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Universities of Regina, British Columbia among 19 recipients of CRIN’s $16.1 million CAD commitment to clean up Canada’s oil and gas industry
Author: George Holt Published Date: November 6, 2023
CRIN received $100 million from the SIF in 2020 to lower the environment impacts of fossil fuels. The Clean Resource Innovation Network (CRIN) has…
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Canadian government ups semiconductor focus, invests $36 million in Ranovus
Author: George Holt Published Date: March 27, 2023
Ranovus investment part of a $100-million project to advance Canadian semiconductor manufacturing, production. Ottawa-based Ranovus has secured $36 million CAD through the Canadian federal…
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Sanctuary secures $30 million from Canada’s SIF to build robots with human-like intelligence
Author: George Holt Published Date: December 1, 2022
The AI startup is expected to hire more than 160 employees. Vancouver-based artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics company Sanctuary Cognitive Systems has received a…
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UgoWork closes $22.8 million Series B to help expand the use of lithium-ion batteries in Fortune 500
Author: George Holt Published Date: November 29, 2022
Canada ranks second in lithium Bloomberg’s lithium supply chain ranking. Québec City-based Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) solutions company UgoWork has raised CAD $22.8 million in a…