A cross-Canada collaboration between more than a dozen organizations nationwide seeks to strengthen education and awareness around intellectual property for businesses and entrepreneurs.
Konstantinos Georgaras, who heads the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, says that “Strong IP knowledge helps turn ideas...
The Australian reports that a shareholder split over selling restrictions contributed to raise failing to attract enough support, despite claims of investor interest “well in excess of the offer size” for the US$5 billion book-build earlier this month.
The IPO...
Simplicity, a non-profit manager of the NZ retirement and first-home savings scheme KiwiSaver, has invested NZ$85m across four Icehouse funds since 2019.
Icehouse opened its third fund less than six months ago. After hitting NZ$180m, it remains open to investors...
Vancouver-based FORM has earned a spot on TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026 list for its Smart Swim 2 PRO goggles, bringing international recognition to the company’s augmented reality swimming technology.
Featured in the Sports & Fitness category, the TIME selection...
The round was led by New York’s Collide Capital, with participation from Hustle Fund, POV Ventures, Australia’s Co-Ventures and Ventari, alongside angel investors.
Syncrowin pulls together data from machinery, sensors, maintenance records and business software, then uses AI to identify...
Women with a business idea can now sign up for an online course from Liftwomen, covering the steps from testing customer demand to planning a launch.
The course, Zero to Hero: Start Your Business in 7 Days, is available through...
Vancouver-based Glüxkind has been named to TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026 for Rosa, its smart stroller designed to make everyday parenting a little easier.
The Parenting category selection recognizes a stroller that combines motor-assisted movement with features such as automatic...
It confirmed the worst suspicions of embittered Australian startup founders and small business owners.
We are an afterthought. We are not in consideration for serious Government funding, but if we’re lucky, someone at the top might throw down a...
The proposal deserves greater scrutiny because it treats health funding and innovation investment as competing priorities, when Victoria’s future healthcare capacity depends partly on the companies, technologies and jobs that patient capital helps create.
To a voter stuck on a...
NorthX’s Converge 2026 is expected to bring together more than 300 founders, investors, policymakers, researchers and industry partners in Vancouver on November 25 to explore what it takes to build and scale climate hard tech companies in Canada.
The gathering...
