Montréal’s Aifred Health wins second place at IBM AI XPRIZE competition
Montréal-based healthtech and artificial intelligence (AI) startup Aifred Health today won second place at the final round of the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE competition…
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Golden Ventures looks to capitalize on portfolio winners with two new funds
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Q4 Inc. pauses plans for $150 million public offering on Toronto Stock Exchange
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Ray Walia knows it’s Vancouver tech’s moment to lose
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ApplyBoard raises $375 million CAD Series D at $4 billion valuation
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One year after joining RBC, Sid Paquette reveals his plans to disrupt innovation banking with RBCx
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ResQ announces December $9.75 million CAD fundraise to help restaurants meet “pent-up demand” during COVID reopening
Armed with about $9.75 million CAD ($7.5 million USD) in previously unannounced seed funding, Toronto-based restaurant software startup ResQ is looking to build on…
Tech4SickKids raises corporate donations from Canadian tech to reach $25 million goal
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S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Chairman of the ApplyBoard
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New Portage FinTech SPAC files for $200 million Nasdaq public offering
Sagard Holdings, the alternative investment arm of Power Corporation and manager of Portage Ventures, is launching a blank cheque company, or SPAC, focused on…
Q4 Inc. pauses plans for $150 million public offering on Toronto Stock Exchange
Toronto-based investor relations (IR) software company Q4 Inc. has paused its planned initial public offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). A spokesperson for…
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