When will Canadian tech stop paying peanuts?
byAs Canadian tech enters a hopeful summer, the BetaKit Podcast is bringing the heat with another listener AMA episode. “Can…
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Ray Walia knows it’s Vancouver tech’s moment to lose
byIf you’re familiar with the Vancouver tech scene, then you know (or know of) today’s guest: Ray Walia. Walia is an investor…
Why Heirlume wants to become the GoDaddy of trademark registration
byWhile this isn’t a Black Swan episode, I still might scare the pants off some entrepreneurs. “It’s hearing those…
How Neo Financial plans to take on the Big Five banks from Calgary
byRecently, BetaKit dropped a deep dive into the slow and troubled rollout of Open Banking in Canada. It caused… quite…
How Canadian tech companies go public
byThe last time I checked in with a podcast programming update, it was March of last year, I was self-isolating at home, and…
Why banks and VCs are optimistic about 2021
byCanada’s VCs are exhausted. It takes a lot of energy to deploy so much capital. This week on the podcast we have Matt…
The startup powering pandemic food deliveries explains the rise of ghost kitchens
byWe’ve all found a new delivery favourite during the pandemic. But is your new favourite restaurant… real? “We’ve…
How COVID-19 changed Canada’s biotech sector
byCanada’s biotech sector has been exploding, with good reason given the events of the last year. “Innovation and…
Why won’t the Ontario government help BookJane vaccinate the province?
byI’m not going to lie: this will be a frustrating episode to hear if you live in Ontario. Today we speak with Curtis Khan,…
Matthew Lombardi explains the new OneEleven’s new focus
byIn April of last year, Toronto tech hub and incubator OneEleven abruptly shut down, with its board citing COVID-19 as the reason.…
How Flinks plans to beat Plaid on its own turf
byValley-based FinTech unicorn Plaid has been in the news a lot lately, after a $5.3 billion sale to Visa fell through in January,…
From pivot to IPO with Canada’s pizza king, General Assembly CEO Ali Khan Lalani
byIn the last year, a Toronto pizza place raised a $13 million Series A before filing to go public on the Toronto Stock Exchange.…
Will Canadian tech regret the move to remote-first?
byIncredibly, this episode marks one year of Black Swan on the BetaKit Podcast Channel. So, what do we do to celebrate? “I…
The new battlefront between Shopify and Amazon
byOver the course of the Black Swan podcast series, we’ve tracked how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted specific industries…
InteraXon knows what the pandemic did to our brains
byThere are lots of different ways to measure the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, we speak to a company about what they’ve…