H|T: The Healthtech Times – AbCellera denies patent infringement, Waystar eyes $8B valuation
Plus: Truepill moves to cut share price by 90 percent.
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R|T: The Retail Times – TikTok to remove its Storefront integration, Instacart officially files for IPO
Plus: Hopper scores Air Canada partnership with embedded FinTech.
A|I: The AI Times – Tiger Global’s share sale puts Cohere at a $3 billion valuation
Plus: A new Canadian generative image startup gets $22.3 million.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – BlackBerry has an interested buyer
Plus: Google faces executive turnover as the company searches for a new identity.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Better.com’s stock tanks, Ramp officially closes $300M at valuation haircut
Plus: Hopper’s embedded FinTech offerings are now half of its app revenue.
AI, cleantech stay hot as mega-deals carry Canada to second-largest Q2 on record
Plus: MindBridge founder Solon Angel joins Fresh Founders as managing partner.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Medtech funding expected to rise throughout 2023
Plus: Peloton launches new approach to B2B service.
R|T: The Retail Times – Instacart is planning an IPO for as soon as September
Plus: Amazon wants you to pay with your palm.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Ex-Salesforce VP claims company lied about data platform capabilities
Plus: Athennian navigates scaleup growing pains with layoffs, leadership changes.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Canadian FinTech investment drops to pandemic lows
Plus: PayPal gets new CEO, Coinbase looks to be long-term leader in Canada.
Athennian feels growing pains as Coinbase looks to grow into a Canadian crypto leader
Plus: FinTech vertical sluggish as investors worry over economy.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk buys Montréal’s Inversago for $1 billion
Plus: US Senator questions ethics of Google’s Med-PaLM 2.
R|T: The Retail Times – Amazon reduces private-label operation as it battles costs, regulators
Plus: FinTech platforms are leaning more heavily on buy now, pay later.
A|I: The AI Times – Stability AI’s lead threatened by key departures, CEO concerns
Plus: OpenAI launches webcrawler as Zoom promises it won’t use your videos to train AI tools.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Only one Canadian company made Bessemer’s Cloud 100 list
Plus: Canadian SaaS companies have acquisition fever.