Québec is executing its innovation plan. Will it pay off?
Unpacking the province’s targeted bets at Startupfest 2024 with MAIN’s Louis-Felix Binette.
Podcasts
Hosted by Douglas Soltys, the BetaKit Podcast features weekly episodes discussing Canadian tech and global tech from a Canadian perspective.
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Why Gen X and Gen Z both want keyboards on their smartphone
Can a ragtag team of ex-BlackBerry employees and fanboys bring mobile keyboards back with Clicks?
This deep tech PE firm was drawn to Canada by the data
Paris-based Jolt Capital was shocked by the investment opportunities in Canada.
How Web Summit Vancouver came to be with Casey Lau
Web Summit’s co-host is full of optimism about Vancouver’s place on the global tech stage.
WWDC: Did Apple just kill your AI company?
Apple’s riskiest decision in years might be catching up in AI too soon.
How Dax Dasilva plans to get Lightspeed to $1 billion in revenue
Dax is back: why he stepped down, then returned, as the company he founded approaches its 20th birthday.
Can this Canadian company make a splash in plant-based fish?
New School Foods is fishing to do the impossible… better than Impossible.
Xanadu’s Christian Weedbrook is raising another $200 million to build a quantum data centre
The CEO of Canada’s quantum unicorn is very optimistic about the country’s innovation potential.
Gradient Ventures’ Darian Shirazi on where AI value will accrue
A wide-angle view on the state of AI from the VC firm backing Lambda and CentML.
Tobi Lütke finally comes on the BetaKit Podcast
Shopify CEO discusses Canadian innovation, policy, courage, and ambition.
How Simple Ventures plans to fill a gap in Canadian entrepreneurship
Rachel Zimmer discusses the power of geographical arbitrage and the current impediments to Canadian entrepreneurship.
Wealthsimple and Koho CEOs talk productivity, entrepreneurship, and financial innovation
Two of Canada’s FinTech leaders tell founders to “get back to work.”
#Budget2024 emergency pod: spoiling for a fight
Canadian tech’s trust battery for the feds’ approach to innovation policy has drained.
What made you first love tech?
A pure nostalgia pod unpacking the gadgets, media, and moments that brought us to tech.
Is Québec Canada’s quantum province?
Quantacet managing partner Martin Laforest joins to discuss quantum tech’s “degrees of sexiness.”