BetaKit - Canadian Startup News & Tech Innovation - Part 3

Canadian Tech & Startup News

Professor Larry Smith speaking

By BetaKit June 27, 2025

What I Learned: Larry Smith

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group of students on stage with a Canadian flag

By Georgia Berg June 27, 2025

Socratica’s IRL revolution is powered by the love of making

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BetaKit Town Hall: Most Ambitious

By Alex Kinsella June 26, 2025

BetaKit Town Hall showcases Canadian ambition at home and abroad

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BetaKit Most Ambitious Core Devices

By BetaKit June 26, 2025

This time, Eric Migicovsky won’t let anything get in his way

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BetaKit Most Ambitious: The Category Challengers

By Vass Bednar June 25, 2025

Building Canada requires competition

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Deep Sky Alpha

By BetaKit June 25, 2025

Phil De Luna thinks Canada is the perfect place to store the world’s carbon

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Latest

LeddarTech bankruptcy filing reveals $146 million in debts to Québec, BDC, and other backers

Jon Fingas June 27, 2025

Autonomous driving firm warns that shareholders won’t recoup much value.

Larry Smith, University of Waterloo

What I Learned: Larry Smith

BetaKit June 27, 2025

Legendary University of Waterloo professor shares wisdom gained from a half-century of studying entrepreneurship.

Socratica’s IRL revolution is powered by the love of making

Georgia Berg June 27, 2025

Georgia Berg on how the student-run organization makes space for messy.

Techstars founder Brad Feld says you should give more without knowing what you’ll get back

Alex Riehl June 27, 2025

Feld shared how a personal philosophy begets richer mentorship at an intimate TechTO event during Toronto Tech Week.

What making music taught David Usher about running an AI startup

Madison McLauchlan June 27, 2025

Four-time Juno winner taps into digital immortality with his startup Reimagine AI.

BetaKit Town Hall: Most Ambitious

BetaKit Town Hall showcases Canadian ambition at home and abroad

Alex Kinsella June 26, 2025

Over 500 people packed Convocation Hall to hear from Canadian innovators tackling big problems.

Gev Marotz

Why smart companies are using fractional design studios

Isabelle Kirkwood June 26, 2025

Former Wealthsimple product lead offers a new model for UI, UX, and brand development.

9Bio Therapeutics’ Philipe Gobeil wants to “resurrect” clinically validated cancer therapies that failed due to toxicity

Josh Scott June 26, 2025

Québec biotech startup is developing a platform for designing drugs that target tumours and spare healthy tissues.

Sonder co-founder Francis Davidson departs after seeing through Marriott deal

Alex Riehl June 26, 2025

Outgoing CEO said orchestrating the Marriott integration was “the hardest thing” he’d ever done.

NiaHealth raises $5.75 million as it hopes to become a household name in preventative healthcare

Alex Riehl June 26, 2025

Rapidly growing healthtech startup has majority of its backing from Canadian investors.

This time, Eric Migicovsky won’t let anything get in his way

BetaKit June 26, 2025

A decade after the death of Pebble, the company’s founder is still chasing his dream smartwatch.

Lucy Hargreaves presents at Toronto tech week

Build Canada appoints Lucy Hargreaves to CEO as tech think tank expands mandate

Alex Riehl June 26, 2025

Policy platform will open-source its projects and fund Canadian initiatives.

Geoffrey Hinton says AI companies resistant to “regulations with teeth” in lively debate with Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst

Madison McLauchlan June 25, 2025

Nobel laureate and his former protégé headline public debate on AI at Toronto Tech Week.

“Light, tight, right” regulation: Minister Evan Solomon unpacks how Canada plans to support domestic AI and quantum computing

Josh Scott June 25, 2025

Solomon says Canada must keep quantum industry and IP in Canada at CDL Super Session talk.

portrait of late CEO of Equitable Bank Andrew Moor

Canadian FinTech community mourns Equitable Bank CEO Andrew Moor

Jon Fingas June 25, 2025

Executives from Wealthsimple, Borrowell, and others remember leader and open banking advocate.

The BetaKit Podcast

Homecoming 2025 panel

Bluesky's Aaron Rodericks at BetaKit Town Hall

BetaKit Most Ambitious: Telling the story of what's possible

Jill Earthy Web Summit Vancouver

Upper Bound 2025

Homecoming 2025 panel

Bluesky's Aaron Rodericks at BetaKit Town Hall

BetaKit Most Ambitious: Telling the story of what's possible

Jill Earthy Web Summit Vancouver

Upper Bound 2025

Podcast

‘Ambition made in Canada’ with Shopify, Cohere, and Wealthsimple

by Douglas Soltys

Harley Finkelstein, Aidan Gomez, and Mike Katchen dismiss the ‘Valley or bust’ myth.

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What keeps Bluesky’s head of trust and safety up at night?

by Douglas Soltys

Aaron Rodericks is a Canadian working out of Dublin. His mission? Help the world find joy online.

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Telling the stories of Canadian tech’s Most Ambitious

by Douglas Soltys

Your director’s commentary companion to BetaKit’s first-ever print issue.

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InBC’s Jill Earthy knows Canadian VC “could be healthier”

by Douglas Soltys

Provincial Crown Corp. CEO talks wake-up calls, early-stage investment, and InBC’s future fundraising plans.

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Amii CEO Cam Linke says Canada’s AI strategy requires customers

by Douglas Soltys

The head of Alberta’s AI institute talks literacy, adoption, and commercialization at Upper Bound.

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