Harvest Venture Builders adopts AI focus with new climate and energy vertical
Leaders from energy, FinTech sectors appointed to support Harvest’s new vertical.
Canadian startups Oncoustics, OneCup AI among Google’s first North America-wide cloud accelerator cohort
Google piloted the cloud accelerator in Canada, then extended it to US startups this year.
Québec’s quantum scene gets boost with new factory, startup studio
French VC, quantum processor manufacturer choose Sherbrooke for its academic expertise, infrastructure.
York University’s Schulich School of Business continues tech leadership focus with new certificate programs
Program directors include leaders from OMERS Ventures, Wealthsimple, Q2, and Panache.
Chexy raises $1.3 million for platform that lets tenants pay rent with credit cards
Chexy becomes latest FinTech firm to offer rewards for tenants.
Poka to be acquired by Swedish enterprise software giant IFS in reported $200-million deal
Poka is used by workers at Nestlé, Tetra Pak, and Mars, among others.
Eavor secures $80 million to support Austrian oil and gas firm OMV’s transition to green energy
The geothermal startup previously said it plans to raise $145 million in Series B funding this year.
After several tech exits, Minutebook founder raises $3.5 million to automate legal tasks
Minutebook co-founder led several startups including Ollie Order, Medeo, Kubera.
Masthead Data raises $1.3 million to help data engineers monitor errors without client data
Organizations in e-commerce, finance, other tech domains use Masthead’s platform, the company claims.
Startup Train returns as Startupfest 2023 announces over $300,000 in prizes
Attendees from the GTA can board the Startup Train to get to the Montréal festival.
Someone built a guide to all the Collision afterparties
A community-submitted list of over 50 mixers, concerts, and other events taking place the week of Collision.
Canada invests $25 million in a new program to address barriers for 2SLGBTQI+ entrepreneurs
The initiative will provide capital, business advice, resources, and mentorship.
Shopify partners with Volt to offer open banking solutions (but not in Canada)
Features available to Shopify merchants in Europe, Brazil, and other markets not beset by implementation delays.
Cohere is the highest ranking Canadian startup on Bessemer’s top 100 deeptech companies
The OpenAI competitor is joined on the list by Nexii, Svante, and fellow Toronto firm Xanadu.
Water sampling, agtech startups among Ontario Genomics’ first cohort for BioCreate program
Each company will receive $150,000 from Ontario Genomics.