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By Josh Scott June 2, 2023

With Collision nearing a one-year Toronto extension, efforts are mounting for a West Coast alternative

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CANADALANDs Jonathan Goldsbie on the BetaKit Podcast

By Douglas Soltys May 28, 2023

A wake for BuzzFeed, Gawker, Vice with CANADALAND’s Jonathan Goldsbie

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BenchSci team

By Josh Scott May 25, 2023

BenchSci closes $95-million CAD Series D to expand AI drug-discovery platform

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AbCellera | BetaKit

By Douglas Soltys May 24, 2023

AbCellera receives $300 million in combined government funding for biotech campus

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A Collision sign ahead of the start of Collision 2022 in Toronto

By Josh Scott May 17, 2023

Mayor Tory’s departure, competing bids, and financial pressure on province and feds place Collision’s future in Canada in doubt

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Canadian Startup NewsJune 9, 2023<June 8, 2023

Here’s how Canada’s top 10 cities rank in the global startup ecosystem

by Charlize Alcaraz

StartupBlink’s report shows Canada maintains fourth place in global ranking.

FemTherapeutics

NewslettersJune 9, 2023<June 9, 2023

H|T: The Healthtech Times – Pharma giant Bayer moves deeper into digital health

by Alex Riehl

Plus: FemTherapeutics raises $2.5 million CAD to address pelvic floor disorders.

healthtech

Canadian Startup NewsJune 8, 2023<June 8, 2023

AlayaCare founder, Alberta Innovates and Strata Health Solutions executives honoured at e-Health Conference

by Charles Mandel

Digital Health Canada hands out awards in six categories to medtech executives.

Pesticide

Canadian Startup NewsJune 8, 2023<June 8, 2023

Vive Crop Protection adds $11.2 million CAD extension to Series C to improve efficiency of agricultural chemicals

by Charlize Alcaraz

Vive recently made its fungicide available in Canada to help combat potato crop diseases.

Coheres three co founders posing for a picture

Canadian Startup NewsJune 8, 2023<June 8, 2023

Cohere announces $270-million USD Series C from Inovia, Nvidia, Oracle, Salesforce

by Josh Scott

Led by ex-Google researchers, OpenAI rival Cohere aims to help firms adopt generative AI.

Inventures 2023

Canadian Startup NewsJune 8, 2023<June 7, 2023

More than $110,000 in investments awarded to startups at Inventures 2023

by Charlize Alcaraz

The Calgary conference wrapped up its fourth in-person event with more than 3,000 attendees.

Shopify building

NewslettersJune 8, 2023<June 8, 2023

R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify’s birthday gift: a new class-action lawsuit

by Alex Riehl

Plus: Temu is losing millions of dollars to break into the US.

MINI TIPI founders

Canadian Startup NewsJune 7, 2023<June 7, 2023

Soar reveals its Indigenous entrepreneur-focused accelerator’s first cohort

by Charlize Alcaraz

The program is delivered in partnership with Square, BDC, and Futurpreneur.

Canadian Startup NewsJune 7, 2023<June 7, 2023

Shopify plans to “aggressively pursue” ID of funders in cases against “patent trolls”

by Josh Scott

Company filed motion in Texas court demanding Lower48 IP LLC reveal third-party interests.

OneEleven

Canadian Startup NewsJune 7, 2023<June 7, 2023

York University partners with OneEleven to launch joint venture studio for new tech MBA degree

by Charlize Alcaraz

York’s Schulich School of Business is set to launch the program this fall semester.

Yoshua Bengio

NewslettersJune 7, 2023<June 7, 2023

A|I: The AI Times – Public letter escalation: Bengio & Hinton sign another warning

by Alex Riehl

Plus: Canadian AI computing startup Tenstorrent and LG partner to build chips.

Rivercity Innovations

Canadian Startup NewsJune 6, 2023<June 7, 2023

Saskatoon startups Rivercity, 7shifts team up to enhance food temperature monitoring for restaurants

by Charlize Alcaraz

RCI integrates its cold chain monitoring sensors into 7shifts’ restaurant management platform.

Canadian Startup NewsJune 6, 2023<June 6, 2023

BC regulator suspends ex-Blok Technologies CEO, CFO from investment market for misrepresenting 2018 share sale

by Josh Scott

The suspensions come in response to how a past Blok private placement was publicly communicated.

GSoft

Canadian Startup NewsJune 6, 2023<June 6, 2023

GSoft secures $125-million CDPQ investment to pursue growth through acquisitions

by Charlize Alcaraz

GSoft’s February acquisition of Quebec City’s Didacte was the company’s first.

Twig Fertility

Canadian Startup NewsJune 6, 2023<June 6, 2023

Rhino Ventures leads Twig Fertility’s $8 million Series A to improve fertility experience with tech

by Charlize Alcaraz

Twig is developing a proprietary platform to optimize treatment plans and opening more clinics in Canada.

The BetaKit Podcast

BetaKit Podcast episode on the Canadian health care crisis

CANADALANDs Jonathan Goldsbie on the BetaKit Podcast

Tobi Lütke Shopify

PM Trudeau and DPM Freeland speaks with media in West Block July 16 2020

Folding Ideas Dan Olson

BlackBerry movie

BetaKit Podcast episode on the Canadian health care crisis

CANADALANDs Jonathan Goldsbie on the BetaKit Podcast

Tobi Lütke Shopify

PM Trudeau and DPM Freeland speaks with media in West Block July 16 2020

Folding Ideas Dan Olson

BlackBerry movie

Podcasts

Canada is in a health care crisis. What’s the prescription?

by Douglas Soltys

Brett Belchetz (Maple) and Alexandra Greenhill (Careteam) diagnose the failings of Canada’s health care system.

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A wake for BuzzFeed, Gawker, Vice with CANADALAND’s Jonathan Goldsbie

by Douglas Soltys

A post-mortem on the rampant demise of 2000s digital media publications & how they compare to the slow death of traditional…

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Podcasts

What’s next for Shopify?

by Douglas Soltys

Business Insider’s Madeline Stone joins to discuss the end of Shopify’s “side quest” and future of…

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Do the feds have an innovation strategy? CCI’s Ben Bergen isn’t so sure

by Douglas Soltys

The Council of Canadian Innovators president answers your submitted questions on innovation policy.

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How YouTuber Dan Olson (Folding Ideas) hunts internet grifts

by Douglas Soltys

Alberta is the unlikely front in the war against NFTs, contrepreneurs, and the metaverse.

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Revisiting BlackBerry’s extraordinary rise and spectacular fall

by Douglas Soltys

Losing the Signal co-author Sean Silcoff and BlackBerry co-writer Matthew Miller step into the Wayback Machine.

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