Unbounce expands leadership team with addition of Indochino, RBC Ventures, Mapbox alums
Startup adds CMO, CPO, and VP of engineering for “next phase of growth.”
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Flying Fish Partners appoints Tiffany Linke-Boyko as principal for Canada, secures $7.5 million from AEC
“Given what we uncovered, it made sense to base our Canadian operations in Alberta.”
A|I: The AI Times – A modest vision
Plus: Applications close May 31 for Amii’s AI program for women and gender-diverse people.
Five Canadian startups crack CB Insights’ 2022 AI 100 list
Four out of the five Canadian companies come from Toronto.
Forma.ai raises $57.8 million CAD in Series B round for sales compensation platform
Forma aims to turn sales compensation into science using AI.
Fobi AI inks deal to acquire Basket and bolster coupon aggregator offering
Fobi goes shopping for its second couponing solution.
Vector Institute awards nearly $2 million in scholarships for Ontario AI students
Vector wants to take a bite out of the tech talent crunch.
Applications close May 31 for Amii’s AI program for women and gender-diverse people
Women make up only 32 percent of the AI workforce; Amii wants to change that.
Visier makes first acquisition, acquiring Yva.ai’s tech and team to expand understanding of how employees work
Visier plans to parlay deal into new collaboration analytics product.
A|I: The AI Times – Lemieux hits the bench(sci)
Plus: Anthropic’s quest for better, more explainable AI attracts $580M.
Alberta government launching internal AI lab powered by AltaML
The government calls this the first public AI lab in Alberta.
Untether AI secures $1 million for partnership with General Motors
Untether and General Motors on a mission to help cars see better using AI.
A|I: The AI Times – Amazon gets agile
Plus: Canvass Analytics secures $5.7 million from federal government to double Toronto workforce.
Former Shopify CTO Jean-Michel Lemieux joins BenchSci advisory board
BenchSci is on a mission to re-imagine biomedical research through AI.
Québec government grants $16 million to support quantum innovation at Université de Sherbrooke
PINQ2 aims to connect industries and the research community through quantum computing.