Sprout Family raises $1.7 million pre-seed round to make fertility benefits more accessible in Canada
Platform helps employers include fertility, surrogacy, and adoption coverage in their health plans.
Ontario
As trade war rages, Page raises $4.1 million to help organizations track government changes with AI
Ex-Shopify employees plan to expand their government-relations platform to US and UK.
CEOs of Clio and StackAdapt, VC leaders from OMERS and Panache among headliners at CIX Summit 2025
Elevate’s tech startup event will also feature pitch showcases and a private session for high-profile investors.
Shopify to transfer US stock listing to Nasdaq, remain on TSX
Stock transfer follows recent changes to Shopify’s SEC filings that show potential to become US-domiciled.
A tech founder’s love letter to Markham
John Solomos chose to scale his startup in his hometown. Now, he’s paying it forward.
Doormat becomes Ownright, closes $4.5 million to help more Ontarians seal real estate deals
Toronto startup aims to build Canada’s “go-to legal partner for real estate transactions.”
Taiv acquihires fellow Canadian adtech startup Local Reach to aid expansion plans
Winnipeg company plans to hire more than 30 people in Manitoba.
Google reportedly close to buying Canada’s AdHawk for its eye-tracking smart glasses tech
Waterloo Region startup has received investment from Intel, Sony, Samsung, and HP.
Consensus 2025 crypto conference will feature WonderFi’s Dean Skurka and Coinbase Canada’s CEO
The first Toronto edition also includes talks from PayPal and Chainlink.
Shopify acquires search startup Vantage Discovery for undisclosed amount
Shopify CTO hints that Vantage’s AI-powered platform could help merchants advertise.
Softchoice taken private, moved stateside by WWT after $1.48-billion acquisition closes
Completed acquisition puts the 35-year-old software provider under American ownership at a sensitive moment.
Vertu Capital promotes principal and “employee number two” Eric Kafka to partner
Kafka previously worked with Vertu’s founding managing partner Lisa Melchoir at OMERS Private Equity.
Cohere says Command A model edges out LLM competition in speed and energy efficiency
New enterprise AI model outperforms DeepSeek, ChatGPT on several enterprise-specific tasks, company says.
Phoenix secures equity funding from Valspring, venture debt from CIBC for prescription drug service geared to men
Toronto healthtech startup plans to at least double its team with $50 million in equity and debt.
Waabi develops realism metric to gauge reliability of autonomous vehicle simulators
Founder and CEO Raquel Urtasun calls on all AV developers to demonstrate their simulators are true to life.