Acton Capital closes $240-million USD Fund VI to invest in tech startups across Canada and Europe
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Acton Capital closes $240-million USD Fund VI to invest in tech startups across Canada and Europe

Acton’s Canadian portfolio has included Chefs Plate, Clio, Knix Wear, Maple, and Mobify. Acton Capital has closed its sixth venture capital (VC) fund, securing…

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Long-time VP and product leader Satish Kanwar departs Shopify
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R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify adds new merchant tools, loses long-time VP

Plus: Shein makes an aggressive pitch to woo US Amazon sellers. The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news from Canada…

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a device for testing blood on a desk it resembles a desktop computer in shape and size
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H|T: The Healthtech Times – Turnstone Biologics goes public, Dialogue Health to be acquired

Plus: Vital Bioscience reveals desktop blood tester with big backers. The Healthtech Times is a weekly newsletter covering healthtech news from Canada and around…

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A|I: The AI Times – Cohere releases Coral, Shopify unveils AI suite
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A|I: The AI Times – Cohere releases Coral, Shopify unveils AI suite

Plus: Yoshua Bengio issues stark warning to U.S. Senate. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data,…

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OpenText closes $5.8 billion USD acquisition of Micro Focus, makes workforce reduction
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S|W: The SaaS Weekly – OpenText’s acquisition of Micro Focus spurs IP and patent questions

Plus: Solink secures $60 million to scale cloud-based video surveillance service. The SaaS Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering major SaaS news from Canada…

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F|T: The FinTech Times – Stripe to power Shopify’s new business credit card

Plus: How the partnership between Apple and Goldman Sachs soured. Welcome to the FinTech Times, a weekly newsletter covering the biggest FinTech news from…

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Immigration Minister details strategy for attracting foreign tech talent, digital nomads
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Canada’s H-1B visa play strikes a nerve as feds pick tech companies for Hypergrowth

Plus: Shopify reveals new AI suite, corporate credit card, and more. Welcome to BetaKit’s startup stories of the week! Here, you will find the…

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Canadian tech unicorns Ada, Clio, Lightspeed among first cohort of Canada’s Global Hypergrowth Project

Canada aims to take companies from $1-billion ‘unicorn’ valuation to $1-billion in annual revenue. Canadian tech unicorns Ada, Clio, and Lightspeed are among the…

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After several tech exits, Minutebook founder raises $3.5 million to automate legal tasks
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After several tech exits, Minutebook founder raises $3.5 million to automate legal tasks

Vancouver-based startup Minutebook, which offers automation and collaboration tools for legal professionals, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding Investors that participated in the…

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A|I: The AI Times – Microsoft is moving top AI experts from China to Canada

Plus: Canada’s Cohere secures $270M to continue “foundational contributions” to AI. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning,…

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