Despite market conditions, 2022 second-highest year on record for Canadian venture capital
CVCA CEO: “Considering the macroeconomic conditions, the finish in 2022 was surprising.”
Reports
Mining, energy companies lead TSXV’s list of 50 top-performing public companies
Newfoundland’s Kraken Robotics tops technology category.
Report: investment in Canadian FinTech dropped almost $6 billion USD in 2022
But overall investment was still bigger than 2020.
Report maps Indigenous representation in BC tech, calls for need to address systemic barriers
First Nations Technology Council encourages orgs to address workplace barriers, including access to capital.
Tech-related roles dominate Indeed’s best jobs list in Canada for 2023
Data engineers still in demand despite downturn-induced layoffs.
Five Canadian programs listed among top incubators, accelerators globally
Canada is the only country with three programs named to the top ten list.
Glassdoor names Google, Microsoft, Salesforce among best 25 places to work in Canada
Thomson Reuters, Levio, only Canadian tech firms on the list.
BDC Capital report finds Canadian VCs are hiring more diverse candidates but facing difficulties with talent retention
DEI survey also indicates VC firms, portfolio companies lack diversity at decision-making level.
Reports: Canadian VC investments in 2022 projected to lag behind 2021 figures, but still top 2020 funding
2022 only saw about a third of the VC funding that was disbursed in 2021.
Foresight 50 list names Canada’s “most investable” cleantech firms
Second annual list identifies firms like Terramera, Ekona Power, Summit Nanotech.
Eight Canadian universities land in PitchBook’s 2022 top 100 schools for founders
The University of Waterloo keeps top spot for Canadian schools.
Canadian tech venture funding continued to fall in Q3 2022, CVCA reports
Seed-stage startups, cleantech “two biggest winners” amid slowdown.
L-Spark’s Leo Lax: 2022 has been a “disaster” for SaaS funding, though sector continues to grow
“The bias is less towards building the innovation economy, more towards sustaining what we got.”
Report: Vancouver, Toronto saw greatest high-tech job growth in North America over the last two years
Montréal ranked fifth, while CBRE named Waterloo, Ottawa, Calgary markets to watch again.
Report: Atlantic Canada 10th strongest blue economy startup ecosystem globally
Vancouver closely follows at 14th, with Calgary 27th, and Toronto-Waterloo 35th.