Calian outlines new $100 million platform to bolster Canadian defence businesses
Calian Ventures helps SMBs navigate procurement and foster collaboration in Canada’s defence ecosystem.
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Float, Wise, Koho, Paramount, and Brim join Payments Canada
New members are now eligible to apply for access to the upcoming real-time rail system.
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Inside the student-to-full-time hiring pipeline
How student talent helped EATABLE scale from a home kitchen to 1,600 retailers.
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Cellar Insights pockets $500,000 investment to help it protect potatoes
Investment will be used to further commercialize the startup’s potato storage monitoring tech.
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Toronto Tech Week signs new two-year agreement with City of Toronto
Host applications now open for 2026 edition of Canada’s “largest grassroots tech gathering.”
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Montréal industrial AI scaleup Vention raises $110-million USD Series D
Company says it crossed $100-million CAD annual run rate as it looks to expand in Europe.
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TikTok and Grok are messes Canada can’t clean up
What’s a middle power to do in the face of algorithms controlled by global superpowers (and their supporters)?
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Canada is the sixth-best place on earth to build a tech startup, new index suggests
StartupBlink says Canada currently offers the world’s sixth most favourable business environment for building a technology startup. The Swiss startup-ecosystem research firm’s new Innovators Business Environment Index (IBEI), released today, ranked Canada as one of the easiest nations from which to launch, operate, and scale a tech startup or innovative company. StartupBlink’s IBEI assessed 125 countries, placing Canada’s business environment behind only the United States (US), Singapore, the United Kingdom (UK), Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), respectively. Canada’s business environment placed sixth out of 125 countries. “Overall, Canada’s results show a business environment with strong institutions, advanced...
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Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in
Change implies Canadian startups have to incorporate in the US, Cayman Islands, or Singapore to join accelerator.
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AXL partners with IT firm Compugen to help turn AI ideas into AI applications
Compugen claims to be Canada’s largest privately-owned technology solution provider.
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Billdr relaunches with $4.4 million CAD to build “operating system” for construction
Former home renovation marketplace looks to execute on new vertical SaaS blueprint.
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Meet Winnipeg’s latest venture studio, Ignition
A joint venture between Launch Coworking and ProductStak, the studio is focusing on early-stage founders.
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Drive Capital “triples down” on Birdseye with $5 million USD investment for new AI competitive-intelligence tool
Birdseye wanted to know if popular AI chatbots recommended its snail mail marketing tool. Now they’re spinning out Yolando.
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Canada’s housing supply is in crisis. Can robots help?
Automated homebuilders are pitching solutions to get more (ideally affordable) roofs over our heads.
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Float secures nearly $100 million in debt to expand credit products for Canadian businesses
FinTech startup says its revenue has grown roughly 70 percent year over year.
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Growth is not enough for Canadian businesses
Plus: General Fusion to go public on Nasdaq via $1-billion USD SPAC deal.
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Cyclic Materials secures $75 million USD Series C to help it recover rare earth elements from waste
The Toronto company specializes in recycling end-of-life products.
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Creditors sue Telesat claiming satellite operator illegally moved assets beyond their reach
Telesat’s lenders are taking the company to court as big debt repayment deadlines loom.
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Deck co-founders call non-compete lawsuit from former employer National Bank “frivolous”
Defendants deny claims that they’ve built a competing FinTech business.
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Musk fights an airline, Capital One buys Brex, and TikTok stays online
Test your knowledge of Canadian tech news with The BetaKit Quiz for January 23, 2026.
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