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Float · Sep 17, 2026
Float is proud to announce the introduction of two new solutions: Float Bill Pay and Float Reimbursements.
BetaKit (Kitchener-Waterloo) · Sep 17, 2026
Founded in 2009, TextNow’s service is now used by over 10 million people across the US. The post TextNow celebrates $1-billion revenue milestone with public art in Waterloo first appeared on BetaKit.
Velocity (UW Incubator) · Sep 16, 2026
How Velocity is giving early-stage founders the connections and support they need to grow
Graphite Ventures · Sep 16, 2026
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 […]
BetaKit (National) · Sep 16, 2026
CRC hopes to keep it simple as it races to space on the tailwinds of Canada’s renewed interest in the stars. The post Canada Rocket Company wants to build a sovereign alternative to SpaceX’s Falcon 9 first appeared on BetaKit.
Inovia Capital · Sep 15, 2026
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%…
Conexiom · Sep 15, 2026
New executives reinforce market leader’s AI pedigreein building trust and adoption of order and invoice automation for ERP systems
Radical Ventures · Sep 14, 2026
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
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
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 …
Waterloo Region Record (Startups) · Sep 11, 2026
Waterloo Tech Week is back providing workshops on AI, defence tech and how to build a business.
Pression · Sep 10, 2026
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
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 […]
BetaKit (Kitchener-Waterloo) · Sep 10, 2026
The student-led conference features speakers from Inovia Capital, Citadel, and Garage Capital. The post Waterloo Tech Week returns with new flagship events first appeared on BetaKit.
University of Waterloo News (Tech) · Sep 9, 2026
Press release about a new device that continuously monitors key indicators of donor lung health, potentially helping to identify more viable donor lungs.
Accelerator Centre · Sep 9, 2026
Waterloo-based cybersecurity company Palitronica has closed a Series A funding round led by BDC’s Industrial Innovation Venture Fund, with participation from Three Kings Capital, Frostbite, and Unpopular Ventures.
Top Hat · Sep 9, 2026
The Shannen’s Dream scholarship recognizes students making a difference through education, mentorship, advocacy, and community leadership
BetaKit (National) · Sep 9, 2026
Montréal startup is betting on small language models and demand for data privacy. The post Onix raises $5 million USD to create AI library of health and wellness “experts” first appeared on BetaKit.
RBCx · Sep 9, 2026
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]
Startup Barn · Sep 8, 2026
Eight days, ten events, one roof — plus a whole region-wide program spinning up alongside it.
Radical Ventures · Sep 8, 2026
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 […]
CTV News Kitchener · Sep 4, 2026
The University of Waterloo is welcoming world-class researchers as part of a federal initiative aimed at strengthening Canada’s research and innovation sector.
Riskfuel · Sep 4, 2026
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
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 [...]