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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.

Outgoing Velocity incubator head Adrien Côté is bullish on Waterloo’s tech future

May 7, 2025

Velocity’s interim director says the university’s emerging startup community is “growing exponentially.”

OpenText makes AI “number-one priority” as company slashes 1,600 jobs

May 6, 2025

Enterprise software giant detailed 10-point AI mandate in internal email to employees.

Exterra secures $20-million Series A to turn mining byproducts into decarbonization gold

May 6, 2025

Cleantech company hopes to open Québec asbestos mitigation plant by 2027.

Cohere Labs head calls “unreliable” AI leaderboard rankings a “crisis” in the field

May 2, 2025

Cohere-led study claims popular crowd-sourced leaderboard LM Arena tipped scales for Google, OpenAI.

Quebec Tech

Québec Tech highlights hardtech in latest scaleup cohort with international ambitions

April 30, 2025

Stage V program aims to turn startups into “true scaleups” with tailored support.

“Hard work lies ahead”: Canadian tech leaders strike urgent tone on policy asks following Liberal victory

April 29, 2025

Domestic procurement, boosting business investment key issues for Carney government, industry groups say.

Québec grants Centech $4.5 million to boost deep tech, medtech commercialization

April 28, 2025

Puzzle Medical, Eli Health graduated incubator-accelerator program run out of École technologique supérieure.

Frank And Oak selling brand, closing all stores following second insolvency filing

April 23, 2025

Embattled retailer with ties to Montréal tech set to shutter stores on May 18.

Latest Google for Startups Accelerator cohort makes AI de facto entry requirement

April 22, 2025

Montréal-based companies lead the pack of B2B SaaS startups selected for 10-week program.

At World Summit AI, cautious tone of researchers drowned out by cutthroat adoption race

April 21, 2025

Cohere says first movers on AI agents will gain “competitive advantage.”

yoshua bengio

Yoshua Bengio warns of “catastrophic risks” of agentic AI at World Summit AI

April 16, 2025

Deep neural networks trailblazer recommends building non-agentic AI programs without goals of their own.

Enterprise AI companies announce hiring spree for Montréal AI talent

April 16, 2025

Toronto-based Alexa Translations draws on local talent to power new translation LLM.

Cohere doubles down on agentic search capabilities with new Embed 4 model

April 15, 2025

Agents will continue to be an important part of enterprise AI adoption, Cohere told BetaKit.

Xaba aims to make industrial robots smarter with $8-million CAD seed extension

April 14, 2025

Low-code software serves as a robot’s “synthetic brain,” according to the company.

Puzzle Medical raises $43 million to pursue clinical trial of less-invasive device for patients with heart failure

April 10, 2025

Second Series A round co-led by family office of former Liberal leadership candidate Frank Baylis.

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