Ontario helps agricultural innovation grow with up to $22 million investment
The funding is going to university and startup AgTech projects.
Funding
Walo secures $1.1 million to teach kids financial literacy
Walo provides a gamified mobile app that allows parents to automate allowances.
The Group Ventures secures $20 million for Fund II to invest in Canadian, Israeli tech startups
The Group Ventures’ portfolio includes MindBridge and Flybits.
Canadian government launches $4 billion Canada Digital Adoption Program
Program to help some 160,000 small and medium businesses adopt digital technology.
OpsLevel raises $15 million Series A funding for developer portal
Executives from eBay, PagerDuty, and Sentry invested in the round.
Summit Nanotech secures $17.8 million CAD to commercialize sustainable lithium extraction technology
Last year, Summit Nanotech won $1 million from the Women in Cleantech Challenge.
Sanctuary AI secures $75.5 million in mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence robots
Sanctuary’s backers include Bell, Magna, Verizon, and Workday.
Flashfood secures $12.3 million Series A to expand discounted food marketplace in the US
Opentable founder and S2G Ventures managing director Chuck Templeton will join Flashfood’s board of directors.
Disco closes $15 million Series A round from investors behind MasterClass, Coursera to scale its live learning platform
Disco uses influencers like Margaret Atwood and Andre De Grasse to drive growth.
Curv Health closes $5.1 million to connect employers, insurers with healthcare providers
Round co-led by Build Ventures and healthtech-focused iGan Partners.
Canada commits $240 million to bolster domestic semiconductor ecosystem
The financing will fuel a new semiconductor fund and updates to the CPFC fab.
Epoch Integration co-founders secure funding to simplify tax prep with Blackspark
The team that sold Epoch to BlackBerry is back to offer something better than “upload and pray” tax solutions.
Pulse Industrial secures $3.5 million from SDTC to improve safety in industrial plants
Pulse Industrial is one of 16 companies sharing $52.3 million from SDTC.
Avanti Software secures $25 million to fully embrace cloud-only payroll and HR tech
Since its acquisition in 2016, Avanti has gone “all-in on the cloud.”
Aviron scores $23.6 million CAD Series A round to make rowing fun
Toronto startup hopes to row around Peloton’s shark-infested waters.