Former Google CFO Patrick Pichette says his new role as general partner in the Montreal-based venture capital firm iNovia Capital is all about Canada’s huge potential in the high tech space, where decades of investment in the field of artificial intelligence is now starting to bear fruit. Montreal-born Pichette made news three years ago when […]
Hootsuite announces deeper integration with Instagram
Social media platform Hootsuite has announced an upgrade of capabilities which will give Instagram users on the platform the ability to schedule posts in advance, something the Vancouver-based company says its customer based has been calling for. “Hootsuite customers will now have the ability to securely schedule and manage Instagram content alongside all their established […]
Wellness Lifestyles CEO Alex Read talks to Cantech Letter
The future is now. Or is it tomorrow? In some spaces, the light of technology has a harder time illuminating the shadows. These days, your phone can get you a ride to the airport, help you pay your bills, or even give you directions to the nearest hospital. Once you are inside that building, however, […]
Ripple CEO tears a strip off Bitcoin
The price of Ripple’s XRP cryptocurrency keeps tumbling, having lost more than half of its value in less than a week. But relax, it’s all part of the first steps in a whole new form of finance, says Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, who recently had some words for Bitcoin and the other digital currencies that […]
Xebec CEO Kurt Sorschak talks to Cantech Letter
Quebec-based Xebec (TSX:XBC) is a lesson in patience. For the better part of a decade CEO Kurt Sorschak toiled in relative obscurity, building a cleantech company he felt would have increasing relevance as the years passed. But for a time, Xebec, which develops, builds, sells and services a wide range of pressure swing adsorption gas […]
DMG Blockchain CEO Dan Reitzik talks to Cantech Letter
The game is on for blockchain in Canada’s capital markets. Investors are now flooded with a variety of issuers, some more credible than others. There is blockchain for holograms. Blockchain for the banking space. And blockchain for video games. So how does one determine which companies are worthy of attention in this nascent sector? […]
Do advanced stats really work in hockey?
It’s been a good decade since professional hockey started up its bromance with advanced statistics like Corsi and Fenwick, but aside from getting a few more math geeks into the front office, are teams benefitting from the new focus on analytics? Do advanced stats really work? While hockey was slower to catch onto the […]
Machine learning will be the big winner in 2018, Deloitte says
More businesses will be using machine learning to get the job done in 2018, while over 15 million Canadians will be using their smartphones to create augmented reality content. That’s according to Deloitte’s 17th annual Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions, which this year reprises 2017’s emphasis on AI and machine learning, along with highlighting […]
Brightspark Ventures gets $6 million backing for its democratic approach to VC funding
Toronto-based VC Brightspark has just announced the closing of $6 million in financing, which the company says will be put towards expanding the 18-year old firm’s reach across Canada and to furthering its own “democratic” approach to VC dealmaking in the tech sector. The high stakes and high risk (and potentially high reward) world of […]
Dmitry Buterin says son Vitalek was destined to be a tech guru
Still only 23 years of age, Vitalek Buterin has been granted guru status among the tech savvy for co-founding the blockchain network Ethereum, but the Russian-Canadian was always going to be a community leader, says his father Dmitry Buterin. It’s true that being number two is never easy, even for Ethereum which has seen its […]
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