Canadian healthtech company Deep Breathe bags top prize at US Army’s xTechInternational 2024
Portable ultrasound diagnostics startup takes home $95,000 after winning pitch competition in Spain.
Canadian Startup News
Bitfarms and Riot continue public squabble leading up to October shareholder meeting
Riot encouraged shareholders to “seriously question” timing of recent Stronghold acquisition.
Canadian Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence closes $1 billion USD in funding
Startup co-founded just three months ago is reportedly valued at $5 billion USD.
Round13, Nvidia-backed Wombo announces $12.2-million CAD to launch more generative AI apps
After surviving collapsed fundraise and class-action, Wombo contends with copyright concerns as it funds for growth.
The most important work in tech is happening on-chain
BetaKit Talks: You Don’t Know Crypto will take place on Sept. 24, presented by WonderFi.
Executive director Michael Buhr wants C100 to help Canadian tech startups scale
C100 announces 38 Canadian tech firms in new growth and latest early-stage cohorts.
Six Canadian universities among PitchBook’s 2024 top 100 schools for founders
University of Waterloo tops list of Canadian post-secondary institutions that produce future founders.
Recon Instruments’ co-founder wants to advance autonomous driving systems with latest venture Matt3r
Hamid Abdollahi believes his startup has found the “k3y” to develop safer autonomous vehicles.
Report: Québec venture ecosystem still “highly dependent” on public and para-public funding
Réseau Capital analysis reveals that only a handful of managers can successfully attract private funding.
Can Canadian FinTech woo the customers that banks have left behind?
Plus: Shopify has a new CTO, Benevity has a new CEO, and Sagard poached from Georgian.
A100, HaloHealth, InterGen get federal funding boost to help commercialize Alberta tech
Alberta startups earned a slight edge over BC in venture funding for the first half of 2024.
Carbon6 acquires American firm Junglytics to provide AI tools for Amazon sellers
Junglytics’ platform provides Amazon sellers with data analysis through a “GPT-style” interface.
Here’s what will make or break the next wave of Canadian IPOs
Mia Morisset of Inovia Capital explains how the go-public goalposts have shifted since 2021.
Technology complicated travel. FlightHub is simplifying it
How a Montréal venture is rebundling travel.
QueerTech among 17 organizations selected by feds to deliver $8-million 2SLGBTQI+ Ecosystem Fund
“Who you are and whom you love shouldn’t hurt your business,” says small business minister.