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TagThe Caisse unveils new mega-fund for AI businesses
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) has announced the creation of a $250 million fund for artificial intelligence (AI) busin..
Corporate events platform Entr gets $1.3 million seed funding
Montreal-based Entr, a turnkey corporate events platform that allows event planners to book everything in one place, has raised $1.3 milli..
Four golden tickets up for grabs as New York’s Zola plants a stake in Montreal
New York-based ‘wed-tech’ startup Zola is headed to Montreal, ready to hand out four golden tickets to talented engineers in the city.
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Habs-themed fantasy game is the most Montreal bot ever
A new Montreal startup has created a fantasy sports game allowing friends to compete against each other when Montreal Canadiens games are ..
Maluuba releases ‘world’s largest question-answering AI dataset’
Montreal’s Maluuba has created what it is calling the first human-made question-answering dataset for artificial intelligence (AI) researc..
MTL ➡️ SF: Paper Anniversary by Anna V. eyes $1 million in 2017
MTLinTECH visited with Montreal entrepreneurs who made the jump and moved their startup to Silicon Valley. Here’s their stories.
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Cricket-made Naak bar ups the ante with crowdfund
The folks behind Naak energy bars for runners and athletes have launched a new crowdfunding campaign in an effort to ramp up production. T..
The Coworker: Le Salon 1861 blends history with social impact
The Coworker is a new weekly series by MTLinTECH that spotlights one Montreal coworking space every Tuesday.
Walking into Le Salon ..
Tournée des Entrepreneurs returns for Bromont, Mont-Tremblant
LP Maurice and Credo Productions’ Tournée des Entrepreneurs is back for its third consecutive year this fall. The annual Quebec trip took ..
Humans over bots in online sales: Salesfloor raises series A cash
Montreal’s Salesfloor is moving forward after it raised an undisclosed series A round of funding from WhiteStar Capital.
Salesfloor is ..
We Are Wearables Montreal event spies mainstream potential
We Are Wearables is coming to Montreal.
The popular wearables community of over 100,000 members with chapters in Toronto, Ottawa, Chica..
GradeSlam tutoring platform raises $1.6 million
GradeSlam and its one-on-one, chat-based tutoring platform has raised $1.6 million in a round led by Pittsburgh and San Francisco-based Bi..
Local Logic’s unlikely entrepreneur makes city data more accessible
Vincent-Charles Hodder wasn’t planning to become an entrepreneur when he began studying for his master’s degree in Urban Planning. That wa..
Weekend roundup: farming startup Intelia raises ‘massive’ funding round
Several tech news stories in Montreal made headlines over the past few days, including Intelia, a Joliette-based livestock farming startup..
Bixi-style bikes to get SmartHalo tech in 15 cities
Bike-sharing services in 15 cities around the world could get smarter starting next spring.
Kickstarter darling SmartHalo, which develo..