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S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Hypercontext’s HR pivot looks to accelerate performance reviews with AI
Plus: UK probing Adobe’s $20 billion Figma deal. The SaaS Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering major SaaS news from Canada and around the…
F|T: The FinTech Times – WonderFi completes three-way merger in landmark Canadian crypto deal
Plus: Dapper Labs makes third round of layoffs, Revolut loses $20M to theft. Welcome to the FinTech Times, a weekly newsletter covering the biggest…
ventureLAB unveils Hardware Angel Network, supporting pre-seed and seed-stage hardware startups
The network plans to make its first investments in the fall, with a focus on deep tech, hardware, and semiconductors. In what appears to…
“There’s a revolution in the wings”: Why Canada’s semiconductor industry needs an overhaul
Blumind co-founder says AI will consume the world’s energy if semiconductors don’t become more efficient. The explosive growth of generative AI is blowing up…
Canadian startup news of the week (5/14/23)
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…
VentureLab president and CEO Melissa Chee steps down as tech hub looks for new leader
Chee led VentureLab in launching initiatives to support Canada’s semiconductor industry amid the global chip shortage. VentureLab has announced its president and CEO…
Ontario commits $19 million to the province’s regional tech hubs to bolster EV manufacturing
ventureLAB, Communitech, Invest Ottawa, NORCAT among the recipients. The Government of Ontario is committing $19 million CAD to the province’s regional tech development sites…
How Canada can get a big slice of the trillion-dollar global semiconductor market
Leaders explain why hardware is cool again ahead of HardTech Conference. Even before the 2011 prediction that “software is eating the world,” the proliferation…
VentureLab secures $2.5 million in provincial funding to expand semiconductor incubator
Funding enables VentureLab to build a new medtech lab in Vaughan. Markham, Ontario-based tech hub VentureLab has received a $2.5 million CAD investment from…