Brickeye secures $5 million CAD in convertible debt round with participation from BDC and Graphite Ventures
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Brickeye secures $5 million CAD in convertible debt round with participation from BDC and Graphite Ventures

Brickeye provides construction companies with job site monitoring, analytics, and smart automations. Toronto-based Brickeye, a construction-focused internet of things (IoT) and data analytics company,…

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Diagram Ventures closes $100-million for latest fund as it continues to bet on FinTech
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F|T: The FinTech Times – Diagram Ventures adds $100M onto its FinTech bet

Plus: Shopify backs Nigeria-based FinTech Nomba. Welcome to the FinTech Times, a weekly newsletter covering the biggest FinTech news from around the globe. If…

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H|T: The Healthtech Times – Telehealth giant Amwell posts nearly $400M loss in Q1
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H|T: The Healthtech Times – Telehealth giant Amwell posts nearly $400M loss in Q1

Plus: Peloton shares plunge after company reports wider-than-expected loss. The Healthtech Times is a weekly newsletter covering healthtech news from Canada and around the…

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S|W: The SaaS Weekly – 1Password’s CEO responds to Google’s “tipping point”

The SaaS Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering major SaaS news from Canada and around the globe. Subscribe to S|W using the form at…

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"Godfather of deep learning" Geoffrey Hinton quits Google to warn against dangers of AI
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A|I: The AI Times – Geoffrey Hinton issues warning, Cohere is soaring

Plus: IBM to pause hiring for jobs that AI could do. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning,…

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R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify sheds staff, offloads logistics business to focus on “main quest”
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R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify sheds staff, offloads logistics business to focus on “main quest”

Plus: RenoRun halts operations as it pursues asset sale. The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news from Canada and around…

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Canadian startup news of the week (5/7/23)

Plus: Canadian Q1 VC investment falls 82 percent from last year. Welcome to BetaKit’s startup stories of the week! Here, you will find the…

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Brightspark seeks to recreate its “home run” exits of Think Dynamics, Radian6 as it launches $120-million fund
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Brightspark seeks to recreate its “home run” exits of Think Dynamics, Radian6 as it launches $120-million fund

Brightspark Ventures has made an initial close of $60 million towards its target. Brightspark Ventures thinks now is the right time to be investing…

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Éléonore Jarry-Ferron, Pablo Srugo get promoted at Brightspark, Mistral

Jarry, Srugo, and two others co-founded VCHOURS in 2020 to support startups during the pandemic. Montréal-headquartered venture capital (VC) firm Brightspark Ventures has promoted…

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University of Alberta spinout DrugBank closes $9 million from Brightspark, Amplitude, Theodorus to fuel drug discovery with its data platform
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University of Alberta spinout DrugBank closes $9 million from Brightspark, Amplitude, Theodorus to fuel drug discovery with its data platform

DrugBank wants to ‘be the shovel’ in a gold rush of new medical innovation. Training machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms requires…

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