Madison McLauchlan
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Why Silicon Valley is taken with Tailscale (opens the original)
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One of Canada’s fastest-growing tech companies appears to have amassed a cult following among Silicon Valley’s AI builders. The news: Toronto-based Tailscale, which offers a secure connectivity platform for teams with AI workloads, was the source of chatter on X this weekend when computer programmer Steve Yegge pointed out how little attention the company has received relative to how important its products are. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more useful service with a more invisible corporate f
Clearco secures $100 million USD for “rescaling” after difficult years (opens the original)
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Clearco says it’s “rescaling” after a difficult few years that saw it downsize its operations and revamp its funding model for e-commerce clients. “The name of the game since the recapitalization is, run the business lean, recognize that the market rewards disciplined operators, and that it’s the fastest path to profitability.” The Toronto-based FinTech company announced on Tuesday that it had secured $100 million USD ($138.7 million CAD) in asset-backed debt financing from Australian investment
America loves Canadian chips (opens the original)
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Exactly 20 years ago, Canadian chipmaker ATI was snapped up by American giant AMD. ATI was, at the time, a dominant player alongside Nvidia—the kind of company that could have anchored a Canadian AI hardware industry. Now, AMD has struck a deal to acquire Toronto-based Taalas—yet another hot, high-potential chipmaker. And Taalas is just the latest in a growing list of promising early-stage Canadian semiconductor startups snapped up by larger US players, alongside Hyperlume, Untether AI, and chip
Claryx raises $3.5 million USD to detect hospital outbreaks before they start (opens the original)
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A biotech startup founded by two Canadian brothers is hoping to dramatically limit the spread of disease within hospitals. “Instead of noticing when infections are popping up in your hospital after the fact, it’s actually identifying them upstream.” New York City-based Claryx, founded by Ontarians Kurt and Dirk Hackenberger, announced on Tuesday that it had raised $3.5 million USD ($4.9 million CAD) in pre-seed funding for its CloneLink platform that it says can detect problematic pathogens befo
Which LLMs are secretly Canadian? (opens the original)
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Anthropic—a company valued at more than $1 trillion CAD—announced this week it will invest $10 million in Canadian research. That is, to quote Vass Bednar, managing director of think tank Canadian Shield Institute, if you count Claude credits as investment. The US AI giant said it chose to offer Claude coupons to Canadian institutions because Canadians were leaders in early AI research; the company is betting we’ll continue that leadership toward future breakthroughs. They’re also likely betting
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