CVCA spotlights women leaders across Canadian venture capital, private equity
Investors from Brightspark and Yaletown lauded for excellence in Canadian VC.
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H|T: The Healthtech Times – Canadian pharmaceutical research spending dropped in 2022
Plus: Myanmar Molecular seeks Health Canada approval.
Ziing acquires Metroland Parcel Services from TorStar
Ziing looks to expand its Canadian delivery network with second acquisition this year.
Three Canadian startups earn spots in Google’s latest Women Founders accelerator cohort
MedReddie, SkyAcres, and Nimble Science represent Canada in the class of 2024.
R|T: The Retail Times – Thrasio raised $3 billion. Now it’s filing for bankruptcy.
Plus: US resistance has Shein eyeing UK to IPO.
Canadian tech leaders back new venture studio Simple Ventures
Wealthsimple, Shopify, Ada, Knix execs part of contingent backing studio run by CEO Rachel Zimmer.
A|I: The AI Times – Cohere will cover its customers sued for copyright violations
Plus: Six months after launch, Toronto’s Ideogram secures $80 million.
Tenstorrent founder reveals new AI chip startup Taalas with $50 million in funding
Startup says one of its chips can hold an entire large AI model without requiring external memory.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Stripe’s $65B valuation indicates an IPO isn’t anytime soon
Plus: How Flinks is building middleware for open banking.
These tech companies are hiring machine learning engineers in Canada
Autodesk, Electronic Arts, and BenchSci are looking to beef up their AI teams.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Apple Vision Pro goes to the hospital
Plus: Abridge raises $150 million to increase the speed and accuracy of medical note-taking.
Bench IQ raises $2.8 million CAD in pre-seed funding with buy-in from Maple VC, Haystack
The minds behind Ross Intelligence are back.
R|T: The Retail Times – Temu and Shein’s success = air freighters’ stress
Plus: Shopify’s green strategy gamble, DeliveryHero abandons Foodpanda sale talks.
Midjourney competitor Ideogram closes $80-million USD Series A as it launches latest text-to-image model
The fundraise comes just six months after its $22.3-million seed round.
Canadian-founded Power closes $16.3-million CAD Series A to connect patients with clinical trials
Power claims over 600,000 patients used Power to discover clinical trials last year.