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By BetaKit June 27, 2025

What I Learned: Larry Smith

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By Georgia Berg June 27, 2025

Socratica’s IRL revolution is powered by the love of making

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BetaKit Town Hall: Most Ambitious

By Alex Kinsella June 26, 2025

BetaKit Town Hall showcases Canadian ambition at home and abroad

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BetaKit Most Ambitious Core Devices

By BetaKit June 26, 2025

This time, Eric Migicovsky won’t let anything get in his way

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BetaKit Most Ambitious: The Category Challengers

By Vass Bednar June 25, 2025

Building Canada requires competition

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Michelle Scarborough, Managing Partner, BDC Women in Tech fund

Michelle Scarborough out at BDC Capital after eight years leading women-focused funds

Madison McLauchlan June 30, 2025

Scarborough led investments through the Women in Technology Fund and Thrive Venture Fund.

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Canada pulls Digital Services Tax to avoid stalling US trade negotiations

Jon Fingas June 30, 2025

CVCA, academics, and business groups had urged ditching the tax to prevent US retaliation.

Nvidia acquires Canadian AI efficiency startup CentML

Alex Riehl June 30, 2025

Nvidia rival AMD also acquired Canadian AI firm Untether earlier this month.

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Clio to acquire Spanish-American legaltech vLex for $1 billion USD

Alex Riehl June 30, 2025

vLex offers an extensive legal and regulatory database alongside an AI-powered assistant.

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The Winnipeg founder who answered a crisis

Jacqueline Loganathan June 30, 2025

Rob Ranson built a pandemic solution in three days. His latest product has NATO’s attention.

Cohere’s Aidan Gomez says acquisition is “failure”

Douglas Soltys June 30, 2025

Plus: Everything you need to know about Toronto Tech Week and BetaKit Most Ambitious.

Toronto Tech Week pickleball

Meeting people is easy at Toronto Tech Week

Kelsey Rolfe June 27, 2025

What do cold plunging and pickleball have to do with tech? We sent our Chief Fun Correspondent to find out.

Bridgit’s Mallorie Brodie explains why Canadian startups need to think globally from the start

Josh Scott June 27, 2025

Brodie unpacks Bridgit’s pivot, mitigating risk in construction, and looking up to Axonify, Knix, and Jane.

Klue office

Klue lays off 40 percent of staff as startup faces internal and external AI pressure

Josh Scott June 27, 2025

BC software firm restructures to become “AI-first” amid rising competition from DIY solutions.

LeddarTech bankruptcy filing reveals $146 million in debts to Québec, BDC, and other backers

Jon Fingas June 27, 2025

Autonomous driving firm warns that shareholders won’t recoup much value.

Larry Smith, University of Waterloo

What I Learned: Larry Smith

BetaKit June 27, 2025

Legendary University of Waterloo professor shares wisdom gained from a half-century of studying entrepreneurship.

Socratica’s IRL revolution is powered by the love of making

Georgia Berg June 27, 2025

Georgia Berg on how the student-run organization makes space for messy.

Techstars founder Brad Feld says you should give more without knowing what you’ll get back

Alex Riehl June 27, 2025

Feld shared how a personal philosophy begets richer mentorship at an intimate TechTO event during Toronto Tech Week.

What making music taught David Usher about running an AI startup

Madison McLauchlan June 27, 2025

Four-time Juno winner taps into digital immortality with his startup Reimagine AI.

BetaKit Town Hall: Most Ambitious

BetaKit Town Hall showcases Canadian ambition at home and abroad

Alex Kinsella June 26, 2025

Over 500 people packed Convocation Hall to hear from Canadian innovators tackling big problems.

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Marcelo Cortes, Faire

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BetaKit Most Ambitious: Telling the story of what's possible

Jill Earthy Web Summit Vancouver

Upper Bound 2025

x402 Payment Flow: AI Agent ↔ AP IServer ↔ Blockchain

Marcelo Cortes, Faire

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Telling the stories of Canadian tech’s Most Ambitious

by Douglas Soltys

Your director’s commentary companion to BetaKit’s first-ever print issue.

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InBC’s Jill Earthy knows Canadian VC “could be healthier”

by Douglas Soltys

Provincial Crown Corp. CEO talks wake-up calls, early-stage investment, and InBC’s future fundraising plans.

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Amii CEO Cam Linke says Canada’s AI strategy requires customers

by Douglas Soltys

The head of Alberta’s AI institute talks literacy, adoption, and commercialization at Upper Bound.

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The Canadian engineer trying to fix the internet’s original sin

by Douglas Soltys

Coinbase’s Erik Reppel thinks AI, crypto, and open standards could revolutionize internet commerce.

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Why Faire’s co-founder wants to bring Silicon Valley’s DNA to Canada

by Douglas Soltys

Faire’s Chief Architect fell in love with Canada. Now he’s selling his new home to the rest of the world.

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Half of the internet is bots and they’re feeding you lies

by Douglas Soltys

AI-powered disinformation is taking over the internet. Calgary-based Koat.ai is tracking it in real time.

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