Can Canada find digital sovereignty in the Fediverse?
At FediMTL, advocates say growing the social web is vital to combating Big Tech.
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As vacancies rise, Padder aims to insure rent payments for tenants who may not fit the traditional mould
Former Zensurance employee looks to bring “guarantor-as-a-service” offering to Ontario.
CoeusAI establishes Dutch HQ after landing major offshore energy gig
Kitchener-Waterloo cleantech startup tapped to help Netherlands with North Sea Energy program.
L-Spark completes its first cohort as a corporate accelerator
Executive director sees more to do after eight companies make inroads to telecom giant Mitel.
Alberta-made robots are helping keep this Vancouver shipyard safe
Confined Space Robotics partners with Seaspan Shipyards to make working in tight spaces less dangerous.
Business leaders urge Ottawa to extend employee ownership tax incentive
Short-lived tax break encouraging founders to sell to employees is set to expire this year.
New trade association aims to give domestic SMBs a shot in Canada’s “defence renaissance”
For those about to defend, there’s a new ACDC in town.
A16z speedrun alum General Magic secures $7.2 million USD to make calling your insurance company less of a slog
Toronto startup’s AI agents communicate with customers through text message.
Loop aims to make screen-scraping obsolete for business accounts
Toronto FinTech targets enterprise accounts as it waits for open banking.
Neo Financial partners with United Airlines to launch credit card
The fintech company beat out several larger banks to land the deal.
Court filings reveal Sheertex maker’s steep losses ahead of insolvency
While tariffs helped bring the apparel innovator down, SRTX was already struggling to scale.
Canada’s tech talent crunch is about access, not availability
At Vancouver panel, industry leaders say talented workers aren’t getting matched to opportunities.
Sluggish growth, lost value: what decades of data reveal about Canada’s early-stage funding gap
NACO and Startup Genome report argues that Canada’s tech ecosystem lost $66 billion USD in value.
What I learned from trying to buy only Canadian tech
In 2017, I tried to build a company using only Canadian tech. Here’s what’s changed a decade later.
Canadian Bitcoin Consortium launches insurance company for digital asset businesses
Blockchain Insurance Inc. says it’s “traditional insurance for non-traditional industries.”