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Montreal-based SCALE AI invests $29 million in five AI projects
SCALE AI, the Montreal-based AI investment firm funded by both the Canadian and Quebec governments, is investing another $29 million in fi..
Hardbacon gets $50,000 to help predict stocks using AI research
Hardbacon is on the receiving end of a $50,000 conditional funding for an artificial intelligence research and development project to pred..
Bios Health and Mila hook up for $800K neural biomarker research collab
BIOS Health will partner with Mila, McGill University and the Université de Montréal to develop an AI-controlled closed-loop neuromodulati..
Scale AI, Canadian universities invest $20 million into AI research
Scale AI, the Montreal-based artificial intelligence (AI) supercluster, will invest $10 million to create at least 10 university chairs de..
MIGS to Hold Second Annual Forum on AI & Human Rights
April 15, the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) will be holding its second annual Forum on AI & Human rights..
$53 Million Series A Financing for Stradigi AI
A banner year for Montreal’s Stradigi AI draws towards its conclusion with perhaps the biggest news yet from this downtown headquartered p..
Techstars Montreal – Second AI Cohort Unveiled
After an exhaustive selection process which opened with a call for applications open in mid-February, Techstars Montreal has now announced..
Element AI Raises $200M Series B
Montreal’s AI darling Element AI today announced it has raised another $200 million, this time as a series B. This, after raising $137 mil..
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..
New AI@CENTECH accelerator unveils first batch of startups
Five Canadian and international startups have been selected to join the inaugural cohort of the AI@CENTECH program, hosted by Thales.
A..
AI security solution Delve Labs raises funding
Montreal’s Delve Labs, which offers an AI-based security management platform, today announced they have raised new funding.
The round w..
Gaming giant Unity expands Montreal office with new AI lab
Unity Technologies, the Danish-born, San Francisco-based multibillion dollar gaming engine, is expanding its Montreal office. The company ..
Dawson College pumps $1 million into new AI program
Dawson College will invest $1 million into a new artificial intelligence-focused (AI) program to help prepare students for the city’s red ..
WMNinTECH: From Academia to Google: Narjès Boufaden of Keatext on Building a Text Analytics Startup
For Narjès Boufaden, creating Keatext, her cloud-based AI-powered text analytics platform, was relatively easy.
But everything else, incl..
A year in review: the top Montreal tech stories of 2018
Several fascinating developments happened in Montreal’s tech community over the course of 2018.
For starters, we continued a nice, grow..