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.
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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.
F|T: The FinTech Times – FinTech platforms are leaning more on buy now, pay later
Plus: Desmarais family quietly reshapes a financial empire.
OMERS Ventures exits Europe while Pinegrove looks to scoop up discount startups
Plus: 1Password only Canadian company to crack 2023 Cloud 100 list.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – How Y Combinator decides which health care startups are worth a shot
Plus: Silofit closes its doors, VoxNeuro raises $4.5M to scale brain performance.
R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify and Lightspeed bring positive earnings to pessimistic markets
Plus: Uber is finally making money after years of losses.
A|I: The AI Times – Canadian AI chip manufacturer closes $100M from global backers
Plus: Luge Capital’s David Nault on making investment decisions through the AI hype cycle.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Atlassian & Cloudflare score big, Zoom sends employees back into the office
Plus: Uber finally makes a profit.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Neo Financial goes all-in on partner credit cards, US regulators worry of Binance bank run
Plus: National Bank acquires Silicon Valley Bank’s Canadian commercial loan portfolio.
Canadian startup struggles continue with more layoffs, shutdowns
Plus: Do Canadian entrepreneurs take risks?
R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify adds new merchant tools, loses long-time VP
Plus: Shein makes an aggressive pitch to woo US Amazon sellers.