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CategorySonder to Create 700 Jobs in Montreal
Who says you can’t come home again?
During what looked like a Covid-19 press conference earlier today, Sonder cofounder Martin Picard a..
Video streaming company Haivision goes public on TSX
Real-time video streaming company Haivision Solutions is going public on the Toronto Stock Exchange for $30 million.
The Saint-Laurent ..
Montreal’s Blaise Transit, Ottawa’s RideShark partner up in transit space
Blaise Transit, a Montreal on-demand transit platform, has inked a partnership with RideShark, an Ottawa-based multimodal Mobility-as-a-Se..
AIfred Health Raises a “Healthy” Seed Financing Round
In the midst of a global pandemic, one might expect that Medtech companies could make for an attractive investment. Particularly startups ..
Montreal entrepreneur gets nod on Forbes 30 under 30: Energy list
A Montreal entrepreneur was named as part of Forbes’ 30 under 30: Energy list for 2021. HaiLa Technologies founder/CIO Charlotte Savage ea..
Element AI to be Sold to US Interests
Silicon Valley software company ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), a $100 billion American giant, has announced an agreement to acquire Montreal-base..
SCALE AI will invest $1 million to help guide youth towards STEM fields
The Montreal-headquartered SCALE AI supercluster will invest $1 million over the next two years in projects that will raise awareness abou..
Investors Unite to Narrow Gender Funding Imbalance
For those of you who haven’t heard, there is a gigantic gap between the amount of VC dollars women entrepreneurs receive versus their male..
Silofit Funding up to $4.6M, Opens Multiple new Gyms
Nearly a year ago to the day we brought you the story of a $1 million seed round for Montreal FitTech startup Silofit, which makes tiny, p..
Hardbacon on Dragons’ Den: TV investors charbroil founder Julien Brault
Up in smoke. It was over in an instant for Julien Brault after the celebrity investors on CBC’s Dragons’ Den shredded his business idea an..
Police respond to hostage call at Ubisoft Montreal building, but no threat detected
Update: in the end, it doesn’t appear as though there was any situation at all. Police responded to a call reporting a hostage situation a..
Quebec’s new ‘Innovation Zones’ will launch early 2021, says government
Quebec’s government is close to launching five “Innovation Zones” throughout the province, Minister of Economy Pierre Fitzgibbon confirmed..
California’s Caspio opens data centre in Montreal, its first in Canada
Caspio, a low-code development platform for building online database applications, is unveiling its first data centre in Canada. The Santa..
BSM and BDC Launch Scaleup Services
The Invincible Collective is the name chosen for the first suite of services specifically designed for scaleups to be launched in Quebec. ..
Fintech Growth Creates Canada’s Newest Unicorn
For years Wealthsimple has been one of Canada’s leading financial technology companies and operates one of the country’s largest and faste..