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Meet the Y Combinator Winter 2024 cohort startups with Canadian roots

W24 participants include Senso, DraftAid, AgentHub, GovernGPT, Datacurve, and more.

After launching in PEI and Newfoundland in January, Willful now serves all 10 provinces.

Plus: Notman House is for sale. A startup-led effort wants to buy it back.

Province hints that the OSC is developing new rules to support angel investors.

Real estate startup Guiker is proposing a fractional ownership model to keep Notman House within Montréal’s tech community.…

Plus: CDPQ quietly shutters $250-million D&I fund.

Plus: Healthcare startup Tempus preps for IPO.

Diversity-focused fund’s architect left in December to launch his own $150-million fund.

Plus: Plenty of Fish founder Markus Frind catches new CEO gig.

Plus: Canada may be losing ground in AI research race.

After buying up several regulated Canadian crypto exchanges, WonderFi eyes down under for growth.

Plus: MDF Commerce agrees to go private, but some shareholders raise a fuss.

BC startup offers tech aimed at improving fish welfare, mitigating ecosystem damage.

Plus: Open banking framework is coming, but adoption? Not so soon.

Plus: BetaKit has the exclusive on two new Canadian AI-focused VCs.