Neo Financial joins Canada’s unicorns as Peter Thiel’s Valar triples down with $185 million round
Wealthsimple had Paul Desmaris to fuel its growth; Neo has Peter Thiel.
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CFIN, Ontario Genomics reveal winners of cumulative $900,000 for food innovation research
Winners aim to replicate the taste, feel, and smell of meat without any meat.
Boundless Life secures $2 million seed round to help families transition to digital nomad lifestyle
Boundless claims no competition, targeting aspiring digital nomads with children.
Q4 Inc. records 23 percent YoY revenue growth, halves net losses in Q1 2022 earnings
CEO attributes Q4’s strong Q1 to tech investments, focus on existing customers.
PayTic raises $2.95 million to help banks, credit unions centralize program management
PayTic wants to remove Excel spreadsheets from payment reconciliation.
Visier makes first acquisition, acquiring Yva.ai’s tech and team to expand understanding of how employees work
Visier plans to parlay deal into new collaboration analytics product.
Tailscale closes $128 million CAD Series B to scale VPN service, amass more developer evangelists
Amid a sea of top-down network security solutions, Tailscale’s bottom-up approach is paying dividends.
Alberta government launching internal AI lab powered by AltaML
The government calls this the first public AI lab in Alberta.
Untether AI secures $1 million for partnership with General Motors
Untether and General Motors on a mission to help cars see better using AI.
Pocketed co-founders pocket $25,000 prize money in pitch contest for women entrepreneurs
Pocketed, which helps businesses find grants, gets granted with $25,000.
Innovate BC opens applications for startups to receive up to $300,000 for R&D
Innovate BC’s Ignite program has awarded 34 projects with a cumulative $8.5 million.
Sprout.vc closes initial $10 million for second Western Canada-focused seed fund
Sprout.vc aims to sow seeds for more B2B software startups to grow.
Loop Energy, Acuva, CORE Energy receive collective $13.4 million in federal cleantech funding
The BC cleantech companies are meant to create 169 jobs backed by this investment.
Innovation Guelph awarded $10 million from federal government for cleantech program
Businesses can receive up to $30,000 to bring tech to market.
Think Research posts record 438 percent revenue increase in Q4 2021 following acquisitions
Think Research saw 178 percent YoY rise in revenue, nearly tripled net loss last year.