NorthStar Gaming secures 2 awards for FIFA World Cup ad campaign
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NorthStar Gaming secures 2 awards for FIFA World Cup ad campaign

NorthStar Gaming obtained two esteemed awards in recognition of the advertising campaign it started in 2022. The first was Clio Sports’ Silver Award for Fan…

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Vistara Growth secures $200-million CAD initial close for fifth private credit fund
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Vistara Growth secures $200-million CAD initial close for fifth private credit fund

Vistara sees opportunity post-SVB as traditional lenders and VCs pull back. Vancouver-based Vistara Growth has raised over $200 million CAD for its latest technology-focused…

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Leav secures $2.3 million in seed funding for its mobile self-checkout solution
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Leav secures $2.3 million in seed funding for its mobile self-checkout solution

The funding round was led by Nicolas Bouchard’s venture capital firm Exo10. Montréal-based mobile checkout startup Leav has raised $2.3 million CAD in seed…

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Cohere announces $270 million Series C from Inovia, Nvidia, Oracle, Salesforce
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Founded by Alphabet alums, Canadian-led AI hardware startup Extropic secures over $14 million

Run by @BasedBeffJezos, Extropic’s backers include Tobias Lütke, Cohere co-founders. Canadian-led, United States-based Extropic has closed $14.1 million in seed funding to build “physics-based…

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FinChat secures $1.5 million USD from Social Leverage to expand AI-powered stock research platform
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FinChat secures $1.5 million USD from Social Leverage to expand AI-powered stock research platform

Earlier this year, Toronto-based FinTech startup Stratosphere—an investment research analytics platform led by the co-founder and co-host of The Canadian Investor Podcast (TCI)—decided to…

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Asian food delivery service Fantuan secures $40-million Series C round
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Asian food delivery service Fantuan secures $40-million Series C round

The funding will be used to improve its platform and explore an expansion into other service sectors. Burnaby, British Columbia-based Fantuan has closed $40…

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Hoping to be the go-to platform for blockchain devs, Uniblock secures $3.1 million CAD

Uniblock aims to unify fragmented blockchain tools into a single platform. Toronto-based Web3 startup Uniblock has secured $3.1 million CAD ($2.3 million USD) in…

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Cavelo secures $5-million Inovia-led seed round to help financial services firms protect their data
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Cavelo secures $5-million Inovia-led seed round to help financial services firms protect their data

With cybersecurity no longer just “a big company problem,” Cavelo eyes US expansion. Kitchener-Waterloo-based cybersecurity startup Cavelo has closed $5 million CAD in seed…

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Brickeye secures $5 million CAD in convertible debt round with participation from BDC and Graphite Ventures
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Brickeye secures $5 million CAD in convertible debt round with participation from BDC and Graphite Ventures

Brickeye provides construction companies with job site monitoring, analytics, and smart automations. Toronto-based Brickeye, a construction-focused internet of things (IoT) and data analytics company,…

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Google and Nvidia-backed CentML secures $37 million CAD to help companies deploy AI amid chip shortages
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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,…

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