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.” Kurt Hackenberger New York City-based Claryx, founded by Ontarians Kurt and Dirk Hackenberger, announced on Tuesday that…
Venture capital dollars deployed in Canada increased in the first half of 2026 compared to last year, according to a new report, but fewer rounds were funded overall. “One thaw doesn’t make a spring.” Benjamin Bergen, CVCA The Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA) tracked $2.69 billion CAD in dollars invested across 250…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Summer has a way of sneaking up on you. In May, you were excited about everything: the outdoor concert, the friend’s rooftop birthday, the weekend trip to the coast. Now it’s the end of July, you’ve been to all of it, and you’re still waking up Monday feeling weirdly…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Youth sports in the United States now cost the average family about $1,016 a year per child, up 46 percent since 2019, according to the Aspen Institute’s 2025 State of Play report. In Oakland, where just 14 percent of kids get the recommended 60 minutes of daily physical activity,…
Episode Description: Dolphins fatally swim into fishing nets because the nylon is acoustically too similar to water for their echolocation to pick up. A researcher at Newcastle University wondered if attaching something that does produce an echo might change that. The dolphin-saving solution may surprise you. Ten solutions this week with Arielle and Karissa. Also…
The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) has permanently barred former Calgary crypto exchange Catalyx from operating and has fined its CEO $90,000 after the company allegedly mismanaged millions of dollars in client crypto assets. Many former Catalyx users have been waiting several years to be made whole, and some wonder if proper compensation can ever happen….
University of Toronto (U of T) professor Jacob Tsimerman, who recently won the prestigious Fields Medal, is leaving the university to join OpenAI. The news: Tsimerman became the second Canadian in history to win the Fields Medal, often described as the Nobel Prize of mathematics, last week. The now 38-year-old first began studying math at…
When 1Password’s chief information security officer heard about a rogue OpenAI model hacking Hugging Face, he wasn’t totally surprised. “I think this was inevitable to a certain degree [based on] the capabilities that we’re seeing, and just the rapid change of the technology,” Jacob DePriest told BetaKit. But the fact that it was completely autonomous…
Markham-based NordSpace has made a second investment out of its venture arm, this time in fellow Canadian aerospace company North Vector Dynamics. The news: NordSpace Ventures announced on Wednesday that it made a strategic, undisclosed investment in the Calgary-based defence and autonomy company as part of North Vector Dynamics’ late 2025 strategic fundraise. NordSpace declined…
Toronto-based FinTech firm Questrade has unveiled several new updates to its self-directed investing platform, including becoming the first Canadian financial institution to offer agentic finance features. “People’s preferences for how to use AI are just as distinct as their trading styles.” At its summer product showcase on Wednesday evening, Questrade announced a new Model Context…
