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Diagram and Real Ventures-backed Breathe Life acquired by US insurtech SE2

SE2 says Breathe Life’s Montréal HQ “creates springboard” for tech talent expansion.

Plus: How NFTs might change music and gaming.

CEOs think deal could mark step towards crypto consolidation, DeFi regulation.

Hardbacon is focused on acquisitions that help users bring home the bacon.

Mogo attributes most of loss to drop in value of Coinsquare warrants.

Latest budget commits to research, innovation, and life sciences.

ShopThing lets you shop for things via someone else’s live stream.

How trips to São Paulo, London, and Hong Kong sold Kanata Ventures on Canada.

Plus: Virtual Gurus closes $8.4 million amid US demand for diversity-focused virtual assistants.

Tiggy, Booxi, and SmartONE are some of the 11 startups joining this year.

The appointment to come almost a year after its recommendation from the Advisory Committee on Open Banking.

Pivot in 2020 turned reseller into fast-growing payments FinTech.

Inside the province-wide push to make BC a global leader in cleantech

NDP noted Alberta attracted less venture capital last year than provinces like Ontario, BC, Québec.

Canada explores digital currency as Biden calls for US to examine its own options.