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Flojoy raises $1.7 million to apply AI into instrumentation testing for heavy industries

Former Plotly CEO moving on to build new Python-based software. Montréal-based Flojoy has raised $1.7 million CAD ($1.3 million USD) in seed funding to…

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A|I: The AI Times – How AI Drake is testing copyright law and fair use
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A|I: The AI Times – How AI Drake is testing copyright law and fair use

Plus: Google combines its competing AI research units. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data, and…

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Eli raises $5 million to make at-home hormone testing for women more accessible

“It will allow us to build a large-scale dataset of daily hormone levels for the first time in history.” Montréal-based healthtech startup Eli, which…

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Satellite component testing startup Connektica raises $2.7 million CAD
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Satellite component testing startup Connektica raises $2.7 million CAD

An indirect player in the space race, Connektica carries out quality assurance testing. “To infinity and beyond,” famously was the catchphrase of animated astronaut…

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Giatec receives $5 million from BDC Capital’s Cleantech Practice to bolster concrete testing tech

Giatec’s clients include construction firms like AECOM, McCarthy. Ottawa-based Giatec, which provides concrete testing technologies, has secured a $5 million investment from BDC Capital’s…

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Verv closes $3.8 million seed round to develop at-home blood testing kit

Sudbury-based healthtech startup Verv has secured $3.8 million CAD in seed funding from United Kingdom vitro diagnostics company Randox Laboratories. Peter Fitzgerald, founder and…

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R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify is testing Shop Cash

Plus: Lightspeed sees a path to profitability. The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news from Canada and around the globe….

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Shopify beta testing new rewards program, Shop Cash

Shopify’s latest Shop app experiment ratchets up potential competition with Amazon. Shopify is testing a rewards program called Shop Cash. The company has quietly…

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Nicoya acquires University of Toronto spinout LSK Technologies to bolster testing capabilities, expedite product roadmap
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Nicoya acquires University of Toronto spinout LSK Technologies to bolster testing capabilities, expedite product roadmap

Deal adds LSK’s “lab-in-a-box” testing platform to Nicoya’s portfolio of digital proteomics tech. Nicoya Lifesciences, which provides advanced analytical instruments to researchers in the…

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OSC reveals seven companies to join testing lab to improve client interactions

Mako, TMX Group, others will test solutions made to know their clients, products better. The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has unveiled seven companies that…

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