BetaKit’s secret plan for 2026
Plus: 2025 was the worst year for Canadian VC fundraising in a decade.
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The year Canada’s young entrepreneurs decided to leave
Plus: Groq’s staggering Nvidia deal has strong Canadian connections.
Canada’s largest VC reports for duty
Plus: Canada launches its own quantum research program to rival DARPA initiative.
Humi’s co-founder loved being acquired and never wants to do it again
Plus: She tried to bring Silicon Valley’s tech energy to Vancouver. Why did she leave for the US instead?
Jim Balsillie wants an urgent response to Trump’s new doctrine
Plus: Clio takes Alexi to court over database at the centre of billion-dollar vLex deal.
Is the feds’ FDI approach “toxic” for Canadian tech?
Plus: How Dozr went from a building boom to receivership.
Inside Ottawa’s cautious experiment with an AI-powered digital help desk
Plus: It’s ‘Valley or Bust’ for Canada’s young entrepreneurs.
Sonder collapses, SaaS is dead, and Clio gobbles up vLex
Plus: Meet BetaKit’s new managing editor.
The story Budget 2025 tells to Canadian tech
Plus: Xanadu to go public in $3.6-billion USD SPAC deal.
What will Budget 2025 offer Canada’s innovation economy?
Plus: Wealthsimple hits $10-billion valuation with new funding.
The feds are picking Canadian tech winners through MOUs
Plus: Aidan Gomez says Cohere could IPO “soon.”
Gen Z wants BlackBerry back. Why?
Plus: Open banking details expected in #Budget2025.
Canadian VC movement and AI at Elevate
Plus: OpenAI teases Canadian office.
Canada must not ignore its innovation problems
Plus: Feds launch Defence Investment Agency.
The feds are ALL IN on AI
It was a good week to be Canada’s AI darling. One day after the company announced another $100 million USD in funding to…