How Aurmada threads the needle of fashion and defence tech
Toronto startup is developing kevlar base layers and sensor-equipped garments for soldiers and everyday consumers.
Wealthsimple to offer early access to IPO trading
Upcoming IPOs for SpaceX and Anthropic are boosting demand.
Saris raises $28.8-million USD Series A to automate banks’ back offices
Canadian founders of YC-backed Oohlala Mobile return with new startup.
Canada’s quantum Cassandra is finally heard
Turing Award winner Gilles Brassard has spent decades warning about the threat posed by powerful quantum encryption.
Cohere’s Nick Frosst thinks Canadian energy can be “100 percent” renewables
Growing Canada’s domestic capacity was a focus of Homecoming’s sovereignty-themed panel.
Why Shopify’s CEO thinks the one-person company is “bullshit”
But, as Tobi Lütke said at Toronto Tech Week’s Homecoming, those companies could still make a billion dollars.
Databricks and Ada execs on what’s fuelling the Gen Z AI backlash
Reynold Xin and Mike Murchison say there is space for students to reframe their relationship to AI.
Lightspeed completes year one of transformation plan with revenue beat, earnings miss
Retail tech firm focuses on key markets with share price down 20 percent on the year.
Trane and BrainBox AI open Montréal lab to cut energy waste in buildings
Companies say emissions cut from AI systems will offset enviornmental cost of running AI.
Historic Marconi name returns as Canadian investors launch defence tech firm
Former National Bank CEO chairs new company hoping to capitalize on federal defence spending.
Kritik is equipping profs for the AI “arms race” coming to classrooms
Ex-Top Hat founder’s edtech startup sells peer-grading and AI software to university professors.
Xanadu reports larger net loss than expected, but quadrupled revenue in first public earnings report
Company eyeing the “big prize” of a Toronto-based quantum data centre by 2029.
Telecom software startup Gaiia secures $40-million USD Series B round
Québec City spin-out of Oxio sells software for challenger telecoms.
Ex-Hugging Face, Salesforce leaders partner on AI sustainability venture
Sustainable AI Group aims to help enterprises manage AI’s environmental impact.
Rave takes fight with Apple over App Store removal to Canada’s Competition Tribunal
Ontario startup also pursuing legal action in the US, Brazil, the Netherlands, and Russia.