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Bianca Bharti

Bianca Bharti is the newsletter editor at BetaKit, where she spearheads coverage and analysis of tech news in related products. Before BetaKit, Bianca covered the nexus of markets, industries and policy in a variety of formats as a reporter for the Financial Post. There, she won silver in SABEW's 2021 Best in Business Journalism Awards in the personal finance category for one of her pieces. In her free time, she enjoys swapping her reporter hat for a baseball cap to hit up some hiking trails with her dog. She also weirdly loves debating monetary policy.

Canadian tech’s essential #Budget2024 primer

Apr 22, 2024

Plus: Montréal startup community’s bid to save Notman House fails.

Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland
Ottawa

Capital gains tax changes strike a nerve with Canadian tech ecosystem

Apr 17, 2024

Over 750 leaders have already signed an open letter calling on feds to reverse course.

PM Trudeau and DPM Freeland speaks with media in West Block. July 16, 2020
Funding

What’s in #Budget2024 for Canadian tech?

Apr 16, 2024

All eyes in Canadian tech are on AI, open banking, cleantech, and… taxes?

Why Pinterest is after Canada’s AI talent

Apr 15, 2024

Plus: What’s going on at CleanBC?

Pinterest Toronto Office
AI

Pinterest is on a Toronto hiring spree to scoop up AI talent

Apr 12, 2024

CTO Jeremy King says company aims to use AI and ML to make Pinterest more “shoppable.”

The stapler problem in #CDNtech procurement

Apr 8, 2024

Plus: Meet BetaKit’s new CEO.

Dax Dasilva

Why Dax Dasilva thinks about taking Lightspeed private

Apr 1, 2024

Plus: Notman House is for sale. A startup-led effort wants to buy it back.

John Ruffolo, Maverix Private Equity

John Ruffolo has advice for Canada’s pension funds

Mar 25, 2024

Plus: CDPQ quietly shutters $250-million D&I fund.

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Alberta gains on Québec in venture activity

Mar 18, 2024

Plus: BetaKit has the exclusive on two new Canadian AI-focused VCs.

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Reflecting on inclusion in #CDNtech

Mar 11, 2024

Plus: The new venture studio backed by Shopify, Wealthsimple, Knix execs.

Does corporate VC have an advantage in AI investments?

Mar 4, 2024

Plus: Omnirobotic reborn and Flinks moves in for the kill.

Funding

Bench IQ raises $2.8 million CAD in pre-seed funding with buy-in from Maple VC, Haystack

Feb 29, 2024

The minds behind Ross Intelligence are back.

Is AI Canada’s productivity saviour?

Feb 26, 2024

Plus: Late-stage VC funding continues to drop, but seed-stage is Golden.

Love troubles? There’s an AI chatbot for that.

Feb 20, 2024

Plus: #CDNtech startups pivot and refocus in 2024.

Acquisitions

Mining tech company GeologicAI acquires consultancy Resource Modeling Solutions

Feb 15, 2024

GeologicAI has developed “robot geologists” for the mining sector.

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