Startup Community Awards 2023
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Fifth-annual Startup Community Awards celebrates Montréal’s innovation ecosystem

Real Ventures’ John Stokes, Ora Medical among the night’s winners. Montréal’s tech ecosystem has recognized 15 local startups, stakeholders, and leaders at the fifth…

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FounderFuel 2023
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Startup Montréal awards $400,000 to startups as FounderFuel reveals first revamped accelerator cohort

Both programs award seed funding and mentorship support to tech founders. Montréal-based FounderFuel and Startup Montréal have unveiled the startups participating in their…

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Shopify invests in US-based e-commerce analytics aggregator Triple Whale
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R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify’s revenue jumps but beware Amazon’s Trojan horse

Plus: Proposed regulations for Retail Payment Activities Act open for public comment. The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news from…

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Doctor-backed Clinify secures $1.5 million to help digitize African medical records
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H|T: The Healthtech Times – Clinify’s mission to digitize African medical records

Plus: How Canada opened the door to for-profit virtual care. The Healthtech Times is a weekly newsletter covering healthtech news from Canada and around…

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A|I: The AI Times – Is Canada facing an AI talent drain?

Plus: Tesla recalls full ‘self-driving’ cars. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data, and automation news…

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F|T: The FinTech Times – Bank of Canada’s Ron Morrow: “it is your one chance to shape the regime.”

Plus: Stripe’s attempt to raise $55 billion. Welcome to the FinTech Times, a weekly newsletter covering the biggest FinTech news from around the globe….

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Real Ventures partners with Panache, Inovia to relaunch FounderFuel accelerator
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Real Ventures partners with Panache, Inovia to relaunch FounderFuel accelerator

Longstanding venture-backed startup program goes national with hybrid approach. Real Ventures-led venture-backed startup accelerator FounderFuel is returning this spring for the first time in…

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BetaKit Live: How to use data to survive a downturn
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How startups can survive a market downturn

Times are tough for startups. A huge slowdown in growth capital has led to layoffs, rescinded job offers, and wildly tapered scaling plans. Some…

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BetaKit Live: How to use data to survive a downturn
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BetaKit Live: How to use data to survive a downturn

US and Canadian VCs crunch the numbers with Mozart Data on July 12. At this point, no tech company should be surprised by the…

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