LONDON, Ontario – (BUSINESS WIRE) – CARFAX Canada is pleased to announce the appointment of Shawn Vording as its new President, effective March 1, 2024. Currently serving as the VP of Product & Sales, Vording brings a wealth of experience with…
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We have gathered news from all the regional innovation centres (RICs) in Ontario. Be sure to connect with your local RIC to be a part of your local ecosystem.
Livestock farming has an outsized carbon footprint. Creatures with teeny-tiny feet may help shrink it. A farmer’s hours are never 9–5, and Thorpe Farms is no exception. Sure, the chickens and turkeys are up and at ’em at the crack…
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i.d.e.a. Fund impact story: Women’s Global Health Innovations
Leisa Hirtz is passionate about period poverty. As CEO and Founder of the social enterprise Women’s Global Health Innovations, Hirtz and her team are on a mission to support women worldwide to manage their periods healthily and with dignity. Revolutionizing…
SoilOptix®, based in the tiny town of Tavistock, Ontario, has gone global. Supported by its participation in the Government of Canada- supported i.d.e.a. Fund, the company is currently in six of seven continents across the globe and in countries as diverse as…
Feb 29, 2024 By: Zachary Murray and Meghan Boyer, Mann Lawyers, LLP Eureka – you’ve developed an excellent business idea you are passionate about and want to see brought to life. Perhaps you found a partner or two that you…
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Listen up: By eavesdropping on the oceans, scientists are working to protect Canada’s whales
By using AI and drone boats to track whale populations, the hope is it will be easier to keep them safe. For tens of millions of years, humpback whales have built sonatas out of whistles, clicks and groans. They combine…
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Revolutionizing Breast Health Screening with Canada Catalyst Company, Linda Lifetech
At ventureLAB, we're committed to supporting innovative startups that are making a difference in healthcare. We are proud to shine the spotlight on a Canada Catalyst company, Linda Lifetech, a company that's transforming breast health screening with cutting-edge technology.Rubens Fernando…
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Startup Resilience Navigating Relationships for Early-Stage Founders – Altitude Accelerator
originally published: 2024-02-27 11:34:48 Jennifer CameronThank you, Hessie. Hessie JonesOK, so let’s start from the beginning when for both of you and I’ll start with Devin, tell us, tell me about your early startup experience. You developed this amazing idea. You…
Feb 27, 2024 This featured story is brought to you by the Power of Why Podcast in collaboration with Invest Ottawa, with critical support from BDC Capital’s Thrive Venture Fund, the Title Sponsor of International Women’s Month 2024. We teamed…
Burlington, Ontario, Canada – February 27, 2024 – Haltech Regional Innovation Centre is proud to celebrate the graduation of 15 exceptional women-led startups from the 5th cohort of our Beyond Boundaries program. The graduation ceremony, held on February 27th, 2024,…
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Inspiring healthy eating with free workplace wellness events
LONDON, ON, Feb. 21, 2024 /CNW/ – NutriProCan Dietitians, a leading provider of nutrition counselling and consulting, is excited to announce a transformational initiative aiming at boosting nutrition wellness programs. In a commitment to empowering Canadians to build healthy eating habits and…
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Prescription for Success | TechAlliance of Southwestern Ontario
The recently concluded Ontario Bioscience Innovation Organization (OBIO) Investment Summit 2024 brought forward the much-needed discussions around scalability, investment readiness and the overall landscape of the life sciences sector in Canada. A premier event, this year’s summit saw investors from…
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Why you need to make inclusion a corporate priority
Recent reports suggest EDI advisors are leaving tech companies at a disproportionately high rate. CILAR’s Maya Roy explains why this trend is bad for business. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in 2020, businesses pledged to tackle racism in…
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Synmedix: Treating infections with the next generation of antibiotics
If there’s one thing that haunts the science community, it’s the antimicrobial resistance crisis. Put simply, if bacteria and fungi develop the ability to defeat the drugs that are designed to kill them, it could cause more deaths from infections…
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5 AI startups offering productivity-boosting innovations
Canada is a powerhouse when it comes to AI business applications. Some of the most promising startups are helping companies optimize and automate financial insights, legal research and customer service — safely and securely. From the steam engine to the…
Amidst the rapid advancements and trends in artificial intelligence (AI), understanding its impact appears to be crucial and insights from award-winning speaker and facilitator, Ramy Nassar, can help clarify what that means. Nassar, founder of 1000 Days Out, Olive Fintech…
For Mitsubishi Corporation, teamwork and sustainability help catalyze innovation. The quest for net zero can seem insurmountable. There are too many stakeholders, competing factors, processes to update, capital costs. But as Nobuyuki Baba, the senior vice president and head of…
originally published: 2024-02-16 11:25:19 Hessie JonesNo problem. So Samantha is a co-founder and managing director of Skeleton Crew. So their agency is focused on strong high growth return on marketing activities for business facing technologies across Canada and the US.…
When Mystery Furtado, Founder of Type Diabeat-it, came to Canada, she hoped to find solutions in Canada’s medical and healthcare system to potentially solve the long battle of diabetes back in her home country. She soon realized that she was…
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The Rise and Fall… and RISE Of Sam Altman Has GRAVE Implications For AI Research – Altitude Accelerator
originally published: 2024-02-16 13:05:00 From the sidelines, reading the media reports on the weekend of November 17 it was a series of irrepressible events that unfolded that weekend and the coming days. It was considered a tumultuous weekend, a series…
originally published: 2024-02-16 13:25:14 Will new emerging technologies assist engineers in enhancing their capabilities or will their jobs simply be done for them? At Collision, 2023, Hessie Jones met with Maxim Fateev, CEO of Temporal and Anand Kulkarni, CEO of…
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Can We Safeguard Our Identities in an Increasingly Automated Web? – Altitude Accelerator
originally published: 2024-02-16 13:46:44 As of February 2023, 850 million people globally don’t have an ID: no birth certificate, national ID–a legal identification that enables access to basic services like setting up bank accounts, getting a job–a system we’ve taken…
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Is 2024 the Year of Investor Restraint and Startup Resilience? – Altitude Accelerator
originally published: 2024-02-16 14:00:52 Will 2024 will be another challenging year for startup founders? The world bank came out with the following prediction for 2024: “Global growth is projected to slow for the third year in a row—from 2.6% last…
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Hero AI Seeks to Transform Mindsets in the Lagging Healthcare Sector
originally published: 2024-02-16 16:16:34 The resistance to change is emblematic in a sector that has idealized practices and the legacy systems that have been working for decades. One founder seeks to disrupt this. AI adoption continues to lag in the…
Nina Tangri, Ontario’s Associate Minister of Small Business, visited Communitech to meet with startup founders and get a tour of the hub. Against the backdrop of an ever-evolving tech landscape, the minister listened to the challenges faced by startup founders…
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Is 2024 The Year of Investor Restraint and Startup Resilience? 8 Experts Weigh In (Part 3)
originally published: 2024-02-15 10:02:29 For Speakman, whose venture fund invests in later stage clean tech companies in the plastics and polymer upcycling and energy storage to name a few, cash flow will always be king but states, that “in periods…
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CITM facilitating connections between startups and major technology corporations
This article was sponsored by the Centre for Integrated Transportation and Mobility (CITM) and published in partnership with Electric Autonomy Canada. Companies in the transportation and technology sector, such as Nokia and Magna, are teaming up with small businesses through…
Anna Stegink, owner and operator of online grocer Eat Impact, poses for a photograph at the company’s warehouse in Barrie, Ont., on Thursday, February 8, 2024. This article was originally published by Christopher Reynolds of Toronto Star on February…
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the seventh cohort of ventureLAB’s Hardware Catalyst Initiative. This competitive program is designed to propel the development of hardware and…(Read more)Published by ventureLABPublished on February 5, 2024 Original Article on TechAlliance
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Small but mighty: How nanomaterials are reshaping the world
Scientists are using molecular engineering to create tiny objects with wild and wonderful properties, thanks to quantum mechanics. The blue morpho is one of nature’s great illusionists. It stands out even among the attention-grabbing ranks of butterflies, with iridescent wings…
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Keira Torkko on ‘The Other Door’: How Relationships Influence Your Non-Traditional Career
Feb 12, 2024 This featured story is brought to you by the Power of Why Podcast in collaboration with Invest Ottawa, with critical support from BDC Capital’s Thrive Venture Fund, the Title Sponsor of International Women’s Month 2024. Five inspirational…
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A plan for growth: Top tips from MaRS executive in residence Mike Abramsky
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To build better, more trustworthy technology, AI developers are putting people front and centre. Canada is a bit of a prodigy when it comes to artificial intelligence. Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio’s game-changing research on artificial neural networks in the…
February 5, 2024, LONDON, Ontario — interVal, a leading provider of software that empowersAccounting Firms and Financial Institutions with automated insights for SMB clients, proudlyannounces the appointment of Dave Bunce, CPA CA, as its new Director of Partnerships. With arich…
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Susan Odle on Being a ‘Fixer’ in Business and Building Your Self-Belief
Feb 6, 2024 This featured story is brought to you by the Power of Why Podcast in collaboration with Invest Ottawa, with critical support from BDC Capital’s Thrive Venture Fund, the Title Sponsor of International Women’s Month 2024. We teamed…
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the seventh cohort of ventureLAB’s Hardware Catalyst Initiative. This competitive program is designed to propel the development of hardware and semiconductor-focused innovations, empowering Canadian companies to thrive, expand, and shape the technologies…
By targeting the hundreds of thousands of windows in urban areas, Morgan Solar’s smart blind systems not only help reduce heating and cooling needs, they also convert solar energy into electricity. In the fight against climate change, some innovators are…
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Mediacorp Canada Inc., the organizers of the annual Canada’s Top 100 Employers project, has unveiled the Southwestern Ontario’s Top Employers (2024). “We are honoured to be able finally to bring readers stories about the best employers in Southwestern Ontario,” said…