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Funding News Life Sciences and Advanced Health

VoxNeuro Announces Collaboration with the Canadian Armed Forces and Launch of Clinical Study Measuring Impact of Training-Related Sub-Concussive Exposure

27 September 2022
by Innovation Factory

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…

RIC News

WETechAlliance Partners with Accelerator Centre on Launch of Hybrid Venture Studio Program

27 September 2022
by WETechAlliance

“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…

RIC News Upcoming Events

Join us September 29th from 11:30am – 5pm for a tour of The Landing co-working a…

27 September 2022
by NOIC

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…

Digital Media and ICT

Solve video security challenges with Solink

26 September 2022
by Invest Ottawa

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…

Aerospace Tourism

Now arriving: Smart technologies that prevent lost luggage

26 September 2022
by MaRS Discovery District

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.…

Advanced Manufacturing & Materials Entrepreneur Stories Featured Featured Home

CAMufacturing Solutions’ Software Elevates Industry

24 September 2022
by WETechAlliance

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…

Companies Funded / Acquired

SSIMWAVE acquired by IMAX – Communitech

22 September 2022
by Communitech

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…

Companies Funded / Acquired Life Sciences and Advanced Health

Lactiga Therapeutics Raises $1.6M USD in Oversubscribed Pre-Seed Round, Secures $350k in Research Grants

22 September 2022
by Innovation Factory

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…

Digital Media and ICT Featured Featured Home Youth

Magnet Forensics helps Truth Labs deliver justice in child abuse and fraud cases in India

22 September 2022
by Communitech

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…

Cleantech

Tech solutions that can shrink the carbon footprint of cities

22 September 2022
by MaRS Discovery District

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…

RIC News

WETechAlliance Welcomes New Directors and Advisors

22 September 2022
by WETechAlliance

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…

Life Sciences and Advanced Health Women

WOMEN IN TECH: Q&A With Swati Matta, Founder & CEO, Koble

21 September 2022
by Innovation Factory

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…

Advanced Manufacturing & Materials Agriculture

Korechi HCW among leading-edge AgTech displays at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show

21 September 2022
by Innovation Factory

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…

Companies Funded / Acquired Digital Media and ICT Featured Home Fintech

VendorPM secures $20 million Series A to expand US footprint

21 September 2022
by Innovation Factory

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…

Cleantech

What cleantech leaders need to know about generating carbon offsets

21 September 2022
by MaRS Discovery District

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…

Companies Funded / Acquired Digital Media and ICT

Quadbridge acquires Kitchener-based IT provider Able One

20 September 2022
by Communitech

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…

Auto & Transportation Entrepreneur Stories

Once Upon a Startup: Oombo

20 September 2022
by Spark Centre

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…

Auto & Transportation

Des centaines d’innovateurs et d’entreprises canadiennes dévoilent les technologies émergentes de mobilité intelligente dans la capitale du Canada

20 September 2022
by Invest Ottawa

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…

Auto & Transportation

Miovision launches Scout Explore – Communitech

20 September 2022
by Communitech

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…

Entrepreneur Stories

The everyday classroom at BCI Innovation Labs

20 September 2022
by TechAlliance

“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…

Auto & Transportation

Hundreds of Canadian Innovators and Companies Unveil Emerging Smart Mobility Technologies in Canada’s Capital

20 September 2022
by Invest Ottawa

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…

Digital Media and ICT Information Topic

Hack the North 2022: In pictures

19 September 2022
by Communitech

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…

Cleantech Information Topic

What history can teach us about adopting new sources of energy

19 September 2022
by MaRS Discovery District

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…

Digital Media and ICT Information Topic

‘Energy drinks and determination’ – Communitech

18 September 2022
by Communitech

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…

Life Sciences and Advanced Health

Scispot launches Datarooms to enable distributed life science R&D

17 September 2022
by Communitech

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…

Value Proposition

Hack the North’s opening message: ‘Be audacious’

17 September 2022
by Communitech

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…

Funding News

SSMIC supports local IT students with scholarships

17 September 2022
by SSMIC

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…

Agriculture Featured Featured Home Food & Beverage Funding News

FedNor invests in agri-food sector in Algoma region

17 September 2022
by SSMIC

"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.…

Digital Media and ICT

Eon Media joins forces with largest broadcaster in North Carolina for new AI venture

16 September 2022
by Communitech

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.…

Agriculture Food & Beverage

Research begins to improve strawberry production in northern Ontario

16 September 2022
by SSMIC

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…

Information Topic Value Proposition

AOSI: Acronyms for Ontario Startups and Innovators

15 September 2022
by Spark Centre

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…

Entrepreneur Stories

‘By founders, for founders’ – Communitech

15 September 2022
by Communitech

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…

Life Sciences and Advanced Health

VoxNeuro Announces Collaboration with Boston University and Launch of Clinical Studies Focusing on Concussion and Alzheimer’s Disease

15 September 2022
by Innovation Factory

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…

Entrepreneur Stories Featured Life Sciences and Advanced Health

Friendship sets Step Sciences founders a step ahead

15 September 2022
by TechAlliance

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.…

Cleantech

The grid: Is it time to rethink our power systems?

15 September 2022
by MaRS Discovery District

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…

Talent, People Management

M-Theory: Covid’s long tail, Part 2

15 September 2022
by Communitech

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…

Companies Funded / Acquired

ProNavigator raises CDN$10M, opens U.S. headquarters

14 September 2022
by Communitech

Insurance-tech startup ProNavigator has raised CDN$10 million in a new round of growth financing that will help it open a U.S. headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina to further its expansion south of the border. The company plans to keep its…

Auto & Transportation

Windsor-Essex “Canada’s Automobility Capital” on the world stage at the 2022 North American International Auto Show

14 September 2022
by WETechAlliance

About Invest WindsorEssex (IWE)Invest WindsorEssex is the lead economic development agency for the Windsor-Essex region. The focus of the organization is to develop and execute strategies to retain, expand, attract and help new businesses start-up in Windsor-Essex. Invest WindsorEssex is led by…

Education Entrepreneur Stories Women

Putting together the Pieces of Entrepreneurship

14 September 2022
by Boundless Accelerator

The Idea For Kidunified founder Ashley Kizis, children need representation in play. Based in Guelph, Ontario, Kidunified is a women-led social enterprise making puzzles that reflect the communities children live in. For Ashley, engaging children in play that better depicts…

Entrepreneur Stories

Roundup for August 2022 – Communitech

14 September 2022
by Communitech

Leaning in In mid-August, OpenText CEO Mark Barrenechea commented on the pullback in the tech sector by telling the Financial Post that, “We can see the headwinds out there, but we’re leaning in right now.” That turned out to be…