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Madison McLauchlan

Madison McLauchlan (she/her) reports on tech and innovation for BetaKit from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. You can reach her (in French or English) at madison.mclauchlan@betakit.com or on Signal at madisonmcla.12.

Lightspeed completes year one of transformation plan with revenue beat, earnings miss

May 21, 2026

Retail tech firm focuses on key markets with share price down 20 percent on the year.

Trane and BrainBox AI open Montréal lab to cut energy waste in buildings

May 20, 2026

Companies say emissions cut from AI systems will offset enviornmental cost of running AI.

Historic Marconi name returns as Canadian investors launch defence tech firm

May 20, 2026

Former National Bank CEO chairs new company hoping to capitalize on federal defence spending.

Kritik is equipping profs for the AI “arms race” coming to classrooms

May 19, 2026

Ex-Top Hat founder’s edtech startup sells peer-grading and AI software to university professors.

Xanadu CEO Christian Weedbrook

Xanadu reports larger net loss than expected, but quadrupled revenue in first public earnings report

May 14, 2026

Company eyeing the “big prize” of a Toronto-based quantum data centre by 2029.

Telecom software startup Gaiia secures $40-million USD Series B round

May 14, 2026

Québec City spin-out of Oxio sells software for challenger telecoms.

Ex-Hugging Face, Salesforce leaders partner on AI sustainability venture

May 13, 2026

Sustainable AI Group aims to help enterprises manage AI’s environmental impact.

Rave takes fight with Apple over App Store removal to Canada’s Competition Tribunal

May 12, 2026

Ontario startup also pursuing legal action in the US, Brazil, the Netherlands, and Russia.

Shopify sign

Shopify posts strong Q1 revenue growth, but stock still falls on slow growth forecast

May 5, 2026

E-commerce giant posted loss of $581 million USD due mainly to equity investments.

AI ethical concerns roughly as important to Canadians as economic growth, analysis shows

April 27, 2026

We analyzed the more than 11,300 submissions informing feds’ AI strategy.

In AI, it’s US vs. the world

April 27, 2026

Plus: This Canadian company almost hired an AI candidate.

OpenTable gobbles up Canadian market share with Libro acquisition

April 22, 2026

Montréal restaurant reservation startup to continue as standalone brand.

Q&A: Behind the scenes of Cohere’s new AI transcription model

April 20, 2026

Cohere senior staff product manager unpacks open-source speech-to-text AI model.

Wealthsimple partners with Elon Musk’s X for direct stock trading via social media

April 15, 2026

Stock tickers on X posts will now link to FinTech’s trading platform for Canadian users.

Kepler to lead testing of European Space Agency’s high-speed data network

April 15, 2026

Toronto firm helped architect the first phase of the HydRON project.

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