Tech Ecosystem in Markham Empowers Founder to Tackle Major Construction Bottleneck

Tech Ecosystem in Markham Empowers Founder to Tackle Major Construction Bottleneck

Two years ago, Lisa Mohapatra moved from Bangalore to Canada aiming to revamp a traditional industry. Her focus was integrating deep tech into preconstruction, covering…

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Friendlier Secures $4.5 Million to Aid Food Service Operators in Eliminating Single-Use Containers

Friendlier Secures $4.5 Million to Aid Food Service Operators in Eliminating Single-Use Containers

Guelph, Ont.-based cleantech startup Friendlier has secured $4.5 million CAD to expand its efforts in reducing single-use waste for food service operators. This funding round…

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Bankruptcy Documents Indicate Struggling Sales Pipeline Led to Uvaro and Lighthouse Labs' Downfall Post-Acquisition

Bankruptcy Documents Indicate Struggling Sales Pipeline Led to Uvaro and Lighthouse Labs’ Downfall Post-Acquisition

In January, Kitchener-Waterloo-based workforce training platform Uvaro acquired Lighthouse Labs, a coding school, making it a subsidiary. Seven months later, both filed for bankruptcy. Canadian…

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WonderFi Q2 Earnings Reveal Increasing Losses Before Robinhood Acquisition

WonderFi Q2 Earnings Reveal Increasing Losses Before Robinhood Acquisition

WonderFi faced a challenging second quarter (Q2) ahead of Robinhood’s planned $250-million CAD acquisition of the Canadian crypto firm, which is expected to finalize in…

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Healwell to Divest Research and Patient Businesses to Focus on AI

Healwell to Divest Research and Patient Businesses to Focus on AI

Healwell is focusing exclusively on artificial intelligence (AI) and data science, as both it and parent company Well Health record record-breaking second-quarter earnings. The healthtech…

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Cohere Raises $500 Million at $6.8 Billion Valuation, Recruits Former Uber and Meta Executives

Cohere Raises $500 Million at $6.8 Billion Valuation, Recruits Former Uber and Meta Executives

Toronto-based AI scaleup Cohere has secured $500 million USD ($690 million CAD) in new funding and appointed two former execs from Meta and Uber to…

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Landbase Acquires Adauris Team and Tech to Enhance AI Roadmap

Landbase Acquires Adauris Team and Tech to Enhance AI Roadmap

American AI startup Landbase has acquired its second Canadian AI company this year. Landbase, based in San Francisco but founded in Canada, offers AI go-to-market…

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The Platform and Technology Team Driving AI at TD

The Platform and Technology Team Driving AI at TD

Kirsti Racine delved into AI long before it became trending. Before taking on the role of VP, AI Technology Lead at TD, she completed a…

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How Collectr Turned a Trading Card Hobby into an Eight-Figure Business

How Collectr Turned a Trading Card Hobby into an Eight-Figure Business

In the late 2010s, the founders of the proptech startup Doorr quickly discovered the pressures of running a company and raising capital after quitting their…

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