Canadian VC investments up 48 percent since same time last year, CVCA report finds
Canadian venture capital investments in the first quarter of 2019 marked another billion dollar quarter, the fifth billion…
Element AI report shows artificial intelligence talent leaving Canada
A recent report conducted by Montreal-based Element AI has found a lack of women in the AI industry worldwide, alongside the…
AirMatrix awarded $100,000 at Fierce Founders Bootcamp pitch competition
Communitech has awarded $100,000 to Alexandra McCalla, co-founder and COO of AirMatrix, for winning the Fierce Founders Bootcamp…
New Velocity venture fund invests $200,000 in four startups
The University of Waterloo’s entrepreneurship program, Velocity, has announced direct equity investments of $50,000 each…
Clear Blue Technologies receives $1 million loan, backed by EDC
Export Development Canada (EDC) has announced that it is providing a guarantee to support a $1 million credit facility between…
Borrowell, Crowdriff, Ada among startups named Best Workplaces for Women 2019
Great Place to Work, an organization that evaluates companies based on company culture, has released its 2019 list of Best…
Next week’s Evoke conference an evolution of Developer 30 Under 30 awards
The annual Developer 30 Under 30 awards is evolving into something bigger, Evoke, a three-day event taking place next week…
New Ventures BC, BioTalent partnership encouraging businesses to hire tech students
New Ventures BC and BioTalent have announced a partnership aiming to assist BC biotech companies in accessing funding to hire…
Ten Canadian tech companies join first cohort of Women in Tech Silicon Valley program
Ten Canadian women-led or women-founded companies down to Silicon Valley to partake in a Canadian government-led program focused…
Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio receive Turing Award, ‘the Nobel Prize of computing’
Two of Canada’s notable pioneers in AI have been named co-winners of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for their work in deep…
Government proposing new framework to regulate Canadian retail payment ecosystem
Budget 2019 dropped a week ago, and one of the objectives outlined in the document included “supporting an innovative and…
Scotiabank launches digital platform for online mortgage applications
Scotiabank has announced the launch of Scotiabank eHOME, a digital platform that allows Canadians to undergo the mortgage process…
FinTech investment in Toronto region grows by 10 times over five years, report finds
Canada’s Toronto-Kitchener-Waterloo corridor has faced significant investment growth over the past five years in the FinTech…
Cannabis software company Ample Organics announces Shopify integration
Ample Organics, a seed-to-sale software company, has announced a complete integration with ecommerce giant, Shopify. Toronto-based…
BC-based Carbon Engineering secures $90 million CAD to address climate change
Carbon Engineering, a cleantech company in Squamish, BC, has closed an equity financing round of $90 million CAD, which it…