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By Meagan Simpson April 5, 2022

New report shares stories of the biases women entrepreneurs face raising capital

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By Josh Scott April 1, 2022

Our Lady Peace’s Raine Maida says creators can’t afford “not to take advantage” of Web3, NFTs

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By Kelsey Rolfe March 29, 2022

theScore is ready for mobile sports betting to come to Ontario

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By Isabelle Kirkwood March 23, 2022

With the spotlight shining on Canadian tech, Kanata Ventures wants international startups to become part of the story

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Abraham Tachjian open banking lead

By Douglas Soltys March 21, 2022

PwC digital banking director Abraham Tachjian to be named Canada’s open banking lead

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MyComply closes $5.6 million CAD to sell construction tech platform to US companies

by Josh Scott

CEO calls startup’s contract with New York City its “growth hack.”

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Canadian Startup NewsApril 6, 2022<April 5, 2022

With new investment product, is Neo Financial’s biggest competition now Wealthsimple and Questrade, or the big banks?

by Meagan Simpson

The Prairie FinTech has teamed up with fellow Calgary startup OneVest for Neo Invest.

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A|I: The AI Times – Canada gets more Meta

by Cameron Chaddad

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In effort to cut costs, CSE-listed Legible lays off over a third of its employees

by Josh Scott

Legible becomes second publicly-traded Canadian tech firm to announce significant layoffs in the past week.

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Canadian Startup NewsApril 5, 2022<April 5, 2022

Xero appoints Chris O’Neill as company’s first chief growth officer

by Charlize Alcaraz

Chris O’Neill has held leadership roles at Portage, Evernote, Google.

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Canadian Startup NewsApril 5, 2022<April 5, 2022

New report shares stories of the biases women entrepreneurs face raising capital

by Meagan Simpson

“He said, ‘well, don’t you just want to go get married and have babies now? Why are you fundraising?’”

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Amid NFT boom, Liquid MarketPlace aims to turn physical sports and Pokémon cards into tokens

by Josh Scott

Logan Paul-led startup using blockchain to facilitate fractional ownership of physical assets.

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Canadian Startup NewsApril 5, 2022<April 5, 2022

With $7.1 million in SDTC funds, Spark Microsystems aims to make wireless tech more energy efficient

by Charlize Alcaraz

Spark is among seven Canadian companies that received a cumulative $27.2 million from SDTC.

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Canadian Startup NewsApril 5, 2022<April 4, 2022

Fintech Cadence receives $400,000 government grant to help Québec FinTechs scale

by Charles Mandel

The FinTech incubator says the money will enable it to assist 125 entrepreneurs, startups.

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S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Tough cuts, big hopes

by Cameron Chaddad

Plus: Antitrust bill targeting Amazon, Google, Apple gets support from DOJ.

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Payments Canada announces global firm Tata Consultancy Services will lead the integration of the Real-Time Rail system

by Charles Mandel

Real-Time Rail system is meant to modernize Canada’s payments infrastructure when completed.

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Can an app be medicine?

by Douglas Soltys

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Cognito Health secures $1.1 million for cross-Canada expansion of its mental health offering

by Charles Mandel

Stumped over marketing, Cognito generated a big buzz on Instagram.

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Cosm Medical raises $4.7 million CAD for its custom gynecological prosthetics

by Charles Mandel

Cosm wants to change the standard of care for pelvic floor disorders.

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