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Canadian Stories

Venture Capital stories

Float raises CAD $85 million to expand AI finance platform

Its valuation has jumped 70% as the Toronto fintech uses fresh capital to broaden AI tools and hire across the business.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • Fri, 26th Jun 2026

Clean technologies

Canada's early-stage startup funding falls 40% in Q1: RBCx

Fewer Canadian founders are getting backed as venture capital tightens, leaving pre-seed and seed-stage startups struggling to secure cash.

By Jake MacAndrew • 4 min read • Thu, 25th Jun 2026

Global Stories

Venture Capital stories

Software-as-a-Service

Airwallex raises USD $320 million at USD $11 billion

Fresh capital will fund Airwallex's expansion and AI product push after the payments firm's valuation jumped to USD $11 billion.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 3 min read • Fri, 26th Jun 2026

Semiconductors

AlpSemi raises EUR €17m to scale solid-state breakers

The Grenoble startup will use the funding to industrialise its breaker technology as AI data centres and electrified buildings strain power networks.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Fri, 26th Jun 2026

DevOps

Nebius selects Komodor's AI SRE platform for reliability

The deployment could speed up incident response across Nebius's GPU-heavy AI cloud, where outages can leave costly compute idle and affect customers.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Fri, 26th Jun 2026

DevOps

Qodo launches governance tools for AI code reviews

AI-generated code is outpacing enterprise review processes, prompting Qodo to add tools that flag cross-repo risks and enforce standards.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Fri, 26th Jun 2026

Private Cloud

Featherless.ai & Z.ai launch GLM 5.2 access worldwide

Access to advanced coding tools is becoming a bigger concern as Featherless.ai hosts Z.ai's GLM 5.2, an open-source model aimed at software teams.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Thu, 25th Jun 2026

Data Analytics

ECI Partners celebrates 50 years in UK private equity

Its growth mirrors the shift of UK private equity from a niche source of finance to a mainstream market, with ECI now managing around GBP £3 billion.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 6 min read • Thu, 25th Jun 2026

Data Analytics

Beauhurst tool reveals 37,000 hidden UK business links

Investors and policymakers risk missing key assets as Beauhurst says the UK's largest firms use more than 37,000 registered entities.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Thu, 25th Jun 2026

Robotics

Tech Trailblazers Awards widens entries to scale-ups

Scale-ups can now compete for recognition and customer validation as the Tech Trailblazers Awards opens 2026 entries worldwide.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Thu, 25th Jun 2026

Software-as-a-Service

New Relic launches startup AI observability programme

The offer gives early-stage AI startups free monitoring and engineering support as software failures can quickly damage customer trust and funding prospects.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Thu, 25th Jun 2026

Human Capital Management

Lumenai wins pre-seed funding to track workplace behaviour

Employers could gain a clearer read on staff judgement and adaptability as Lumenai's structured capability data attracts pre-seed backing from Corpora.ai.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Thu, 25th Jun 2026

Software-as-a-Service

Tsuga raises USD $35 million to expand AI observability

Rising AI data volumes are forcing observability vendors to rethink pricing and storage as Tsuga wins fresh backing to keep telemetry in-house.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Wed, 24th Jun 2026

Stories from Other Regions

Venture Capital stories

DevOps

Lightrun launches runtime-aware PR verifier for GitHub

Software teams could catch regressions before release as the new verifier checks pull requests against live production behaviour inside existing workflow tools.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Thu, 25th Jun 2026