R|T: The Retail Times – Instacart reportedly pulling IPO plans
Plus: Does Shopify have a customer retention problem?
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A|I: The AI Times – Can this Element AI co-founder fix the Internet?
Plus: Google in talks to invest $200 million into Cohere.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Microsoft makes more—quiet—staff cuts
Plus: BetaKit takes over SAAS NORTH stage in November.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Wealthsimple achieves a Canadian FinTech first, plots new products
Plus: Mastercard to help make crypto trading easier.
Canadian startup news of the week (10/23/22)
Plus: Meet Alberta’s new innovation minister.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Is Noom doomed?
Plus: 26 Canadian tech startups added to list of firms on path to $1 billion in annual revenue.
R|T: The Retail Times – Rapid grocery apps fail to deliver
Plus: Instacart Cuts Internal Valuation Third Time.
A|I: The AI Times – Ontario’s new IP czar, Montréal’s new AI hub
Plus: Shinydocs, Encircle, Proto receive cumulative $7.5 million from FedDev Ontario.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Miovision, Auvik piling up the acquisitions
Plus: Google faces EU antitrust charges over adtech business.
F|T: The FinTech Times – FinTech startups say what’s happening in Canada is “not normal”
Plus: Abraham Tachjian says open banking work “absolutely” on track.
Canadian startup news of the week (10/17/22)
Plus: Payments Canada delays Real-Time Rail payment system launch (again).
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Can a hackathon build ArriveCan for less than $54 million?
Plus: Digital health funding in Q3 slides to 2019 levels.
R|T: The Retail Times – Shein’s value dips, Lightspeed taps Google alum
Plus: Amazon freezes corporate hiring in retail business.
A|I: The AI Times – Gatik and Loblaw give Canadians driverless deliveries
Plus: US said to plan new limits on China’s AI and supercomputing firms.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – TikTok pushes for growth, Elon pushes for Twitter… again
Plus: L-SPARK selects six startups for latest B2B SaaS accelerator cohort.