R|T: The Retail Times – Hopper makes deep staff cuts, pulls back from Asia to pursue profitability
Plus: Canada looks at limiting number of Airbnbs to free up rentals.
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A|I: The AI Times – Anthropic in talks to raise another $2B, a16z discussed backing Midjourney rival
Plus: Samsung to manufacture chips from AI chip startup Tenstorrent.
Vendasta closes $20-million Series E to fund acquisitions, converts existing debt into equity
Foundry partner Brad Feld joins board, sees Vendasta as a “natural consolidator” of B2B SaaS firms.
BetaKit Live: Bridging the cybersecurity gap for SMBs
Hear from Mastercard, Digital Main Street, and Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst leaders on October 17.
Federal government announces first VCCI inclusive growth stream VC fund recipients
BKR Capital, District Ventures Capital, Ripple Ventures, Sandpiper Ventures, The51 receive portion of $25 million.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Cardata gears up with new funding, BlackBerry plots connected-car split
Plus: Qualtrics lets go of 780 workers.
Boston-based Haemonetics announces intent to acquire OpSens in healthtech deal worth $345 million CAD
OpSens said acquisition will provide the company with a global sales channel.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Canada’s open banking lead extends his term as delays continue
Plus: Clearco recapitalizes, WonderFi eyes Nasdaq.
Ecosystem fears SDTC funding gap, FinTechs rally against open banking delays
Plus: Hugging Face’s Sasha Luccioni on tracking the ethical and environmental impacts of AI.
Hugging Face’s Sasha Luccioni on tracking the ethical and environmental impacts of AI
Hugging Face’s Climate Lead thinks data sharing can help make AI “less bad for the planet.”
WonderFi files SEC registration statement as crypto firm eyes Nasdaq listing
CEO called the move “an important first step” towards US expansion.
Fivetran is hiring software engineers, VPs, and product managers for its data movement platform in Canada
The California-based SaaS firm is hiring remote and Toronto-based positions.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Andre De Grasse is in a race to fund health startups
Plus: VC interest in fertility continues with $20M Series A for Pollin.
Lemurian Labs secures $9 million in seed funding to expedite AI workloads at a lower cost
CEO says company can bring down the power consumption of AI models by 10-times.
Pine acquires Properly to capture more of the Canadian home-buying process
Digital mortgage firm aims to build the former proptech into Canada’s top real estate website.