A|I: The AI Times – Unpacking 10 years of AI funding
Plus: Are we running out of data to train language AI?
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Avatar Innovations targets $3 million for new decarbonization tech fund
Avatar has secured Cenovus Energy as its lead investor.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Can at-home nursing alleviate hospital crowding?
Plus: Will Sextech survive the tech downturn?
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – What’s old is new again: Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny
Plus: Google employees have a bad feeling mass layoffs are coming.
AgTech startup Ground Truth secures $4 million to improve grain analysis for farmers
Seed round: startup’s technology will allow farmers to make sound investment decisions.
Nortel alum-turned-mystery novelist combines her tech and writing background with Fictionary
Fictionary’s $1.8 million round one of the first investments out of BDC’s Thrive Venture Fund.
Ada, 1Password, and Scotia Digital are all looking to hire engineers right now
Engineers are still in demand despite the downturn.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced for fraud
Plus: Canadian tech layoffs continue.
Potential Motors, Chinova Bioworks, Introhive feted at New Brunswick innovation awards ceremony
Nine awards handed out at the first InnovateNB awards event.
How Acuva balances global growth with local impact to provide clean drinking water
Acuva’s handheld LED-UV lights purify water around the world (and in Canada).
OMERS Ventures’ Laura Lenz says “ego raising” is over in #CDNtech
VC says “there’s blame on both sides” for the lack of fundamentals in 2021.
Federal government’s Climate Action and Awareness Fund invests $58 million into 24 cleantech projects
Volkswagen fines fuel climate projects at Canadian universities.
Wiseday enters Canada’s digital mortgage space with “instant” pre-approval process
Wiseday is led by RenoRun, Hopper, Ssense, Ubisoft, Nesto alumni.
A|I: The AI Times – With a new robot and fresh funding, Attabotics CEO says “the hard part’s done.”
Plus: Raquel Urtasun’s Waabi gears up to hit the road.
Legal tech startup Clio advances its FinTech play with launch of payments product in Canada
Clio claims to have processed over $1 billion USD in legal transactions.