Elevate, The Firehood reveal first cohort of 37 startups in new incubator for women entrepreneurs
Some participants already backed by The Firehood, such as Ora, Permalution, PragmaClin.
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Aptum promotes CloudOps founder to CEO following January acquisition
The company is revamping leadership as it looks to capitalize on AI-driven demand for multi-cloud solutions.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Ex-Salesforce VP claims company lied about data platform capabilities
Plus: Athennian navigates scaleup growing pains with layoffs, leadership changes.
Magnet Forensics acquires digital-media startup Griffeye to help investigate child abuse online
Griffeye claims its platform is used by over 1,000 police agencies globally.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Canadian FinTech investment drops to pandemic lows
Plus: PayPal gets new CEO, Coinbase looks to be long-term leader in Canada.
Athennian feels growing pains as Coinbase looks to grow into a Canadian crypto leader
Plus: FinTech vertical sluggish as investors worry over economy.
Horizn acquired by US conversational AI firm Inbenta
Deal will add Horizn’s interactive product demos to Inbenta’s platform.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk buys Montréal’s Inversago for $1 billion
Plus: US Senator questions ethics of Google’s Med-PaLM 2.
FinTech vertical sluggish as investors worry over economy, KPMG report says
FinTech valuations are the weakest since COVID-19 hit in the first half of 2020.
Coinbase says it wants to be a long-term leader in Canada’s crypto market
With “regulatory clarity” and a new country director, Coinbase says it’s ready to grow in Canada.
Canadian startups NLPatent, BorderlessHR, Monark accepted into Google’s Women Founders accelerator
Three startups represent Canada in a cohort of 11 North American companies.
Founders of VendorPM, Shakudo, Moment Energy among C100’s 2023 fellows
C100 also appointed PointClickCare CEO Mike Wessinger, Kijiji founder as co-chairs.
R|T: The Retail Times – Amazon reduces private-label operation as it battles costs, regulators
Plus: FinTech platforms are leaning more heavily on buy now, pay later.
Innerspace reveals $10-million Series A round to scale workspace utilization tech
Innerspace uses offices’ existing Wi-F infrastructures to gather occupancy data.
A|I: The AI Times – Stability AI’s lead threatened by key departures, CEO concerns
Plus: OpenAI launches webcrawler as Zoom promises it won’t use your videos to train AI tools.