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Isabelle Kirkwood

Isabelle Kirkwood

Isabelle is a Vancouver-based writer with 5+ years of experience in communications and journalism and a lifelong passion for telling stories. For over two years, she has reported on all sides of the Canadian startup ecosystem, from landmark venture deals to public policy, telling the stories of the founders putting Canadian tech on the map.

How Mycroft scaled to over 100 customers without a playbook

February 19, 2026

CEO Mike Kim shares the battle scars earned building his cybersecurity startup.

Josh Ogden thinks Canada’s drone industry can gain some altitude 

February 6, 2026

AVSS wants to show that keeping IP and manufacturing in Canada can still work.

The cloud myth holding Canadian companies back

February 4, 2026

Unicorne’s Éric Pinet reveals three habits that separate resilient cloud teams from expensive ones.

The startup bringing a piece of America’s FinTech stack to Canada

February 2, 2026

Slate’s embedded lending infrastructure was purpose-built for Canada.

Rachel Clark is taking on cybersecurity’s scalability problem

January 28, 2026

Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst’s Cyber Challenge is helping bring machine-speed security to mining.

What CIBC is seeing inside AI’s fastest deals

January 22, 2026

Investor insights from CIBC’s Daniel Lee and Amy Olah.

Here’s what’s actually driving Canada’s M&A market

January 21, 2026

Fasken’s Exit InSights study rethinks the conventional wisdom on Canadian tech exits.

Uber Eats

Made from scratch: Toronto tech leaders reflect on 10 years of building Uber Eats

January 15, 2026

The inside dish on how a global food delivery platform was built, tested, and scaled out of Toronto.

What five years of Canadian tech exits signal for founders heading into 2026

January 9, 2026

Fasken’s Exit InSights Study points to an exit window that appears earlier than most founders expect.

“There is a huge gap in the innovation space”

January 6, 2026

Investor Darren Clifford sees the strongest market signals coming from a warming world.

Canadian small business

The pressure points shaping payments in Canada

December 30, 2025

Three problems Canadian merchants keep naming, and how Mastercard built a platform around them.

FinOps has become the new superpower for CFOs

November 27, 2025

Unicorne’s Éric Pinet on how to avoid the spiraling costs of cloud services.

“A shared mission.” CIBC Innovation Banking backs Vessel, modernizing the funds it finances

November 12, 2025

Montréal-based Vessel finds an institutional partner with a common vision.

Canadian startups meet with Canada’s Consul General in Dubai

November 11, 2025

Canada Startup Association delegation designed to accelerate relationships in the region.

Profitual-no-pitch

Profitual’s No-Pitch Competition will award $10,000 to the startup with the strongest financial model

November 6, 2025

This competition asks founders to drop the pitch and show their numbers.

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