Tag: sean o’connor
Megadeal slowdown in Q3 marks three-year low for Canadian venture volume
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…
TechBrew rebrands to 4AG Robotics, closes $17.5-million Series A to build mushroom-picking robots
Backed by BDC, InBC, and Emmertech, 4AG is gearing up to get its tech to farms. Salmon Arm, BC-based mushroom-picking technology startup TechBrew Robotics…
Cultivator’s AgTech accelerator startups surpass $80 million in funding since January 2022
Applications are open for its third cohort set to begin in March. Conexus Credit Union’s AgTech accelerator has revealed in a new report that…
H|T: The Healthtech Times – OMERS Ventures wants you to reset your expectations for healthtech investing
Plus: Pfizer Canada announces inaugural cohort of its Healthcare Hub. The Healthtech Times is a weekly newsletter covering healthtech news from Canada and around…
R|T: The Retail Times – How trucking startup Convoy drove itself into the ground
Plus: Post-Hopper, Expedia partners with Air Miles for new travel booking platform. The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news from…
A|I: The AI Times – OpenAI employee secondary values company at least $80 billion
Plus: Why Korean car makers want Tenstorrent’s AI hardware. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data,…
EDC report says Canada is struggling to convert startups to scaleups
Plus: Ripple Ventures plants flag in Vancouver as part of coast-to-coast Fund III. Welcome to BetaKit’s startup stories of the week! Here, you will…
F|T: The FinTech Times – Procurify, Hiive secure new funding to tackle spend management & secondaries
Plus: Plaid hires first CFO on road to IPO. Welcome to the FinTech Times, a weekly newsletter covering the biggest FinTech news from around…
Conexus, Emmertech alum Sean O’Connor joins TechBrew Robotics as CEO
TechBrew is an Emmertech portfolio firm that builds mushroom-pickling robots. Sean O’Connor, former managing director of Conexus Venture Capital and Emmertech, has joined Salmon…
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Where Amazon’s healthcare bets are headed next
The Healthtech Times is a weekly newsletter covering healthtech news from Canada and around the globe. Subscribe to H|T using the form at the…