Bench had a crazier holiday break than your startup
Bench acquired by Employer.com three days after abrupt Dec. 27 closure.
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Fiserv to acquire Payfare in $201.5-million CAD deal after swiping its DoorDash business
Pending transaction follows Payfare’s share price plummet and strategic review in September.
#CDNtech’s 2025 Resolutions: Founders
Canadian founders on their habits, bets, and banned buzzwords for 2025.
#CDNtech’s 2025 Resolutions: VCs
Canadian VCs on their habits, bets, and banned buzzwords for 2025.
The biggest Canadian tech stories of 2024
Plus: Check your SR&ED history for a potential post-holiday windfall.
Why Round13 Capital is betting on venture debt
Following unsuccessful bid for SVB Canada’s assets, Round13 wants to target underfunded startups with TIMIA.
Koho rolls out AI tool to help investigate fraud and scams
FinTech startup not yet confident about generative AI in customer-facing products.
Fall Economic Statement brings more delays for open banking in Canada
Feds up FCAC commitment but push open banking rollout to 2026, with several legislative hurdles to overcome.
Feds struggle to table Fall Economic Statement following Minister Freeland’s shock resignation
Mini-budget with many tech commitments comes during a day of chaos on the Hill.
Liberals’ Fall Economic Statement contains more promises to Canadian tech
Plus: Geoffrey Hinton receives his Nobel Prize, delivers a warning.
Alberta Enterprise Corporation launches Accelerate Fund IV with $15 million to back early-stage tech startups
First close from AEC brings Fund IV more than halfway to its $25-million target.
Cyder closes $1.5 million to fuel launch of loyalty platform for credit unions
FinTech startup’s backers include MaRS IAF, Aperture, Desjardins, Arlene Dickinson.
Foreign and domestic AI with Tenstorrent and Cohere
Plus: Canada Post strike didn’t slow Shopify’s BFCM weekend.
Stability and speed: Mastercard’s partnership with Koho
How a FinTech startup migrated towards the future of banking.
Why Hopper might be the next Canadian tech company to play the secondary game
Plus: Canada sues Big Tech.