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Graphite Ventures · Sep 16, 2026

Vitaly Pecherskiy of StackAdapt Named to Canada’s Top 40 Under 40

Join us in congratulating Vitaly Pecherskiy, Co-founder and CEO of StackAdapt, on being named to Canada’s Top 40 Under 40! Since co-founding StackAdapt in 2014, Vitaly has helped grow the company to more than 1,800 employees worldwide, earning the trust of thousands of brands and agencies while advancing in-house technology and AI-powered marketing. Read more […]

Inovia Capital · Sep 15, 2026

Canada’s Next Chapter: Building Global AI Champions From Home

Funding

I sat down with Aidan Gomez, co-founder and CEO of Cohere, at the CVCA’s Canadian Global Growth Forum this week — and walked away more convinced than ever that Canada’s moment is now. The numbers set the stage. Canadian growth equity has gone from $711 million in 2013 to $5.2 billion in 2025, an 18%…

Radical Ventures · Sep 14, 2026

What AI Has to Understand Before It Can Beat the Market

Funding

George Sivulka, CEO of Radical Ventures Portfolio company Hebbia, dives into why AI can beat us at chess and code but not at the stock market. George explores the current AI capability frontier and predicts which markets fall next. Below is an excerpt from his essay originally published on X. AI has solved the Navier-Stokes […]

QuantumCore · Sep 13, 2026

QuantumCore Announces Strategic Collaboration to Advance Cryogenic Multiplexing Technologies for Scalable Quantum Computing Infrastructure

Waterloo, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - July 23, 2026) - QuantumCore Ltd. (CSE: QNCR) (OTCQB: QNCRF) (FSE: K1Y) ("QuantumCore" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Prof. Raafat Mansour of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo to establish a strategic research and commercialization collabor…

QuantumCore · Sep 13, 2026

QuantumCore Completes Acquisition of Avalanche PhotoniQ

Waterloo, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - September 11, 2026) - QuantumCore (CSE: QNCR) ("QuantumCore" or the "Company"), a developer of enabling hardware for the quantum computing industry, is pleased to announce that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of 100% of Avalanche PhotoniQ Inc.("Avalanche"), a developer of next-generation single-photon detector technology, pursuant to a …

Pression · Sep 10, 2026

Wave PRO™ Now Commercially Available as First Unit Enters the Field

Pression has begun the commercial introduction of Wave PRO™, with the first unit now in the field with our sales team. Following FDA clearance, this marks an important next step for Pression as we introduce Wave PRO™ to cardiologists and healthcare facilities and begin expanding awareness of a new approach to External Counterpulsation (ECP) therapy […]

Pression · Sep 10, 2026

From Cardiac Care to the Operating Room: Pression’s Platform Earns a New Patent Allowance

We are excited to share that Pression has received a Notice of Allowance from the USPTO for our patent application “System and Methods for Synchronizing External Compression of a Limb for Surgical Use” (App. No. 18/417,968). Our core technology — cardiac-synchronized external compression — was built to treat Chronic Stable Angina by improving blood flow […]

RBCx · Sep 9, 2026

RBC to Mobilize $1.4 Billion to Back Canada’s Next Global Technology Champions and Advance Nation-Building Efforts

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Unveiled ahead of the Canada Investment Summit, the RBCx Growth Fund I will combine disciplined late-stage investing with RBC’s scale, connectivity and advisory capabilities to help Canadian companies grow into global leaders. TORONTO, September 9, 2026 — RBC today announced a $1.4 billion (US$1 billion)[1] initiative to invest in Canadian technology companies with the potential [Read more]

Radical Ventures · Sep 8, 2026

A World Model for Spatial Intelligence

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This week, Radical Ventures portfolio company World Labs released Atlas, its next-generation world model for spatial intelligence. Atlas is a single model pretrained from scratch on text, images, video, and 3D. It combines every input into a shared spatial context, then generates what comes next while staying consistent with everything it has already seen. That […]

Riskfuel · Sep 4, 2026

Riskfuel Intel Collaboration

Toronto, Sept 2026 — Riskfuel and Intel partnered to find a better way to outperform traditional Monte Carlo models with with near perfect accuracy. Compared to traditional model pricing that achieved approximately 1 valuation per second, Riskfuel Neural Surrogate on Intel® Xeon® processors with Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel® AMX) achieved approximately 2.27 million valuations per se…

Limosa · Sep 3, 2026

Limosa Selected as a Qualified Supplier under Three Streams of Canada’s Defence Drone Initiative Marketplace

Montreal, Quebec – September 6, 2026 – The Limosa Group Inc. is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a qualified supplier under three streams of the Government of Canada’s Defence Drone Initiative (DDI) Marketplace, administered through the Defence Investment Agency. Limosa has qualified under: Stream 1 – UxS and C-UxS Systems Stream [...]

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