Neo Financial secures $68.5 million in equity as it adopts big-bank funding playbook
Support from investors including AIMCo and Northleaf will fuel securitization strategy.
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Why Y Combinator cut Canada out
John Ruffolo joins to discuss fuzzy data, “bullshit” narratives, and the real problems hampering Canadian tech.
Pluvo heads to San Francisco to join the latest a16z speedrun cohort
Ottawa AI startup says it was selected from a group of more than 19,000 companies.
Cellar Insights pockets $500,000 investment to help it protect potatoes
Investment will be used to further commercialize the startup’s potato storage monitoring tech.
Meet Winnipeg’s latest venture studio, Ignition
A joint venture between Launch Coworking and ProductStak, the studio is focusing on early-stage founders.
Prévoir closes $750K pre-seed round to scale its AI-powered fashion platform
Calgary startup helps retailers and merchandisers single out trends and track fashion analytics.
What CIBC is seeing inside AI’s fastest deals
Investor insights from CIBC’s Daniel Lee and Amy Olah.
Mila and Inovia launch venture fund to turn AI research “diamonds” into startups
National platform targets $100-million USD fund with plans to back 55 companies.
Chata Technologies closes $10-million USD Series A to scale deterministic AI model
Calgary startup targets financial sector with AI model built to give consistent answers.
Canadian companies are generating massive returns in the “bioeconomy”
Just 84 early-stage companies generated nearly $900 million for Canada’s GDP.
Dominion Dynamics raises $21 million to build Canada’s “defence neoprime”
Ottawa startup eyes prime defence contractor role as defence spending surges in Canada.
Portage strikes deal to manage Point72 Ventures FinTech assets in Steve Cohen and Goldman Sachs-backed fund
Power Corp.’s FinTech investment arm makes first formal foray into secondary investments.
“A perfect storm”: 2025 was the worst year for Canadian VC fundraising since 2016
RBCx report shows emerging managers, fund sizes, and graduation rates are declining amid a lack of exits.
“There is a huge gap in the innovation space”
Investor Darren Clifford sees the strongest market signals coming from a warming world.
McRock Capital closes $120 million in third fund, backing industrial software startups
Caterpillar and Autodesk become LPs as McRock falls shy of initial $200-million target.