This U of T-led program is helping Canada find its place in the global EV market
The EVIO program will park grad students with EV companies to keep the best talent at home.
Hardware
For this flying robot company, student internships trump senior engineers
How Avestec’s engineering talent pipeline reshaped how it prototypes, designs, and scales complex hardware systems.
Ionodes’ new body camera tech sees demand from surprising source: retailers
Québec security tech firm says retailers are increasingly turning to body cameras to reduce theft.
Q&A: BDC Capital’s head on why Canadian defence tech investments are heating up
Geneviève Bouthillier unpacks recent investments in Irréversible and Canada Rocket Company.
Waabi claims largest-ever Canadian tech fundraise as it hauls in $750-million USD Series C
Years after leaving Uber, Raquel Urtasun is developing robotaxis with the ride-hailing giant again.
Montréal industrial AI scaleup Vention raises $110-million USD Series D
Company says it crossed $100-million CAD annual run rate as it looks to expand in Europe.
Canada’s housing supply is in crisis. Can robots help?
Automated homebuilders are pitching solutions to get more (ideally affordable) roofs over our heads.
Creditors sue Telesat claiming satellite operator illegally moved assets beyond their reach
Telesat’s lenders are taking the company to court as big debt repayment deadlines loom.
General Fusion to go public on Nasdaq via $1-billion USD SPAC deal
BC company claims it will be the first publicly traded pure-play fusion company.
Jetson raises $50-million USD Series A to heat more homes efficiently
Canadian VCs Garage Capital, Active Impact return to back electric heat pump startup.
Miovision partners with TomTom to tackle the world’s traffic congestion
Kitchener firm claims deal with Dutch data collector will put its tech at more than 300,000 global intersections.
Kepler makes history with world-first launch of optical relay satellite network
Canadian company beats out similar projects from Amazon and Starlink.
Kepler to launch historic satellite network on SpaceX rocket this Sunday
Successful launch would be world-first, beating out similar projects from Amazon and Starlink.
D-Wave strikes $550-million USD deal to acquire Quantum Circuits
After spending decades on quantum annealing, D-Wave hopes to make a splash in gate-based computing.
The Basic Phone launches Kickstarter for “dumbphone” that’s just the right amount of smart
You can’t log onto TikTok, but you can call an Uber.