Creator Jacket, Litus named winners in Elevate 2022 pitch competitions
Creator Jacket won $15,000, while Litus secured $100,000 from The Firehood.
Events
SAAS NORTH unveils speaker lineup for 2022 conference
Presenters include executives from Shopify, Unbounce, Hootsuite, Wattpad.
Talk of regulation, market conditions collide with glitzy behaviour at Blockchain Futurist Conference
At the crypto cabana there was no sign of a downturn.
Scale Without Borders wants to bring Canada’s immigrant tech community together in November summit
Last year’s summit spanned three days and saw 1,000 registrants.
Frontier Collective to launch flagship summit for metaverse and Web3 leaders
Frontier wants to bring leaders from Adobe, LG, Microsoft to Vancouver.
Permalution, Magnestar, Ohh! Foods among winners of Startupfest 2022 pitch competitions
The tech at Startupfest varied from harvesting fog to “inclusive snacking.”
Traction Conference returns in-person with Twitter, Eventbrite, Mailchimp as speakers
Execs from Atlassian, Shopify, Twitter, 1Password were unveiled as speakers.
Why Startupfest is a tech company now
Summer camp for Canadian tech is back.
Andre De Grasse, Michele Romanow, George Sully added as Elevate Festival speakers
BetaKit will once again program Elevate’s AI and Money stages.
#CollisionConf AMA: a tech downturn vibe check
Our voices may have dropped a few octaves.
DOT Mind Unlock wins #CollisionConf 2022 startup pitch competition
DOT can measure people’s brainwave activity using headsets.
ApplyBoard CEO says market downturn isn’t slowing down international expansion or IPO plans
CEO says ApplyBoard’s large cash reserves, “counter-cyclical” education market give startup room to grow.
Federal government reveals plans for $443 million second phase of Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
Investments include a collective $60 million for Amii, Mila, Vector Institute.
Indigenous tech leaders talk progress at #CollisionConf and “long path ahead”
“Our ancestors really set the stage for us.”
PitchBook projects VC deal value to drop, deal count to stay high as market cools
VC market shifts from founder-friendly “game of winning” to “game of picking.”