Bird to launch dockless e-scooter in Canada this summer
Bird, an electric scooter sharing company based in Santa Monica, California, is bringing its dockless e-scooters to Canada…
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Quebec’s Scale AI supercluster announces first four supply chain projects
The Quebec-based Scale AI Supercluster, one of five members of the federal government’s Innovation Superclusters Initiative,…
Fellow.app closes $8.58 million CAD to scale co-pilot tool for managers
Fellow.app, an Ottawa-based SaaS company, has closed an $8.58 million CAD ($6.5 million USD) Seed round to build out a cloud-based…
Blockchain API startup Dfuse raises $4.5 million CAD in oversubscribed funding
Montreal-based Dfuse, a startup that aims to help web developers build high-performing applications through blockchain, announced…
Startup Canada Podcast: Building a Freelance Business with Paul Jarvis
Paul Jarvis is an entrepreneur and author who believes in the power of one, and that bigger isn’t always better when it comes…
BlackBerry partners with LG to accelerate deployment of autonomous vehicle technology
To advance the deployment of its connected and autonomous vehicle technology, phone manufacturer turned SaaS company BlackBerry…
Ann Cavoukian still has problems with Sidewalk Labs’ approach to data with Quayside
In Sidewalk Labs’ Master Innovation and Development Plan (MIDP), released Monday, the Alphabet company echoed its assurances…
BenchSci’s total funding reaches $27 million as Gradient ups investment
Toronto-based BenchSci, an AI biomedical startup, has raised approximately $6.7 million CAD in financing, bringing its total…
Carbon Engineering secures $25 million from government to capture, reuse CO₂
Carbon Engineering (CE), a cleantech company based in Squamish, BC, has received a $25 million investment from the federal…
Protein Industries Supercluster second cluster to announce projects
The Prairies-based Protein Industries Supercluster, one of five members of the federal government’s Innovation Superclusters…
Felix launches digital health platform following $750,000 Seed round
Felix Health Inc., a Toronto-based healthtech offering access to treatments for common lifestyle health issues, has launched…
Google to double the size of its Kitchener-Waterloo engineering office
Google is reportedly gearing up to more than double the size of its engineering office in Kitchener-Waterloo. The Waterloo…
Microsoft, VCGA launch tech education lab in Vancouver’s Chinatown
Microsoft has teamed up with the Vancouver Computer Graphic Society (VCGA) to host tech programming, workshops, and mentor-led…
The three e-commerce game changers announced at Shopify Unite 2019
Ryan Petrimoulx is BetaKit’s e-commerce expert. We sent him to Shopify Unite to report back with his thoughts on the…
Vancouver cleantech Inventys closes Series C at $34 million CAD
Vancouver-based cleantech Inventys has officially closed its Series C round with an investment of $13 million CAD, bringing…