What Alberta Innovates learned from sending 50 local startups to SXSW
Alberta startups go global at the world’s largest tech conference.
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What’s in #Budget2024 for Canadian tech?
All eyes in Canadian tech are on AI, open banking, cleantech, and… taxes?
Shein’s Canadian delivery partner UniUni secures nearly $70 million CAD
The last-mile service secured just over $45 million CAD in Series B funding last year.
As FinTech sector anticipates open banking in Budget 2024, Payments Canada reveals no Real-Time Rail until at least 2026
Payments Canada did not share when it hopes to officially launch the RTR payment system.
Untether AI to collaborate with semiconductor giant Arm on smart vehicle solutions
Untether says its energy efficient architecture is needed to support next-gen vehicles.
Vidyard rolls out AI avatars after securing funding from EDC and existing backers
With AI Avatars, Vidyard aims to facilitate “personalized video communications at scale.”
Business leaders urge feds to require public pension funds to invest at home
Feds’ proposal to encourage more domestic investment risks compromising funds’ mandates, detractors say.
As tech talent crunch persists, Indeed’s Iain Hamilton on how companies can fill seats faster
With talent in the driver’s seat, finding the right candidates has become a tougher hunt.
These global tech giants are recruiting Canadian workers
Shopify, Mastercard, Autodesk are seeking software, data engineers.
Electronics startup SmartD Technologies powers up with $14.2-million Series A
Startup looks to reinvent motor control with Clean Power VFD.
WordPress owner acquires Eric Migicovsky’s messaging app Beeper following spar with Apple
Under Automattic’s wing, Beeper aims to continue building “the best chat app on Earth.”
Pinterest is on a Toronto hiring spree to scoop up AI talent
CTO Jeremy King says company aims to use AI and ML to make Pinterest more “shoppable.”
CleanBC program investigation prompts fear of provincial startup fallout from cleantech and grant experts
“The first people that lose out are the companies [that] the program was set up for.”
Avidbots launches Kas, a smaller cleaning robot targeting new markets
Avidbots has slimmed down for hot bot summer.
Riskthinking.AI selected by OSFI to provide financial institutions with climate risk data
Exercise aims to encourage FIs to adopt sound climate risk management practices.