosystem.
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Canada invests $67 million in dual-use life sciences research
Funding will support organizations in Ontario, Alberta, and BC, as well as five pan-Canadian research hubs.
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Nrth Festival’s inaugural opening night was a prompt to bring human control back to tech
Tech leaders talk human agency in the AI world as GROAT Kyle Lowry encourages entrepreneurs to chase their “yes.”
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Blair Health secures $4.2 million to make specialized women’s care more accessible
Toronto startup aims to power “specialist-level care without the specialist wait.”
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Elevate transforms into Nrth Festival in opening-night rebrand
After nine years as Elevate, tech festival updates name to provide direction in an increasingly uncertain world.
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TD’s Layer 6 and Cohere embark on $25-million AI collaboration
The Big Six Canadian bank has teamed up with the country’s LLM maker to boost AI adoption.
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Bird&Be raises $13-million USD Series A for fertility support platform
Toronto startup sells supplements and test kits for reproductive health.
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University of Alberta launches regenerative medicine hub at Life Sciences Week
Hub will unite stakeholders from across healthcare value chain to accelerate treatment commercialization.
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With new funding, Astrus prepares to automate one of the biggest bottlenecks in chip design
Khosla-backed startup uses reinforcement learning to tackle analog design problems.
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Heidi invests nearly $26 million to establish Toronto as North American headquarters
Australian healthtech plans to hire 30 more staff in Canada, its second-largest market.
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Innovation Saskatchewan renews AgTech Accelerator funding with $300,000 investment
Funding will support the Conexus-backed program until 2028.
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BDC is Canada’s sole entrant in investor network for NATO defence accelerator
The NATO DIANA Capital Network connects investors with companies in its defence tech program.
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Beacon buys New York’s Haize Labs to boost AI reliability across its portfolio
AI rollup firm aims to help its Main Street software businesses deploy AI they can trust.
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The infrastructure tipping point for growing tech companies
Dedicatted explains how MSPs can take ownership of uptime and incident response as reliability demands increase.
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Kanin Energy raises $138 million for waste heat to power development
Calgary- and Houston-based cleantech company received funding from S2G Investments and Canada Growth Fund.
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Altis Labs raises $25 million USD Series A to expand AI for cancer trials
New funding will help build out a platform designed to detect treatment effects sooner.
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Thri5 raises $5.4 million USD to expand AI platform for retail businesses
The startup, founded by former Loblaw Digital leaders, plans to expand across North America and Europe.
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