Twenty years ago, early-stage startup investing was dominated by a handful of brand-name venture capital firms on Sand Hill Road. Today, the landscape is fragmented across thousands of investors: traditional…
For the past decade, venture capital has been dominated by software. Software businesses are capital-efficient, scalable and have high gross margins — typically 70-80% compared with 30-50% for hardware businesses.…
Canada has the third-largest tech talent pool in North America, trailing only the United States overall and California specifically. Toronto added more tech jobs than Silicon Valley in 2023, according…
If 2023 was the year the world discovered generative AI, 2024-2025 has been the year it wrote increasingly large cheques to build it. The AI startup ecosystem has bifurcated into…
Global venture capital funding peaked at $683 billion in 2021 — a year of historically low interest rates, stimulus-fuelled consumer spending and a pandemic-driven acceleration of digital adoption. By 2023,…
Of the roughly 15 billion credentials circulating on the dark web, the overwhelming majority are passwords. Reused, weak and phishable passwords remain the primary attack vector for data breaches, accounting…
In March 2021, a digital artist known as Beeple sold an NFT — a non-fungible token — at Christie’s auction house for $69.3 million. It was the third-highest price ever…
In December 2020, the cybersecurity firm FireEye disclosed that it had been breached. Within days, the investigation revealed something much larger: the attackers had compromised SolarWinds, a widely used IT…
For decades, the dominant security model was “castle and moat”: build a strong perimeter, and trust everything inside it. Firewalls, VPNs and network segmentation kept the bad actors out, and…
The Colonial Pipeline attack of May 2021, which shut down the largest fuel pipeline in the United States for five days and triggered a $4.4 million ransom payment, was a…
