Float launches agentic AI solution for corporate credit cards
Toronto FinTech firm says its new AI agent can take hours of bookkeeping off finance teams’ plates.
Canadian Strategic Missions Corporation takes one small step to support life on the Moon
Waterloo company wins grant funding for nuclear microreactor and water purification projects.
Turbopuffer doesn’t want to be Canada’s fastest-growing tech company
Plus: Cohere exec pledges AI firm will stay Canadian.
Inside Wealthsimple’s “simple” effort to bring Canadian talent home
What started as a Canadian Thanksgiving dinner in San Francisco has attracted over 6,000 job applicants.
Canada opens applications to build a public AI supercomputer
Up to $890 million up for grabs to design, construct, and operate the system.
Industry Minister Mélanie Joly wants to see Nokia invest more in Canada
Joly sees the path to a “golden age” relationship Finland and Canada.
Community event platform Wygo secures nearly $1.6 million pre-seed
Wygo allows hosts to create events for an audience that wants to shift their social life offline.
Hootsuite founder Ryan Holmes returns as interim CEO
Holmes replaces outgoing CEO Irina Novoselsky, just months after receiving backlash for ICE contract.
Motorola acquires AI-based 911 call screening startup Hyper
Deal comes less than a year after Hyper exited stealth.
Ex-AWS leaders bring Soma out of stealth with a plan to ease the data centre power crunch
Soma Energy has raised $7 million USD for AI-powered optimization for electricity infrastucture.
How Sonibel can hear when a welder makes a mistake
UBC grads raise $1.6 million USD for acoustic sensor that identifies errors while you weld.
Feds invest $79 million in Aspect Biosystems to develop 3D-printed tissue treatment
Investment supports $280 million project to “significantly enhance” Aspect’s clinical development capabilities.
Repay will buy billing platform Kubra for $372 million USD
Combined company expected to process $130 billion in annual payment volume.
Lockheed Martin Canada invests $3.6 million into Lemay.ai
Project supports AI R&D for “sovereign knowledge management.”
NACO wants feds to use $750 million in VC funding to back startups earlier
Angel investor group proposes early-stage fund matching and infrastructure programs as part of federal VC strategy.