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Montreal startup Matagora earns nod at Y Combinator summer 2019
Montreal’s Matagora has completed Y Combinator’s summer 2019 cohort.
Y Combinator, the legendary California-based accelerator program, ..
Breather gets new CTO with eyes on hiring in Montreal
Breather, the Montreal-based company that offers on-demand quiet spaces to work and relax, is bringing on a new chief technology officer (..
Here’s the 8 startups joining Holt fintech accelerator’s new cohort
Eight startups will join Holt fintech accelerator’s 2019 cohort today, billed as “Canada’s only business accelerator
devoted exclusively ..
Toronto’s Overbond AI to launch R&D labs at Concordia, HEC, IVADO
Toronto and New York-based fintech startup Overbond AI, a fixed income trading tool using AI predictive analytics, will open a trio of Mon..
Goldman Sachs-backed fintech company Nuvei completes mammoth acquisition of Israeli competitor
Montreal-based payment processing company Nuvei – formerly known as Pivotal Payments – has completed its acquisition of Israeli competitor..
Kids Code Jeunesse gets $8.1 million from federal CanCode program
Montreal-born Kids Code Jeunesse (KCJ) has received $8.1 million in funding from the Government of Canada’s CanCode program
The new cas..
Toronto’s Elevate takes over Startup Open House
Toronto’s Elevate tech festival is taking over the controls for Montreal’s Startup Open House.
Elevate, which bills itself as “the worl..
Quebec government investing $4 million in edge computing firm
The government of Quebec is investing $4 million in Ormuco, a Montreal-based edge computing firm.
Ormuco is a large, leading global sof..
Fintech app Hardbacon raises $800,000
Julien Brault’s Hardbacon app has raised $800,000 in funding through the use of the FrontFundr Equity Crowdfunding Portal. This amount inc..
Orbit MTL fund reveals $9 million in investments since launch
Real Ventures’ Orbit MTL fund has made 61 investments totalling $9 million in venture funding since coming into existence in July 2017. Th..
Montreal named North American top tech talent desination
Montreal is one of North America’s best destinations for tech talent, says a new report from the Toronto office of CBRE, the world’s large..
Digital healthcare startup Chronometriq expands to US
Montreal’s Chronometriq will partner with ELLKAY to fuel its new expansion as the healthcare productivity platform looks to conquer the U..
Computer vision experts Algolux partner with MILA to work on autonomous cars
What happens when we combine autonomous computer vision experts with the folks at Montreal’s MILA, the academic research institution dedic..
Landr’s AI music platform gets $26 million
Montreal’s Landr, an AI-powered platform for musicians, is raising $26 million in Series B investment money.
The round was led by Sony In..
Prize winning startups at Startupfest 2019
The 9th edition of Startupfest wraps up today, this time at a warm and sunny Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Île Notre-Dame. Thousands of peo..