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Following $61 million TSX IPO, Propel Holdings eyes US expansion (BETAKIT)
Following a summer slowdown, a wave of Canadian tech startups have returned their focus to public markets. This week, Propel Holdings completed its Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) initial public offering (IPO), and a trio of other firms took steps towards their own TSX IPOs, including E Automotive, Sharethrough, and Q4 Inc.
SoftBank-backed Flock Freight raises $215 million (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
The startup uses AI to pool goods from shippers with less-than-truckload carriers and skip freight hubs. The new funding round values the company at $1.3 billion.
SkyHive secures $49.3 million CAD Series B raise for automated job skills tech (BETAKIT)
SkyHive has raised more than $73.9 million CAD ($60 million USD) to date. The company did not disclose when the Series B round closed.
Instacart acquires Caper AI, a smart cart and instant checkout startup, for $350M, as it moves deeper into physical retail tech (TECHCRUNCH)
Instacart confirmed that it is paying around $350 million for the startup, in a combination of cash and shares.
Following refocus and rebrand, Lydia AI secures $10 million CAD to make health insurance more inclusive (BETAKIT)
Insurtech startup Lydia AI, formerly Knowtions Research has raised $10 million CAD to launch the first series of insurance products using its health score technology in Taiwan, as it targets the Asia-Pacific insurance market.
Automated document processing platform Rossum raises $100M (VENTUREBEAT)
Sources say that Rossum is now valued at somewhere between $500 million and $1 billion.
Yoshua Bengio part of investors betting on Armilla AI to root out biases in machine learning (BETAKIT)
The fresh funds are helping with the launch of Armilla AI, and have already gone toward hiring the startup’s first round of engineers.
ShouTi secures $100M to hit biologic and peptide targets with small molecules (MED CITY NEWS)
ShouTi Pharmaceuticals, a startup that brings computational techniques to drug discovery, has raised $100 million in Series B financing.
Wisely acquires Hopeful to create AI-powered fundraising powerhouse (BETAKIT)
“We’re looking to combine two companies on the front end of AI fundraising within Canada and North America.”
This startup is creating personalized deepfakes for corporations (REST OF WORLD)
Major companies in India are using Rephrase.ai to create avatars of celebrities and executives, and commercial use is coming soon.
Bedrock AI receives $1 million to extract hidden information from financial documents (BETAKIT)
The company claimed the new funding gives it a $15 million valuation.
Despite COVID-19, Ontario AI ecosystem continues growth trajectory, report finds (BETAKIT)
7,253 AI jobs were created in Ontario over the last year, almost double the amount in 2019-2020.
How this Indigenous-led VC firm invests for financial and community impact (BETAKIT)
Fresh off the final closing of its $25 million initial fund, Raven is now looking to write $250,000 to $2 million cheques into purpose-driven Indigenous-led enterprises.
Cisco Canada survey reveals how startups and SMBs are approaching post-pandemic recovery (BETAKIT)
With responses from over 1,000 startup and SMB leaders, the results show a potential misalignment between leaders’ stated challenges, priorities, and areas for investment.