Dispersa closes $5.8 million to turn food waste into chemicals for everyday products
Cleantech startup’s seed round was financed entirely by Canadian investors.
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CMD Capital halts fundraising amid “tough” VC market
Experienced early-stage VCs say the “timing and context are wrong for us to raise a first-time fund.”
Who are Canadian tech’s most ambitious?
Plus: BDC commits $1B as megadeals keep Canadian VC funding afloat.
How is Canadian tech responding to the trade war?
Did someone poke the beaver and unleash Canada’s quiet patriotism? A 3-2 overtime hockey win says yes.
Koru helps unlock innovation in the classroom
Toronto’s tech community comes together to celebrate five years and solve real problems for Ontario schools.
Ocean innovator and Kraken Robotics founder Karl Kenny passes away at age 64
Kenny founded numerous Atlantic Canada tech companies before retiring in 2022.
Certn and Quadshift secure capital from BDC Capital’s topped-up funds
Funding follows apparent departure of Certn president less than a year into the job.
BDC Capital targets late-stage tech companies with nearly $1 billion in new fund commitments
Investment bank’s Growth Venture Fund will now directly invest in Canadian tech companies.
Glassbox announces $1.65 million in funding to “reimagine the spreadsheet” for corporate finance
Ex-investment banker aims to help former peers build financial models faster with AI.
A piece of Canadian tech history just expired
Plus: Cohere sued for alleged copyright infringement.
Musk eyes OpenAI, Shopify’s Kanye problem, and a Canadian startup at the Super Bowl
Test your knowledge of Canadian tech news with The BetaKit Quiz for Feb. 14, 2025.
Clio donates $3 million to create new innovation hub at the University of British Columbia
Space will serve as the formal Vancouver home of Creative Destruction Lab.
Canada looks to strike balance between AI innovation and regulation at Paris AI Summit
Trudeau’s likely last AI policy contributions come as the EU and US grow further apart.
Major media companies sue Cohere for alleged copyright infringement
Toronto Star, Condé Nast, Vox part of group alleging Cohere unfairly copied, used their content.
Photonic claims breakthrough in quantum computing error correction
Company paper claims a new code family can perform quantum operations with lower physical qubit requirements.