University of Alberta spinout DrugBank closes $9 million from Brightspark, Amplitude, Theodorus to fuel drug discovery with its data platform
DrugBank wants to âbe the shovelâ in a gold rush of new medical innovation.
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Scale AI moves to scale supply chain AI startups with new funding, partnerships
Cluster partners with MaRS to support second Supply AI cohort.
A|I: The AI Times â Canada gets more Meta
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FutureFit AI raises $5.7 million to scale career navigation platform
JPMorgan Chase, Acumen America co-led the round.
Canadian startups in Y Combinator tie all-time high at Winter 2022 Demo Day
For the second time, 16 Canadian startups participated in a YC cohort.
A|I: The AI Times â Ford to the future
Plus: NYT calls Toronto a “quietly booming tech town.”
Meta to hire up to 2,500 workers in Canada, open engineering hub to build metaverse
Meta said Toronto will play an important role in creating the metaverse.
A|I: The AI Times â Validere gasses up funding
Plus: Element AI co-founder calls out Big Tech for role in war.
ApplyBoard makes first acquisition, grabbing Panda Portal to train recruiters
ApplyBoard has rebranded Panda Portal to TrainHub.
Wisedocs closes $4.1 million to bring medical document analysis to âentireâ insurance ecosystem
Wisedocsâ âbread and butterâ is helping insurance orgs work with medical records.
Mila partners with Twitterâs data and machine learning team
Twitter wants Mila to ML your tweets.
A|I: The AI Times â Robots in space!
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Oil and gas tech startup Validere closes $55 million CAD with BlackRock backing
âIn order to manage the energy transition well, environmental attributes cannot be managed in a silo.â
Scribble Data closes $2.2 million to help data science teams train machine learning models
Scribble Data aims to dip into Torontoâs machine learning talent pool.
Bloom secures $1.4 million CAD, launches AI-powered platform to measure e-commerce product photo performance
Bloomâs big picture vision is to match its algorithm with generative AI.