Mortgage startup nesto gets $11.5 million from Diagram, Investissement Quebec and others
nesto, a fintech company that analyzes and finds mortgage solutions for clients, has raised $11.5 million from Montreal company crea..
Vention Raises $38M Series B
Just 14 months after announcing a massive $17 million series A last year, Montreal’s industrial automation darling Vention is at it again,..
Bios Health and Mila hook up for $800K neural biomarker research collab
BIOS Health will partner with Mila, McGill University and the Université de Montréal to develop an AI-controlled closed-loop neuromodulati..
Tel Aviv, Montreal-based Greeneye gets $9.5 million for AI agricultural tech
Greeneye Technology, a tech company based in Tel Aviv and Montreal, is raising $9.5 million (US $7 million) for its AI platform that detec..
Scale AI, Canadian universities invest $20 million into AI research
Scale AI, the Montreal-based artificial intelligence (AI) supercluster, will invest $10 million to create at least 10 university chairs de..
Lightspeed Revenue Way Up, Still Reports Loss
Montreal’s Lightspeed POS announced year end results May 21. This marked the end of the company’s first full year as a public entity. The ..
Op ed: Cheers to Sylvain Carle as he writes his next chapter
I read with interest this morning the news that Sylvain Carle is leaving Real Ventures. Carle will move on to greener pastures (pun intend..
Breaking: Montreal travel app Hopper raises nearly $100 million
Montreal and Boston-based travel app Hopper has raised 98.5 million (US $70 million) from San Francisco-based Westcap. Also joining the ro..
Teen Finance Startup Born as 100% Remote Work Culture
Wingocard is one of Montreal’s newest fintech startups, but with one important twist. When Sebastien Brault, Mehdi Mehni and Salvatore D’A..
Management software platform Planbox acquires IdeaConnection
Laval’s Planbox, which offers an idea-to-product innovation management platform for companies, is acquiring its Victoria, BC-based competi..
Relationship productivity platform Bliinx gets $1 million
Bliinx, a Montreal relationship productivity and collaboration startup, has raised $1 million in pre-seed pre-seed money, led by AltaIR Ca..
A Covid-19 Check-up on Montreal’s Innovation Hubs
Covid-19 has posed unprecedented challenges for business as we know it, as well as healthcare, commerce and tourism. While many programs h..
Scale AI Funds 8 Projects to Combat the Pandemic
Scale AI, Canada’s Montreal-based AI-for-supply-chains supercluster, has announced new funding for a number of initiatives in an effort to..
Montreal’s Medteq Invest gives funding to three Canadian tech companies
Medteq Invest, a Montreal medical technology fund, is investing in three companies across Canada.
We know who two of them are, while th..
New tech hires: Element AI brings on 2 C-level execs
Well known Montreal company Element AI has named two new C-level executives to its team this this week. This on the heels of an important ..