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Clutch truck carrying a car to sell

By Josh Scott July 4, 2025

Clutch races past $1 billion in total cars purchased amid record growth

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Attabotics facility

By Alex Riehl July 3, 2025

Robotics startup Attabotics closes down and terminates employees

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By Alex Riehl June 30, 2025

Clio to acquire Spanish-American legaltech vLex for $1 billion USD

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Professor Larry Smith speaking

By BetaKit June 27, 2025

What I Learned: Larry Smith

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group of students on stage with a Canadian flag

By Georgia Berg June 27, 2025

Socratica’s IRL revolution is powered by the love of making

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BetaKit Town Hall: Most Ambitious

By Alex Kinsella June 26, 2025

BetaKit Town Hall showcases Canadian ambition at home and abroad

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MTatt takes home top prize at Startupfest 2025 as winnings exceed $1 million for the first time

Madison McLauchlan July 11, 2025

Medtech startup mTatt won both Best of Fest and Audience Choice awards.

Market recovery Canadian VCs expected still on the horizon, experts say at Startupfest

Madison McLauchlan July 11, 2025

A persistently cool exit market and middling returns are preventing cash from re-entering the market, data shows.

The BetaKit Quiz

Elon Musk’s new party, Canada’s AI adoption, and Clutch cracks $1 billion

Isabelle Kirkwood July 11, 2025

Test your knowledge of Canadian tech news with The BetaKit Quiz for July 11, 2025.

Minister Evan Solomon unveils fresh AI project funding to address “crisis moment” at Scale AI event

Alex Riehl July 10, 2025

Twenty-three Québec-led projects will receive almost $100 million in combined public-private funding.

Airalo founders pose in front of painted artistic background

Canadian co-founded eSIM provider Airalo hits unicorn status with $220-million USD Series C round

Alex Riehl July 10, 2025

COO Abraham Burak left the University of Ottawa to launch the billion-dollar business.

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No meetings, no mandates: Inside Intuit’s five-day innovation week for technologists

Jacqueline Loganathan July 10, 2025

During Intuit’s Global Engineering Days, teams transform ideas into solutions for millions.

Manzil co-founder and group CEO Mohamad Sawwaf speaking on stage at Elevate 2024 in Toronto.

Manzil wants to become “the North American Islamic neobank” as it expands to the US

Josh Scott July 10, 2025

Toronto FinTech startup sets its sights south of the border post-Aghaz acquisition.

Founders need a good reason to forgo an AI strategy, VCs warn at Startupfest

Madison McLauchlan July 10, 2025

Investors say proving long-term differentiation is more important than ever as AI saturates the market.

three founders of opennote pose in front of y combinator sign

Opennote raises $850,000 USD, secures Y Combinator spot for edtech platform

Aaron Anandji July 9, 2025

The three student founders plan to build stateside.

Cobionix secures $4.1 million to commercialize its collaborative medical robot

Alex Riehl July 9, 2025

Funding to support pilot projects that move CODI the robot “from bench to bedside.”

OpenText CFO Chadwick Westlake to succeed the late Andrew Moor as CEO of Equitable Bank

Alex Riehl July 9, 2025

Westlake was being groomed for the EQB CEO job before joining OpenText five months ago.

Most Canadian companies are walking the AI adoption race: report

Madison McLauchlan July 9, 2025

Canadian execs report uneven efficiency gains from AI and a lack of technical talent, Georgian survey finds.

R-Labs secures $3.5 million to help create more startups tackling “big problems” in real estate

Josh Scott July 9, 2025

Hatch adds engineering capabilities to the Toronto real estate industry venture builder.

Tenstorrent acquires Blue Cheetah to bring more chip design in-house

Alex Riehl July 8, 2025

AI chipmaker had been licensing Blue Cheetah’s technology since last year.

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VitalHub acquires referral platform Novari Health in deal worth up to $48.6 million

Alex Riehl July 8, 2025

VitalHub said the referral management market is a “a key area of investment” for governments around the world.

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BetaKit Most Ambitious: Telling the story of what's possible

Jill Earthy Web Summit Vancouver

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