F|T: The FinTech Times – Stripe’s $65B valuation indicates an IPO isn’t anytime soon
Plus: How Flinks is building middleware for open banking.
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Does corporate VC have an advantage in AI investments?
Plus: Omnirobotic reborn and Flinks moves in for the kill.
Middleware land grab: Flinks wants to kill screen-scraping and make APIs king
Montréal FinTech hopes to cement “special position” in North America’s financial ecosystem.
How money actually flows from VCs to startups
Capital call lines of credit are the instrument that allows VCs to manage their operations and administration.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Apple Vision Pro goes to the hospital
Plus: Abridge raises $150 million to increase the speed and accuracy of medical note-taking.
Jacob Homiller replaces co-founder Chris Stern as CarbiCrete CEO
Stern says he will remain with the company as a strategic advisor.
Bench IQ raises $2.8 million CAD in pre-seed funding with buy-in from Maple VC, Haystack
The minds behind Ross Intelligence are back.
R|T: The Retail Times – Temu and Shein’s success = air freighters’ stress
Plus: Shopify’s green strategy gamble, DeliveryHero abandons Foodpanda sale talks.
EdTech startup Tokidos secures $1.35 million CAD for screenless gaming console
Tokidos says it has more than $115,000 in pre-orders for its September launch.
A|I: The AI Times – Nvidia rides the AI wave to a $2-trillion valuation
Plus: Yoshua Bengio calls for deepfake regulations.
QueerTech acquires accelerator Gradient Spaces to support more 2SLGBTQ+ tech workers
According to QueerTech, less than one percent of venture capital deals go to Queer entrepreneurs.
F|T: The FinTech Times – BC court upholds ban on crypto mining, Sequoia backpedals Klarna ousting
Plus: Capital One’s blockbuster acquisition to protect itself from FinTech.
Is AI Canada’s productivity saviour?
Plus: Late-stage VC funding continues to drop, but seed-stage is Golden.
After Ecobee, Stuart Lombard has no regrets
Ecobee’s ex-CEO and President on building consumer hardware in Canada and what comes next.
As crypto market bounces back, Balance reachieves $2 billion in assets under custody
Balance relocated its headquarters from Toronto to Calgary at the end of January.