Communitech CEO & President Chris Albinson explains the vision and implications of his organization’s “Team True North” strategy.
Organization: Shopify
The Short Report – March 30, 2022: Ottawa releases $9.1B emissions reduction plan, Montreal’s CDL surpasses $1B in equity value creation, Canada’s tech performance blooms in 2021, and more
Government of Canada releases a $9.1 billion emissions reduction plan, Montreal’s Creative Destruction Lab doubles its $500 million target within first 5 years of opening, US dollars driving Canadian technology’s investment surge in 2021, four provincial governments agree to a joint strategic plan on small modular reactors, and more.
The Short Report – Feb. 23, 2022: Funding for farmers to mitigate climate change, USask’s cystic fibrosis study, a boost for postpandemic recovery research, and more.
Ottawa launches special call for postpandemic research using UN model; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada supports farmers to mitigate climate change impacts; a five-year cystic fibrosis study at USask uses a One Health research approach, and more.
The Short Report – Feb. 16, 2022: Congruence Therapeutics raises $63M for rare disease drug discovery, a multi-billion dollar Euro tech fund, a Conservative cryptoasset bill, and more
Biotech entrepreneur Clarissa Desjardins secures funding to develop drugs for rare diseases, the EU creates a multi-billion dollar fund to reduce dependence on foreign tech giants, CPC MP Michelle Rempel Garner tables a private member bill to attract investment in cryptoassets, and more.
Opinion Leader: Micro credentials require specific components to be credible and effective
The design and delivery of micro credentials require specific components to make them a truly effective solution both for people who need to increase their competencies and the employers who need to hire them, Janet Lane, Director of the Human Capital Centre at the Canada West Foundation, and Stephen Murgatroyd, Chief Information Officer at Contact North, say in an op-ed.
Q&A: John Ruffolo on his plan to fund the next phase of the Information Revolution in Canada
We spoke with Ruffolo about the thesis for his new private equity firm Maverix, why he’s seeing “ridiculous” deal flow, and what it takes to keep high-growth companies in Canada.
The Short Report, Sept 11, 2019: Genome lab, industrial IoT, ecommerce
The federal government and the province of Quebec are teaming up to fund the creation and operation of a Montreal-based international centre of expertise for the advancement of artificial intelligence, focused on the responsible and ethical development of AI technologies, as part of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI). Ottawa is committing $10 million over five…
Canada lacks policy and financing links to grow scaleups into global firms, say stakeholders
Better government policy and sustained financing from Canada’s big banks needed to grow scaleups into global firms.
John Ruffolo
Venture capital investor John Ruffolo is leaving OMERS Ventures, a fund he founded in 2011 as an arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System pension plan. During his tenure as CEO, Ruffolo led the fund to invest in several of Canada’s most successful tech startups in recent years, including Hootsuite and Shopify, and grew…
$400M to stimulate VC market to support Canadian scale-ups
The Feds on Monday announced details of a new initiative to diversify the venture capital market is it incents the sector to boost its investments in more Canadian companies.
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