A|I: The AI Times – As Sam Altman returns to OpenAI, Cohere CEO slams the “self righteousness” of effective altruism
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A|I: The AI Times – As Sam Altman returns to OpenAI, Cohere CEO slams the “self righteousness” of effective altruism

Plus: Microsoft looks to scale Québec presence with $500-million USD investment. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning,…

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S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Q4 Inc. joins pandemic IPOs returning private, Ambyint returns to Calgary
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S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Q4 Inc. joins pandemic IPOs returning private, Ambyint returns to Calgary

Plus: Slack names longtime Salesforce executive Denise Dresser as new CEO. The SaaS Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering major SaaS news from Canada…

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SAAS NORTH panel on seed rounds 2022
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The BetaKit Keynote Stage returns to SAAS NORTH 2023

Workleap, Wealthsimple, OpenView, BDC leaders among stage headliners November 15-16. Good things come in threes. For the third straight year, Canada’s largest in-person SaaS…

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R|T: The Retail Times – Amazon faces FTC antitrust case and free returns backlash

Plus: Meet the Shopify Ventures portfolio. The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news from Canada and around the globe. Subscribe…

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Startup Train returns as Startupfest 2023 announces over $300,000 in prizes

Attendees from the Greater Toronto Area can board the Startup Train to get to the Montréal festival. Startupfest, a celebration of startups in Montréal,…

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Summer camp for Canadian tech is back: Startupfest returns July 12-14

This year: more Premium Fests, Investor Match-Ups, fan-favourite Grandma judges, and BetaKit. Startupfest has announced its Big Picture Agenda, highlighting some of the major…

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Tehama returns as management team buys it out of bankruptcy

CEO Paul Vallée said he’s “pretty chuffed” about the new startup. The founder and former executive team of Ottawa-based Tehama Inc. have restructured and…

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Frate secures $2 million CAD to make e-commerce returns sustainable, cost-effective
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Frate secures $2 million CAD to make e-commerce returns sustainable, cost-effective

Founded earlier this year by a recent business school graduate, Toronto-based startup Frate is on a mission to “reinvent returns for the betterment of…

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The BetaKit Keynote Stage returns to SAAS NORTH 2022

1Password, Coveo, Paddle CEOs, OMERS, Georgian, Bessemer VCs headline the stage November 16-17. For the second straight year, Canada’s largest in-person SaaS community has…

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WCOOP Returns With an Entertaining Schedule
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WCOOP Returns With an Entertaining Schedule

World Championship of Online Poker, popularly identified as WCOOP, has returned with 12 championship events. These will be on top of the regular schedule that…

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