Ample Labs supporting Toronto’s homeless population with chatbot
Ample Labs, a Toronto-based non-profit that builds technology solutions for the homeless community, has launched a crowdfunding…
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Kids Code Jeunesse launches initiative to educate one million kids about AI
Kids Code Jeunesse, a Canadian non-profit teaching children to code, has announced a new initiative, #kids2030, aiming to educate…
Indigenous social enterprise wins top prize at AC Youth Innovation Summit
On March 28, twelve young Canadians gathered at the third annual Active Citizens Youth Innovation Summit on Parliament Hill,…
PwC Canada reveals finalists for 2019 Vision to Reality Awards
PwC Canada has announced the twenty finalists of its 2019 Vision to Reality (V2R) Awards, which was open to organizations of…
Silicon Valley FinTech, Plaid, expands coverage in Canada
Plaid, a relatively ‘under-the-radar’ San Francisco-based FinTech, that is used by many other FinTech companies…
Coinberry, Innisfil partnership makes it first Canadian municipality accepting crypto
Coinberry, a Toronto-based digital crypto platform, has formed an agreement with the Town of Innisfil in Ontario , providing…
Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio receive Turing Award, ‘the Nobel Prize of computing’
Two of Canada’s notable pioneers in AI have been named co-winners of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for their work in deep…
Government proposing new framework to regulate Canadian retail payment ecosystem
Budget 2019 dropped a week ago, and one of the objectives outlined in the document included “supporting an innovative and…
Tatari betting on a repatriated Canadian to build core engineering team
BetaKit’s Due South series profiled Canadian entrepreneurs who founded companies in the United States, and in recent years,…
Trexo Robotics wants to redefine mobility for children with disabilities
Trexo Robotics, a company which aims to redefine mobility solutions for people of all ages and abilities, was recently featured…
Future Cities Canada launches network to accelerate innovation in smart cities
Future Cities Canada, a national initiative aiming to accelerate the transformation of open smart cities, has launched The…
Progressa announces loan milestone, updates plan for IPO
Short-term lending platform Progressa has announced that it has surpassed a self-proclaimed milestone of $100 million in funded…
Waterloo startup collective announces ‘Start-Ups for School’ initiative
A collective of startups in Waterloo has announced Start-Ups for School, a volunteer outreach initiative for small local startups…
Spring Activator to invest $100,000 in Impact Investor Challenge
Vancouver-based Spring Activator today announced its first Impact Investor Challenge, an investor training program that will…
Women-led companies receiving first $20 million CAD of Women Entrepreneurship Strategy
Minister of Small Business and Export Promotion, Mary Ng, has announced the federal government is now investing $20 million…