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Startups | TechCrunch

1.Founders, your moment is now: Apply for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 2.British startup Isembard lands $9M to reshore manufacturing for critical industries 3.Windsurf slashes prices as competition with Cursor heats up 4.Here are the 19 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2025 5.19 US fintech startups have raised over $50M in 2025 so far 6.Bring a plus-one to TechCrunch Sessions: AI and save 50% on their ticket through May 4 7.How to survive and thrive as tariffs, AI, and politics unsettle the rules of business 8.StrictlyVC heads to Athens for in-depth conversations on European innovation and investment 9.Tech resilience, breakout startups, and banking reinvented: The big conversations at StrictlyVC London in May 10.Why OpenAI wanted to buy Cursor but opted for the fast-growing Windsurf 11.Khloe Kardashian launches consumer brand backed by Serena Ventures, WME 12.Vibe coding helps Supabase nab $200M at $2B valuation just seven months after its last raise 13.The RealReal founder Julie Wainwright has written a memoir —and an entrepreneurial survival guide 14.Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M to help home services unlock call center revenue with AI 15.Adaptive Computer wants to reinvent the PC with ‘vibe’ coding for non-programmers 16.Superpower wants to help people detect and address health issues before symptoms appear 17.Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to ‘cheat on everything’18.Bezos-backed startup designed an EV that can change like a ‘Transformer’19.Tariff turmoil may have killed the tech M&A market’s comeback 20.19 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far

19min

Entrepreneur

1.'It Can Be a Risk to Stay Where You Are': This Couple Left Their Corporate Jobs to Start Their Own Business — and Had a Nine-Figure Exit. Now They're Giving Back.2.Chris Paul Was Tired of Bland Plant-Based Snacks — So He Made His Own.3.Have Fun Learning up to 56 Languages for Just $40 4.This Feedback Technique Can Make Criticism Easier to Deliver — and Easier to Hear 5.Your Workplace Training Is Getting an AI Makeover — Here's How to Get Even Your Most Skeptical Employees on Board 6.'Clock Is Ticking': Kevin O'Leary Speculates 'There Won't Be a Third' TikTok Ban Extension 7.Your 'Helpful' Feedback Could Actually Be Crushing Your Team's Morale. Transform Your Approach With This Step-by-Step Guide.8.'Applications Are Surging': Small Business Administration Reports Significant Growth in Loan Approvals 9.What You Need to Know Before Investing in a Company That's Preparing to Go Public 10.YouTube's First Video Turns 20 — Here's How Much the Video Giant Would Be Worth Today as a Stand-Alone Company 11.5 Business Truths I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Built a Startup 12.10 Surprising Expenses That Blindside Business Owners 13.Why Your Vision May Be Falling Behind the Forward Thinkers 14.Grab a Lifetime of Help for All Aspects of Business Operations for You and Your Clients 15.Intel Is Reportedly Cutting 20% of Its Workforce Under a New CEO

48min

Fast Company

1.Tariff whiplash: How Chipotle, Boeing, and AT&T are dealing with a shifting trade war 2.The economic case for saving human jobs 3.Measles cases in Texas now top 600. What to know about outbreaks from Pennsylvania to Montana 4.IBM price, Q1 earnings: Stock sinks 6% after news that Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts thwarted 15 government contracts 5.Thousands of Pope Francis mourners wait in line to pay respects as Vatican stays open all night 6.Middle managers are facing a ‘perfect storm’ for burnout, here’s how to help them 7.This striking Polish building is for a pipe company, and it’s built entirely from pipes 8.The U.S. needs critical minerals. Can we get them without sacrificing our oceans?9.Patreon’s rivalry with Substack is growing. Who will win over creators?10.Bot farms invade social media to hijack popular sentiment 11.Adobe releases ‘created without generative AI’ tag to label human-generated art 12.‘Our players are die-hard anime fans’: Why MLB is tapping into anime for its new ads 13.After 3 years without a contract, Starbucks workers are turning to civil disobedience 14.The clock is ticking on Timex’s iconic Connecticut headquarters 15.Why Sheba cat food is working to restore coral reefs 16.A cult clothier and iconic publishing house join forces to fight book bans 17.How artists are bracing for Trump’s ‘golden age’ of arts and culture 18.A New Jersey wildfire tore through thousands of acres—right after the state cut back on prescribed burns 19.Clean water protections are being dismantled. Vulnerable communities will pay the price 20.Why hybrid work makes conflict harder to address—and what great leaders do about it

56min

Inc.com

1.Trump Hates a Sell-Off More Than He Loves a Trade War 2.This Startup Just Raised $186 Million to Clean Up Steel’s Dirty Iron Problem 3.Kickstarter Founder Might Revolutionize the Creative Economy Again. Here’s How 4.Is It Burnout or Spring Allergies? Turns Out They Have Some Similar Symptoms 5.5 Passive Income Side Hustles That Aren’t as Easy as They Look 6.Sam Altman Just Trolled Everyone, and It’s The Smartest Idea I’ve Seen Yet 7.3 Ways to Stop a Bully in Their Tracks, According to a Psychotherapist 8.Is It Gaslighting, or Am I Just Going Crazy? This Quick Research-Backed Quiz Can Help You Decide 9.How to Domesticate Your Supply Chain—Without Raising Prices 10.Core Leadership Learnings from Time-Tested Business Books 11.Get It Done: Why Action Beats Perfection 12.Measure Your Mission 13.Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Just Announced She’s Ramping Up Her Investments 14.OpenAI’s New Image-Gen Tech is Now Available for Businesses, and Some Are Already Using It 15.These Are The Best U.S. Cities to Start a Business in 2025 16.Novavax: New COVID-19 Vaccine on Track for FDA Approval 17.Artificial Dyes Under Scrutiny by the FDA 18.Warren Buffett Could Turn the Tariffs Chaos Into a Payday For Himself and Coca-Cola. Here’s How 19.How Climate Change Is Forcing Innovation Among New York Winemakers 20.Meta Opens Threads to Advertisers Globally 21.Ramping Up Your RTO? Prepare to Be Ignored, or See Employees Resign 22.Business Leaders Are Struggling With Uncertainty and ‘Increasing Mistrust,’ Survey Finds 23.What’s Really Going On When a Starbucks Barista Writes a Cheery Message on Your Cup 24.Why Intel Reportedly Plans to Lay Off 20 Percent of Its Workforce 25.First 100 Days of Tariffs: Who’s Hit Hardest—And What Could Come Next?26.The Stock Market Is Desperate for Any Excuse to Rally 27.Tariff Delays Could Cost DTC Brands Some Younger Consumers 28.Google Has Finally Given Up on Making the Internet Respect Your Privacy Because It’s Bad for Business 29.This Magic 3-Word Question Makes Group Decision-Making Way Less Annoying 30.I Tested 5 AI Assistants—and What I Found Was Surprising 31.How a Collaboration With Squishmallows Helped This Brand Gain Serious Market Share Fast 32.The First 100 Days: DEI Rollbacks Cause a Keyword Crisis 33.Am I Old-Fashioned About Employee Lateness?34.A Reporter Asked LeBron James About His Coach’s Blowup. His Response Is a Master Class in How to Handle Criticism (Backed by Science)35.She Sold Her Company but Was Still Liable for Its Debt After This Critical Mistake 36.Can’t Find the Time to Do Things You Really Want to Do? Why Remarkably Successful People Embrace the Kobe Method

2min

First Round Review

1.Obsessing Over Onboarding for 10+ Years — The Architect of Superhuman's Onboarding Shares His Playbook 2.How dbt Labs Built a $4.2B Software Business out of a Two-Person Consultancy 3.You’re Not Ready for a Head of Growth: Run This Founder-Led Growth Playbook Instead 4.How to Intentionally Design Your Org, From Square’s Former CEO 5.The Pivot to Product-Market Fit: How Plaid, Clay, Lattice & Other Startups Broke Out 6.Building a Deep Tech Company? Most Startup Advice Doesn’t Apply — Read This Instead 7.How I Spent 17,784 Hours in 5 Years as a Startup Founder 8.0-$5M: When, Who, and How to Make Your First Sales Hire 9.Lessons in Product Scaling and Storytelling from Figma’s CPO 10.The Rotation Program That Keeps This Startup’s Engineers Learning — and Not Leaving 11.0-$5M: How to Nail Founder-Led Sales 12.EvolutionIQ Just Got Acquired for $730M — Here's Their Playbook For Building an Enduring AI Business 13.This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineering Leaders Back into Frontline Developers 14.The GTM Inflection Points That Powered Clay to a $1B+ Valuation 15.How to Make Your Product Idea Go Viral Inside Your Company: Lessons from Figma Slides

7min

Hacker News

1.I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)2.Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI 3.On loyalty to Your Employer 4.Creating your own federated microblog 5.Cars and Key Fobs: Attacks on Car Remotes 6.How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2 7.Careless People 8.Shortest-possible walking tour to 81,998 bars in South Korea 9.AI Horseless Carriages 10.Show HN: My from-scratch OS kernel that runs DOOM 11.Tenjin (YC S14) Is Hiring a Senior Ad Attribution Engineer (Ruby, Go)12.Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 13.You wouldn't steal a font 14.YAGRI: You are gonna read it 15.Daily driving a Linux phone, but why?16.AI Bests Virus Experts, Raising Biohazard Fears 17.How much math is knowable? [video]18.CubeCL: GPU Kernels in Rust for CUDA, ROCm, and WGPU 19.I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil (2015)20.Google contract prevented Motorola from setting Perplexity as default assistant 21.The hidden cost of AI coding 22.Launch HN: Cua (YC X25) – Open-Source Docker Container for Computer-Use Agents 23.Teaching LLMs how to solid model 24.AMD Publishes Open-Source Driver for GPU Virtualization, Radeon "In the Roadmap"25.First Successful Lightning Triggering and Guiding Using a Drone 26.Graphics livecoding in Common Lisp 27.Show HN: Colanode, open-source and local-first Slack and Notion alternative 28.Show HN: Node.js video tutorials where you can edit and run the code 29.The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet 30.The Future of MCPs

56min

Acquire.com Blog

1.How Luka Pecavar Sold a Simple Wix App for a Profitable Exit 2.How to Record a Founder Intro Video (That Actually Gets Buyers Interested)3.Customer Acquisition Cost Calculator | Boost ROI 4.What is MRR in Business: Unlocking Recurring Revenue 5.Built. Sold. Free. A Startup Exit in Just 9 Months 6.Business Purchase Agreement Template, Why and When to Use One 7.How to Scale Business Operations Effectively 8.Merger Integration Checklist for Smooth Transitions 9.We’re No Longer Just for SaaS — Acquire.com Now Supports Every Profitable Online Business 10.How to Value Intellectual Property: Expert Strategies

23h

Venturebeat

1.Wombo Games reveals itself and its debut title, Raiders of Blackveil 2.Mawari’s DIO network will offer AI-driven immersive 3D experiences 3.Until Dawn film strays too far from the game’s story 4.Reddit and Moloco join Google, Meta, TikTok and Apple in mobile ad leadership 5.Game acquisitions and fundings make a comeback in Q1 2025 | Drake Star Partners 6.Assassin’s Creed Shadows sneaks to top of March sales | Circana 7.Logitech adds new tools for photographs, video and product design to MX Creative Console 8.Visa Product Design System will empower developers and designers 9.Google adds more AI tools to its Workspace productivity apps 10.Former DeepSeeker and collaborators release new method for training reliable AI agents: RAGEN 11.The Political Machine 2024 update includes tariffs, new demographics and more 12.Amazon’s SWE-PolyBench just exposed the dirty secret about your AI coding assistant 13.OpenAI makes ChatGPT’s image generation available as API 14.From friction to flow: Why Swissport scrapped its VPN maze for Cato’s SASE fabric 15.Why Discord founder Jason Citron is stepping down from CEO job | exclusive interview 16.The Sandbox unveils multi-year partnership with Bruce Lee Enterprises 17.With a million sold, Soulstone Survivors will come to consoles in 2025 18.USC Ganek Immersive Studio to unveil student showcase 19.B3 partner with Reach Labs to launch user acquisition platform and GameChain 20.Ubisoft and Immutable announce Might & Magic Fates game 21.Microsoft just launched powerful AI ‘agents’ that could completely transform your workday — and challenge Google’s workplace dominance 22.$42.1 million poured into startup offering energy-efficient solutions for costly and unwieldy operational data and AI workloads 23.More accurate coding: Researchers adapt Sequential Monte Carlo for AI-generated code

SaaStr

1.Our AI is Now Making Product Recommendations. And Many Other Things We Never Expected It Would.2.Dear SaaStr: Is Bashing Your Competitors in Marketing OK?3.Do You Have a “Pricing Gap” Holding Back Sales? Many Do 4.5 Interesting Learnings from UiPath at $1.7 Billion in ARR 5.Dear SaaStr: What Are Some Things We Can Do To Get Churned Customers Back?6.Carta: The Average Time from Seed to Series A Has Hit 2.2 Years. And Longer from Series A to Series B.7.The New AI Paradigm: Great Outbound, Terrible Follow Up 8.Dear SaaStr: Besides Fast Growth, What Are VCs Looking For in Founders?9.Why 100s of the Top CROs, CMOs, CCOs, and CFOs Are Coming to SaaStr Annual 2025—and Why You Should Too 10.“What If I’m Not Sure that My VP Sales is The Right Person?”: An Honest 5 Point Test

8min

Crunchbase

1.These Private, VC-Backed Companies Are The Most-Active, Spendiest Startup Acquirers 2.How Startups Can Conduct Layoffs Responsibly While Avoiding Costly Mistakes 3.Chainguard Secures $356M Series D At $3.5B 4.Surviving The Scale: The Lessons I Learned From Growing A Unicorn 5.With Trade War Brewing, Can Canada Venture Build Off Strong 2024?6.Manychat Raises Massive $140M Round To Push Chat Automation 7.The Next Electric Unicorns: How the Electron Economy Turns Dumb Power Into Smart Platforms 8.Fintech Isn’t Just Back, It’s Being Rearchitected For AI 9.Few Bright Spots In Asia’s Slowing Venture Market 10.These 11 Charts Show The State Of Startup Investing At The Beginning Of 2025

The Startup

1.So you’ve made a mistake. Now what?2.I Tried 25+ AI Voice Generators — These 7 Are the Best for Realistic Voices (2025)3.Four GPTs walk into a bar. Only one scores the deal.4.My Business Partner is Convinced That Entrepreneurial Spirit Dies at Age 45. Really?5.How to Evaluate Freelance Clients and Avoid Bad Situations 6.How I Would Grow a Startup from $0 to $1M ARR 7.The Introverted Writer’s Guide to Networking Like an Asocial All-Star 8.I Tested Tons of AI Resume Builders — These 7 Are the Absolute Best 9.Why the smart founders make stupid mistakes 10.Newsletters Are Dead. But These Simple Emails Make Me $10,000/Month

13min

Leadership | Fast Company

1.Middle managers are facing a ‘perfect storm’ for burnout, here’s how to help them 2.Why hybrid work makes conflict harder to address—and what great leaders do about it 3.Your boss is not okay: How manager burnout is dragging down the entire workplace 4.What should I do about a coworker who dresses inappropriately at work?5.These people turned introductions into opportunities of a lifetime 6.Breakthrough study finds your brain uses multiple learning rules at once 7.Laid-off workers are struggling to access unemployment benefits 8.Debt collectors are going to start hounding student loan borrowers again after OK from Trump’s DOE 9.Here’s why Trump’s plan to gut Head Start will hurt you, even if you don’t have kids 10.Want to bring momentum into your life? Focus on action and not perfection 11.Humility is a superpower. Here’s how to practice it daily 12.3 ways to clear your mind and make space for big-picture thinking 13.Venture capital is hurting innovation—but the indie startup era might save it 14.5 common AI mistakes that are derailing your job search 15.Thinking of moving out of the U.S? Here are 10 hotspots for remote workers 16.This CEO teaches at Stanford, and has hired scores of recent grads and MBAs. Here’s what he has to say about Gen Z 17.There’s no such thing as ‘background music.’ Here’s how your playlist affects your brain 18.How to tell the difference between ‘good’ stress and ‘bad’ stress 19.‘Meeting hangovers’ are draining your team. Here’s how to cure them 20.No, you do not really need $1.26 million to retire

12min

Tech in Asia

1.Clean iron startup Electra raises $186m for renewable plant 2.VinFast’s 2024 revenue rises by 58%, net loss up 38%3.LG Electronics Q1 sales hit $15.9b on B2B growth 4.SEA tech: scaling up or cutting back?5.Indian biotech startup GreenGrahi raises $3.8m seed funding 6.These are the most active investors in Vietnam’s startups 7.VinFast to open India plant in June, Indonesia in October 8.China’s top ecommerce firms retreat from refund-only policy 9.Taiwanese media outlet to shut down on April 30 10.Americans lost $9.3b to crypto scams in 2024, elderly hit hard 11.Huawei raises record $2.7b in China debt sale 12.Coinbase expands with new US office, create over 130 jobs 13.OpenAI projects $13b revenue in 2025, reaching $174b by 2030 14.Databricks plans major hiring in India for AI growth 15.Taiwan proposes $10b budget to tackle US tariffs 16.UK fintech firm Revolut profits surge to $1.5b 17.Global chipmaker STMicroelectronics sees Q2 revenue boost 18.Nokia misses Q1 profit, flags impact of US tariffs 19.Trump-linked crypto soars 60% after exclusive event offer 20.Naver Cloud launches first Korean-focused AI models 21.South Korea accuses DeepSeek of unapproved data transfers 22.Adobe, Figma use ChatGPT’s new image generator 23.Nio’s Firefly EV to expand to 16 countries this year 24.Toyota-backed Pony.ai eyes global growth despite US-China tensions 25.Samsung in talks on production shift from Vietnam to India 26.Trump’s tariff: exemption planned for China car parts 27.TSMC announces AI chip innovation for faster, more efficient tech 28.Zus Coffee to add 200 stores in SEA 29.Perplexity brings AI voice assistant to iOS app 30.Social platform Discord appoints new CEO as co-founder steps down 31.Zomato’s food delivery CEO steps down after 2 years 32.Google tells remote workers to return or risk termination 33.IBM reports 15 contracts canceled due to DOGE cuts 34.Cybersecurity startup Chainguard hits $3.5b valuation 35.Cantor, Tether, SoftBank launch $3.6b crypto venture 36.Airwallex bets on growth, not caution, in the tariff era

BetaKit - Canadian Startup News

1.Healwell shakes up C-suite following Well Health takeover, shifts CEO Alexander Dobranowski to president 2.Trulioo sees “significant growth” in Asia-Pacific region soon after entering market 3.Frank And Oak selling brand, closing all stores following second insolvency filing 4.Canadian-founded Fluent Ventures bets on global startups with $40-million USD early-stage VC program 5.Government of Ontario investing $750 million in STEM programs to bolster talent pool in face of tariff threats 6.Can Canada become the best in the world at using AI?7.Electric vehicle maker Rivian elects Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez to board of directors 8.1Password expands Extended Access Management platform with agentic AI security 9.FundThrough acquires American company Ampla alongside fresh Series B funding 10.Latest Google for Startups Accelerator cohort makes AI de facto entry requirement 11.France’s Alan comes to Canada with digital group health insurance for tech startups 12.Long-life startup NiaHealth exits stealth with $2.5 million in pre-seed funding 13.At World Summit AI, cautious tone of researchers drowned out by cutthroat adoption race 14.Canadian VCs have performance anxiety 15.How Toronto Tech Week plans to host 10,000 people this June 16.Québec’s LabHost crackdown, Poilievre’s tech endorsement, and Blue Origin’s star-studded spaceflight 17.BMO launches a workplace savings platform with FinTech startup Link 18.TruthSayer claims its AI “Hedge Fund-in-a-Box” is a cheaper, smarter alternative for investments 19.Vector Institute hires ex-TD, Thomson Reuters leader Glenda Crisp as president and CEO 20.Yoshua Bengio warns of “catastrophic risks” of agentic AI at World Summit AI 21.Missed it by that much: Well Health falls just short of $1-billion revenue mark in 2024 earnings 22.Enterprise AI companies announce hiring spree for Montréal AI talent 23.Online car retailer Clutch taps former Properly CEO Anshul Ruparell as CFO 24.Innovobot unveils “refreshed” deep tech VC fund under Neha Khera’s leadership 25.The Manitoba startup that helps companies by hacking them 26.PolicyMe eyes new insurance products, more big-name partners after raising $30 million over two years 27.Bell and Ericsson’s Ottawa team field-test AI-powered tech to reduce cell network traffic jams 28.Federal government launches loan facility to support enterprises impacted by tariffs 29.Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund joins Cyclic Materials’ extended Series B round 30.Cohere doubles down on agentic search capabilities with new Embed 4 model 31.New early-stage VC fund Trillick Ventures aims to bring funding to “underrepresented” Manitoba 32.Several tech figures endorse Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives in open letter connected to Fairfax Financial 33.Xaba aims to make industrial robots smarter with $8-million CAD seed extension 34.Chamath Palihapitiya, Sanja Fidler among Homecoming headliners as Toronto Tech Week unveils event calendar 35.Performance anxiety and access to capital top of mind for Canadian VCs 36.Canadian tech makes federal election asks 37.Inside Eric Migicovsky’s crazy journey to relaunch Pebble 38.Wealthsimple’s acquihire, Shopify’s AI policy, and Nintendo’s Switch 2 confusion 39.150 Canadian tech leaders urge federal parties to deliver plan for economic sovereignty in open letter 40.Vancouver-based CO280 strikes 12-year carbon removal deal with Microsoft 41.Corinex secures $42 million CAD to continue its European expansion 42.Puzzle Medical raises $43 million to pursue clinical trial of less-invasive device for patients with heart failure 43.Beloved mentor and L-Spark co-founder Patrick White to depart leadership role after 12 years 44.BetaKit to launch “Most Ambitious” issue on June 23, 2025 45.Communitech appoints Sheldon McCormick as new CEO following layoffs 46.The founders looking to redefine learning in Canada 47.Blumind secures $20-million Series A to build the AI chip we’d have if computers didn’t exist 48.Shopify, Lightspeed lead Canadian tech stock surge after US pauses universal tariffs 49.WonderFi spent $3.6 million on ransom and security upgrades in connection with CEO’s kidnapping last year 50.Wealthsimple acquihires Plenty, a San Francisco-based wealth management platform for couples 51.Inaugural QueerTech accelerator cohort stacked with software, AI startups 52.Google Cloud Startups leader sees opportunity for startups building AI agents amid pressure to move quickly 53.Ontario takes bite out of Premier Doug Ford’s promised US procurement ban 54.Scale AI offering $30-million envelope for Canadian companies to accelerate AI adoption 55.Corporate VPN startup Tailscale secures $230 million CAD Series C on back of “surprising” growth 56.Glowtify wants to be the AI-driven marketing solution for lean e-commerce teams 57.Kepler Communications sells its first on-orbit compute power to Axiom Space 58.Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources 59.CVCA calls for temporary capital gains reduction, national investment tax credit in pitch to federal parties 60.Microsoft thinks AI agents will eat the world 61.UK-based Osney Capital eyes Canadian cybersecurity startups with 50-million-pound first fund 62.Katherine Homuth revisited 63.Trump’s tech pardon, Poilievre’s tax pitch, and a Blue Origin alum bets on future fuel 64.Shopify, Lightspeed among Canadian tech stocks dragged down in US tariff-spurred market plunge 65.Three Canadian quantum startups selected for US military-backed quantum race program 66.Trulioo taps former Nuvei exec Vicky Bindra to take over for retiring CEO Steve Munford 67.Healthtech startup Vopemed lands $2.29-million pre-seed funding for AI-powered surgery visuals 68.The team behind Intuit’s AI-driven expert platform 69.“Every dollar counts”: amid trade war, Float launches foreign exchange solution to help companies cut costs 70.“Changes nothing”: Canadian tech still in limbo as country escapes worst of US tariff wave 71.Former Blue Origin CEO to advise General Fusion on energy strategy 72.Canadian founders face rising costs, wasted time ahead of trade war escalation 73.Crypto exchange Kraken gains restricted dealer licence and new leader of Canadian operations 74.Kensington acquires One9 to establish a defence tech VC platform 75.Raven Capital cultivates Indigenous-led biotech company AdvancedAg with $2-million seed investment 76.Canadian holding company Tiny buys controlling stake in DJ software company Serato for $94.5 million 77.Ontario subsidizes Siemens’ new R&D facility after CEOs plead province to prioritize homegrown production 78.How to land a tech job without the hassle 79.Well Health to exercise call options that give majority controlling interest in strategic partner Healwell AI 80.Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre promises to defer capital gains taxes if proceeds reinvested in Canada 81.Optimism continues in Canadian decentralized finance as DeFi and WonderFi report major gains year-over-year 82.Inside the push to get Ontario’s mobility startups moving 83.Are you going to Web Summit Vancouver?84.Canadian foodtech has a scale-up problem 85.Fractional real estate investment platform Addy becomes exempt market dealer after BCSC fine 86.BioAlert secures $2.5 million to help companies detect and manage harmful pathogens in water 87.Trump’s group chat, Knix makes a splash, Lightspeed slows its roll 88.The first medical X-ray to go to space will use Canadian imaging tech 89.Movement51 appoints former DMZ leader Emily Smiley as executive director 90.Nanoprecise closes Series C to predict industrial equipment failures with AI 91.Consensus 2025 to spotlight builders with PitchFest and three-day blockchain hackathon 92.Basetwo emerges from CIX Summit 2025 as Canada’s representative for the Startup World Cup 93.Québec budget overhauls innovation tax credits, earmarks millions for tariff impacts 94.SRTX founder and CEO Katherine Homuth to step down amid fundraising push and tariff threat 95.Lightspeed to expand and revamp sales team as part of revised go-to-market effort 96.FreshBooks’ data shows many small businesses treat taxes as an afterthought, and it’s costing them 97.Descartes nabs another American company with $164.4-million acquisition of 3Gtms 98.Vooban hiring up to 25 AI roles in Ontario as it welcomes surge in enterprise AI adoption 99.Xanadu teams up with glass giant Corning to network quantum computing chips 100.ExxonMobil takes CoLab Software’s AI tool out to sea with $5.6-million oil rig partnership 101.US deep tech VC Celesta Capital adds BDC alum Charles Lespérance as Canadian partner 102.Seventy-five Ontario CEOs sign open letter calling on Premier Doug Ford to prioritize homegrown innovation 103.As online threats get worse, Styx raises $2.7 million for digital risk protection platform 104.Nokia, Honeywell partner with Québec’s Numana to develop quantum-safe communication networks 105.Lightspeed scales back fiscal 2025 revenue outlook as “several macroeconomic conditions have deteriorated”106.Atomic discovery made at University of Ottawa could one day advance quantum computing, medical imaging 107.The future of Canadian tech runs through Waterloo 108.AI roundup: Cohere commands attention, Apple Intelligence delays, a vibe coding PSA 109.FreshBooks reveals new CEO Shaheen Javadizadeh after securing $179 million in debt from Morgan Stanley 110.Google eyes AdHawk, Nvidia’s Canadian partner, and a red light for Tesla 111.Liberals’ capital gains tax hike is dead, lifetime exemption limit increase to stay 112.Paging Dr. Cube: UniDoc to buy software from AMD Telemedicine to improve remote healthcare offering 113.Sprout Family raises $1.7 million pre-seed round to make fertility benefits more accessible in Canada 114.It started as a testbed. Now it’s changing how BC tech grows 115.As trade war rages, Page raises $4.1 million to help organizations track government changes with AI 116.CEOs of Clio and StackAdapt, VC leaders from OMERS and Panache among headliners at CIX Summit 2025 117.Summit Nanotech closes $36.5-million funding round to commercialize lithium extraction tech 118.How meaningful is D-Wave’s claim to quantum supremacy?119.Shopify to transfer US stock listing to Nasdaq, remain on TSX 120.A tech founder’s love letter to Markham 121.Doormat becomes Ownright, closes $4.5 million to help more Ontarians seal real estate deals 122.Telus partners with Nvidia to transform its data centre into a Canadian “Sovereign AI Factory”123.Canada invests $36.6 million in Strategic Innovation Fund technology networks 124.Why a Canadian bank launched an e-commerce platform 125.Taiv acquihires fellow Canadian adtech startup Local Reach to aid expansion plans 126.Former Klue sales reps secure $500,000 to make cold calling easier with Quack 127.Google reportedly close to buying Canada’s AdHawk for its eye-tracking smart glasses tech 128.Mining magnate Pierre Lassonde donates $50 million to establish deep tech institute at Polytechnique Montréal 129.Consensus 2025 crypto conference will feature WonderFi’s Dean Skurka and Coinbase Canada’s CEO 130.Shopify acquires search startup Vantage Discovery for undisclosed amount 131.Did Cohere give Canada its DeepSeek moment?132.An election primer on what Canadian innovators need 133.Softchoice taken private, moved stateside by WWT after $1.48-billion acquisition closes 134.Carney’s first cut, Cohere finds speed, and Severance’s real HQ 135.Anita Anand named innovation minister, Champagne moved to finance in new Carney cabinet 136.General Fusion takes major step in quest for Canadian fusion reactors 137.Web Summit Vancouver 2025 speaker lineup includes CEOs of Bluesky and Clio 138.Vertu Capital promotes principal and “employee number two” Eric Kafka to partner 139.Kraken Robotics looks to peer further under the sea with $24.5-million acquisition of 3D at Depth 140.Cohere says Command A model edges out LLM competition in speed and energy efficiency 141.Clio acquires UK-based ShareDo to move into serving large law firms, fuel global expansion 142.Two new AI tools to help you land a job 143.Phoenix secures equity funding from Valspring, venture debt from CIBC for prescription drug service geared to men 144.Novarc Technologies raises Series B round led by Export Development Canada 145.US-based neobank Zolve to bring newcomer-targeted services to Canada this summer 146.Waabi develops realism metric to gauge reliability of autonomous vehicle simulators 147.Québec’s dismal seed-stage performance could spell trouble for province’s startup pipeline 148.Augmenta closes $14.4 million CAD to advance quest towards AI-driven building design 149.Redbrick acquires New York-based newsletter advertising platform Paved 150.Xatoms and Knead take home top prizes amid strong Canadian showing at SXSW pitch competition

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10h

Collab Fund

1.My Thoughts on Tariffs, Economic History, and the Market Decline 2.Turning $5M Into $100M 3.Beautiful vs. Practical Advice 4.Pure Independence 5.The Quiet Beverage Bet Outpacing AI Hype: How OLIPOP’s Investors Are Winning 6.Minimum Levels of Stress 7.I Have A Few Questions 8.America's Superpower 9.A Message From the Past (Thoughts on Nostalgia)10.Do It Your Way 11.Take Something Away

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r/Startups - Top Weekly Reddit

1.I built a VC Translator app that converts what VCs say into what they actually mean. Raising a trillion dollars now. I will not promote.2.Why is everyone still worshipping PhDs like they’re gods of wisdom? (I will not promote)3.5 Brutal Questions I Ask Before Building Any Startup Idea (After 3 Companies + $150M Combined Value) - I will not promote 4.I run a fully remote startup. This is how we communicate across different time zones. (I will not promote)5.If You Have Under 10,000 Users, Stop Wasting Money on Ads and Do This (i will not promote)6.How many people become IPO millionaires? I will not promote 7.CEO is stepping down from the startup(10 people working) i am working. Should i be worried ? I will not promote 8.The time I almost died with my cofounder trying to land that one big enterprise client (I will not promote)9.I want to be a great entrepreneur, but I’m just a normal 20 y/o student. How do I even begin?( I will not promote )10.Investors say some of the most incredulous stuff (I will not promote)11.The Ultimate VC Due Diligence Checklist,fresh From My Latest Round - I will not promote 12.What VCs actually look for in early-stage SaaS MVPs (from someone who’s helped get there) [I will not promote]13.Best law firm to contact to sue startups for unpaid wages/imvoices? (I will not promote)14.SaaS at $1k MRR, good metrics, no passion. What would you do? (i will not promote)15.Did anyone here partially quit their startup, got back to the job and continued with the startup on the side ? Does that work ? I will not promote.16.Does having a woman cofounder make a team open for women supported startup events, fundraisers, VCs etc.? “I will not promote”17.What’s the best places to promote your startup? I will not promote 😂18.Whats your start up horror story? (I will not promote)19.Founders who aren’t in a major city, what are you working on? [I will not promote]20.Who said running a business was fun? (i will not promote)21.What’s your process for validating startup ideas before building? Trying to improve mine and wondering how others handle it. i will not promote 22.Got fired from a YC-backed startup and built a no-code tool in a highly competitive market (not AI) [I will not promote]23.Built out of pure recruiter-related rage. Trying to validate if this is just me. (I will not promote)24.Need advice: What do you do when your cofounder isn’t working out, but you’re not in a position to step in either? (i will not promote)25.How much is your LLM API bill? I will not promote

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