YC-backed Reworkd secures $1.65 million CAD to build AI agents for business tasks
Founded by a trio of Vancouverites, Reworkd has nabbed funding from Panache.
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SenseNet raises $1.3 million CAD for its wildfire-detecting technology
The Vancouver firm is the latest of several wildfire-detection startups that expect to see flames fan their fortunes.
Well Health adds anesthesia subsidiary CarePlus Management in its latest acquisition
Well Health revised its annual revenue guidance sharply upwards after the purchase for an undisclosed sum.
Dapper Labs makes third round of layoffs since November as crypto winter continues
NBA Top Shot creator lays off 51 people amid NFT market struggles.
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.
WonderFi, Coinsquare, CoinSmart merge as landmark Canadian crypto deal closes
The merger comes during a challenging time for the crypto industry.
PacifiCan invests nearly $23 million in BC cleantech, zero-waste projects
Saltworks, MintList, and Novarc Technologies all receive funding for expansion and commercialization.
TIMIA Capital and Arena Investors aim to fill SVB lending gap with new $100-million USD venture
TIMIA looks to double loan book as cooling VC market creates “significant opportunity.”
Canadian startups Oncoustics, OneCup AI among Google’s first North America-wide cloud accelerator cohort
Google piloted the cloud accelerator in Canada, then extended it to US startups this year.
After several tech exits, Minutebook founder raises $3.5 million to automate legal tasks
Minutebook co-founder led several startups including Ollie Order, Medeo, Kubera.
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.
Collision whispers, new AI officer, fundraising landscape the talk of Vancouver Startup Week 2023
The vibes were positive and the takes hot in VSW’s post-COVID return.
Dapper Labs makes investment in Web3 gaming company GameOn
GameOn is powering Karateka, a game for collecting digital fighters.
Tech talent-sourcing network VanHack secures $3 million for global expansion
While bootstrapped, VanHack said it grew to over 400,000 members.