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Luge Capital · Nov 13, 2025
Luge Capital Portfolio Company ProNavigator Acquired by Guidewire
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By David Nault, November 14, 2025 An incredible founder journey and a proud moment for Luge Capital ProNavigator, one of Canada’s standout insurtech companies, was acquired by Guidewire Software (NYSE: GWRE), the global leader in P&C insurance platforms. This is a huge milestone for Joseph D’Souza and his whole team, and a proud moment for us at Luge Capital, who’ve had the privilege of being p…
Luge Capital · Nov 11, 2025
The State of Alternative Assets: A Fintech Perspective
November 11, 2025 We’re thrilled to share our report on The State of Alternative Assets: A Fintech Perspective, which explores how fintech innovation is reshaping one of the fastest-growing sectors in finance. Global alternative assets under management reached $19T in 2023, growing roughly 10% per year since 2017 and representing 14% of the world’s $120T in total AUM. By 2030, this figure is pr…
Velocity (UW Incubator) · Nov 9, 2025
Swish Solar raises US$1.5M to make solar energy more sustainable
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Velocity cleantech company closes pre-seed round, financing will help accelerate market adoption of its self-cleaning solar technology
Startup Barn · Nov 9, 2025
Nov 10–16: Looking Back, Showing Up, and Building On
We remember those who built before us — the risk-takers, the protectors, the ones who showed up. Their work made our work possible. Let’s keep building things that last. Together.
Startup Barn · Nov 1, 2025
October Update: Builders, Bots, and Big Energy
Waterloo didn’t slow down — it found another gear.
Startup Barn · Nov 1, 2025
Nov 3-9: Big Hackathon Weekend Ahead!
Welcome to the new format. KWLUG, Technical Wednesday, Civictech, Robot Learning group, and two hackathons.
BitBakery Software (Blog) · Oct 31, 2025
From Ideas to Impact: Innovation at KidsAbility
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We’ve always been fascinated by how innovation happens inside organizations. There is an art and a science to how teams take complex challenges and find creative, sustainable solutions. That’s why we were excited to speak with Brendan Wylie-Toal, Director of Innovation at KidsAbi…
Version One Ventures · Oct 27, 2025
Backing Loon: Building Canada’s Digital Dollar
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We’re excited to announce our investment in Loon, a Canadian company building the country’s first regulated digital dollar. Version One led Loon’s $3M pre-seed round, alongside Garage Capital and a group of strategic Canadian angel investors. Loon is on a mission to create trusted, transparent payment infrastructure for Canada’s digital economy — starting with CADC, […]
Luge Capital · Oct 24, 2025
Cybrid Is Rewiring How Money Moves, And We’re All In
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By Karim Gillani, October 24, 2025 At Luge, we invest in the foundational infrastructure that powers the future of financial services. For payments, that future is being redefined by stablecoins, the programmable, always-on money that moves instantly, domestically and across borders. And Cybrid is leading the effort to bring stablecoin payments to banks, fintechs, remittance companies and busin…
BetaKit (Kitchener-Waterloo) · Oct 24, 2025
“Still processing”: Lighthouse Labs co-founder shares lessons from sale to Uvaro and bankruptcy
At TechExit.io, Jeremy Shaki unpacks how it felt watching his 12-year project “fall apart.” The post “Still processing”: Lighthouse Labs co-founder shares lessons from sale to Uvaro and bankruptcy first appeared on BetaKit.
Citified · Oct 24, 2025
Local News and Views (Oct 2025)
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An overview of local news and other happenings in and around Waterloo Region
Radical Ventures · Oct 22, 2025
Purpose-Driven Innovation at Palantir
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Listen to this podcast on Spotify The following post is based on the latest Radical Talks episode with host Molly Welch, Partner at Radical Ventures, and featuring Ted Mabrey, Head of Palantir Commercial. Listen to the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube. In today’s AI-driven enterprise landscape, few companies have charted as distinctive a […]
Version One Ventures · Oct 7, 2025
Q3 2025 Portfolio in Review
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It’s hard to believe we’re already three quarters into the year. At V1, we’re all about finishing strong, and Q3 gave us plenty of reasons to be excited about what’s ahead. As always, we’ve rounded up a quick snapshot of the action across our portfolio from the past quarter: Funding announcements We welcomed TRIC Robotics […]
BetaKit (Kitchener-Waterloo) · Oct 3, 2025
OpenText to sell off eDOCS unit for $163 million USD to continue AI focus
Sale follows CEOs sudden departure amid stalled revenue growth. The post OpenText to sell off eDOCS unit for $163 million USD to continue AI focus first appeared on BetaKit.
Citified · Oct 3, 2025
Community Spotlight: Social Development Centre
There's no shortage of good work happening locally - let's take a closer look!
Startup Barn · Oct 2, 2025
September Update: Builders in Motion, Tech Week in Full Flight
September started fast and October is coming in even hotter.
TL;WR · Sep 28, 2025
Pour some out for the speed cameras.
TL;WR for September 30 through October 6 2025
Panache Ventures · Sep 25, 2025
Inside CEO Summit: 6 Lessons from the Frontlines
At CEO Summit 2025, some of Canada’s most forward-thinking founders gathered to share what it really takes to build — not just companies, but cultures, conviction, and momentum. From carbon removal to regulatory disruption, from remote rituals to fundraising fundamentals, the conversations were honest, unfiltered, and refreshingly actionable. Here are the key takeaways and hard-won insights tha…
BetaKit (Kitchener-Waterloo) · Sep 24, 2025
FluidAI lands FDA clearance to sell post-surgery monitor in the US
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Kitchener-Waterloo healthtech startup eyes Series B to fuel US commercialization. The post FluidAI lands FDA clearance to sell post-surgery monitor in the US first appeared on BetaKit.
Radical Ventures · Sep 23, 2025
Building the Physical World’s First AI Engineer: How Engineering Artificial General Intelligence Could Transform Hardware
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Listen to this podcast on Spotify From our latest Radical Talks episode with P-1 AI Co-founder and CEO Paul Eremenko The AI revolution is changing nearly every industry, from software to content creation, yet one crucial area remains largely untouched: the design of physical things. While AI is great at manipulating digital bits, the physical […]
Luge Capital · Sep 22, 2025
Backing Mycroft: The AI Agent that acts as your Virtual Security and Compliance Officer
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By Karim Gillani & Khrystyna Penyk, September 22, 2025 Most people don’t want to think about cybersecurity or compliance, because it’s boring and complicated, and usually reserved for the experts who are paid to think about it for us. In reality, though, many companies don’t have that expert on staff to think about it for them, so they’re left with a big gaping vulnerability that’s waiting to b…
