R|T: The Retail Times – SkipTheDishes gets a new CEO…again
Plus: Sobeys pays more than expected for cyber-breach.
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A|I: The AI Times – OpenAI unveils GPT-4 as Google-backed Anthropic launches Claude
Plus: How did Siri, Google, and Alexa lose their lead?
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Magnet Forensics proxy advisors split on takeover
Is Meta slowing down on Canadian hires post-layoffs?
BC suffered biggest year-over-year venture funding drop among all Canadian ecosystems in 2022
Investment in the province’s tech startups fell by 67 percent in 2022.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Signature Bank collapse another blow to crypto
Plus: SVB Canada forced into liquidation, paving way for auction
Canadian startup news of the week (3/19/23)
Plus: Québec and Alberta tech investment bucked 2022 trends.
Venture funding surged in Québec and Alberta tech sectors over 2022, bucking national trend
Alberta and Québec investment increased by 89 percent and 21 percent, respectively.
Dwindling tech deal volume remained a thorn in the Waterloo Region’s side in 2022
Venture funding in Waterloo Region dipped from 2021 peak, but still surpassed pre-bull market years.
Toronto venture funding saw a “return to sanity” in 2022
Toronto tech startups raised a collective $3.7 billion through 154 deals in 2022.
Canadian tech hubs not immune to downturn as Communitech lays off 10 percent of workforce
Innovation hub sees second significant staff reduction since 2019 provincial budget cuts.
BC venture funding fell to a seven-quarter low in Q3 2022
Investor sentiment goes from FOMO to fussy as deal volume falls to three-year low.
Alberta’s tech winter arrived late but in earnest in Q3 2022
2022 has still already surpassed the previous three years in Alberta venture funding.
Québec venture funding faced a perfect storm in Q3 2022
A flurry of headwinds pummeled Québec’s tech sector into its lowest investment quarter in three years.
Graphite Ventures appoints Omi Velasco as principal to lead Western Canada deals
Graphite now has local investment team members in Calgary, Waterloo, Ottawa, and Toronto.
Waterloo Region venture deal volume continued to slump in Q3 2022
Early-stage deals were nowhere to be found. So what comes next?