Opinion: The quiet militarization of Canadian AI | BetaKit
Canadian AI styles itself as ethical but is reorienting towards military and dual-use technology. Mélina Poulin is a PhD…
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JetScaleAI secures $5.4 million to keep cloud costs and climate impact down | BetaKit
Former Dataperformers leaders aim to help companies optimize their cloud infrastructure. As computing costs and climate impact soar amid…
YSpace, York University open the door between Canada and Korea’s tech ecosystem | BetaKit
Agreements between the two tech economies will help founders access research, capital, and global markets. Canadian entrepreneurship and innovation…
Loop aims to make screen-scraping obsolete for business accounts | BetaKit
Toronto FinTech targets enterprise accounts as it waits for open banking. Toronto FinTech startup Loop is launching a new…
Mesosil’s infection-fighting dental tech gets FDA clearance | BetaKit
Green light lets Toronto-based startup’s technology be sold in US market. Toronto healthtech startup Mesosil has received clearance to…
Backboard.io claims its AI has a better memory than yours | BetaKit
Ottawa startup’s AI platform outperformed other models on two memory benchmarks. Ottawa-based AI startup Backboard.io announced today that its…
Modem closes $4.4-million USD pre-seed round to help developers ship faster | BetaKit
Co-founders from Sentry, Cohere back Toronto startup’s AI product management platform. Before AI, software developers already had to contend…
Haply Robotics raises $16 million to build the “steering wheels” for physical AI | BetaKit
How the Montréal startup plans to own the touch layer of robotics. How do robots touch and feel? As…
Building with AI is now the “price of admission” for software startups, Inovia report says | BetaKit
AI-native startups ate up 40 percent of software deal value in Canada in 2025. Canadian software investors now see…
The startup bringing a piece of America’s FinTech stack to Canada | BetaKit
Slate’s embedded lending infrastructure was purpose-built for Canada. Canadian SaaS platforms have spent years moving deeper into their customers’…
Float secures nearly $100 million in debt to expand credit products for Canadian businesses | BetaKit
FinTech startup says its revenue has grown roughly 70 percent year over year. Toronto-based Float Financial has secured nearly…
Prevoir closes $750K pre-seed round to scale its AI-powered fashion platform | BetaKit
Calgary startup helps retailers and merchandisers single out trends and track fashion analytics. Fashion tech startup Prevoir has closed…
How AI and a “tight” fundraising market are reshaping Canadian proptech | BetaKit
Proptech Collective says 2025 brought signs of maturity, fewer exits, and some possible tailwinds. The real estate industry is…
Mila and Inovia launch venture fund to turn AI research “diamonds” into startups | BetaKit
Québec AI institute Mila and Montréal venture firm Inovia Capital have partnered to launch an early-stage venture fund as…
Chata Technologies closes $10-million USD Series A to scale deterministic AI model | BetaKit
Calgary startup targets financial sector with AI model built to give consistent answers. Calgary’s Chata Technologies announced the closure…
The Canadian company solving AI’s latency problem | BetaKit
PolarGrid CEO Rade Kovacevic believes GenAI video and voice will be killer apps once they can function in real-time. …
Science&Humans raises $10 million as hormone health enters the mainstream | BetaKit
Toronto startup hopes Series A round will propel it beyond its 60,000 patients. After seven years bootstrapping a telemedicine…
Slate raises $1.3 million to deliver embedded lending infrastructure to Canadian platforms | BetaKit
Vancouver startup aims to help firms provide SMB loans without building infrastructure. Slate has closed $1.3 million CAD in…