Thanks to a donation from David Bissett, SAIT will develop the Bissett Autonomous Aviation Park at its campus. The park will be dedicated to training, testing, and certifying remotely piloted aircraft systems and autonomous aerial vehicle systems.

At Edmonton Startup Week, CAAIN's Douglas Mills, Nanostics' Colin Coros, University of Alberta's David Bressler, and BJ Fuchs made the case that the AgTech sector is fertile ground for innovation.

On Sept. 28, Hopper co-founder Dakota Smith announced he was leaving the company after leading its enterprise division for the past three years. Shortly after, employees began posting on LinkedIn that their roles had been eliminated.

UPDATE: Woveo and BDC's microlending program has now officially launched. It offers loans of up to $25,000 for Canadian SMBs to help small businesses and new-to-Canada entrepreneurs access financing and build credit when traditional options might be out of reach.

SenseHuman’s smart hardhat was partly inspired by Call of Duty. The idea is that if a minimap can warn you about danger behind you, why couldn’t a hardhat do something similar on a construction site?

Built on the success of Edmonton Unlimited’s deep tech symposium in June, Deep Tech Day is the first deep tech-focused day of programming in Edmonton Startup Week’s 13-year history.

Paul Christiano says the pace of AI progress means there's a "real chance" humanity might soon be dealing with an AI system that, if it wanted to escape or undermine human control, "it would be very hard for humanity to prevail" over.

Cohere is opening its third Canadian office in Ottawa, next to Lansdowne Park in The Glebe neighbourhood. The company isn't revealing a target for new hires, but public job postings do show that applications are open for forward-deployed engineers who can be based in Ottawa.

While Tiny has a broad array of companies in its portfolio, Oso appears to be the first that tackles enterprise software security. In the era of rogue AI agents and increasing AI adoption, demand appears set to grow for software tracking these bots.

Canada says it will finally launch its real-time payment rail this year. But sources say none of the Big Six banks are currently scheduled for Phase 1. As Koho CEO Daniel Eberhard put it, a system that 95 percent of the country can’t access risks becoming “kind of performative.”

The Deep Tech Foundry program is designed to help founders with highly technical startups commercialize their innovation. Shaheel Hooda of Sprout Fund and Eecomobility president Amit Monga both partnered with Edmonton Unlimited to shape the design of the program.

BioRender's main goal with its new AI agent, Leo, is to help combat “the erosion of trust in science caused by a proliferation of AI-generated images.”

Zeta Global's acquisition would bring Senso’s team, and the technology that has been powering Zeta’s GEO offering, in-house.

Some sports agencies managing eight-figure careers are still running on spreadsheets, email chains, and memory. Endo, founded by a group of athletes, sees that as an operations problem ripe for modernization. Read on to learn how they say they've done it.

CyberWorks Robotics has struck a $1-million deal to supply and test its autonomous vehicles with the Canadian Armed Forces.

[email protected] VP Udbhav Tiwari said the company is still ready to shut down its Canadian operations if Bill C-22 becomes law.