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Canada's VC industry hopes trade dispute sparks change
Canada's venture capital industry is hoping that the U.S. trade dispute will prompt Ottawa to unlock more money for the country's startup ecosystem. The big picture: Never let a good crisis go to waste. Catch up quick: Trade talks between the…
CPE Media & Data Company: Lowest Level of International Venture Capital Funding - Canadian VC H1 2026
All dollar ($) figures in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted. TORONTO, Aug. 24, 2026 /CNW/ -- Canadian venture capital (VC) investment totalled $2.481 billion across 248 financings in the first half of 2026, representing a 12% decline from…
Big US institutions back Blackbird's new $1b venture fund
International institutional investors Morgan Stanley and Schroders have poured money into Australia's biggest venture capital group, Blackbird Ventures, as local firms increasingly try to diversify their capital base and gain a foothold in the US…
Forbes Asia 100 To Watch 2026
I-driven innovation is the dominant theme of Forbes Asia 's sixth annual 100 to Watch list, which showcases small companies and startups on the rise in the Asia-Pacific region. As AI gets embedded into the roots and branches of every business, a…
Navy boss launches defense industrial base office
Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao announced Monday the launch of the department's Office of the Defense Industrial Base, which will be tasked with leading efforts to bolster supply chains and accelerate the delivery of dual-use technologies.
Emerging Venture Managers Have a Secret Weapon: Co-Investing With LPs
To boost their influence—and stretch their dollars—emerging managers in venture capital are offering more direct and co-investment opportunities to their limited partners, according to interviews with investors, managers and market…
Nvidia Pays Poolside $6 Billion To License Its Model Factory And Workers
CANADA - 2025/10/31: In this photo illustration, the Poolside AI logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen and the Nvidia logo in the background. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA…
Minister advocates for more women in sci-tech
Professor Blade Nzimande, minister of science, technology and innovation. Minister Blade Nzimande warns that South Africa will not reach its full potential if women and girls remain excluded from opportunities in science, technology and innovation.
An American Mom of 5 Fell in Love With a Product Overseas. She Turned It Into a 'No-Brainer' Side Hustle Seeing $7 Million Annually.
While living in UAE for her husband's work, Sundlie learned about the nutritional value of dates. She couldn't find similar products when she returned home — so Date Lady was born. Date Lady generated more than $2 million in annual revenue…
How The Real AI Investment Race Is Moving To The Layers Serving Models
Elena Volotovskaya is the Head of Softline Venture Partners. Two numbers reveal where capital is flowing in the AI economy in 2026. OpenAI and Anthropic attracted $217 billion in venture funding in the first half of the year…
I was fired for resisting technology. It saved my career
I was not surprised by recent news that online classes have become swamped by artificial intelligence cheating, eroding academic integrity. From the second I heard about “asynchronous” studies, I thought of the word's negative…
Jack Daniel's Is on the Rocks. Now the Family That's Run It for 150 Years Is Turning on Each Other.
For more than 150 years, the Brown family has controlled Brown-Forman, the company behind Jack Daniel's. But that control is under real pressure right now, and some of the family's own members are responsible. The company's stock has dropped 60%…
Hard To Scale, Impossible To Ignore: Housing Innovation
A permitted Estuary greywater reuse system at a New Mexico home treats water from the showers, laundry and sinks — including the kitchen sink — and reuses it for irrigation. Housing energy costs across the country are rising faster…
Flock Safety has been a venture darling. Will data privacy controversies halt its rise?
Cat Gioino here. Everyone wants safer neighborhoods, right? That was Flock CEO Garrett Langley's pitch to VCs after he built Flock's first prototype. The Georgia Tech electrical engineer was not yet 30 when a string of break-ins in his own Atlanta…
Quintessent Raises $40 Million Series A and Begins Sampling First Product for AI Optical Interconnects
Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Quintessent, an innovator in resilient and low-cost AI datacenter optical interconnect products, today announced it has raised $40 million in an oversubscribed Series A…
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