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The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: TEC Edmonton is winding down over the next couple of months; Startup TNT and Story City are launching an interactive storytelling project; PainWorth has made an acquisition; Canadian Western Bank (CWB) and Toronto's Brim Financial are teaming up; and DiveThru was selected as a finalist for BDO’s VC Pitch Day.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Alberta Innovates has put out a call for proposals with the aim to develop new business and technology accelerators; NACO has named True Angle Medical as Edmonton’s startup of the year for 2021; the Government of Canada has announced $2.89 million for the University of Alberta's Lipid-to-Hydrocarbon (LTH) technology project; the winners of NAIT's Innovation Challenge are proposing a ticket split for sporting events; and the University of Alberta's Michael Bowling has been named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: The University of Alberta and Telus are teaming up over the next five years to create a 5G “Living Lab”; Alberta's tech firms attracted $455M in venture capital last year; Jobber has launched a $100,000 grant program to help grow businesses in the home services sector; Space startup Wyvern has received an initial $155,000 to create a feasibility study for Canadian defence; Startup Edmonton's flagship program, Preflight, is now available for free online.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Alberta Enterprise has announced a US$15 million investment into Inovia Capital Growth Fund II to help technology companies in Alberta scale; City of Edmonton named Canada's most open city for the fifth year in a row; ;ast week NACO Canada hosted the Edmonton Angel Summit; TEC Edmonton has released its 2020 Report to the Community; Amii has launched the Kickstart program to welcome women into careers in AI.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Four cleantech companies secured a total of $395,000 at the inaugural Alberta Cleantech Investment Summit on March 11 including Edmonton's EZ Ops Inc.; the National Angel Capital Organization (NACO) has launched the Pathways to Capital initiative in Alberta; U of A graduate student Delaney Lothian has created a game and app to help people learn the Cree language; G2V Optics has been named as a presenting company at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Industry Growth Forum; and vrCAVE is one of the recipients of the Edmonton Screen Industries Office grant funding.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: five companies will pitch to investors on March 11 for a shot at $140,000 at the Alberta Cleantech Investment Summit; University of Alberta computing scientist Martha White was named one of the world’s top 10 artificial intelligence researchers to watch; the federal government has committed $2 million to bolster the U of A’s nano-fabrication facility; RenovationFind has launched a second crowdfunding campaign; Shell has added a team of robodogs to its Scotford operations; and We Know Training has merged its Danatec brand with Spark Safety to create one of Canada's largest safety solutions.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Growing Greener Innovations founder Connie Stacey has won The Forum’s Pitch for the Purse prize of $50,000 this year; Alberta's 2021 budget is "placing an increased spotlight on the technology and innovation sector"; on Feb. 25, Future Fields announced it had raised US$2.2 million in seed money; Alberta Innovates will introduce Alberta’s LeanStack class of 2021 on March 3; and Adam Danyleyko is leaving Startup Edmonton to join Amii.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Future Fields has been named one of 40 finalists for the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) pitch event; Bitcoin Well is moving its offices from Whyte Avenue to downtown Edmonton; WeFaces Technology Inc. will manufacture solar LEDs at the Edmonton International Airport; GoFor Industries has partnered with QuoteToMe; and DeepMind is funding a new scholarship program at the University of Alberta (U of A).

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Startup Edmonton has announced the third cohort of its Propel program; RenovationFind.com is offering private investment and ownership opportunities through FrontFundr; TrustBIX Inc. has raised $2.1 million; Serious Labs is on a list of the top virtual reality companies in Canada for 2021; and CommerceOwl has launched recipestack.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Showbie Inc. has successfully raised an additional $7.5 million in Series A financing, which brings the total for this round to $12.5 million; ATB Ventures is making a strategic investment in Radical Ventures; Chicago-based Uptake has acquired Edmonton company ShookIOT; RWI Synthetics was chosen as a finalist for the City Architecture of Tomorrow Challenge (CATCH); and the Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence Network (CAAIN) is recruiting a CEO.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Brass Dome Ventures Ltd. and the University of Alberta have teamed up to launch Innovation Masterminds Edmonton (imYEG), an industry-led accelerator program; Showbie is featured in BetaKit's Seven Prairie Startups to watch in 2021 and 11 Canadian tech companies to watch in 2021; Alberta Innovates is turning 100; Edmonton Global says Edmonton region tech companies have raised more than $246 million since January 2020; QuoteToMe is expanding its service offering; and Startup TNT is expanding east.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Visionstate and Freedom Cannabis have signed an MOU to bring IoT to the cannabis sector; twelve of the University of Alberta’s top experts in artificial intelligence have been named Canada CIFAR AI Chairs; Arbor has secured its seed round and raised $700,000; Interface Fluidics and Equinor have teamed up; TEC Edmonton is inviting Alberta-based founders to apply for Alberta Yield.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: the co-founder and CEO of Clio, Jack Newton, is joining the advisory board for dealcloser; Paper Leaf has been acquired by ZGM Modern Marketing Partners; Jobber sees an opportunity to transform the tech landscape in the Edmonton region; Alberta Innovates has partnered with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); and Yaletown Partners has added a new investment analyst to its team.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: New podcast AI4Society Dialogues explores how will AI shape society and how will society shape AI; Areto Labs is one of 15 Edmonton-based startups selected to Connect SV's inaugural Access to Global Capital program; a new University of Alberta observatory is opening at Miquelon Lake Provincial Park; the Alberta Cleantech Investment Summit will take place on March 11.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: AltaML and the University of Alberta's AI4Society have each been recognized by the non-profit AI Global for their use of responsible and ethical artificial intelligence; Edmonton's world junior hockey ‘bubble’ is using wearable tech to protect against the spread of COVID-19; an Edmonton father has developed a weight loss app called Luuze; and more than 110,000 people have signed up for two online courses offered by Amii.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Platform Calgary will take over the operation of Startup Calgary in 2021; Serious Labs will bring its virtual reality training solutions to Grande Prairie Regional College; TGS Esports Inc. and NorQuest College have joined forces; Stash has made its app free to try; Jobber is hiring 15+ positions for the new year.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: the community has welcomed new Innovate Edmonton CEO Catherine Warren with dozens of suggestions about what it needs; PanTHERA CryoSolutions Inc. has secured a US$2 million investment; Consentia has launched its first software solution – MinuteBooks by Consentia; the U of A and Amii have reached more than 110,000 enrolments since launching two open online courses; and Bitcoin Solutions, which helps people to buy and sell bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, is rebranding to Bitcoin Well.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Nine of Edmonton's up-and-coming tech startups will be featured on Dec. 3 at the Propel Showcase; TEC Edmonton, Bioenterprise, and Platform Calgary are teaming up to accelerate agriculture sector startups in Alberta; Startup Edmonton Director Aatif Baskanderi is leaving the role; G2V Optics, TrustBIX, Future Fields, and TerraVerdae Bioworks are among the companies that will be showcased at the AGRI Tech Venture Forum; city council has approved $847,500 in funding for the operation of Startup Edmonton and TEC Edmonton through the end of 2020.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: investors committed $150K to True Angle Medical at the Startup TNT Investment Summit; Jobber recognized as one of the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in Canada; AltaML named one of Canada's Companies-to-Watch by Deloitte; Alberta Innovates and NSERC expand their partnership; Rainforest Alberta has launched its scorecard results; RenovationFind.com has launched on crowdfunding platform Frontfundr; and Areto Labs is a Startup Canada SDG Pitch Competition finalist.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: GoodMorning.com was honoured at the virtual Start Alberta Tech Awards ceremony on Nov. 16; a number of local organizations are receiving funding from federal government for business ecosystem support; Punchcard Systems has helped launch the app Birdie Break; the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) is accepting applications for Supply Chain AI West; and Rainforest Alberta will present the results of the 2020 Scorecard Assessment at Lunch Without Lunch on Nov. 18.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Extra Life Edmonton held its 24-hour gaming marathon fundraiser online with around 700 people raising money in support of the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation; the provincial government and Mitacs have invested $15-million to create 1,275 internships for post-secondary students; three Edmontonians participated as part of the 2020 Canadian G20 YEA delegation; Innotech Alberta is providing a new coating for oil sands equipment; and a recent ruling from the Court of Appeal of Alberta is likely to limit phone and laptop searches at Canadian border crossings.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Tech CEOs from across the country including AltaML CEO Cory Janssen have written a letter outlining concerns that Canada does not have a comprehensive plan for its innovation economy; Alberta Innovates is offering two new programs with $1.3M in funding; three local innovators have been named Top 40 Under 40 for 2020; Deeleeo is a new Edmonton-based delivery app; Discover Coding is teaching Edmonton students how to code; and Accelerate Fund wrote about running an early-stage venture capital fund in Alberta.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: the top five companies for Startup TNT's investment summit in November have been announced; the next episode of Taproot Edmonton Presents: Igniting Innovation will be released on Oct. 28; AltaML's new data science internship program has received more than 500 applications; the province has pledged $4.5 million from the Major Innovation Fund to the University of Alberta's Autonomous Systems Initiative; and Growing Greener Innovations won this year’s National Product Innovation Award at the CANIE Awards.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: the first entirely virtual Edmonton Startup Week has begun; a new podcast from Taproot Edmonton explores how startups and investors are coming together in Edmonton's tech innovation sector; Alberta Enterprise Corporation has invested an additional $5 million in Accelerate Fund III; Vertical City has expanded to Ottawa with its elevator communication technology; and with approval from city council, the Edmonton Research Park will transition back to the City of Edmonton.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Western Canada has a new angel group focused on early-stage tech entrepreneurs, through Calgary's Allied Venture Partners; Cheryll Watson, former VP of Innovate Edmonton, has announced her intention to run for mayor of Edmonton; G2V Optics has partnered with The Harvest Hub; CBRE Edmonton said there is an opportunity for the tech sector to take advantage of sublets in downtown; and Dr. Ela Dudek has joined Future Fields.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: a big week for AltaML, announcing its Applied AI Lab, a new office in 103 Street Center, and an updated logo, plus branding alongside it; NAIT featured Agriolabs for raising $42,517 via Kickstarter; Serious Labs has announced a new Operator Certification Training Pilot Program in Alberta; Amii has partnered with the U.K.'s Alchemab; Webcor Construction has chosen PCL Construction's Job Sight Insights; and the Dev Edmonton Society is organizing a virtual sticker swap.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Startup Edmonton announces companies selected for Launch Party 11; Scope AR is being used by Lockheed Martin to help build the Orion spacecraft; Startup TNT has announced the top 20 companies for Edmonton and Calgary ahead of its November Investment Summit; Jobber has been recognized by The Globe and Mail as the fastest growing software company in Canada; and Sean Feehan has joined We Know Training as vice-president of technology.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Pegasus Imagery and Nanoprecise Sci Corp have been named semifinalists in NASA iTech's 2020 Cycle II competition; the Government of Alberta has affirmed funding for Amii; the City of Edmonton has been recognized by the World Council on City Data; PCL Construction has partnered with Giatec Scientific; Showbie has partnered with Explain Everything; and nominations are open for the 2020 Start Alberta Tech Awards.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: The Edmonton Public Library revealed a new Makerspace and Gamerspace during a virtual open house for the revitalized Stanley A. Milner Library; Sprout Fund has invested in EZOps; the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute has launched a new website with a focus on applied AI; Visionstate has seen increased interest in its Wanda solution during COVID-19; Spontivly will participate in North Forge Founders Program.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Startup Edmonton has announced the nine companies that will participate in the second cohort of Propel; more than 45 companies have applied to pitch at the Startup TNT Investment Summit; WD is contributing $3 million to Alberta's green construction industry; Alberta Innovates looks at the upside of failure; Agriolabs has raised more than $36,000 through its Kickstarter campaign; Edmonton's transit smart fare system delayed again.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Doug Schweitzer has been appointed Minister of Jobs, Economy and Innovation; Startup Edmonton has launched Problem Lab; the Edmonton Public Library now offers eduroam; Shaun Guthrie has won the CIO Association of Canada's annual President's Award; Jobber was named to the 2020 list of Best Workplaces for Giving Back; and RWI Synthetics has made the shortlist for the TECTERRA Awards.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Showbie has raised $5 million in a Series A round led by Vancouver-based Rhino Ventures; City Council has endorsed the seven inaugural board members for Edmonton's new innovation entity; the Alberta LEANSTACK Accelerator Program is now accepting applications; TEC Edmonton and Foresight have announced a cleantech accelerator; and Future Fields is one of 11 Canadian startups participating in Y Combinator's Summer 2020 Demo Day.