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Review of Alberta Innovates’ Scaleup GAP program shows $147 million raised, 118 jobs created
Scaleup GAP was created in 2021 to bring more tech and business accelerators to Alberta. Over $147 million in investments has been raised and…
Québec venture funding maintained upward trajectory in Q2 2023
Investment in the region grew by 42 percent from Q1 2023, and 81 percent year-over-year. Helped along by a surge in both deal volume…
Venture funding in Toronto, British Columbia rebounds in second quarter of 2023
Capital converges on a select few winners as Toronto and BC megadeals make a comeback. Following a sluggish start to the year, two of…
Toronto and Montréal added the most tech jobs in Canada in the last five years: Report
Ottawa’s tech talent concentration is higher than San Francisco’s Bay Area, CBRE says. Within Canada, Toronto and Montréal added the most tech talent jobs…
Here’s how much Canada’s top public tech company CEOs were paid last year
Shopify, OpenText, Telus, CGI, Descartes Systems Group, and Constellation Software all made the list. Executives at public tech companies faced a challenging year in…
Canada saw over 30,000 tech workers immigrate while losing nearly 1,700 to the US
Canada largely benefits from US tech companies expanding to Canada, the report found. Canada saw an intake of over 30,000 tech workers from abroad…
Waterloo tops global list of enrolment for computer science students
Waterloo topped the list in terms of enrolment, while U of T was the top-ranked Canadian school. Three Canadian universities have made a list…
PitchBook analysts say 2023 VC funding is “pretty much shot,” long-term recovery appears likely
As the economy has deteriorated, non-traditional investors have pulled back from the venture capital (VC) space and the initial public offering (IPO) market has…
2022 angel investment in Canada mirrored VC dip, dropping 37 percent year-over-year
While deal count rose, angels disproportionately favoured existing portfolio firms. Like other investor groups, Canadian angels felt the burn of the market downturn last…
Cohere is the highest ranking Canadian startup on Bessemer’s top 100 deeptech companies
Deep technology companies are building solutions that ‘were science fiction in the past,’ Bessemer says. Toronto-based Cohere is the highest-ranking Canadian startup in Bessemer…