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Megadeals kept Canadian VC funding afloat in 2024: report
Clio’s historic Series F round prevented Canada’s VC funding totals from dropping six percent year-over-year.
Local leaders launch Toronto Tech Week to accelerate city’s ambitions
New annual event financially backed by City, Google Cloud, and Shopify, with support of over 40 community partners.
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.
Photonic claims breakthrough in quantum computing error correction
Company paper claims a new code family can perform quantum operations with lower physical qubit requirements.
How TD moved petabytes of data to the cloud with Microsoft and Accenture
The migration that rewrote the data playbook of one of Canada’s largest banks.
Canadian tech looks to support its own against US tariff threat
Tariff trackers, startup directories, and Buy Beaver apps are the latest fronts in the Canada-US trade war.
GTMfund closes $54-million USD Fund II to back more early-stage Canadian B2B SaaS startups
Vancouver VC firm plans to grow its Canadian team, invest more in Canada via Fund II.
Canadian tech is up against a ticking tariff clock
Plus: Canadian tech leaders launch Build Canada.
Federal government launches $175.1 million Canadian Genomics Strategy to advance sector commercialization
Funding for strategy first announced in Budget 2021 to be dispensed over seven years.
Mangrove Lithium secures $50.4 million to construct lithium refining plant in British Columbia
Company claims facility will produce enough battery-grade materials annually to power 25,000 EVs.
Sound Blade closes $23.8-million Series A for ultrasound tech targeting liver tumours
Halifax-based startup says tech selectively destroys tumour tissue in non-invasive procedure.
Accelerating software that helps the helpers
How AWS helps Jane scale practice management for allied health clinics worldwide.
To survive tariffs, Canadian startups need plans “A through D”
Plus: Shopify quietly kills Indigenous Entrepreneurship program.
QueerTech launches new 2SLGBTQIA+ accelerator and names Virtual Gurus’ Bobbie Racette board chair
The program launch follows QueerTech’s acquisition of Gradient Spaces last year.