HeyJaredSarah Rieger
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 6
- Latest publication
- Sep 10, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for BetaKit
- Top 1M sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 8, 2026
Latest articles
Wittington Ventures closes third, $180-million VC fund | BetaKit (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Toronto’s Wittington Ventures has closed its third venture capital (VC) fund, securing $180 million CAD to invest in more climate, commerce, consumer, healthcare, and food technology startups at the Series A and B stages. The news: Wittington Ventures managing partner Jim Orlando announced the news on LinkedIn on Thursday. The fund’s limited partners include Wittington Investments (the billionaire Canadian Weston family’s holding company, which controls Canadian grocery and pharmacy chains Lobla
NLPatent rebrands to Clerq to meet growing demand for patent automation | BetaKit (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Toronto-based intellectual property (IP) software startup NLPatent is rebranding to Clerq as it looks to better serve legal teams contending with a surge in complex patent applications. The company announced its new identity on Tuesday, in addition to an agentic AI overhaul of its platform that introduces more tools that can take action on a user’s behalf. Clerq says its new platform builds time-saving features on top of its proprietary research engine, which was originally developed to help pat
Kitematic founders nab $65 million USD to help devs run open-source AI locally with Ollama (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Canadian-founded, Palo Alto-based software startup Ollama has secured $65 million USD ($91 million CAD) in Series B funding to enable AI’s “personal computer moment.” The news: Ollama allows developers to download and run open-source large language models (LLMs) directly on their own computers and in the cloud. The 14-person AI infrastructure company claims it has amassed nearly nine million customers since launching in 2023 and is now used by 85 percent of the Fortune 500. Ollama aims to build
General Fusion begins trading on Nasdaq, becomes first nuclear fusion company to go public | BetaKit (opens the original)
Read excerpt
General Fusion has become the first company solely focused on fusion power to go public. The Richmond, BC-based company made its Nasdaq debut on Monday morning, days after shareholders voted to merge the private company with the publicly traded special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. III (Spring Valley). At closing, Spring Valley was redomiciled in BC. After completing the transaction, General Fusion said in a news release that it is entering the public markets
AgroGene Solutions takes top prize at Startupfest 2026 (opens the original)
Read excerpt
As Startupfest closed off its “sweet sixteen” edition, more than a dozen startups nabbed cash prizes worth a total of $825,000. Moncton, New Brunswick-based AgroGene Solutions, which makes a hive-monitoring software solution for beekeepers, won the $100,000 Best of the Fest prize at the Montréal tech conference on Friday out of 275 pitches. The company is developing tech solutions to monitor the health status of honeybees and detect pathogens that could result in hive losses. Since bees pollinat
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
Top 1M sites
For BetaKit, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026
Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.