The mission of #Verifast is evident in its name: the #startup is on a mission to make verifying someone’s identity and #financial details fast. (https://t.co/ficvXcyT4D)
This year, #CBRE ranked Toronto the third best city across #Canada and the #US for tech talent, pulling in over 88,900 jobs within five years. That moved Toronto up one spot from its ranking in the previous report, replacing #Washington, DC.
Toronto's tech #talent pool experienced the most growth across the #Canadian and United States markets between 2016 and 2021, according to CBRE’s Scoring #Tech#Talent report for 2022 (https://t.co/fbmImobkKm ).
Port Coquitlam-based #cleantech#startup#Moment#Energy has entered a supply agreement with the energy storage subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz to reuse its partly-spent electric vehicle (#EVs) batteries (https://t.co/GJE8gW4zS2).
Points’ #shareholders and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, in addition to meeting other regulatory approvals, to be finalized. Once completed, Points would become a private company under #Plusgrade’s portfolio.
Montréal-headquartered #Plusgrade has entered an agreement to acquire Nasdaq and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX)-listed Points for $25 USD per common share, with a total value of $385 million in an all-cash transaction (https://t.co/T7Sx8exBO7). The deal must be approved by...
Shortly after #WonderFI’s deal to acquire #crypto#startup Coinberry was announced earlier this week, it was revealed that #Cinaport#Acquisition Corp. III had agreed to settle its lawsuit against Coinberry (https://t.co/LpcY2JmnOa).
The #federal#government has published its Budget 2022, which contains a number of commitments for the #Canadian#tech and innovation sector (https://t.co/AXetSVopzq). Much desired commitments to #innovation clusters, intellectual property (#IP), and more have been made.
“Projects like these demonstrate that our tech talent no longer has to look elsewhere to pursue their #careers.” Meta joins what seems to be an ever-increasing number of international tech companies that are looking to take advantage of #Canadian#tech#talent.
#Meta (#Facebook) announced today that it plans to hire up to 2,500 employees across #Canada over the next five years as part of a new Canadian #engineering hub (https://t.co/AkBiMi0imD). Ford called the move “a tremendous show of confidence in [#Ontario].” He added...
#Tiggy, and proptech firm #SmartONE (https://t.co/g9yUAYktMk). The group will undergo a virtual bootcamp involving cloud #mentorship, #technical project support, workshops on product design and customer #acquisition and more.
#Google#Canada has revealed the list of #startups joining the second cohort of its 10-week cloud accelerator program for #Canadian#companies. There are 11 startups from a variety of industries, such as appointment scheduling #software company #Booxi, grocery delivery service..
MIT Media Lab’s #Digital#Currency Initiative (#DCI) to conduct a 12-month research project that will take a closer look at “how advanced #technologies could affect the potential design of a CBDC.”
The Bank of #Canada is teaming up with the #Massachusetts Institute of Technology (#MIT) to explore central bank digital currencies (#CBDCs). (https://t.co/dYbNxB8qUm)
Canada’s central #bank announced yesterday that it has struck an agreement with...
#Amazon and #COVID-19 on local retailers, he decided to launch his own same-day delivery solution. Now, armed with fresh #capital, the company plans to move into British Columbia (#BC) and other regions as it looks to “reach a national scale in 2022.”
#Regina-based same-day delivery #startup#StoreToDoor has raised $1.25 million CAD in seed funding to fuel its expansion across #Canada.
(https://t.co/JQp9Du967p). After dabbling in #Saskatchewan’s #tech scene through angel investing and seeing the impact of ...
No longer can a strong product or service carry a #business. Modern behaviours have shifted, and new preferences have emerged as this #generation is committing to making the world a better place. They expect that same commitment from the companies with which they engage.
With #investors, #consumers and #governments continuing to prioritize societal initiatives, environmental, social and #governance (#ESG) performance is becoming critical for #organizations to stay competitive in an increasingly socially conscious world (https://t.co/W1Pw8hYoAQ)