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Isabelle Kirkwood

Isabelle Kirkwood

Isabelle is a Vancouver-based writer with 5+ years of experience in communications and journalism and a lifelong passion for telling stories. For over two years, she has reported on all sides of the Canadian startup ecosystem, from landmark venture deals to public policy, telling the stories of the founders putting Canadian tech on the map.

Ottawa

Josh Ogden thinks Canada’s drone industry can gain some altitude 

Feb 6

AVSS wants to show that keeping IP and manufacturing in Canada can still work.

SaaS

The cloud myth holding Canadian companies back

Feb 4

Unicorne’s Éric Pinet reveals three habits that separate resilient cloud teams from expensive ones.

FinTech

The startup bringing a piece of America’s FinTech stack to Canada

Feb 2

Slate’s embedded lending infrastructure was purpose-built for Canada.

Toronto

Rachel Clark is taking on cybersecurity’s scalability problem

Jan 28

Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst’s Cyber Challenge is helping bring machine-speed security to mining.

VC

What CIBC is seeing inside AI’s fastest deals

Jan 22

Investor insights from CIBC’s Daniel Lee and Amy Olah.

Acquisitions

Here’s what’s actually driving Canada’s M&A market

Jan 21

Fasken’s Exit InSights study rethinks the conventional wisdom on Canadian tech exits.

Uber Eats
Toronto

Made from scratch: Toronto tech leaders reflect on 10 years of building Uber Eats

Jan 15

The inside dish on how a global food delivery platform was built, tested, and scaled out of Toronto.

Reports

What five years of Canadian tech exits signal for founders heading into 2026

Jan 9

Fasken’s Exit InSights Study points to an exit window that appears earlier than most founders expect.

VC

“There is a huge gap in the innovation space”

Jan 6

Investor Darren Clifford sees the strongest market signals coming from a warming world.

Canadian small business
AI

The pressure points shaping payments in Canada

Dec 30, 2025

Three problems Canadian merchants keep naming, and how Mastercard built a platform around them.

AI

FinOps has become the new superpower for CFOs

Nov 27, 2025

Unicorne’s Éric Pinet on how to avoid the spiraling costs of cloud services.

VC

“A shared mission.” CIBC Innovation Banking backs Vessel, modernizing the funds it finances

Nov 12, 2025

Montréal-based Vessel finds an institutional partner with a common vision.

Canadian startups meet with Canada’s Consul General in Dubai

Nov 11, 2025

Canada Startup Association delegation designed to accelerate relationships in the region.

Profitual-no-pitch
Events

Profitual’s No-Pitch Competition will award $10,000 to the startup with the strongest financial model

Nov 6, 2025

This competition asks founders to drop the pitch and show their numbers.

futuresummit-2025
Events

Future Summit 2025 to host leaders from NVIDIA, AWS Canada, Alberta government, and more

Nov 3, 2025

A closer look at the sessions and power players shaping Future Summit’s inaugural gathering on Nov 18 to 20.

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