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Boosted.ai raises $20.9 million CAD to grow AI investment manager platform

New tool Alfa is “essentially an AI coworker that users can train to think like them.”

“I’m using failure with intent today, because I don’t want to be ashamed of saying failure.”

Marie Chevrier Schwartz explains how her company lost product-market fit after a decade in business.

Wealthsimple confirms secondary deal values Toronto FinTech firm at $5 billion.

Toronto Western Hospital is the exclusive Canadian surgical site for the experimental brain implant.

Web3 startup aims to help stablecoin issuers after the “carnage” wrought by Terra’s 2022 collapse.

New CEO Marie Chevrier Schwartz sees Peerscale as the “graduating class of the TechTO ecosystem.”

Fifty percent of venture firms surveyed by BDC Capital have no women senior investors.

Deal expected to expand Jiffy’s service to more Canadian markets.

With its new AI safety institute, Canada aims to study the technology’s risks and collaborate with other countries.

Plus: Neo’s backers, Wealthsimple’s value, and Shopify’s concerns.

Six years in the making, UW’s startup incubator has a new home in the Innovation Arena.

Hike to $2.2 billion reflects rise in public markets, Wealthsimple’s performance, and an upcoming secondary deal.

Mike Moroz will head the division supporting the province’s tech industry and modernizing public services.

Managing partner attributes success in a tough environment to its returns, committed anchor, and consistency.