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Canadian Startup News
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Sidewalk Labs announces it will “no longer pursue” Quayside project
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ApplyBoard raises $100 million CAD, claims $2 billion ‘unicorn’ valuation
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Federal government commits additional $250 million in IRAP funding to support high growth startups
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Black Swan #2 – Performing layoffs in a pandemic
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Council of Canadian Innovators execs found not to have violated federal lobbying rules
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Canadian tech companies forced to act quickly in wake of COVID-19
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How Québec, New Brunswick provincial budgets could impact the tech sector
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Hamilton Lane pulls out of VCCI, leaving money on the table for the federal VC program
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Nudge.ai assets acquired less than two months after company shut down
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MACHINE LEARNING COULD BE CANADA’S EDGE IN THE GLOBAL QUANTUM COMPUTING ARMS RACE
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Clearpath Robotics raises $40 million CAD Series C for industrial robot division
Waterloo-based Clearpath Robotics has raised a $40 million CAD ($29 million USD) Series C round. The capital will be used to further expand the…
Canadian startup news of the week (5/31/20)
Welcome to BetaKit’s startup stories of the week! Here, you will find the week’s most important news, features, and editorials published on BetaKit. If…
Canadian angel groups mixed on capital availability in COVID-19 world
As COVID-19 forces angel investor groups to move their activities online, industry leaders have mixed views about the outlook for capital availability. BetaKit spoke…
MaRS shares tribute following the passing of IAF managing director Barry Gekiere
Barry Gekiere, the managing director for the MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF) and longtime member of the Canadian venture capital ecosystem, has died. He…
Creative Destruction Lab officially kicks off COVID-19 recovery program
Earlier this week, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) officially launched its new program, CDL Recovery, focused on transforming tech innovations to aid in the current…
15 percent of Canadian occupations to decline by 2030, says Brookfield Institute
Fifteen percent of Canadians are currently working in occupations projected to decline by the year 2030, while 19 percent are in occupations expected to…
Scale AI invests $10 million to create ten AI university chairs across Canada
Québec-based artificial intelligence (AI) supercluster Scale AI is investing $10 million to support the creation of at least ten university chairs dedicated to AI…
H|T: The Healthtech Times – The beginning of a revolution
The Healthtech Times is a weekly newsletter covering healthtech news from Canada and around the globe. Subscribe to H|T using the form at the…
BehrTech receives $3 million grant to build industrial IoT lab in Toronto
Toronto-based BehrTech, a startup that develops wireless connectivity products for the Internet of Things (IoT), has received a $3 million grant from a joint…
Element AI launches new collaborations in Singapore, South Korea
Element AI has launched two new artificial intelligence (AI) collaborations in Asia-Pacific, one with a South Korean investment advisory company, and the other with…
Atlantic Women’s Venture Fund launches inaugural fund, Danielle Graham joins as investment principal
The Atlantic Women’s Venture Fund (AWVF) has officially launched its inaugural fund as the group looks to address, head-on, the existing gender imbalance in…
Canadian startup Boss Insights helping American small businesses navigate PPP loans
Since launching in early April, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a COVID-19 relief initiative in the United States that provides small businesses with forgivable…