Can AI make art? What’s hot in biomedical research? And does schnitzel fuel great business ideas? Find answers to all this and more at events happening in the coming month. Here are the tech events you need to know about…
Global IT research and advisory firm Info-Tech Research Group has announced a significant change in its executive leadership. Founder Joel McLean is passing the role of Chief Executive Officer to David Godfrey, who has until recently served as the firm’s…
ORIGINAL PRESS RELEASE, FACIT, September 28, 2022 Seed-stage commercialization realizes value in the Province’s health research and intellectual property September 28, 2022 – FACIT congratulates Ontario-based start-ups Hyivy Health and HDAX Therapeutics as the latest recipients of capital through its…
Kitchener-based Avidbots, which makes commercial cleaning robots, has announced a Series C raise of US$70 million, bringing its total venture capital raised to date to US$107 million. The size of the round is all the more significant given the general…
ORIGINAL PRESS RELEASE, Business Wire, September 27, 2022 TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VoxNeuro Inc. (“VoxNeuro” or the “Company”), a commercial stage Software-as-a-Medical-Device (SaMD) brain health company that analyzes brain biomarkers to assess cognitive function, has announced a new partnership with the Canadian Armed…
“We’re proud to kick off the AC:Studio program with these amazing companies. These 100 companies represent the talent, drive, and entrepreneurial spirit that our innovation ecosystem is known for. More importantly, they represent the diversity of technologies, innovations, and ideas…
Original Article on Northwestern Ontario Innovation Centre The Landing - Open House Event Drop by for a tour of the space on September 29th - 11:30 AM to 5:00 PM, and join us for the following events: Business Headshots (11:30…
Posted in Blog, Thrive in Ottawa Sep 26, 2022 1003 words | 4 mins. By: Randy Gaudreau Home to one of North America’s most active and bustling technology communities, Ottawa isn’t short on innovative companies making headlines in the news and…
Airports like Toronto-Pearson can handle 100,000 suitcases a day. They’re deploying intelligent software to keep track of them all — and analyze how the system can go wrong. Illustration by Kelvin Li It’s been a tough summer for air travel.…
Windsor, Ontario. Long dubbed the Automotive Capital of Canada, and currently emerging as the Automobility Capital of Canada. A city of makers. CAMufacturing Solutions is just one of many local trailblazers changing the industry around them. The company is doing…
SSIMWAVE, the nine-year-old Waterloo company whose AI-driven video quality software has earned two Emmy Awards, has been acquired by IMAX Corporation, the global, Canadian-founded company best known for its jaw-dropping, large-format motion picture technology. “SSIMWAVE is doing revolutionary work at…
Original Press Release, Yahoo Finance, September 21, 2022 NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J., Sept. 21, 2022 — Lactiga Therapeutics, an early-stage biotechnology company focused on improving the quality of life of patients with primary immunodeficiency diseases, announced this week that it has…
WATERLOO, Ontario, Sept. 21, 2022, (BUSINESS WIRE) – Magnet Forensics (TSX: MAGT), a developer of digital investigation solutions used by more than 4,000 enterprises and public safety organizations in over 100 countries, today announced that Truth Labs, India’s first independent…
Buildings, roads and sidewalks generate almost half of all global greenhouse gas emissions. Here are some Canadian companies working to fix that. When you think of the climate crisis, there’s no end to the apocalyptic imagery that immediately comes to…
WETechAlliance is pleased to announce the appointment of two new Directors and three new Advisors to the Board of Directors for 2022-2023. WETechAlliance’s Board of Directors is composed of 11 directors, and five ex-officio advisors including WETechAlliance’s…
ORIGINAL ARTICLE, Christine Persaud, wifihifi.com, August 26, 2022 The latest candidate in our series of Q&As with influential women in the technology business in Canada is Swati Matta, Founder & CEO, Koble, a digital health app for expecting and new…
Innovation Factory client, Korechi Innovations, will be showcasing their autonomous AgriTech RoamIO HCW with Haggerty AgRobotics at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show this September. The mini farming tractor reduces the labour required for repetitive tasks through automation. ORIGINAL ARTICLE, Canada’s Outdoor…
ORIGINAL ARTICLE – Charlize Alcaraz, Betakit, August 23, 2022. VendorPM’s backers include Bessemer and a plethora of real estate investors. Toronto proptech startup VendorPM has raised $20 million in its Series A round led by Prudence, an early-stage venture capital…
Voluntary carbon markets are growing quickly. But before taking the leap, startups need to do their homework. The pressure is on for countries and corporations to slash greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Earlier this month, the World Meteorological Organization reported that…
Montreal, Canada – September 15, 2022 – Quadbridge Inc. (Quadbridge), a leading North American provider of hardware and software IT solutions, headquartered in Montreal, is pleased to announce it has added to its customer offering the capabilities of Able-One Systems…
Oombo may have been established in 2017, but the idea for its innovative emergency signalling device had taken shape long before when Founder Mark Rizk was still in high school. His passion for protecting and supporting people and his affinity…
Sep 20, 2022 Zone X.O et le gouvernement du Canada présentent TCXpo, la première journée nationale de démonstration de technologies de mobilité intelligente en son genre Ottawa, Ontario; 20 septembre 2022 — Zone X.O, un complexe de recherche et développement…
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ITS World Congress – Today, Miovision announced its next-generation portable video-based traffic data collection solution – Miovision Scout® Explore. Thanks to advanced AI, Scout Explore is the first portable video-based traffic data…
“The best way to bring the real world into the classroom is to make the real-world classroom” – Dr. Mark Weyers, Co-founder and CEO of BCI Innovation Labs. Entrepreneurship isn’t always a learned skill. It’s a personality trait and a drive…
Sep 20, 2022 Area X.O and the Government of Canada Host TCXpo, the First National Smart Mobility Tech Demo Day of Its Kind Ottawa, Ontario; September 20, 2022 – Area X.O, a Canadian R&D complex operated by Invest Ottawa that…
For the first time since 2019, Hack the North was held in person at the University of Waterloo. The student-run hackathon, launched in 2014, began Friday night and continued through to Sunday afternoon. It is one of the biggest events…
When humans have tried to transition from one fuel source to another, we’ve usually ended up with a messy muddle. But there are lessons in those failures for today’s clean energy plans. To wean ourselves off fossil fuels in the…
Was it worth it? Hell, ya! That was the overwhelming sense as more than 1,000 sleep-deprived young tech wizards wrapped up a 36-hour student hackathon in Waterloo Sunday. “It’s Hack the North, Canada’s biggest hackathon, so it’s a no-brainer,” said…
Scispot, a life science lab informatics company backed by Y Combinator, has launched Datarooms, allowing life science labs to automatically share or receive data from team members, partners, collaborators, and contract research organizations (CROs) in the human and machine-readable formats…
One of the largest hackathons in the world is back this weekend in all its creative, frenzied, around-the-clock glory. Hack the North kicked off Friday evening in Waterloo with more than 1,000 student participants from around the globe. Run by…
I.T. Success scholarship available for three local students Sault College & SSM Innovation Centre Media ReleaseFor Immediate Release Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre to Support Student Learning at Sault College(Sault Ste. Marie, ON August 3, 2022) – Sault Ste. Marie…
"This investment represents an important step toward building a resilient farm and food sector in Northern Ontario." News releaseGovernment of Canada support will help strengthen food supply chains for Canadians while also supporting critical sector developmentAugust 5, 2022 – Sault Ste.…
Today, WRAL TV, the powerhouse Raleigh, N.C. TV station anchoring the broadcast arm of Capitol Broadcasting Company, announced a new partnership with Eon Media to launch a highly advanced AI powered media store. The digital storefront is called WRAL Archives.…
Collège Boréal, Rural Agri-Innovation Network looking to identify farms, greenhouses growing strawberries Story by Angela Gemmill- CBC News - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/research-strawberry-production-northern-ontario-1.6565398 Research is beginning into what conditions are best to grow strawberries in northern Ontario.The study is part of a partnership…
The innovation, tech and business space in Canada is teeming with acronyms that (as an early-stage startup, entrepreneur or international business relocating to Canada) may leave you scratching your head. So we’re laying out some of the most common acronyms…
Nothing says “old-school tech” like a transparency sheet for an overhead-projector presentation. Yvan Couture, a serial entrepreneur and driving force behind the launch of Communitech in 1997, cracked up a reunion breakfast of friends and colleagues by pulling out a…
ORIGINAL ARTICLE, Business Wire, September 7, 2022 BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VoxNeuro Inc. (“VoxNeuro” or the “Company”), a commercial stage Software-as-a-Medical-Device (SaMD) brain health company that analyzes brain biomarkers to assess cognitive function, announced a new partnership with Boston University (“BU”), a world-class…
The path to entrepreneurship can be sticky – some choose to leave their jobs in search of something with more excitement, some foster ideas that they’ve had for years, and some just happen upon founder life through experiences or innovation.…
Photo illustration by Kelvin Li Our energy grid is something most of us only think about when it isn’t working. But growing demand for electricity is placing an even greater strain on a system that’s already facing increased pressure from…
In the last column we looked at a bunch of questions about how the world of work continues to change, catalyzed by the COVID pandemic. We’re more than two years along at this point, and plenty has already changed. From the…
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