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Cybersecurity vendor Field Effect growing fast with new tool targeting ‘shadow AI’ at companies (opens the original)
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Matt Holland started his career with Canada’s cybersecurity espionage agency, writing code for offensive security missions and breaking into information technology systems of the country’s enemies following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The cyberspy-turned-cybersecurity entrepreneur is still targeting threats, but he’s no longer going after al-Qaeda. His new pursuit is artificial intelligence – specifically, AI that lurks undetected within companies or is misused by employees. In June, Mr. Holl
Fonds de solidarité FTQ snares another foreign fund to back local biotech startups (opens the original)
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One of Canada’s top domestic life sciences backers, Montreal-based Fonds de solidarité FTQ, has enticed another foreign biotechnology investor to set up shop in Quebec in the hope that it can help reverse a trend of declining company creation. The labour-sponsored fund, which invests $100-million in life sciences annually, has committed an undisclosed amount to Paris-based AdBio Partners’ third seed fund, which specializes in creating biotech companies. AdBio has opened a Montreal office, its fi
Biossil raises $153-million in OpenAI-led funding to bring resuscitated drugs to market (opens the original)
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OpenAI has led a US$153-million venture capital financing of Biossil Inc., a Toronto startup that uses artificial intelligence to give failed drug candidates a second chance at becoming approved therapies. The AI giant, best known for ChatGPT, provided the majority of the round through its OpenAI Startup Fund. This latest financing values Biossil at US$1-billion. OpenAI co-led Biossil’s last venture capital financing a year ago with Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, when th
Matthew Proud-led SPAC threatens to pull out of merger with delivery company UniUni (opens the original)
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Matthew Proud’s special purpose acquisition company is threatening to pull out of its proposed combination with last-mile delivery company UniUni. The Toronto Stock Exchange-listed SPAC, called MAK Acquisition Corp. said in a release Thursday evening it had delivered a notice of breach to UniUni, officially known as Uni Express Inc., pursuant to a purchase agreement struck between the two in May. MAK stated that while UniUni had “agreed to operate its business within certain specific parameters”
OMERS promotes Laura Lenz to lead venture capital unit (opens the original)
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Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System has appointed Laura Lenz to head its venture capital arm, the fourth person to hold the job in just over three years, while signalling a continued commitment to backing Canadian technology founders. Ms. Lenz, a veteran early-stage capital investor who joined OMERS Ventures in 2019 and oversaw its Canadian investments, replaces Saar Pikar, who left in July after just one year on the job to lead Kensington Capital Partners Ltd. He in turn had replaced
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