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Byline: SEAN SILCOFF, JOSH O'KANE With interest in artificial intelligence exploding into the mainstream, Toronto's Radical Ventures has raised more than US$350-million for its second fund focused on startups in [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff One of the few Canadian venture capital firms led by a woman is aiming to raise $100-million for its second fund after backing two of the [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF, TEMUR DURRANI Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a $40-million contribution Monday to a Toronto startup that has vaulted to the lead in the global race to develop [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff After years of disappointing innovation programs that haven't fixed Canada's chronic economic underperformance, the Liberal government is still trying to get it right. Its latest attempt [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF, JOSH O'KANE Ask anyone involved with the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy if the federal program has been a success and you'll get a decisive 'yes.' 'When we [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff U.S. private equity giant Thoma Bravo has agreed to buy cybercrime software maker Magnet Forensics, a darling of Canada's technology scene, for $1.8-billion and will merge [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF, JOSH O'KANE Canada has been the worst performing advanced economy in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development since 1976. Governments of all partisan stripes have tried [...]

Byline: JOSH O'KANE, SEAN SILCOFF Vancouver social-media dashboard company Hootsuite Inc. replaced its chief executive officer and began its third major round of layoffs in six months Wednesday amid one [...]

Byline: JOSH O'KANE, SEAN SILCOFF Montreal payments-and-retail platform Lightspeed Commerce Inc. said it will lay off about 300 people, or roughly 10 per cent of its workforce, as it stitches [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff Clearco and Thinkific Labs are very different Canadian technology companies: one advances cash online to e-commerce operators. The latter sells a platform used to create and [...]

Byline: SUSAN KRASHINSKY ROBERTSON, SEAN SILCOFF Kelly-Anne Hollingshead is getting creative with cabbage. Seven bags of shredded cabbage mix, to be exact, which she bought on the Flashfood mobile app [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. -- It was August, 2021, and the technology sector was overheating. Companies were going public at a torrid clip. Each week another Canadian [...]

Byline: JOSH O'KANE, SEAN SILCOFF School-application startup ApplyBoard Inc. quietly replaced chief executive officer Martin Basiri with his brother Meti Basiri last fall, seven years after they founded one of [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff The founder of Canada's largest agriculture technology company, Vancouver's SemiosBio Technologies Inc., is resigning as chief executive after deciding he prefers to govern companies, not run [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF, TEMUR DURRANI Mike Silagadze survived what he calls a sectorwide 'atom bomb' - the blow-up of cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading Ltd. - scathed and chagrined, but not [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff Elizabeth May said she decided to run for the leadership of the federal Green Party for a second time last spring over concerns that the world [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff Autonomous driving luminary Raquel Urtasun is ready to take her show on the road. Ms. Urtasun's Waabi Innovation Inc. is officially rolling out its artificial intelligence-powered [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff Export Development Canada has led a US$72-million investment in Calgary warehouse robotics startup Attabotics Inc., part of a recent strategy by the Crown corporation to boost [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. has raised US$100-million on the heels of a scientific breakthrough that vaulted the Toronto startup to the lead in the global race [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff One of Canada's most highly funded technology companies, online travel agency Hopper, has raised another US$96-million from partner and backer Capital One Financial Corp. as the [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff Stock of Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. fell to a three-year low Thursday after the Victoria-based company cut its revenue forecast for this year and introduced tepid 2023 [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff BCE Inc.'s Bell Canada has launched a corporate venture capital arm, joining a slew of prominent Canadian corporations that have committed to backing technology startups since [...]

Byline: ANDREW WILLIS, SEAN SILCOFF The head of the Competition Bureau made the case for reforms to Canada's takeover regulations on Thursday, arguing consumers, businesses and the economy are suffering [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff Shares of Zymeworks Inc. rose by 15.7 per cent Wednesday after it announced an unusual licensing deal with Irish company Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC that could be [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff Michele Romanow's startup Clearco has raised fresh financing - including from the Dragons' Den star herself - and hired a new chief financial officer as the [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff Alberta's engineering regulator is in a fight with the province's technology sector, insisting anyone with the title 'software engineer' must hold a permit - and pay [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff Dye & Durham Ltd. isn't ready to give up on Australia's Link Administration Holdings Ltd. yet apparently. The Toronto legal software consolidator's megadeal to buy Link [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff One of the few Canadian venture capital firms run by a woman, Toronto's Two Small Fish Ventures, is looking to take a more prominent role in [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff For two decades, Matt Holland operated in a secret world: first for the Communications Security Agency, Canada's cyberspy agency, then building a startup that sold software [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff Mutual-fund giant Fidelity Investments has slashed the valuations on its holdings in several private Canadian technology companies including Hootsuite Inc. and ApplyBoard, Inc., reflecting a broader [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff Dye & Durham Ltd.'s attempted takeover of Australia's Link Administration Holdings Ltd. is dead after the latter walked away from a deal that had been put [...]

Byline: JOSH O'KANE, SEAN SILCOFF A layaCare had some promising acquisition candidates lined up at the start of 2022, including one worth about $10-million that Adrian Schauer, chief executive officer [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff Another high-profile Canadian startup has laid off staff in response to a worsening economic outlook. Ada Support Inc., a Torontobased artificial-intelligence startup that has become a [...]

Byline: JAMES BRADSHAW, SEAN SILCOFF Royal Bank of Canada has merged its technology banking unit with its Ventures business that nurtures companies outside traditional banking as it looks to expand [...]

SEAN SILCOFF in 38 companies with women leaders. BDC is also committing $100-million for a new initiative it calls the 'Thrive Lab.' It will co-invest through the lab with smaller-scale [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff Janet Bannister, one of the few women to lead a major Canadian venture capital fund, is departing Real Ventures after the firm struggled to raise a [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff Lumira Ventures, one of Canada's top investors in private health sciences startups, is launching a hedge fund to bet on publicly traded companies it believes have [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff A slew of North American institutional and impact investors are backing what will be the largest - and one of the few - venture funds that [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff For the second time this year, a British regulator has complicated Toronto legal software consolidator Dye & Durham Ltd.'s global expansion plans, throwing its largest-ever deal [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff Judi Hess, one of the few women to lead a Toronto Stock Exchange-listed technology company, is stepping down as CEO of Vancouver's Copperleaf Technologies Inc., but [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff One of Canada's high-profile unicorns, Michele Romanow's financial technology startup Clearco, is retreating from foreign markets and shedding more staff after cutting a quarter of its [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff BlackBerry Ltd.'s deal to sell most of its patents for US$600million has fallen apart after lead financier Third Eye Capital abandoned the transaction this month. Waterloo, [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff For three years in the late 2000s, PhD students in the lab of University of Toronto chemistry professor Cynthia Goh explored ways to build a business [...]

Byline: JOSH O'KANE; Staff Shares of British Columbia quantum-computing startup D-Wave Quantum Inc. popped nearly 16 per cent on their first day of trading Monday after merging with a special-purpose [...]