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Meet the Y Combinator Summer 2023 cohort startups with Canadian connections
Participants include Decoda Health, Greenlite, LifestyleRX, Spine AI, Tempo Labs, Terminal, and VaultPay. Seven Canadian-affiliated tech startups are participating in Y Combinator’s Summer 2022…
H|T: The Healthtech Times – How Y Combinator decides which health care startups are worth a shot
Plus: Silofit closes its doors, VoxNeuro raises $4.5M to scale brain performance. The Healthtech Times is a weekly newsletter covering healthtech news from Canada…
YC-backed Reworkd secures $1.65 million CAD to build AI agents for business tasks
Founded by a trio of Vancouverites, Reworkd has nabbed funding from Panache. Reworkd AI has closed $1.65 million CAD ($1.25 million USD) in pre-seed…
Rose Rocket raises $50.2 million CAD Series B to expand trucking solution
The maker of transportation-management software plans to target larger fleets with this latest raise. Rose Rocket, a maker of transportation management software (TMS), said…
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Inside Janet Bannister’s new fund for B2B software startups
Plus: Salesforce is culling management layers. The SaaS Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering major SaaS news from Canada and around the globe. Subscribe…
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Lululemon’s failed attempt at becoming a tech company
Plus: Felix and Eli raise new rounds. The Healthtech Times is a weekly newsletter covering healthtech news from Canada and around the globe. Subscribe…
Ariglad raises $1.3 million to help HR teams communicate better, fulfill ticket systems
Ariglad’s AI directs employee questions swiftly to the right parties. Calling itself the only help desk specifically built for human resource (HR) teams, Ariglad…
A|I: The AI Times – Samsung workers made a major error by using ChatGPT
Plus: Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data,…
Meet the Canadian startups participating in Y Combinator’s Winter 2023 Demo Day
A total of 282 companies participated globally. Around six Canadian-related startups are participating in Y Combinator’s Winter 2023 cohort. For Y Combinator’s 36th Demo…
Canadian VC investments in 2022 projected to lag behind 2021 figures, but still top 2020 funding
2022 only saw about a third of the VC funding that was disbursed in 2021. Canadian venture capital (VC) investments slowed down significantly compared…