What five years of Canadian tech exits signal for founders heading into 2026
Fasken’s Exit InSights Study points to an exit window that appears earlier than most founders expect.
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MDA Space signs contract with US Department of War agency to potentially help with “Golden Dome” project
Contract lets MDA bid on “a broad range of work to strengthen defence against threats from land, sea, air, cyberspace, and space.”
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Grok’s non-consensual sexual images highlight gaps in Canada’s deepfake laws
Experts say Canada’s murky privacy and online harm laws leave victims with limited options.
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D-Wave strikes $550-million USD deal to acquire Quantum Circuits
After spending decades on quantum annealing, D-Wave hopes to make a splash in gate-based computing.
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Amii launches AI scholarship for environmental and atmospheric sciences
Research institute is accepting applications for AI for Earth program until the end of February.
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Why European startups are coming to Canada
How Europe’s top startups are finding a smarter way to enter North America.
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How to see BetaKit stories first as a preferred source on Google Search
Google’s preferred sources feature launched in Canada in December 2025.
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From roaming robo-barns to laser weeders, how an innovative program is helping BC farmers
Innovate BC’s On-Farm Technology Adoption Program gave farmers $4.5 million last year to buy new tech.
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CanLII and Caseway AI reportedly moving towards settlement in copyright dispute
Non-profit sued Caseway in late 2024 for allegedly scraping its data to build an AI legaltech tool.
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Backboard.io looks to solve AI amnesia with “substantial” pre-seed round
Assent co-founder Rob Imbeault's new AI company has backing from Mistral and Garage.
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Edmonton reporter Jesse Cole joins BetaKit’s new Prairies Bureau
Prairies coverage funded through innovative partnership with non-profit YEGAF.
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“A perfect storm”: 2025 was the worst year for Canadian VC fundraising since 2016
RBCx report shows emerging managers, fund sizes, and graduation rates are declining amid a lack of exits.
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Sprung Studios launches Sonar, an AI tool to track how players feel about games
After working on gaming’s biggest titles, Sprung wants to make player feedback easier to find.
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Fifteen bold predictions on what it will feel like to work in tech in 2026
Canadian tech leaders share what they expect to see this year in the job market and at the office.
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The Basic Phone launches Kickstarter for “dumbphone” that’s just the right amount of smart
You can’t log onto TikTok, but you can call an Uber.
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Photonic says it’s ready to commercialize quantum with $180-million fundraise
RBC, Telus back quantum computing company as it looks to develop enterprise-ready tech.
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“There is a huge gap in the innovation space”
Investor Darren Clifford sees the strongest market signals coming from a warming world.
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Shopify ordered not to delete merchant data as legal spat with CRA continues
CRA’s data preservation order granted in case that has been ongoing since 2023.
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Thirty bold predictions for AI in 2026
Canadian founders, VCs, experts, and critics share what they expect from artificial intelligence this year.
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McRock Capital closes $120 million in third fund, backing industrial software startups
Caterpillar and Autodesk become LPs as McRock falls shy of initial $200-million target.
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