Tag: radical ventures
Promise Robotics nets $20.8-million CAD Series A to speed up home building with robots
The startup turns standard industrial robots into plug-and-play homebuilding systems. Toronto-based proptech startup Promise Robotics has closed $20.8 million CAD ($15 million USD) in…
Google and Nvidia-backed CentML secures $37 million CAD to help companies deploy AI amid chip shortages
Toronto startup wants to help AI hardware “starvation period” by optimizing ML models. As companies race to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) amid chip shortages,…
A|I: The AI Times – Meet Google’s answer to ChatGPT
Plus: Shopify dabbles in AI, Radical adds Fei-Fei Li. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data,…
A|I: The AI Times – Tenstorrent swaps CEOs, DeepMind exits Edmonton
The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data, and automation news from around the globe. If you…
Canadian startup news of the week (1/15/23)
Welcome to BetaKit’s startup stories of the week! Here, you will find the week’s most important news, features, and editorials published on BetaKit. If…
Canadian startup news of the week (12/15/22)
Welcome to BetaKit’s startup stories of the week! Here, you will find the week’s most important news, features, and editorials published on BetaKit. If…
Radical Ventures raising new $550 million USD fund as AI sector heats up
Radical managing partner believes “AI will eat all software over the next decade.” Toronto-based Radical Ventures has launched another fund dedicated to artificial intelligence…
Backed by Yoshua Bengio, Ubenwa is using AI to diagnose neurological issues through baby cries
The Mila spinout has raised $3.24 million CAD to launch app for parents. Montréal’s Ubenwa foresees a world where the cries of a newborn…
TD chief AI officer, CDL-Toronto lead team up with health expert for new healthtech startup, Signal 1
Signal 1 secured $12.7 million from Geoffrey Hinton, former Rogers CEO, others. Three Canadian technology leaders are coming together to launch a healthtech startup…
PocketHealth secures $20 million CAD to put medical records in US patients’ pockets
PocketHealth wants to help users access, share, and understand medical imaging. After seeing significant growth in Canada during the pandemic, Toronto-based PocketHealth is ready…