Innovate BC taps IP expert Peter Cowan as next president and CEO
Cowan most recently led Ontario’s intellectual property agency.
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Eight Canadian foodtech projects receive $1.9 million in pilot funding from CFIN
Supported projects include short-haul delivery robots and augmented reality training programs.
Interest rates remain unchanged (for now). What does that mean for Canadian tech in 2024?
After a down year, ecosystem insiders offer caution and optimism.
Ontario invests $14.9 million into Waterloo Region’s Quantum Valley Ideas Lab
The funding is aimed to build a “world-class quantum sensing ecosystem” in the province.
TIAP partners with OBIO to open applications for healthtech funding stream
Selected companies will receive up to $200,000 in grant, dilutive funding.
Maybe the Rogers-Shaw merger won’t lower prices after all
Did Rogers’ recent price hike finally rile Canadians (and our elected representatives) into action?
FinTechs offer CEBA loan refinancing ahead of Jan. 18 deadline CFIB says will “strangle” Canadian businesses
CFIB claims as many as one-third of businesses won’t be able to make loan forgiveness deadline.
The biggest tech questions of 2024
A transitional year in tech inspires many open questions.
Alberta Securities Commission orders crypto exchange Catalyx to cease trading following security breach, loss of assets
Catalyx announced the security breach one week after the ASC issued its initial cease trade order.
Social Finance Fund-backed Realize Capital Partners reveals first nine investments
Recipients include Idealist, Maple Bridge, PaceZero, Raven, Relentless, and The51.
Federal government punts NRC IRAP’s merger into the Canada Innovation Corporation to 2026-2027
Long-awaited SR&ED review to start in January.
Why is the Start-up Visa program struggling?
Recently, Stein Monteiro, the Senior Research Associate for the CERC Migration Program at Toronto Metropolitan University,…
Innovate BC, NRC IRAP invest $2 million into 13 BC cleantech companies
BC Fast Pilot program has invested $9.9 million into 75 projects to date.
Diagram Ventures announces new $60-million VC fund to build and back early-stage cleantech startups
The ClimateTech Fund is co-anchored by Québec and Sagard.
Two years after Graphite Ventures spinout, MaRS IAF is ready to invest again
With new hires, managing director says IAF has achieved “critical mass.”