QuĂ©becâs 2022 budget heavy on R&D, light on addressing tech talent shortage
Latest budget commits to research, innovation, and life sciences.
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Live shopping marketplace ShopThing secures $10 million Series A round
ShopThing lets you shop for things via someone elseâs live stream.
With the spotlight shining on Canadian tech, Kanata Ventures wants international startups to become part of the story
How trips to SĂŁo Paulo, London, and Hong Kong sold Kanata Ventures on Canada.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly â The Pepsi to Indeed’s Coke
Plus: Virtual Gurus closes $8.4 million amid US demand for diversity-focused virtual assistants.
Google reveals second cohort of Canadian cloud accelerator
Tiggy, Booxi, and SmartONE are some of the 11 startups joining this year.
PwC digital banking director Abraham Tachjian to be named Canada’s open banking lead
The appointment to come almost a year after its recommendation from the Advisory Committee on Open Banking.
Bootstrapped since 2008, Helcim raises $16 million for Stripe-style payment solution
Pivot in 2020 turned reseller into fast-growing payments FinTech.
Canadian startup news of the week (3/20/22)
Inside the province-wide push to make BC a global leader in cleantech
Alberta NDP tables bill to create new provincial venture fund for tech
NDP noted Alberta attracted less venture capital last year than provinces like Ontario, BC, Québec.
Bank of Canada to collaborate with MIT on digital currency research project
Canada explores digital currency as Biden calls for US to examine its own options.
Wisedocs closes $4.1 million to bring medical document analysis to âentireâ insurance ecosystem
Wisedocsâ âbread and butterâ is helping insurance orgs work with medical records.
Inside the province-wide push to make BC a global leader in cleantech
Faced with increased problems from climate change, cleantech stakeholders believe BC should think bigger still.
Scribble Data closes $2.2 million to help data science teams train machine learning models
Scribble Data aims to dip into Torontoâs machine learning talent pool.
Canadian startup news of the week (3/13/22)
Why Clio and Trulioo are choosing M&A over IPO.
Clio and Trulioo say not now to IPOs as CEOs discuss unicorn M&A strategies
Clio CEO says IPO window is closed, and âprobably goneâ for 2022.