Waterloo Region deal volume has been tanking steadily since 2019. Could undisclosed deals be partly to blame?
Off-the-record raises may be painting an incomplete picture of the ecosystem, investor says.
Reports
Review of Alberta Innovates’ Scaleup GAP program shows $147 million raised, 118 jobs created
Scaleup GAP was created in 2021 to bring more tech and business accelerators to Alberta.
Québec venture funding maintained upward trajectory in Q2 2023
Investment in the region grew by 42 percent from Q1 2023, and 81 percent year-over-year.
Venture funding in Toronto, British Columbia rebounds in second quarter of 2023
Capital converges on a select few winners as Toronto and BC megadeals make a comeback.
Toronto and Montréal added the most tech jobs in Canada in the last five years: Report
Ottawa’s tech talent concentration is higher than San Francisco’s Bay Area, CBRE says.
Here’s how much Canada’s top public tech company CEOs were paid last year
Shopify, OpenText, Telus, CGI, Descartes Systems Group, and Constellation Software all made the list.
Report: Canada saw over 30,000 tech workers immigrate while losing nearly 1,700 to the US
Canada largely benefits from US tech companies expanding to Canada, the report found.
Waterloo, U of T, and UBC rank among top 25 computer science schools globally
Waterloo topped the list in terms of enrolment, while U of T was the top-ranked Canadian school.
PitchBook analysts say 2023 VC funding is “pretty much shot,” long-term recovery appears likely
PitchBook analyst: “It’s not going to be a six-month turnaround.”
2022 angel investment in Canada mirrored VC dip, dropping 37 percent year-over-year
While deal count rose, angels disproportionately favoured existing portfolio firms.
Toronto-Waterloo, Vancouver, and Montréal hold the fort as Calgary and Ottawa rise in Startup Genome’s latest global ecosystem rankings
Larger ecosystems keep the status quo, as smaller ones post slight improvement.
Cohere is the highest ranking Canadian startup on Bessemer’s top 100 deeptech companies
The OpenAI competitor is joined on the list by Nexii, Svante, and fellow Toronto firm Xanadu.
Here’s how Canada’s top 10 cities rank in the global startup ecosystem
StartupBlink’s report shows Canada maintains fourth place in global ranking.
A survey of the challenges women founders face when fundraising (and how to overcome them)
40 women founders from 25 different countries share their views for other women entrepreneurs fundraising.
OSC advisory panel backs stronger regulation of crypto platforms
Report cautions OSC against fostering innovation at the expense of protecting investors.