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Government of Canada launches $15 million Inclusive Women Venture Capital Initiative
IWVC is part of the fedsâ $6 billion Women Entrepreneurship Strategy.
Alberta allocates $30 million to AI as part of new innovation strategy
Amount part of $73 million total promised to provincial tech plan in 2022 budget.
Do Canadian FinTechs want bank kickbacks or competition?
Can a “whole of government” approach to competition break Canada’s oligopolies?
Canvass Analytics secures $5.7 million from federal government to double Toronto workforce
Canvass’ no-code platform lets manufacturers predict the future.
Ontario utility agencies back BluWave-ai project to manage increased EV power grid use
âWe know EVs are coming ⊠so we want to be prepared.â
Alberta launches new innovation strategy focused on attracting tech talent, capital
Plan contains minimal details on how budget funding will be allocated.
VentureLab secures $2.5 million in provincial funding to expand semiconductor incubator
Funding enables VentureLab to build a new medtech lab in Vaughan.
Scale AI moves to scale supply chain AI startups with new funding, partnerships
Cluster partners with MaRS to support second Supply AI cohort.
Federal #Budget2022 surprisingly heavy on innovation policy
No Canadian DARPA, SR&ED reform is coming, and our clusters are no longer super.
Fintech Cadence receives $400,000 government grant to help Québec FinTechs scale
The FinTech incubator says the money will enable it to assist 125 entrepreneurs, startups.
Alberta proposes regulatory sandbox to attract FinTechs, crypto companies to the province
Company applications for the sandbox could start as soon as July 1.
CleanBC Industry Fund opens applications for round three of funding
BC aims to reduce emissions as much as removing 130,000 cars from the road.
Government of Canada launches advisory group focused on harmful online content
Advisory group a âreset buttonâ to fedâs approach for online safety legislation.
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.