Pulse Law LLP · Sep 3, 2026
Pulse Law Recognized by Best Lawyers in 2027 Rankings
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Pulse Law is proud to announce multiple rankings in the 2027 edition of Best Lawyers in Canada.
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Driftscape · Sep 3, 2026
Explore The Dalles Brings the Sunny Trail to Driftscape
The Sunny Trail is now live in The Dalles, giving residents and visitors a new way to discover local businesses, landmarks, parks and community organizations. The campaign runs from August 17 to September 18, 2026. Explore The Dalles has paired its paper passport with digital missions, local trivia, photo challenges and prize entries through Driftscape. Participants can use either version or ta…
BetaKit (National) · Sep 3, 2026
How the AI era is rewriting venture capital’s old rules
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Michele Romanow and Christina Fox on how the AI era could change who Canadian investors back. The post How the AI era is rewriting venture capital’s old rules first appeared on BetaKit.
PCK Intellectual Property · Sep 3, 2026
PCK IP Lawyers Recognized in the 2027 Best Lawyers Awards
PCK Intellectual Property celebrates Andrew Currier, Gillian Burrell and Sebastian Beck-Watt for their recognition in the 2027 Best Lawyers awards.
Startup Barn · Sep 2, 2026
August Update: The Calm Before the Tech Week Storm!
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A quieter calendar, essays worth your time, and a September that’s about to go full tilt.
Radical Ventures · Sep 2, 2026
The Rise of NeoLabs
In June 2024, Ilya Sutskever announced the creation of a new lab with “one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.” Within four months, Safe Superintelligence (SSI) had raised $1 billion, and less than a year later it was valued at $32 billion, still without a public roadmap. The point was not what SSI had demonstrated but […]
Velocity (UW Incubator) · Sep 1, 2026
Waterloo ranked the top Canadian university for producing entrepreneurs
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PitchBook's 2026 rankings place Waterloo seventh globally, the first time a Canadian school has broken into the top 10
Radical Ventures · Sep 1, 2026
Generalist AI Ushers In The “GPT-3 Moment for Robotics”
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Generalist AI is the first company to demonstrate clear scaling laws in robotics, with its GEN-1.5 model continuing to show smooth performance improvements after eight months of pretraining. Last week, Radical portfolio company Generalist AI released its latest robot foundation model, GEN-1.5. Researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Waymo, Nvidia, Prometheus and other top labs hailed […]
Dijilele · Sep 1, 2026
Discover Dijilele in Toronto: A Look Back at Our Dijilele M Workshop
On August 30, 2026, Dijilele M came to Toronto for the first time. We spent the afternoon making music, learning, and exploring the instrument at Skymark Centre Avondale. Musicians, educators, learners, and curious guests joined us to discover Dijilele M and try it for themselves. Introducing Dijilele M The workshop began with a demonstration from […]
BetaKit (Kitchener-Waterloo) · Sep 1, 2026
BDC, other Xanadu investors back Meissner’s “discovery engine” for superconductors
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U of T science student closes $2.6 million USD to enable quantum computing and fusion. The post BDC, other Xanadu investors back Meissner’s “discovery engine” for superconductors first appeared on BetaKit.
Conexiom · Sep 1, 2026
Conexiom Ends the Black Box Era of AI for Order And Invoice Automation
Longtime industry leader’s new Conexiom Relay delivers what new vendors can’t –a decade-plus knowledge foundation combined with transparent AI that can be verified and trusted
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Tailscale · Aug 31, 2026
Tailcat: Tailscale without Tailscale, by Tailscale
A netcat-ish way to use Tailscale’s data plane without its control plane
Startup Barn · Aug 30, 2026
Aug 31 – Sep 6: The calm before Tech Week
Tech Week and Hack The North are just around the corner. A new batch of students enter the community as well. Get ready!
Waterloo Region Record (Startups) · Aug 29, 2026
University of Waterloo, Airbus partner to advance aerospace technology
New research partnership creates framework for collaboration in sustainable aerospace technologies.
Graphite Ventures · Aug 28, 2026
StackAdapt wins gold at Marketech Advertising Awards for AdTech Team of the Year
Singapore – August 26, 2026 – StackAdapt (www.stackadapt.com), the leading AI advertising and orchestration platform, has won gold in the AdTech Team of the Year category at the 2026 MARKETECH APAC Advertising Awards. The MARKETECH APAC Advertising Awards is a prestigious celebration of creativity, innovation, and excellence in advertising across the Asia-Pacific region. The awards honored camp…
LandLogic · Aug 27, 2026
From innovation to impact: LandLogic is testing property intelligence with Evergreen
LandLogic is excited to be working with Evergreen through the Evergreen Brick Works Technology Development Site, part of the Ontario Centre of Innovation’s Critical Industrial Technologies initiative. Over a three-month industry validation and commercialization project, LandLogic will work through Evergreen’s ecosystem to test and refine its AI-powered property intelligence capabilities.
Tailscale · Aug 27, 2026
Tailscale PAM beta: Manage connectivity and privileged access in one place
Just-in-time access, resource policies, and session auditing, right where you need them.
Accelerator Centre · Aug 27, 2026
Steadiwear is Bringing Earthquake Science to Tremor Care
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When Emile Maamary and his co-founder Mark Elias met at university in 2014, they discovered they shared something unusual: both of their grandmothers had essential tremor. That personal connection became the foundation for Steadiwear, the Toronto-based medtech company now putting battery-free anti-tremor gloves on the hands of thousands of people across North America, Australia, and beyond.
Accelerator Centre · Aug 26, 2026
Accelerator Centre and City of Waterloo Welcome First AC:Health Cohort Focused on Ontario-Made Healthcare Innovation
Inaugural AC:Health cohort brings together 30 Ontario health innovators developing AI, data, and software-enabled solutions to improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes.
Velocity (UW Incubator) · Aug 25, 2026
Intellectual Property Ontario funds leap from classroom to founder
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More than $320,000 in provincial funding supported teams in the 2026 cohort of the Velocity Summer Accelerator
University of Waterloo News (Tech) · Aug 25, 2026
Intellectual Property Ontario funds leap from classroom to founder | Waterloo News | University of Waterloo
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More than $320,000 in provincial funding supported teams in the 2026 cohort of the Velocity Summer Accelerator
Radical Ventures · Aug 25, 2026
Applying RSI to the Organization, Not Just the Model
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Listen to this podcast on Spotify From our latest Radical Talks episode with Tantum Collins (“Teddy”), Co-Founder and CEO of Inherent Recursive self-improvement (RSI) is usually framed as a model problem: an AI system using AI to build better AI. Tantum Collins, (“Teddy”) Co-Founder and CEO of Inherent, thinks that framing misses something important: the […]
Driftscape · Aug 25, 2026
Recent DMO Partner Launches: August 2026
Learn about our recent partner launches with San Pedro, California; West Palm Beach, Florida; Old Algiers, New Orleans; The Dalles, Oregon; Blackfalds, Alberta; Hyde Park, London, Ontario; and Hanover, Ontario, Canada
Velocity (UW Incubator) · Aug 24, 2026
The biggest problem with today's AI is handling what it hasn't seen before
Argos Research is building AI that moves beyond statistical pattern-matching to help machines reason and adapt to situations they've never encountered before
