A|I: The AI Times – OpenAI’s “whether you like it or not” philosophy
Plus: Shopify’s Tobi Lütke will help advise Meta’s AI strategy.
Amplitude Ventures closes $263 million for second precision medicine VC fund
Amplitude has already made four investments from Fund II.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Newfoundland’s CoLab to go on hiring spree with Series B funding
Plus: Thinkific has too much cash. That’s a real problem.
CIFAR, CABHI among recipients of more than $850 million in federal science and research funding
Two dozen third-party science and research organizations are being backed by the new Strategic Science Fund.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Bench and Shopify alumni get $11 million to launch “Stripe for accounting”
Plus: Neo Financial credit products will now report to Equifax.
DIGITAL invests $10.5 million across four AI projects from healthtech startups
Projects from Swift Medical, RxPx, Gotcare, and AlayaCare carry a collective $26-million value.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Uber Health rolling out caregiving solution in US
Plus: CloudMD to go private after acquisition spree dries liquidity.
R|T: The Retail Times – The Shopify exec paid more than Tobi Lütke and Harley Finkelstein
Plus: Lightspeed’s Dax Dasilva sheds interim label from CEO title and puts EBITDA in the green.
Federal government invests $2.5 million in Co.Labs to maintain Uniting the Prairies
The funding will help stage the Uniting the Prairies conference for the next three years.
A|I: The AI Times – AI is jeopardizing Microsoft’s climate goals
Plus: OpenAI hemorrhages safety-conscious leaders, including Canadian Ilya Sutskever.
Busbud acquires South African revenue management platform Ratality
The acquisition adds demand forecasting, dynamic pricing, and fleet management features to Busbud’s platform.
Boeing backs Québec’s new aerospace innovation zone with $240 million CAD
Québec said Espace Aéro comes with $415 million in planned investment.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Squarespace to go private in $6.9 billion deal after hefty IPO
Plus: Figma shareholders to sell at a discount in Adobe deal fallout.
CoLab raises $28.6-million CAD Series B to grow its team and incorporate AI
CoLab CEO Adam Keating said he expects to grow the team from 86 to 125 employees by the end of the year.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Is Canada an easy mark for international money laundering?
Plus: ZayZoon returns its services to Canada after years in the US.