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Radical Ventures · Feb 10, 2026

Jim Fan on The Future of Robotics and Embodied AI

Funding

Listen to this podcast on Spotify The following is from a recent Radical Ventures AI Founders Masterclass session with NVIDIA’s Director & Distinguished Research Scientist, Jim Fan Artificial intelligence has advanced at a remarkable pace over the past decade. Language models now reason, write code, and synthesize information with a fluency that would have seemed […]

Inovia Capital · Feb 10, 2026

Backing Modem – the First AI-Native Product Teammate

Funding

Over the past year, the product development world has been reshaped by AI-driven code generation. Building has become faster than ever. Barriers that once slowed teams down are rapidly disappearing, and the velocity at which small teams can ship meaningful software has increased exponentially. Yet despite this acceleration, one part of the product loop hasn’t…

Accelerator Centre · Feb 5, 2026

Building Thought Leadership

Marketing and Communications, Mentor Ellyn Winters-Robinson, explains how startup founders can build a thought leadership strategy by choosing the right platform, optimizing their profiles, and strengthening their professional presence online.

Inovia Capital · Feb 4, 2026

State of Canadian Software: What 2025 signals for 2026

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Over the last three years, Canada’s tech ecosystem has progressed with consistency and resilience. Our analysis shows that, in terms of company funding, Canada’s tech ecosystem is currently outperforming major non-U.S. international hubs in Europe and Asia, even as many of those markets experience periods of stabilization or contraction. Here is a peek at the…

Luge Capital · Feb 3, 2026

Backing Velix: The Financial Operating System for Logistics

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By David Nault & Rohan Monga, February 3, 2026 We’re super excited to announce our new investment in Montreal-based Velix, a financial operations platform to help logistics teams save time, money, and work better together. We led Velix’s $2M Pre-Seed round, with participation from our friends at Accelia Capital and Stand Up Ventures. The modern world runs on trade: the products we buy and use e…

BitBakery Software (Blog) · Feb 2, 2026

Why product managers make the ultimate vibe coders

There’s a common misconception floating around in 2026 that "vibe coding" is just magic. You throw some prompts at Lovable, Claude Code, or Cursor, and within minutes, you’ll have a fully functional app ready to submit to the app stores.But as anyone who has actually tried to bui…

Inovia Capital · Jan 29, 2026

Launching of the Venture Scientist Fund with Mila: Propelling Canada’s AI Research into Global Tech Champions

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We are proud to announce Inovia’s partnership with Mila, a premier Canadian artificial intelligence (AI) research institute, to launch the Venture Scientist Fund. This early-stage venture capital fund is designed to transform frontier AI research and deep scientific expertise into impactful and enduring AI-native companies. A paper recently co-authored by Mila and Bain & Company highlights that…

Torrin Leonard · Jan 28, 2026

Kimai time tracker setup guide.

A quick, copy-paste Docker Compose setup for running Kimai with a MySQL backend. It walks you through creating a .env, launching the stack, and getting Kimai reachable on port 8001.

Velocity (UW Incubator) · Jan 26, 2026

Velocity unveils new Indigenous mural

Many Hearts, One Mind by Indigenous artist Alanah Jewell celebrates the act of creation shared by the Land and innovators in our community

Accelerator Centre · Jan 22, 2026

AC:RevLab Spotlight: Rhyse Maryniuk, founder and CEO of Audesse Automotive

When Rhyse Maryniuk and his team hit a wall developing a new electric vehicle at the University of Waterloo, they built their own solution. That innovation became the foundation for Audesse Automotive, a Waterloo startup now enabling next-generation vehicles for manufacturers around the world.

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