Smart Cities AI Challenge: Taking urban challenges to Canada’s AI startups at ALL IN | BetaKit
Smart Cities AI Challenge is one of three reverse pitch competitions at Canada’s largest AI and tech event. As…
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How the AI era is rewriting venture capital’s old rules | BetaKit
Michele Romanow and Christina Fox on how the AI era could change who Canadian investors back. A decade ago,…
Launch alum closes $1.6 million to support healthier living with The Wellness Company | BetaKit
BDC, BKR, Launch back former Jason Calacanis associate’s consumer healthtech vision. After seven years in media and venture capital…
Peripheral nets $8.7 million USD to bring spatial intelligence tech to sports | BetaKit
Deloitte Ventures, Inovia Capital back Toronto startup’s AI for live sports vision. Toronto-based AI startup Peripheral Labs announced on…
Selena Gomez sued for alleged fraud over mental health startup
Open this photo in gallery: Investors, who seek to recoup their investments and legal fees, argue that Gomez and other…
Convictional to shut down, return investor money, after AI-era pivot falls short | BetaKit
Former B2B e-commerce startup says it couldn’t find enough customers for its Slack alternative. Kitchener-Waterloo-based technology company Convictional is…
Fisent Technologies raises $4.3 million USD to help enterprises automate AI use | BetaKit
Toronto startup’s revenue grew more than 200 percent last year amid economy-wide rush to adopt AI. Toronto’s Fisent Technologies…
Transformer Lab wants to automate research with new AI tool Primus
The AI lab claims it has produced 30 “Masters to PhD-level” research papers in 30 days. Kitchener-Waterloo-based AI research…
SAAS NORTH AI, Dominion Dynamics launch new dual-use defence summit | BetaKit
Deploy is a founder-focused summit in Ottawa for companies expanding into defence. Canadian conference SAAS NORTH AI is partnering…
Superwhisper partners with Cohere for all-Canadian voice-to-text AI | BetaKit
Cohere is partnering with fellow AI startup Superwhisper to have its transcription model power the Toronto startup’s voice-to-text dictation..…
Ramp fully launches in Canada alongside new Toronto office | BetaKit
New York-based FinTech enters a market currently held by domestic players like Float and Venn. New York City-based FinTech…
Vena Solutions set to acquire Morpheo AI in agentic capability push | BetaKit
Toronto startups combine to deepen the role of AI in financial planning and analysis. FinTech company Vena Solutions has…
Cohere joins Silicon Valley heavyweights in call for open-source AI | BetaKit
AI’s biggest players sign on to Jensen Huang letter supporting open-weight AI models—except for Anthropic. Canadian AI scaleup Cohere…
They helped pioneer deep learning in Canada. Now they’re building AI to replace CEOs | BetaKit
Former Maluuba co-founders launch Skyfall AI to prove “world models” can run your company. The Montréal and Kitchener-Waterloo deep…
Pascal Siakam’s edtech accelerator awards three startups with $50,000 | BetaKit
It was the beloved former Raptor’s second year co-judging the DMZ co-hosted event. NBA champion “Spicy P” was back…
Tailscale catches AI tailwinds as it nears 40,000 paid business customers | BetaKit
New VP Mike Shaver to guide startup’s next phase amid AI agent recommendation boom. Toronto-based Tailscale is on the…
Kitematic founders nab $65 million USD to help devs run open-source AI locally with Ollama
The open-source AI developer tool has grown to nearly nine million users. Canadian-founded, Palo Alto-based software startup Ollama has…
Chinese AI model takes U.S. tech industry by surprise with abilities rivaling Claude and ChatGPT
Open this photo in gallery: People stand near Moonshot’s booth during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, on…