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electricity cables
AI

Harvest Venture Builders adopts AI focus with new climate and energy vertical

Jun 26, 2023

Leaders from energy, FinTech sectors appointed to support Harvest’s new vertical.

OneCup AI makes images of cows tracked by their system. it shows cows on a digital field that are coloured in various hues
AI

Canadian startups Oncoustics, OneCup AI among Google’s first North America-wide cloud accelerator cohort

Jun 26, 2023

Google piloted the cloud accelerator in Canada, then extended it to US startups this year.

DistriQs executive director Richard St-Pierre
Montréal

QuĂ©bec’s quantum scene gets boost with new factory, startup studio

Jun 23, 2023

French VC, quantum processor manufacturer choose Sherbrooke for its academic expertise, infrastructure.

Schulich Venture Academy leads
Events

York University’s Schulich School of Business continues tech leadership focus with new certificate programs

Jun 22, 2023

Program directors include leaders from OMERS Ventures, Wealthsimple, Q2, and Panache.

Chexy
Funding

Chexy raises $1.3 million for platform that lets tenants pay rent with credit cards

Jun 21, 2023

Chexy becomes latest FinTech firm to offer rewards for tenants.

Poka co-founders
Acquisitions

Poka to be acquired by Swedish enterprise software giant IFS in reported $200-million deal

Jun 20, 2023

Poka is used by workers at Nestlé, Tetra Pak, and Mars, among others.

Eavor
Funding

Eavor secures $80 million to support Austrian oil and gas firm OMV’s transition to green energy

Jun 20, 2023

The geothermal startup previously said it plans to raise $145 million in Series B funding this year.

Funding

After several tech exits, Minutebook founder raises $3.5 million to automate legal tasks

Jun 19, 2023

Minutebook co-founder led several startups including Ollie Order, Medeo, Kubera.

data engineers
Funding

Masthead Data raises $1.3 million to help data engineers monitor errors without client data

Jun 19, 2023

Organizations in e-commerce, finance, other tech domains use Masthead’s platform, the company claims.

Startupfest
Events

Startup Train returns as Startupfest 2023 announces over $300,000 in prizes

Jun 16, 2023

Attendees from the GTA can board the Startup Train to get to the Montréal festival.

Collision afterparties map
Events

Someone built a guide to all the Collision afterparties

Jun 15, 2023

A community-submitted list of over 50 mixers, concerts, and other events taking place the week of Collision.

pride flag
Impact

Canada invests $25 million in a new program to address barriers for 2SLGBTQI+ entrepreneurs

Jun 15, 2023

The initiative will provide capital, business advice, resources, and mentorship.

Shopify and Volt partnership
FinTech

Shopify partners with Volt to offer open banking solutions (but not in Canada)

Jun 14, 2023

Features available to Shopify merchants in Europe, Brazil, and other markets not beset by implementation delays.

Cohere co-founders
Reports

Cohere is the highest ranking Canadian startup on Bessemer’s top 100 deeptech companies

Jun 14, 2023

The OpenAI competitor is joined on the list by Nexii, Svante, and fellow Toronto firm Xanadu.

Kraken Sense
Funding

Water sampling, agtech startups among Ontario Genomics’ first cohort for BioCreate program

Jun 14, 2023

Each company will receive $150,000 from Ontario Genomics.

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