The AI Gold Rush: 7 Useful AI Tools for Everyday Life
An email that needs a clearer reply. A document that takes too long to read. A presentation that needs a starting point. These ordinary tasks…
The Rise of Solo Capitalists and Micro-VCs: The Fragmentation of Early-Stage Investing
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…
Deep Tech Investing: Why Hardware, Biotech and Climate Tech Are Attracting Billions
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.…
How Canadian Tech Startups Are Competing on the Global Stage
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…
AI Startups: Who Got Funded in 2024-2025 and What They Are Building
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…
Venture Capital in 2025: The Post-ZIRP Funding Landscape
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,…
Passwordless Authentication: Passkeys, Biometrics and the End of the Password Era
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…
NFT Market in 2025: From Hype to Utility — What Actually Survived
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…
Supply Chain Attacks: From SolarWinds to xz utils — A Five-Year Retrospective
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…
Zero Trust Architecture: Why ‘Never Trust, Always Verify’ Is Now Standard
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 Rise of Ransomware-as-a-Service: How Cybercrime Went Corporate
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…