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Blair Health secures $4.2 million to make specialized women’s care more accessible

Toronto startup aims to power “specialist-level care without the specialist wait.”

Elevate transforms into Nrth Festival in opening-night rebrand

After nine years as Elevate, tech festival updates name to provide direction in an increasingly uncertain world.

TD’s Layer 6 and Cohere embark on $25-million AI collaboration

The Big Six Canadian bank has teamed up with the country’s LLM maker to boost AI adoption.

Bird&Be raises $13-million USD Series A for fertility support platform  

Toronto startup sells supplements and test kits for reproductive health.

University of Alberta launches regenerative medicine hub at Life Sciences Week

Hub will unite stakeholders from across healthcare value chain to accelerate treatment commercialization.

With new funding, Astrus prepares to automate one of the biggest bottlenecks in chip design

Khosla-backed startup uses reinforcement learning to tackle analog design problems.

Beacon buys New York’s Haize Labs to boost AI reliability across its portfolio

AI rollup firm aims to help its Main Street software businesses deploy AI they can trust.

The infrastructure tipping point for growing tech companies

Dedicatted explains how MSPs can take ownership of uptime and incident response as reliability demands increase.

Altis Labs raises $25 million USD Series A to expand AI for cancer trials

New funding will help build out a platform designed to detect treatment effects sooner.

Canada is leading by example in AI

Plus: Canada Rocket Company rises.

How the future of tech and Canada’s sovereignty are changing Elevate

CEO and co-founder Lisa Zarzeczny shares lessons learned from a near-decade of Elevate.

Cohere and OpenText partner on Canadian agentic AI stack for enterprises

At ALL IN, Cohere VP says the two companies are targeting a similar customer base. 

Aidan Gomez says Cohere won’t get into the business of making chips

Toronto AI company won’t follow competitors in pursuit of in-house semiconductors. 

Mila negotiating new federal funding after being tasked with open-source AI file

Solomon: “It’s in the tens of millions. It’s serious backing, and we’re backing Mila.”

OpenAI managing director says Canada an “obvious place” for data centre

George Osborne also praised the country’s efforts to solicit international investment and boost AI adoption.