H|T: The Healthtech Times – AstraZeneca pays $2B for Hamilton biopharma firm
Plus: Neuralink’s first human subject shows off abilities on livestream.
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Ontario Budget 2024 tops up existing funds and innovation centres, allocates funding to healthtech procurement
Province hints that the OSC is developing new rules to support angel investors.
A|I: The AI Times – Cohere seeks big-time valuation despite small-time revenue
Plus: Canada’s underinvestment in computing threatens its AI advantage.
Initiatives from R-LABS, OCI call for a tech-first approach to solving Canada’s housing challenges
Ontario orgs commit to funding proptech, construction tech startups and projects.
Notman House is for sale. A startup-led effort wants to buy it back
Real estate startup Guiker is proposing a fractional ownership model to keep Notman House within Montréal’s tech community.…
Waabi to use Nvidia chip to power autonomous trucking solution
Toronto startup has also launched a model it says can reason in 3D space and time.
John Ruffolo has advice for Canada’s pension funds
Plus: CDPQ quietly shutters $250-million D&I fund.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Toronto biotech secures $2.2M to treat immune diseases
Plus: Healthcare startup Tempus preps for IPO.
CDPQ’S $250-million Equity 25³ Fund is done after only four investments
Diversity-focused fund’s architect left in December to launch his own $150-million fund.
R|T: The Retail Times – Loblaw is an everything company, and it isn’t done
Plus: Plenty of Fish founder Markus Frind catches new CEO gig.
With $45-million CAD Series B, PocketHealth gears up to continue North American expansion, AI push
Startup adds Round13, Deloitte, Samsung to fuel efforts to help patients understand their medical images.
WonderFi to acquire Australian crypto trading licence as “solid foundation” for international expansion
After buying up several regulated Canadian crypto exchanges, WonderFi eyes down under for growth.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Minerva chases anti-money laundering big leagues
Plus: Open banking framework is coming, but adoption? Not so soon.
Alberta gains on Québec in venture activity
Plus: BetaKit has the exclusive on two new Canadian AI-focused VCs.
Monadical launches Developer Capital to fund early-stage AI startups with help from its team of software devs
Montréal investment corp. has closed $2.5 million CAD, backing Unified.to and Rithmik.