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Isabelle Kirkwood

Reporter · CA

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 24, 2026
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Top 1M sites
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Sep 17, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Isabelle Kirkwood

    How founders are rethinking capital in the AI era | BetaKit (opens the original)

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    AI is giving early-stage founders more room to experiment before raising significant amounts of capital, and this is changing how entrepreneurs think about when to raise and where that money gets deployed. “What has become possible with a small team of really good people is phenomenal.” George Babu is taking a more deliberate fundraising approach to his latest venture, Toronto-based Aire Labs. In 2007, he joined David Stein and Daniel Debow to co-found Toronto-based performance management compan

  2. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Isabelle Kirkwood

    When AI writes the code, what still counts as R&D? (opens the original)

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    Artificial intelligence is shrinking the amount of time, labour, and code required for software companies to experiment, but it is also raising questions around what work then qualifies for research and development (R&D) tax credits. Programs like the federal Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit and Québec’s CDAE-IA are designed to offset some of the financial risk associated with scientific and technological innovation. To qualify for SR&ED, companies need to demo

  3. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Isabelle Kirkwood

    What would it take to build a sovereign drone industry in Canada? | BetaKit (opens the original)

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    Earlier this year, AVSS Co-Founder and CEO Josh Ogden warned that Canada was at risk of becoming a country of drone subsidiaries, rather than drone builders. He has observed the country’s drone industry becoming ever more dependent on foreign technology, with too few Canadian companies retaining control over the intellectual property and production behind the systems they sell. He believes domestic drone companies need support at multiple levels of the sector’s supply chain, and was clear about

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