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Canadian Venture Capital in 2025: The Full Picture
All dollar ($) figures in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted. TORONTO, March 31, 2026 /CNW/ - Canadian venture capital (VC) totalled $9.13 billion from 598 financings in 2025, down slightly $9.25 billion reported in 2024. Canadian Venture…
Toyota's Woven Capital appoints new CIO and COO in push for finding the 'future of mobility'
Sometimes, Michiko Kato thinks back on the great challenges of her life. She once dropped everything in her native city of Tokyo to attend Harvard Business School in Massachusetts. One day, she decided to leave her career in the stable world of…
Inside The New Deal Pipelines Female Founders Are Quietly Building
(L-R) Larina Chen-Mehta, Erika Aquino and Kirsten Baumberger at the SXSW Founder Heaven panel on angel investing. Larina Chen-Mehta, angel investor and syndicate lead at LWC Ventures, has spent years attending salon dinners hosted by networks of…
Prediction markets backlash builds possible stormcloud for 2027
The rocketship rise of prediction markets has been answered by a barrage of U.S. legislation meant to sharply limit bad behavior in the new sector. While those bills probably aren't going to hit their targets right away, the shifting political tide…
Agent Workflows Are The New Career Currency, And Smart Money Is Paying Attention
SUQIAN, CHINA - MARCH 09: In this photo illustration, the logo of open-source AI agent OpenClaw is displayed on a smartphone screen on March 9, 2026 in Suqian, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images) In a post on X that…
The struggle for women to get investment in start up businesses
Emily HudsonSouth of England political editor Those are the words female entrepreneurs say they keep hearing as they try and secure funding and investment for their new business. For Bethan Higson from Oxford, her idea was a non-alcoholic aperitif…
Billionaire Jack Dorsey Thinks AI Will Kill Middle Management
When he is not talking about replacing middle managers with AI, billionaire Jack Dorsey is often talking up Bitcoin. (Photo by Marco BELLO / AFP) (Photo by MARCO BELLO/AFP via Getty Images) Billionaire Jack Dorsey cut first and explained later. In…
Ireland Lights A Candle For An Open And Innovative Economy
Ireland is leaning into policies of openness to build long-term growth. Some governments see immigration as a threat. The Irish government, with a longer lens and one of the largest global diasporas, sees immigration differently: as a wind that…
AI Funding Hit Record Levels And Founders Need To Pay Attention
AI funding hit record levels and founders need to pay attention AI startups raised over $200 billion in 2025, according to Crunchbase's year-end analysis. That is a 75% increase from the $114 billion invested in 2024. If you run a business and you…
America Is Losing the Innovation Race
China has long been dismissed as the world's factory floor—a country that excels at manufacturing technologies invented elsewhere yet is unable to invent anything radically new on its own. But it has proved in the past decade that it can be…
KatoMed, a UC San Diego MedTech Accelerator Company, Shines
Kyocera Ventures recently invested in the surgical navigation startup KatoMed, which has deep ties to UC San Diego KatoMed licensed robotics IP from UC San Diego, hired engineering alumni, and thrived in the MedTech accelerator at the Jacobs School…
OpenAI starts to open the door to individual investors
OpenAI is beginning to let individual investors access its stock, months before the ChatGPT maker is expected to launch its IPO. Driving the news: OpenAI said Tuesday that its shares will soon be included in several exchange-traded funds (ETFs)…
Are AI Layoffs Happening Before AI Value Is Proven?
The question isn't whether AI will transform work. It will. The question is whether leaders are making thoughtful, future-oriented decisions - or simply using AI as the latest rationale for cost cutting. As companies race to restructure around…
Google Readies Screenless Fitbit Band to Rival Growing Whoop Craze
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is developing its own fitness band, aiming to compete with screenless wearable devices from upstarts like Whoop Inc. and Oura Health Oy. The company has been developing the new model under the Fitbit brand and plans to…
Forget free lunch and nap pods: AI startups are luring workers with soaring salaries-some recent computer science grads are making over $300,000
Silicon Valley's startup culture has long sold itself on alluring perks: cold brew on tap, nap pods tucked between standing desks, and even free slippers for their “ no-shoes” offices. The pitch was simple: work hard, but live well…
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