Web Summit Vancouver’s two wolves
Plus: What’s pushing Canadian companies back to the public markets?
SaaSpocalypse now? These founders don’t think so.
At Web Summit, founders see the future of SaaS embracing as agentic AI, rather than being destroyed by it.
Nuclear fusion powerplant could be running by 2035, General Fusion CEO says
The nuclear fusion company isn’t worried about going public as a pre-revenue company
Inside the Calgary medtech company born from one man’s determination to treat his own son
Saving Adam was the first mission. Selling the science is the next.
Feds announce $66 million for 44 businesses through AI Compute Access Fund
Program offers financial support to subsidize costs to commercialize or scale AI projects.
Web Summit Vancouver opens with tech’s biggest question: who owns the future?
Conference poses questions over the AI revolution, Canadian sovereignty, and the rules shaping what comes next.
“Steel, concrete, and code”: Feds and Telus announce three AI data centres in BC
Projects include upscaling existing Kamloops data centre and two new, Vancouver-based centres.
Vendasta levels up with European deal to roll out MARiO AI
Saksatoon startup working with Italy’s largest internet company.
Canada committed to real-time rail, aims to be a point of stability in an uncertain world, finance minister says
The minister spoke at Payments Canada Summit about modernizing the financial system.
OpenAI violated Canadian privacy laws, federal and provincial watchdogs say
Privacy commissioners say OpenAI broke the rules by scraping Canadian data to develop and train ChatGPT.
Moment Energy raises $40 million USD Series B to give used EV batteries new life
Company plans to use capital to expand manufacturing, hiring
Canada’s plan to ban crypto ATMs worries industry, advocates
Nearly 4,000 cryptocurrency ATMs are located across Canada.
Women’s Equity Lab Manitoba closes Fund 3 at $300,000
Fund reached full subscription in record time, maxing out in roughly a month.
PrairiesCan invests $7.9 million in funding to support Co.Labs, local AI firms
Funding was announced in Saskatoon at the Uniting the Prairies conference.
Cohere buys naming rights to Ottawa’s former EY Centre
Partnership will take effect on May 1 with rebranding rolling out in the coming weeks.