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Venn (Formerly Vault) co-founders

Vault rebrands to Venn following $21.5-million Series A round

February 26, 2025

Founded as a multi-currency account, Venn looks to broaden its financial management solutions and sales staff.

Prosus to acquire SkipTheDishes parent company JustEat Takeaway in $6.2-billion deal

February 25, 2025

Prosus to take JustEat Takeaway private and plans to maintain its key brands.

Non-profit organizations receive nearly $40 million as part of latest AI-focused CanCode program

February 25, 2025

Federal funding aims to support 22 orgs teach coding, data analytics, and AI skills to 1.5 million students.

Hyperlume raises $17.8-million seed round to commercialize its AI data centre tech

February 21, 2025

Ottawa startup claims its microLEDs achieve significant gains in performance, cost, and energy efficiency.

Tribe Network among second round of federal 2SLGBTQI+ Ecosystem Fund recipients

February 21, 2025

Latest round deals $2.8 million across 12 groups and strengthens program support in Northern and Atlantic regions.

New government-backed tech hub The Foundry launches in PEI

February 20, 2025

New hub backed with more than $1.5 million in federal and provincial funding.

A pair of hands holding a mobile phone which has the Shopify logo on it

Shopify expands Affirm partnership to bring BNPL offering to Canadian merchants

February 20, 2025

Affirm has powered Shop Pay Installments for US-based merchants since 2021.

Reverb Therapeutics closes $17-million seed round led by Amplitude Ventures

February 19, 2025

Reverb looks to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases with its antibody modification platform.

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Kraken Robotics emerges from the deep to take top spot on 2025 TSX Venture 50 list

February 19, 2025

The mining sector dominated the list, with a combined 12 tech companies making the cut.

Ocean innovator and Kraken Robotics founder Karl Kenny passes away at age 64

February 19, 2025

Kenny founded numerous Atlantic Canada tech companies before retiring in 2022.

Certn and Quadshift secure capital from BDC Capital’s topped-up funds

February 18, 2025

Funding follows apparent departure of Certn president less than a year into the job.

Toronto and Waterloo Region orgs get $34 million in FedDev funding

February 14, 2025

Accelerator Centre, TIAP, OBIO, and University of Waterloo among supported organizations.

Clio donates $3 million to create new innovation hub at the University of British Columbia

February 14, 2025

Space will serve as the formal Vancouver home of Creative Destruction Lab.

PrairiesCan doles out $6.7 million to help four Edmonton companies scale and expand into new markets

February 13, 2025

Levven Electronics, Care Group, Demir Engineering, and Grengine to benefit from latest federal funding.

Photonic co-founder Stephanie Simmons holding a chip in her raised hand. She is smiling and appears to be in some kind of workshop.

Photonic claims breakthrough in quantum computing error correction

February 13, 2025

Company paper claims a new code family can perform quantum operations with lower physical qubit requirements.

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