How founders are rethinking capital in the AI era | BetaKit
CIBC’s Gradient Ascent Podcast examines how AI is changing round timing and allocation. AI is giving early-stage founders more…
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Portage closes fourth FinTech VC fund at $600 million USD | BetaKit
Portage is the FinTech investment arm of Power Corporation-owned Sagard. As the national focus turns to catalyzing investment capital…
Q&A: Adam Felesky on why Canadian FinTech is missing domestic growth capital | BetaKit
Portage CEO argues pension funds should back more Canadian GPs and companies. Ahead of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Canada…
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,…
VC firm with ties to Siri to launch Japan fund for AI, space startups
Technology Silicon Valley tech licensing, capital to help Japanese companies go global A joint venture between Global Innovation Labs and…
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…
EV Battery Inspection Startup Liminal Raises $17.5 Million In Funding
Liminal, an EV battery inspection startup, announced a successful $17.5 million Series A2 funding round. The investment round was led…
Conexus Venture Capital invests in FinTech Judi.ai |
The venture capital branch of Saskatchewan’s Conexus Credit Union is investing in an AI platform that streamlines small-business loan…
AI Startups With No Revenue Are Using This Tactic To Supersize Their Valuations
In November 2025, David Silver, the renowned former scientist at Google DeepMind, dialed into a Zoom meeting with a venture…
Pandemic Darling Hopin Was Sold For Scraps. Now Its Founder Is Working On An AI Device
Johnny Boufarhat’s Hopin had one of the most spectacular rise and falls of a pandemic-era startup hitting a $8 billion…
AI investment firm DevCap closes $5 million as it eyes public listing
10 startups in, the poker players-turned-VC behind the firm unpack its progress and plans. Montréal-based Developer Capital (DevCap) has…
Japan medical startups need more than tech to break into US: VC executive
Startups ‘Commitment to success is crucial,’ Kicker Ventures managing partner says SoftBank’s Pepper robot greets patients at a hospital in Tokyo. ©…
The AI Funding Divide: Why VCs Will Miss the Next Healthcare Category Kings (And Where CEOs Should Look Instead) – MedCity News
From how deals get sourced to how capital allocators think, generative AI is reshaping how venture capital works. For many,…
Earth-Mapping AI Startup Secures $130M for Satellite Tech – iHLS
Representational image of a satellite This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew) Spanish startup Xoople…
Fintech, SaaS push India VC funding to USD 16 bn in 2025
New Delhi India’s Venture Capital (VC) and growth funding ecosystem continued to expand in 2025, with investments rising…
Canadian VCs are starting to fear an AI-driven “SaaSpocalypse” | BetaKit
At CIX Summit’s Investor Forum, VCs grappled with AI’s impact on an already tough market. Canadian technology investors are…
Defense AI Startup Raises €30M to Revolutionize Missile Manufacturing – iHLS
Representational image of a businessman This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew) Estonian startup Frankenburg has secured €30 million…
SpendRule raises $2M, emerges from stealth to help hospitals track spending | TechCrunch
Last year, Chris Heckler was coming to the end of a five-year non-compete after selling his last company, a health…