Kritik is equipping profs for the AI “arms race” coming to classrooms
Ex-Top Hat founder’s edtech startup sells peer-grading and AI software to university professors.
Canadian Startup News
SaaSpocalypse now? These founders don’t think so.
At Web Summit, founders see the future of SaaS embracing as agentic AI, rather than being destroyed by it.
Inside ventureLAB’s bid to bring AI to Ontario’s critical industries
The Critical Industrial Technologies initiative helps Ontario’s SMEs move from working pilot to working business.
Quantum startup Nord Quantique secures $1.4-billion USD valuation
Québec-based company is one of Canada’s leaders in quantum computing.
Nuclear fusion powerplant could be running by 2035, General Fusion CEO says
The nuclear fusion company isn’t worried about going public as a pre-revenue company
Xanadu reports larger net loss than expected, but quadrupled revenue in first public earnings report
Company eyeing the “big prize” of a Toronto-based quantum data centre by 2029.
How Alberta solved its nurse licence bottleneck with homegrown tech
Punchcard Systems is helping to cut public sector red tape.
Feds back new group embedding graduate researchers with Canadian companies
TICAN will work with firms to identify R&D challenges, then find grads who can solve the problem.
CMC Microsystems picks 11 winners for $10.7-million edge computing challenge
Funding comes through FABrIC network, which aims to grow Canada’s advanced semiconductor capabilities.
Goldman Sachs to acquire Canadian data centre platform QScale
QScale founders will continue to run the business, which will keep its Québec headquarters.
Telecom software startup Gaiia secures $40-million USD Series B round
Québec City spin-out of Oxio sells software for challenger telecoms.
Clio tops $500 million USD in ARR as AI reshapes the legal market
CEO Jack Newton sounds off on revenue inflation and weathering the SaaSpocalypse.
Inside the Calgary medtech company born from one man’s determination to treat his own son
Saving Adam was the first mission. Selling the science is the next.
Ian Crosby is back with a new accounting startup for the agentic AI era
Three-time Canadian founder raises $10 million USD for San Francisco-based Synthetic.
Top Down closes VC fund aimed at “invisible infrastructure” of the global economy
Vancouver firm beats $25-million USD target for fund backing early-stage MSP and AI startups.