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BDC among those to experience interruptions as part of CrowdStrike outage
Plurilock CEO: Businesses are necessarily quick with cybersecurity patches, but rapid updates also come with risks.
Acel Power raises $13.6 million CAD to ramp up production of battery-powered boat motors
Startup plans to bring 150- and 250-horsepower motors to market in the fall.
Unbounce to merge with California-based Insightly following CEO change
The combined company will have more than 200 employees across Europe and North America, Unbounce says
Fifteen years after spinning out Hootsuite, Invoke gets with the Incrowd
How the digital agency founded by Ryan Holmes returned to its product-building roots.
Ocean Startup Project enters third phase with $8 million and economic growth goals
Canadaâs Ocean Supercluster wants to grow the nation’s ocean economy by a factor of five by 2035.
Summer camp for Canadian tech
Plus: Vena becomes Canadaâs latest centaur.
GPs and LPs at Startupfest expect gradual recovery with 2024 on pace to be worst for Canadian VC in a decade
Industry leaders expect more turnover, fundraising challenges for emerging managers.
After reaching $100 million USD in ARR, Vena becomes Canadaâs latest âcentaurâ company
Vena says it is benefitting from “strong, predictable growth.”
Swift Medical among the latest #CDNtech companies to appoint new leaders as industry executive turnover continues
Changes in top leadership also hit Faire, Kovo HealthTech, goeasy, CFI, and more.
Digital Innovation Cluster invests $15 million into AI megaproject from consortium of Canadian healthtech companies
Partners in the $44-million project include ORX, Well Health, Healwell AI, Tali AI, and Simon Fraser University.
Feds, BC invest nearly $73 million into Aspect Biosystems to establish biomanufacturing facility
The clinical facility aims to be the first dedicated to producing bioprinted tissue therapeutics in Canada.
Accessible transportation platform gives cities options to Spare
With growth financing from CIBC Innovation Banking, Vancouver-based transit solution will focus on AI integrations.
Tall Grass Ventures closes $32-million VC fund for early-stage Canadian AgTech startups
TGV sees room to be âtranslatorsâ and connect other investors to the AgTech sector.
Trader Corporation and Freelance.ca strengthen their online marketplaces through new acquisitions
Freelance.ca scoops up Workhoppers, while Trader purchases Collateral Management Solutions.