Branch Energy closes $5.6 million CAD seed round to solve a Texas-sized carbon problem
Toronto-based Branch Energy has closed fresh funding to bring green energy and smarter energy use to deregulated markets across…
BetaKit Live: Solving Big Problems on July 29th
As has been discussed during past BetaKit Lives, the Canadian tech ecosystem is exploding, showcasing both big funding rounds…
Shopify surpasses $1 billion quarterly revenue milestone in Q2 2021 results
Canadian ecommerce giant Shopify announced its first-ever $1 billion revenue quarter today driven primarily by soaring gross…
Boast.AI’s Lloyed Lobo shares the true cost of entrepreneurship
I couldn’t get Lloyed Lobo to sit still. The co-founder of Boast.AI and Traction Conference wouldn’t stay in front…
BetaKit Live: The future of virtual care on July 27
COVID-19 has been a catalyst for change across sectors, but has specifically prompted a Canadian healthtech boom. Nowhere has…
Properly closes $44 million CAD Series B from key strategics, US investors to tackle Canadian real estate market
Toronto-based proptech startup Properly has raised fresh capital and strategic support to scale its tech-enabled real estate…
How vulnerable is Canada to cyberattacks?
One of the benefits of my job is that I get to talk to a lot of ‘people in the know’. Connected people. People that keep…
Raine Maida actually found a good use for Blockchain
Yes, that Raine Maida. I first had the opportunity to meet him in 2017. The Our Lady Peace frontman was preparing to launch…
Regulation prevents this Canadian startup from reducing farming herbicides by 90 percent
Today we talk to an AgTech company that is also kind of a cleantech company. Precision.ai uses artificial intelligence and…
When will Canadian tech stop paying peanuts?
As Canadian tech enters a hopeful summer, the BetaKit Podcast is bringing the heat with another listener AMA episode. “Can…
Ray Walia knows it’s Vancouver tech’s moment to lose
If you’re familiar with the Vancouver tech scene, then you know (or know of) today’s guest: Ray Walia. Walia is an investor…
SkyWatch raises $21 million CAD Series B as private sector satellite interest skyrockets
Waterloo-based space tech startup SkyWatch Space Applications has raised a $21 million CAD ($17.2 million USD) Series B round…
Why Heirlume wants to become the GoDaddy of trademark registration
While this isn’t a Black Swan episode, I still might scare the pants off some entrepreneurs. “It’s hearing those…
How Neo Financial plans to take on the Big Five banks from Calgary
Recently, BetaKit dropped a deep dive into the slow and troubled rollout of Open Banking in Canada. It caused… quite…
How Canadian tech companies go public
The last time I checked in with a podcast programming update, it was March of last year, I was self-isolating at home, and…