Reverb Therapeutics closes $17-million seed round led by Amplitude Ventures
Reverb looks to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases with its antibody modification platform.
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Kraken Robotics emerges from the deep to take top spot on 2025 TSX Venture 50 list
The mining sector dominated the list, with a combined 12 tech companies making the cut.
Ocean innovator and Kraken Robotics founder Karl Kenny passes away at age 64
Kenny founded numerous Atlantic Canada tech companies before retiring in 2022.
The data behind smart US expansion
The C100’s Geoff Baum on the mistake most startups make when heading south.
Megadeals kept Canadian VC funding afloat in 2024: report
Clio’s historic Series F round prevented Canada’s VC funding totals from dropping six percent year-over-year.
Certn and Quadshift secure capital from BDC Capital’s topped-up funds
Funding follows apparent departure of Certn president less than a year into the job.
Local leaders launch Toronto Tech Week to accelerate city’s ambitions
New annual event financially backed by City, Google Cloud, and Shopify, with support of over 40 community partners.
BDC Capital targets late-stage tech companies with nearly $1 billion in new fund commitments
Investment bank’s Growth Venture Fund will now directly invest in Canadian tech companies.
Glassbox announces $1.65 million in funding to “reimagine the spreadsheet” for corporate finance
Ex-investment banker aims to help former peers build financial models faster with AI.
Toronto and Waterloo Region orgs get $34 million in FedDev funding
Accelerator Centre, TIAP, OBIO, and University of Waterloo among supported organizations.
Clio donates $3 million to create new innovation hub at the University of British Columbia
Space will serve as the formal Vancouver home of Creative Destruction Lab.
Canada looks to strike balance between AI innovation and regulation at Paris AI Summit
Trudeau’s likely last AI policy contributions come as the EU and US grow further apart.
PrairiesCan doles out $6.7 million to help four Edmonton companies scale and expand into new markets
Levven Electronics, Care Group, Demir Engineering, and Grengine to benefit from latest federal funding.
Major media companies sue Cohere for alleged copyright infringement
Toronto Star, Condé Nast, Vox part of group alleging Cohere unfairly copied, used their content.
Photonic claims breakthrough in quantum computing error correction
Company paper claims a new code family can perform quantum operations with lower physical qubit requirements.