Dominion Dynamics’ autonomous wingman won’t buzz the tower, but it could patrol the Arctic
Dominion says it will invest $50 million to build a “sovereign autonomous wingman" that could help manned aircraft patrol Canada's north.
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UniUni didn’t name all investors who put up the $30M in equity, but SEDAR filings show multiple unnamed backers across Ontario, Québec, Hong Kong, and the Cayman Islands.
Alberta is making a hard pitch to data centre builders: energy, low taxes, cold climate, and speed. Minister Nate Glubish says the “home run” is digital sovereignty and keeping Canadian AI under Canadian jurisdiction.
UPDATE: EQB has received clearance from the Competition Bureau for its previously announced proposed acquisition of PC Financial.
The $800-million deal would create a combined digital bank representing nearly 3.5 million customers and give Loblaw ownership of 17 percent of EQB stock.
Svante Technologies' acquisition of Carbon Alpha Corporation includes the company’s flagship North Star carbon capture project in Meadow Lake, which is being developed through a partnership with the Meadow Lake Tribal Council and expected to be finished in 2028.
Montréal fashion giant Ssense laid off more than 200 people in February, just two days after its founders won a court battle to buy back the company and save it from bankruptcy proceedings.
OpenAI has agreed to a series of safety standards and systems changes in the wake of the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, BC, following a meeting between its CEO, Sam Altman, and Canada's Ai minister Evan Solomon.
Nala is a very good dog.
She is K9 Leak Hunters' "chief sniffing officer" and helps find gas leaks in pipelines. Blackline Safety says its gas detector helps her do that job better. Read more about the Calgary company's tech, and how its helping their first canine customer.
“We are watering the top of the tree while the roots are dying.”
NACO's Claudio Rojas warns against putting Ottawa's $750M support for early growth-stage #CDNTech companies only into later-stage capital. Meanwhile, @cvca.bsky.social is offering a much different vision for how to spend the money.
Syantra aims to create a breast cancer screening test that is more accurate in early detection than a mammogram and less expensive than an MRI.
To do that, it's developing a blood test that doesn't look for cancer at all.
Kraken Robotics is buying UK-based Covelya Group for $615M as it pushes deeper into dual-use subsea tech and the “fast-growing” defence market.
Spellbook is gearing up for a legal AI buying spree.
The Toronto startup has secured $40 million USD in debt financing from RBCx and says it wants to scoop up smaller competitors as it targets $100 million USD ARR this year.
Ottawa is putting just over $1.1 million into Landing Zones Canada to enhance its AI-powered autonomous drone technology.
The Medicine Hat company says its high-altitude aircraft could have both civilian and defence applications.
Government contracting is a huge market. It is also a mess to navigate.
Canadian-founded NationGraph has raised $18 million USD to use AI to help vendors find and act on public-sector contract opportunities hidden across budgets, meeting minutes, RFPs, and more.
.@evansolomon.bsky.social was at Volta today announcing support for the Halifax innovation hub, as well as AI projects at Université de Moncton, Digital Nova Scotia, and others.
.@wealthsimple.bsky.social is building on its international payments push as it becomes is the first Canadian FinTech firm to join the global SWIFT network.
Canadian AI is gradually reorganizing itself towards dual-use technology in military industries. @inrsciences.bsky.social's Mélina Poulin and Nicolas Chartier-Edwards argue this “quiet militarization” is happening in a regulatory void.
Canada’s small businesses ended 2025 with their sharpest quarterly sales growth drop since 2020.
A new Xero report points to economic uncertainty, supply-chain disruption, and shifting US trade policy as key pressures.
ALL IN is expanding beyond Québec.
Scale AI says it will hold satellite events Vancouver on April 15 and Toronto on May 28 as it looks to spark more AI collaboration and adoption across Canada.
The Government of Manitoba is hoping an $8-million increase to its venture capital tax credit cap will spur private investment and accelerate growth in the prairie province’s burgeoning startup scene.
Damon spent longer trying to list on the NASDAQ than trading on it.
Now its CEO, CFO, and board are out, raising new questions about the future of the electric motorcycle company.
Versos is chasing a new AI opportunity: helping studios monetize their video libraries.
Its new platform is built to transform unstructured footage into structured datasets for model training.
👀 In case you missed it the first time around, Josh Scott snuck some great details into this story about Nick Frosst's other life as the front man of Toronto indie rock band Good Kid.
Josh also got Joelle Pineau on the record about which #AI company functions have better music: Meta or Cohere.
CCI says Canada should take a buy-Canadian approach to healthtech procurement.
Its pitch its fairly straightforward: governments should buy more #CDNTech, improve data portability, and make it easier for health systems to work together.
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"Just send the email."
In celebration of BetaKit's 10-year anniversary, editor-in-chief @trondizzle.bsky.social shares some hard-earned wisdom from his decade running, and growing, an independent media startup.
Check out a very special edition of The BetaKit Newsletter for more:
After helping build and exit Dataperformers to Deloitte, Mehdi Merai and Gabriel De Lisi are back with a new startup.
JetScale AI has raised $5.4 million CAD to help companies optimize cloud infrastructure and reduce waste.
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OpenAI says it would have reported the Tumbler Ridge shooter to police “in hindsight,” and says it’s tightening its law-enforcement referral protocols.
The company also revealed the alleged shooter evaded her initial ban with a second ChatGPT account.
A healthtech company in the #Yukon has released a new #AI tool to help clinicians quickly knock out administrative work using just their voice. #CDNtech
Innovation Saskatchewan is investing in three research projects at the University of Regina, with nearly $460,000 in funding.
In the weeks leading up to the restructuring notice, an Addy Discord server was awash with speculation as communication dwindled, its website went down, and a co-founder Michael Stephenson updated his LinkedIn profile.
“I think we all know that addy as we know it is done,” one user said.
