Fonds de solidarité FTQ makes $1 billion annual investment commitment
Montreal-based VC Fonds de solidarité FTQ has announced it will invest $1 billion CAD a year, over three years, to support…
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Canadian Growth Hackers: Exact Media’s Elena Armstrong on how retailers break through the noise
In this series, brought to you by Toronto-based native advertising tech company StackAdapt, Vitaly Pecherskiy meets with the…
Montreal-based AEPONYX closes $7.9 million CAD Series A
AEPONYX, a Montreal-based micro-optical switch provider, has closed a Series A financing of $7.9 million CAD, led by Pangaea…
Learn how tech leaders navigate the user experience era at #FutureMakers March 27
This March, RBC’s FutureMakers Talks series will look at how businesses build products at a time when user experience (UX)…
Sci Innovation Competition returns to Toronto for third year
The Canadian branch of the China (Shenzhen) Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, an event aiming to help foreign innovation…
St. John’s-based Genesis announces $775,000 micro fund for early-stage companies
The Genesis Centre has announced the launch of its $775,000 Genesis Micro Fund, to provide grants of up to $20,000 to approximately…
Emissions Reduction Alberta announces $100 million for cleantech projects
The Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) has announced 16 projects that will receive $100 million CAD in funding through its BEST…
Kelowna tech company receives $595,000 to develop sailing safety app
The Government of Canada is making an investment of $595,000 in LRC Consulting Solutions, a technology company from Kelowna,…
NXM Labs invests in Ryerson University’s cybersecurity research lab
Ryerson University’s Cybersecurity Research Lab (CRL) has secured funding from NXM Labs, a security and data integrity…
Culture of equality key driver in workplace innovation, report finds
In Canada, employees’ willingness and ability to innovate is nearly six times higher in companies with a robust culture…
Irish taxi software company secures Téo Taxi’s former R&D team, opens Montreal office
iCabbi, an Irish automated taxi booking company, has acquired the research and development team of the now-defunct all-electric…
OrbCare secures $2 million seed funding for healthtech software
OrbCare, a healthtech company based in Toronto, has announced the close of its seed funding round, raising $2 million in equity…
Nova Scotia invests $2 million in pilot program preparing students for province’s tech sector
The government of Nova Scotia has announced a six year pilot program, to be launched September 2019, designed to help students…
DocuSign expanding Canadian presence, announces headquarters in Toronto
DocuSign, a San Francisco-based company that provides e-signature technology, has announced the opening of its first Canadian…
Fredericton-based Eigen Innovations receives $800,000 government funding
Eigen Innovations, an AI-based IoT software company, has received $800,000 in funding from the federal government’s Atlantic…