Collision cancels 2020 in-person conference over COVID-19 fears
Collision, the major North American tech conference set to be held in Toronto for its second year, announced on Friday that…
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Dialogue partners with insurer Canada Life to offer virtual healthcare benefits
Montréal-based Dialogue is partnering with Canada Life, an insurance, wealth management, and benefits provider, to make virtual…
MindBridge acquires UK accountancy tech firm Brevis
MindBridge, the Ottawa-based artificial intelligence company working on risk detection for the FinTech space, has acquired…
LGBTQA+ tech conference Venture Out returns to Toronto this month
Venture Out, a tech and social impact conference centred on Canada’s LGBTQA+ community is returning to Toronto this month…
StandUp Ventures holds final close, secures $21 million for women-focused fund
StandUp Ventures, the Toronto-based seed-stage firm investing in women-led companies, has held the final close for its initial…
Montreal’s nGUVU acquired by customer experience software company Genesys
nGUVU, a Montreal-based tech startup that offers an employee engagement platform for contact centers, has been acquired by…
Capital Angel Network, Invest Ottawa announce new bootcamp for womxn founders
Capital Angel Network, a group of angel investors in the Ottawa-Gatineau region, and Invest Ottawa, the lead economic development…
Bow Valley College nursing students assess virtual patients in new lab
A new lab at Bow Valley College in downtown Calgary allows nursing students to identify respiratory conditions using a virtual…
Following $100 million raise, Semios receives $25 million from CIBC Innovation Banking
Semios, a Vancouver-based agri-tech company, has secured $25 million in growth capital financing from CIBC Innovation Banking.…
Mogo enters partnership, sells loan portfolio to goeasy for $31.9 million
Vancouver-based FinTech Mogo has announced a three-year lending partnership with alternative financing provider goeasy. The…
FinTech giant Brex opens first international office in Vancouver
San Francisco-based FinTech startup Brex, which offers business credit cards and cash management accounts to technology companies,…
Canada sees improvement from 2019 as eight Canadian startups appear on CB Insights’ AI 100
Eight Canadian artificial intelligence startups have made CB Insights’ AI 100, a marked difference from last year, which…
Techstars Startup Weekend gives Calgarians a taste of the startup life
Over 40 Calgarians spent this past weekend experiencing the twists and turns of entrepreneurship. The aptly-named Techstars…
Google’s new Kitchener-Waterloo accelerator reflects evolving commitment to Canada
Google has made a string of big bets on Canada in 2020. Last month, Google announced plans to expand and open three new offices…
Lightspeed hires company’s first chief people officer to help with international expansion
Montreal-based point-of-sale and e-commerce company Lightspeed has appointed Marty Reaume as its first chief people officer…