Tag: Startup
Beauty tech startup Fyyne acquired by Nigeria-based e-commerce company Bumpa
Fyyne offers a beauty services marketplace and business tools. Toronto-based Fyyne, which offers a marketplace for beauty services and business management tools for independent…
How John Raeder would use his $600 million growth fund to scale your startup
Founders need to “deconstruct” their operating playbooks to rebuild a stronger system. After successfully operating businesses through both the dot-com bust and the 2008…
Fifth-annual Startup Community Awards celebrates Montréal’s innovation ecosystem
Real Ventures’ John Stokes, Ora Medical among the night’s winners. Montréal’s tech ecosystem has recognized 15 local startups, stakeholders, and leaders at the fifth…
Startup TNT completes first close of targeted $5-million venture fund
Fund I will write $50,000 cheques to winners of Startup TNT investment summits. In May 2019, Zack Storms launched what became an Edmonton “Thursday…
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…
Nicotine addiction treatment tech startup Ditch Labs acquires IP assets of French firm Enovap SAS
Acquisition comes nine months after Ditch Labs secured $3.25 million CAD in seed funding. Montréal-based healthtech startup Ditch Labs has acquired a portfolio of…
Real estate investment startup Willow.ca acquired by rental platform Guiker
Majority of Willow’s team “offboarded” prior to acquisition, CEO to join Guiker. Toronto-based proptech startup Willow.ca, which offers a fractional real estate investment platform,…
FinTech startup Peloton Technologies closes $2 million in seed financing
Victoria-based FinTech startup Peloton Technologies has secured $2 million CAD in seed funding just three weeks after acquiring KIS Payments. A spokesperson for Peloton…
Quantum startup Photonic raises $137 million CAD, strikes strategic partnership with Microsoft
Photonic has an “audacious” five-year plan to build a fault-tolerant quantum computing platform. Quantum startup Photonic has raised a $137-million CAD ($100 million USD)…
A|I: The AI Times – Google & Nvidia are betting on this Canadian startup to boost ML model performance
Plus: Hinton and Bengio among leaders signing new AI policy letter. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning,…